Part 4 So far in this weekly series on qualitative health research, I’ve talked about where QHR came from, and the important parts played by criticality and the ‘insider’ or emic perspective. This week I want to look at power. Perhaps one of the most important methodological decisions a qualitative health researcher will make in undertaking a piece of research is exactly how much theydesign, and how much is done with the people they are researching. Perhaps not surprisingly then, attacking the traditional power of the quantitative researcher and the institutions they represent has led to some of the most radical technical developments in QHR and healthcare … [Read more...] about Qualitative Health Research: A guide for the perplexed – Power
CPN Digest #72
Something for the weekend: Keep an eye on telehealthIf you record, they will not come – but does it really matter? Student attendance and lecture recording at an Australian law schoolCfP: Healthy Environments: A Medical Humanities SymposiumA bad cup of tea and the birth of modern statisticsThe Story of Ralstonism, One of History's More Bizarre Health MovementsThe power of critical thinking in learning and teaching. An interview with Professor Stephen D. BrookfieldA life of long weekends is alluring, but the shorter working day may be more practicalEthnography in health professional educationCritical reflective practice and its sourcesAnother work is possibleMore surveillance … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #72
Qualitative health research 101
Part 3 Over the last two weeks I’ve been writing about some of the key principles lying beneath qualitative research. A lot of people think that qualitative health research (QHR) is just about asking people about how they feel, and writing lengthy research papers that are ‘simply talking trivialities in high sounding language’ (Cheek 1998). But that’s because qualitative health research is often misunderstood, badly taught, and confusing for practitioners reared on the red meat of clinical trials. (There is an important ‘other’ reason, but we can’t get to that just yet). In the first in the series (here), I explained a bit of the history of QHR, and in last week’s post (here) I … [Read more...] about Qualitative health research 101
CPN Digest #71
Something for the weekend: Fitness gurus and ‘muscular Christianity’: how Victorian Britain anticipated today’s keep fit crazeTheorizing work in the contemporary platform economyHealth and health care in Europe: between inequalities and new opportunities conferenceTowards the creative university: Five forms of creativity and beyondInterdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research and practiceContracting with students: Re‐thinking Higher Education as invitation to treatEducational leadership: Producing docile bodies? A Foucauldian perspective on Higher Education2020 International Health Conference Gymnastic robotsThe phenomenological heart of teaching and learningPrecarious employment, … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #71
Qualitative health research 101
Part 2 - Criticality Last week I offered an all too brief potted history of qualitative health research (QHR), in the hope that what follows makes more sense.There are a lot of misconceptions about QHR. Hopefully these blogposts will help clarify some core principles, and inspire people to see how incredibly powerful and useful good quality QHR can be. Now you could say the first principle I want to tackle today’s is so important that it almost defines the difference between what is true qualitative health research and what is a pale imitation. And that is criticality. More than any other principle, good QHR has always been critical. It has challenged convention; held a mirror held … [Read more...] about Qualitative health research 101
Intersectionality: Challenges for Critical Feminist Research, Practice and Policy
An international conference at the Australian National University Signature Event, 2020, ANU Gender Institute. Also supported by: Development Policy Centre, ANU 3-4 November 2020 Molonglo Theatre, J.G. Crawford Building, Liversidge Road, ACTON 2601, Canberra, Australia Call for Papers Liberal feminists imagined a universal category of ‘women’ as a basis for solidarity, but also believed it as homogeneous. Today, feminist politics recognises multiple forms of social stratification, such as class, race, indigneity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, religion and disability as well as gender. 'Intersectionality' was introduced as a name for the ways they combine to create … [Read more...] about Intersectionality: Challenges for Critical Feminist Research, Practice and Policy
CPN Digest #70
Something for the weekend: Review of Foucault’s political work on critical thinkingYou'll soon be able to scoot around town—at 24 mph—without even having to stand upScience conference are stuck in the dark agesFrom Geoff Dyer to Nietzsche: the best books to inspire wanderlustNietzsche and the Burbs review – deadpan philosophical comedyPatty Thille: The determination to be thinner and fitter this year will not save youNew issue of Foucault StudiesHow the garage created white (segregated) suburbiaDisability//Body//History of TechnologyCFP - Living with Disabilities in New England, 1600-1900Research productivity in OT and PT in four Western countries and five Asian countries/regionsLenses on … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #70