Something for the weekend: Phenomenology and its relevance to medical humanities: the example of Hermann Schmitz’s theory of feelings as half-thingsAdvice for Writing -- and Finishing -- Your DissertationA Swiss hospital drone in operationHow a research fraud and the DSM shaped a profession in AmericaThe academic workforce is older, whiter and maler than clinicians, and that’s a problemReflections on the Process of Visual Storytelling for Children and Youth Living With Cystic Fibrosis and Muscular Dystrophy in CanadaA critical history of competitionPara-swimmer Grace Harvey talks about walking in a robotic suitPG students’ expectations of their lecturersWhat postmodern authors should I … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #74
Qualitative Health Research – A guide for the perplexed: Part 5 – You
So far in this weekly series on qualitative health research, I’ve talked about where QHR came from, criticality, the ‘insider’ or emic perspective, and last week focused on power. This weeks post continues the theme of power, but concentrates especially on your role as the researcher. In most quantitative research, youare supposed to disappear, to recede into the background, and protect the data from your polluting influence. Of course, this is only possible to a degree, because you have often been involved in every stage of the design and development of the study. But when it comes to the data collection and analysis stage, you are too heavily influenced by your own … [Read more...] about Qualitative Health Research – A guide for the perplexed: Part 5 – You
CPN Digest #73
Something for the weekend: The impact of social media addiction on employee wellbeing and productivityThe View From the Inside: Positionality and Insider ResearchCan Fitbits predict now the flu?Doctoral scholarships to study at AUT now openHealthy environments: A medical humanities symposium (with our own Kay Nias)Innovative Lives: Adaptive Skateboarding, WCMX, and Inventing Your Own PathWhy and how academics write (badly)And some very trendy authors in this month’s edition of Qualitative Inquiry7th annual conference of the Society for Qualitative Inquiry in PsychologyNew online Graduate Certificate in Disability StudiesWomen’s Gendered Experiences of Traumatic Brain InjuryQualitative … [Read more...] about CPN Digest #73