The qualitative research methods in healthcare masterclass was held from 16th-17th May 2015\u00a0at Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen. As a PhD student, attending this course was\u00a0particularly helpful to me as it was interactive, collaborative and had an excellent standard of\u00a0teaching.
\nThe first morning was made up of an interactive introduction to qualitative research,\u00a0followed by a workshop on research questions. During these sessions, Dr. Marianne Dees\u00a0gave individual advice on how to structure research questions for qualitative research, which\u00a0was one of the most valuable aspects of the two days. I came away from this workshop with\u00a0new ideas, and with the qualitative research questions I had bought to the session more\u00a0defined and thought.<\/p>\n
The afternoon\u2019s workshop focused on theory and analysis in qualitative research and\u00a0Dr. Gijs Hesselink gave an introduction to Atlas-ti analysis software that can be used \u00a0for qualitative analysis.\u00a0This practical session was an essential part of the course for me as I had previously only had brief experience with qualitative software-having learnt about Atlas-ti, I\u00a0will now be using this software to perform my qualitative analyses for my PhD rather than\u00a0what I had originally planned.
\nThe second day of the course started with a tutorial on how to analyse focus group\u00a0transcripts with Atlas-ti and we were able to break into groups to practice this analysis.\u00a0Working together enabled us to learn from each other and compare the codes and themes\u00a0that we had come up with ourselves with other delegates in our groups. This particular\u00a0workshop really bought to light the importance and benefit of having more than one\u00a0researcher analysing a transcript as we saw how different working backgrounds can affect the\u00a0way you conduct thematic analyses.
\nAnja Visser ran a very helpful session on the second day on how to publish qualitative
\nresearch. Anja presented common reasons why editors decline qualitative papers and how\u00a0we can avoid these pitfalls and make our papers more likely to be accepted for publication. This seminar will change and shape how I write up my qualitative publications for my PhD, in order than I may be successful when submitting to journals.
\nOverall, the qualitative research masterclass was an interesting and informative\u00a0course, enabling us to work with! and learn from a network of different researchers. The\u00a0\u00a0content of each of the seminars was extremely useful to my own PhD project-\u00a0itenabled me
\nto refine my qualitative methods and from advice I gained during the course I decided to
\nadapt my PhD protocol to include focus groups rather than individual interviews. My
\ncolleagues and I came away from this course having brushed up on our existing qualitative
\nskills, and learnt so much more.<\/p>\n
Jacki Rutherford, PhD student at University College London.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The qualitative research methods in healthcare masterclass was held from 16th-17th May 2015\u00a0at Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen. As a PhD student, attending this course was\u00a0particularly helpful to me as […] ","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,328],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/interdem.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5349"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/interdem.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/interdem.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interdem.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interdem.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5349"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/interdem.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5351,"href":"https:\/\/interdem.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5349\/revisions\/5351"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interdem.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/interdem.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interdem.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/interdem.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}