Are you interested in gaining an understanding of how to design, conduct, and present applied qualitative research? If so, these webinars are for you! While this webinar series is particularly intended for graduate students, FGS additionally invites and warmly welcomes graduate faculty including supervisors and committee members, as well as research staff, and postdocs. Feel free to come to one, two or all of them! Webinars will be delivered virtually and will be recorded. Registration is required.
Facilitated by Dr. Karen Campbell, RN, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, York University. Dr. Campbell’s program of research focuses on the intersections of women’s health with physical and social geography. She has taught graduate-level courses in qualitative research and designed and conducted multiple applied qualitative research projects using a broad range of study designs and approaches to analysis.
Learning objectives
Over the course of the three webinars, participants will be able to:
- identify critical elements of research design and knowledge generation in applied qualitative research;
- develop an answerable research question, estimate sample size, and engage in reflexivity;
- determine data generation processes that align with the study design;
- recognize a variety of strategies for data analysis.
Webinar One: Developing a Plan for Conducting Applied Qualitative Research
In this session, we cover an overview of applied qualitative research, including how to develop a research plan. We focus on relevant designs and how to find methodological congruence or “fit” when making study decisions (e.g., objectives, design, questions, and sampling). Additionally, participants will learn how to create answerable applied qualitative research questions using an EPPiC framework. Links to materials to be provided.
Webinar Two: Data Generation using a Decision-Making Framework
In this session, we provide a variety of options for qualitative data generation (also known as data collection). The focus will be on the two most common methods used in applied qualitative research –individual interviews and focus groups. A framework to guide decision-making around data generation will be shared and include important questions to consider through the data generation phase of the study.
Webinar Three: From Coding and Beyond: Data Analysis Strategies in Applied Qualitative Research
Data analysis strategies are introduced in this session. Beginning with a basic understanding of “coding” (including code creation and codebooks), then moving to other analytic strategies used in applied qualitative research, such as memos, found poetry, and building diagrams. The differences between content, thematic, and reflexive analysis are outlined.
Information on the next offering of this session is anticipated in Fall-Winter 2024-2025.