Methods Matter - Focus Groups
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09/12/22
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The Methods Matter Podcast – from Dementia Researcher & the National Centre for Research Methods. A podcast for people who don’t know much about methods...those who do, and those who just want to find news and clever ways to use them in their research.
In this second series Clinical Research Fellow, Dr Donncha Mullin from The University of Edinburgh brings together leading experts in research methodology, and the dementia researchers that use them, to provide a fun introduction to five qualitive research methods in a safe space where there are no such things as dumb questions!
Episode Four – Focus Groups
In expert corner – Dr Kahryn Hughes, from University of Leeds. Director of the Timescapes Archive, Editor in Chief of Sociological Research Online, Convenor of the MA Qualitative Research Methods and a Senior Fellow for the NCRM.
In researcher ranch – Nadine Mirza is a Postgraduate Researcher and Research Assistant in the Centre for Primary Care and Health Services Research at the University of Manchester and also work with the Department of Clinical Neuropsychology at Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust. Nadine’s research explores cognitive testing in ethnic minorities and the experience of dementia diagnosis and access to dementia services in British South Asians.
Further reading referenced in the show:
- Jenny Kitzinger, The Methodology of Focus Groups – https://bit.ly/3ey6YMR
- Rosaline Barbour, Doing Focus Groups – https://bit.ly/3TNxzWe
- Rosaline Barbour, YouTube – https://youtu.be/5xPYGXJ_hM4
- Focus Group Methodology: Principles and Practice – https://bit.ly/3x31OPk
- NCRM Focus Group Resources – https://bit.ly/3TP38Pr
The National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) provides a service to learners, trainers and partner organisations in the research methods community – methodological training and resources on core and advanced quantitative, qualitive, digital, creative, visual, mixed and multimodal methods.
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Methods Matter - Surveys & Questionnaires
September 11, 2022
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The Methods Matter Podcast – from Dementia Researcher & the National Centre for Research Methods. A podcast for people who don’t know much about methods...those who do, and those who just want to find news and clever ways to use them in their research.
In this second series Clinical Research Fellow, Dr Donncha Mullin from The University of Edinburgh brings together leading experts in research methodology, and the dementia researchers that use them, to provide a fun introduction to five qualitive research methods in a safe space where there are no such things as dumb questions!
Episode Four – Surveys and Questionnaires
In expert corner – Dr Petra Boynton. Petra is a Social Psychologist, specialising in International Health Research from a critical perspective. Over the past 20 years she has taught, supervised, and undertaken research across the social and health sciences and development within university and community settings as well as writing extensively Academic life, including publishing a book called ‘Being Well in Academia’, and being an Agony Aunt.
In researcher ranch – Dr Larissa Bartlett, who is an ISLAND Research Fellow at the Wicking Dementia Research & Education Centre at the University of Tasmania. Larissa’s PhD focussed on the promises and challenges of workplace-delivered mindfulness interventions for employee health and performance. Now Larissa leads the ISLAND Study, a large, 10-year prospective public health cohort study with nested interventions targeting modifiable dementia risk factors at population-level in adults aged 50+.
Further reading referenced in the show:
- Sage Video Tutorials – https://methods.sagepub.com/Search/Results
- Scribbr Guide – https://www.scribbr.co.uk/research-methods/surveys/
- NCRM Survey Guidance – https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/search/?q=surveys
- Julie Ponto, Understanding and Evaluating Survey Research – https://bit.ly/3RHZRzp
- BMJ Hands On Guide to Questionnaires – https://www.bmj.com/content/328/7452/1372
- Write a Questionnaire, a Little Quick Fix – https://bit.ly/3cSBroj
The National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) provides a service to learners, trainers and partner organisations in the research methods community – methodological training and resources on core and advanced quantitative, qualitive, digital, creative, visual, mixed and multimodal methods.
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A transcript of this show, links and show notes and profile on all our guests are available on our website at https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk.
If you prefer to watch rather than listen, you will find a video version of this podcast on Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and on our website.
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Methods Matter - Visual & Creative Methods
September 13, 2022
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The Methods Matter Podcast – from Dementia Researcher & the National Centre for Research Methods. A podcast for people who don’t know much about methods...those who do, and those who just want to find news and clever ways to use them in their research.
In this second series Clinical Research Fellow, Dr Donncha Mullin from The University of Edinburgh brings together leading experts in research methodology, and the dementia researchers that use them, to provide a fun introduction to five qualitive research methods in a safe space where there are no such things as dumb questions!
Episode Three – Visual and Creative Methods
In expert corner – Dr Kahryn Hughes, from University of Leeds. Director of the Timescapes Archive, Editor in Chief of Sociological Research Online, Convenor of the MA Qualitative Research Methods and a Senior Fellow for the NCRM.
In researcher ranch – Dr Sarah Campbell, Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University. Sarah has worked on various projects funded through a range of different funders from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), to local funders such as NHS Salford CCG – the underlying theme being to explore ways to understand the lived experiences of dementia and ageing, and explore ways to improve social care and their lives.
Further reading referenced in the show:
- Details of Professor Helen Lomaz – https://bit.ly/3AYeoQH
- Sage Visual Methods Collection by J Hughes – https://bit.ly/3D0ZUSP
- Sage Handbook of Visual Research Methods by Pauwels & Mannay – https://bit.ly/3TRtWyk
- Professor Sarah Pink – https://bit.ly/3qgw45d
- Approaches to democratising qualitative research methods – https://bit.ly/3D4XVNi
- Sociological Research Online – https://www.socresonline.org.uk
- Social Research Methods in Dementia Studies Book – https://bit.ly/3QidAMt
- Dementia and Place Book – https://bit.ly/3TN7WF0
The National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) provides a service to learners, trainers and partner organisations in the research methods community – methodological training and resources on core and advanced quantitative, qualitive, digital, creative, visual, mixed and multimodal methods.
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A transcript of this show, links and show notes and profile on all our guests are available on our website at https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk.
If you prefer to watch rather than listen, you will find a video version of this podcast on Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and on our website.
Leave us a tip:
https://dementia-researcher.captivate.fm/support
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