The Data & Methods sessions offer qualitative researchers an opportunity to present, discuss and learn about qualitative methods and methodologies, and theoretical ideas and frameworks that could support approaches to data collection and analysis.

Sessions aim to focus on one or more of the following key areas:

• Core methods and practical skills
• Emerging, innovative, and creative methods
• Interpretation, reflexivity, and the use of theory
• Reporting and dissemination
• Ethical and philosophical considerations

Sessions can be online on MSTeams, in-person, or hybrid and are scheduled for 90 minutes. Presenters can talk for 40 to 60 minutes, with remaining time used for Q&A and discussion.

If you would like to present a session, or you like us to invite an expert speaker to present a session, you can let us know by completing this form https://tinyurl.com/QualSIGDataMethods or emailing QualSIG@newcastle.ac.uk with the subject title “Data & Methods”.

The Data & Methods leads are steering committee members, Siân Russell and Liz Pharoah

Upcoming Data & Methods sessions:

Pearlin Teow, Tenderness as disposition: social media immersion as research preparation, 18th of November, 2026, 12:00-13:30 https://research.ncl.ac.uk/ima/qualitativesig/events/tendernessasdispositionsocialmediaimmersionasresearchpreparation.html 

Lizzie Merrill, Photofantasy: an arts-based method and a radical language of cancer experience  3rd of December, 2026, 12:00-13:30 https://research.ncl.ac.uk/ima/qualitativesig/events/photofantasyanarts-basedmethod.html 

Nicolás Villarroel, A critical and multimodal analysis of online humour in Chilean far-right social, 11^th of June 2026, 12:00-13:30
https://research.ncl.ac.uk/ima/qualitativesig/events/acriticalandmultimodalanalysisofonlinehumourinchileanfar-rightsocial.html

Sue Bellass: Qualitative longitudinal work: people with multiple long-term health conditions, 11th of May 2026, 12:00-13:30  
https://research.ncl.ac.uk/ima/qualitativesig/events/qualitativelongitudinalworkpeoplewithmultiplelong-termhealthconditions.html  

Adam Badger: Between a rock and a hard place: Managing (c)overt ethnographic methods, 5th of March 2026 https://research.ncl.ac.uk/ima/qualitativesig/events/betweenarockandahardplacemanagingcovertethnographicmethods.html 

Joanne McGrath, Durham University: Using timelines in qualitative research, 14th of Nov 2025 https://research.ncl.ac.uk/ima/qualitativesig/events/usingtimelinesinqualitativeresearch.html