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NU Qualitative Special Interest Group Annual Symposium 2025

  • Venue: The Frederick Douglass Centre, Helix Science Square, Newcastle upon Tyne NE4 5TG
  • Start: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 09:30:00 GMT
  • End: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 04:30:00 GMT

Theme: “Beyond the interview” - Interviews, whether semi-structured, narrative, or unstructured, are probably the most used method of data collection in qualitative research. But are we overly reliant on this method? What have we lost and gained from the increase in remote interviewing? Do we need to be more inventive in our approach to interviewing? For the 2025 Qualitative Special Interest Group Annual Symposium we are keen to hear about novel and creative approaches to qualitative data collection and analysis and encourage honest discussions about our experiences as qualitative research-academics – both the good and the not so good.

REGISTRATION AND BOOKING FEE

 

PLENARY SPEAKERS

Opening plenary: Janice McLaughlin, Professor of Sociology, Newcastle University - Janice’s research focuses on disability, particularly childhood disability, and the experiences of families. She has also published works on feminist theory and sexualities. In recent years she has increasingly utilised creative methods in her work.
Closing plenary: Tim Rapley, Professor in the Department of Social Work, Education, and Community Wellbeing, Northumbria University - Tim is a medical sociologist with an interest in social studies of medical and social care work, research and practice. His work focuses on three substantive areas: the implementation of care, the organisation of care and social studies of qualitative research.

 

PROGRAMME

****REGISTRATION AND COFFEE FROM 09:30 IN THE FOYER****

10:00-10:10

Opening remarks

Lecture theatre FDC.G.56, Ground floor

10:10-10:45

Opening plenary: Prof Janice McLaughlin

Lecture theatre FDC.G.56, Ground floor

PARALLEL STREAMS AND PANEL DISCUSSIONS (AM)

10:55-12:05

Stream and room

Stream and room

Stream and room

Open stream: Experiences of care systems and mental health

FDC.1.18 (First floor)

Creative and novel approaches: The intersection of qualitative approaches and the arts

FDC.1.17 (First floor)

Creative and novel approaches: Stories, maps, and vignettes

FDC.1.16 (First floor)

10:55-11:15

Progress and process: the patient experience of kidney transplantation healthcare

Rebeka Jenkins. Newcastle University 

Music therapy sessions for people living with complex and advanced dementia and their carers

Steven Lyons, Newcastle University 

Journey Mapping as a Data Collection Approach to Explore Lived Experience

Stephanie Kilinc, Teesside University 

11:20-11:40

Understanding GP’s perspective of the unmet needs in diagnosing depression

Jay Hall, Newcastle University 

Journeys through organ donation and transplantation: an intersection of qualitative research, engagement, and the arts

Hannah Murray, Newcastle University 

Qualitative story completion: Potential opportunities and challenges

Toni Williams, Durham University 

11:45-12:05

Ideal type analysis is a qualitative method for analysing data to construct typologies in research

Sally O'Keeffe, Newcastle University 

Co-creating forum theatre; Communicating symptoms of head and neck cancer

Jennifer Deane, Newcastle University

Using clinical vignettes in interviews with healthcare professionals: The ADMISSION project

Nicola Howe & Sara Pretorius, Newcastle University 

Panel discussion: Ethical Dilemmas in qualitative research

FDC.G.06 (Ground floor)

10:55-11:55

Contextual Ethics: When the Everyday Becomes the Sensitive Angela Mazzetti, Newcastle University 

Navigating requests for personal information from participants in qualitative research on stigmatised topics: issues of power, positionality, and rapport Liz Titchener, Newcastle University 

Navigating Positionality, Ethics, and Gatekeeper Dynamics in Multigenerational Life Histories of British Muslim Women Hengameh Ashraf-Emami, Northumbria University, Nottingham University

****LUNCH AND NETWORKING IN THE FOYER: 12:05-13:00****

PARALLEL STREAMS AND PANEL DISCUSSIONS (PM)

13:05-14:15

Stream and room

Stream and room

Stream and room

Inclusive and novel approaches to evaluation FDC.1.18 (First floor)

Inclusive and creative approaches to research with people with disability

FDC.1.17 (First floor)

Creative and novel approaches: Co-production and creation

FDC.1.16 (First floor)

13:05-13:25

Guided Self-Assessment Interviews (GSI) for Evaluating Entrepreneurial Education Programmes for Staff

Lucy Hatt, Newcastle University 

Making diversity our strength- understanding potential of lived experience of AHPs with disabilities, differences, and long-term health conditions’

Alice Gair, North East and North Cumbria integrated care board (ICB) 

Co-producing perceptions of prematurity

Rachel Collum, University of Sunderland

13:30-13:50

Before the interview: How to ensure an inclusive patient recruitment approach on an NHS England pilot evaluation

Hamdi A Hamzah, NHS North of England Care System Support (NECS)

Co-developing a trauma checklist for people with a learning disability

Sarah Wigham, Newcastle University 

Bricolage and adaptability - responsive co-creation workshop with migrant mothers

Mabel Lie, Newcastle University 

13:55-14:15

 

Development of a Deaf centre wellbeing and nutrition cooking project; challenges and learnings in adapting methods for engaging with British Sign language users

Lorraine McSweeney, Newcastle University 

Taking an intersectional approach to co-production: Addressing inequalities in physical activity for disabled people

Toni Williams, Durham University 

Panel discussion: The quick, the dirty, and the downright filthy: discussing “quick and dirty qual”

FDC.G.06 (Ground floor)

13:05-14:05

Rapid and the vapid: Distinguishing rapid qualitative inquiry from “quick and dirty qual” and identifying when descriptive qualitative analysis masquerades as rich

Siân Russell, Laura McGowan, Beth Bareham, Matthew Breckons, Rachel Stocker, Newcastle University 

 

14:20-15:40

Stream and room

Stream and room

Stream and room

Ethnographic approaches

FDC.1.18 (First floor)

Inclusive and creative approaches: marginalised or underserved people

FDC.1.17 (First floor)

Novel and creative approaches to capturing data

FDC.1.16 (First floor)

14:20-14:40

Building our own logic of care: Using ethnography to understand dementia care in South Asian communities in Newcastle

Ana-Maria Cirstea, Newcastle University 

Closing the loop: exploring practical approaches to disseminating and member-checking study findings

Mark Adley, Newcastle University

Perceptions and experiences of multiple long-term conditions: a comparison of qualitative interviews and Mass Observation written accounts

Sue Bellass, Newcastle University, Manchester Metropolitan University

14:45-15:05

The Benefits and Challenges of Adopting Duoethnography to Enrich and Enhance Educator Practice

Angela Mazzetti, Newcastle University, Teesside University

Together through crisis- Eastern European families and the cost-of-living crisis

Hayley Alderson, Newcastle University

Information-Seeking Behaviour on the Long-Term Impact of Pre-Eclampsia: A Thematic Analysis of Mumsnet Threads

Bethany Wetherell, Newcastle University

15:10-15:30

Reflections and experiences from the WHOLE-SMI project on NHS and third sector stakeholders and people with lived experience of severe mental ill-health engagement

Dan Steward, Newcastle University

Considerations when adapting qualitative research materials into ‘Easy Read’ (learning disabilities)

Charlotte Rothwell, Newcastle University

Audio diaries as a novel approach to physical activity and sleep in mental health: one year later

Ilaria Pina, Newcastle University

****BRIEF COMFORT BREAK: 15:30-15:40***

****Coffee available in the foyer****

15:45-15:55

Closing remarks and prize giving 

Lecture theatre FDC.G.56, Ground floor

15:55-16:30

 Closing Plenary: Prof Tim Rapley

Lecture theatre FDC.G.56, Ground floor

POSTERS
If you have an existing poster that presents qualitative work that you would like to display during the symposium, please contact the QualSIG Steering Committee: QualSIG@newcastle.ac.uk 

THE DEBATE
The interview: the cases for and against, and suggestions for creative ways to conduct them: Throughout the day delegates will be encouraged to tweet their thoughts using the hashtag #NUQualSIG25 and/or drop their comments in a comments box at the reception desk.

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The Qualitative Special Interest Group (QualSIG) is part of Newcastle University’s cross faculty research theme, the Innovation, Methodology and Application (IMA) theme: https://research.ncl.ac.uk/ima/ 
Contact: QualSIG@newcastle.ac.uk 

 

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