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Salon – Choosing a suitable Qualitative Research Method
19/03/2025 @ 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
A weekly webinar to discuss careers and research topics. These sessions combine livestreams, guest speakers, and group online chat to exchange ideas, challenge, influence, inspire, and educate. In this session, our guests Dr Alys Griffiths and Dr Martha Pollard share their experience and discuss how to decide which qualitative research methods are right for your research.
Choosing the right qualitative research method is like crafting a key to unlock the nuances of human experience. Each method—whether interviews, ethnography, or focus groups—offers a distinct way to understand context and meaning. But with so many options, how do you align your approach with the depth and scope of your question? The decision is pivotal, shaping not just the data you gather but the insights you can uncover. Today, we’ll explore how to navigate these choices, ensuring your method reflects the story you aim to tell.
Speakers
Dr Alys Griffiths is a Senior Research Fellow at The University of Sheffield. Alys worked in dementia research for over a decade, and recently expanded her work to focus on Motor Neuron Disease (MND). Her research focuses on the development, measurement and evaluation of interventions using a range of qualitative research methods.
Dr Martha Pollard is a counsellor and mindfulness teacher, and has returned to academia to undertake a second doctorate this time with a focus on freedom and dementia caring experiences. For her thesis, she aims to find the crossover spaces between personal reflections and experiences, philosophical frameworks, and policy implications from both liberation theology and human rights perspectives. The underlying foundation of her intersecting interests is supporting compassionate action in dementia and health and social care.
