Applied Qualitative Research for Health

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• Applying strategies for recruiting participants in qualitative health research.
• The evolving challenges and opportunities in conducting qualitative health research.
• How to use and apply a variety of data collection methods, including interviews, focus groups, and observation.
• The ethical considerations that relate to the design of qualitative health research.

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Demonstrate written and oral communication skills.
• Demonstrate project, data, and time management skills when conducting research

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Develop and apply skills in transcribing interview talk
• Learn how to use Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software for data management and analysis.
• Demonstrate how to use thematic analysis as an approach to qualitative data analysis

Data collection methods

Practical considerations around qualitative data collection methods

Qualitative research in a digital age

Key ethical considerations around designing qualitative research

Transcribing and using Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software (CAQDAS)

Using thematic analysis in health research

Teaching and learning methods

A variety of methods will be used including lectures that may include synchronous live sessions and/or asynchronous non-live sessions, active participatory methods, presentations by health researchers, e-learning/interactive tools for learning and self-assessment, guided reading, group study and individual study.

Resources & Reading list

Textbooks

Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke (2022). Thematic analysis: a practical guide. London; Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE.

Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke (2013). Successful qualitative research: a practical guide for beginners. London: SAGE Publications Ltd.

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.