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This session will introduce Quirkos: a simple software tool for helping you analyse and organise your qualitative data. We’ll cover importing data, creating and managing codes and themes, integrating analytic writing, and applying several different analysis approaches. We'll also discuss how you can record different aspects of context within your project, and use it to explore commonalities and differences in the contextual situation of participants’ data. Participation in this workshop does not require Quirkos software. More information about Quirkos, including a free trial of the software, can be found at https://wwww.quirkos.com.

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Welcome - 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM MDT

Conceptualizing Time and Place in Qualitative Research - 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM MDT

Interpretive, qualitative researchers work to expand their research skills by taking into account elements such as the five senses and the silences. However, two oft-forgotten aspects of our lived experience are time and space. We move through both time and space in our local contexts as we navigate the landscapes of our lives. Consider time. Who is made to wait in your field site? Who waits for no one? Whose time is protected by gatekeepers, be they secretaries, children, or caretakers? How is time treated when people book appointments? Consider also, who resists temporal expectations? What are the social taxes when they break temporal norms? Consider space. We can ask the same questions. Whose space is privileged? Whose space is protected, and how? Who is expected to come to whom? What happens when people resist spatial expectations? What social taxes accrue?

This workshop will first address the basic concepts of time and place as they relate to qualitative social science research. It will then elaborate on how we can expand our practices, as researchers, to include time and place in our thinking. We will consider a variety of qualitative methods. Last, we will examine some specific examples and practices applying this thinking to our own work.

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Causation is a contested concept in qualitative research. Some methodologists assert that causation cannot be validly inferred from place-based actions through time, but others argue that a case can be made for causation with sufficient evidentiary support and a logical interpretive argument.

Causation coding allows qualitative researchers to understand the antecedent conditions, mediating variables, and outcomes through time in participant- or researcher-generated data. Causation Coding is appropriate for discerning attributions, objectives, values systems, worldviews, processes, transitions, recent histories, interrelationships, and the complexity of influences and effects on human actions and phenomena. This method serves grounded theory's search for process; narrative inquiry's and case study's discernment of participant motives; evaluation and action research's trajectory mapping; process-tracing's mechanisms; and other research methodology goals.

In this webinar, learn about causation principles and then have the opportunity to apply them by analyzing a set of social media data through causation coding, then further analyzing the processes through time. Content is derived from Saldaña’s The Coding Manual for Qualitative Researchers (4th edition, 2021, SAGE Publishing). The interactive webinar is designed for participants with an introductory background in qualitative research methods.

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This workshop offers opportunities to explore ideas of time and space in online and hybrid online/offline research sites. How do we adapt our research strategies to account for varying ideas of what “place” is on the internet, and to make sense of both asynchronous and synchronous online participation? We will take a practical tour through current issues in online qualitative inquiry through interactive activities and discussion of ethical sharing, data storage, online safety, and disseminating research through multimedia formats. We will explore particular considerations for researchers starting new hybrid research projects. Learners will discuss examples from contemporary hybrid qualitative research in order to plan research that is responsive to how our experiences in the hybrid field are transformed by the online platforms in which we are interacting. Designed for attendees to be able to apply knowledge to their own research sites, the workshop will offer additional resources on how we collect and share qualitative information over time and across geographies. Learners can plan to leave with resources and refined questions that will help them jump-start or further their hybrid online/offline research goals.

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Join us in this interactive workshop as we delve into the methodological considerations of Longitudinal Qualitative Research (LQR) and distinguish it from other methodologies. We show that LQR, i.e., generating data with the same research participants over an extended period, illuminates participants’ dynamic, idiosyncratic lived experiences. In so doing, LQR helps us as health researchers unravel complex and intimate processes (e.g., identity formation) and push back on dominant narratives constructed from cross-sectional research. We will engage participants in conversation about the affordances and constraints of LQR. Building on that conversation, we will offer a hands-on LQR design activity. We will conclude the workshop with practical tips and techniques for conducting LQR, including recursive interviews, bringing time into data interpretation, and enhancing mutual reflexivity in the research process. Get ready to learn with us as we explore the rich, insightful, and often surprising narratives that LQR affords.

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Knowledge translation describes the work required to close or bridge the gaps that exist in translating ideas from research into new approaches and putting those approaches into practice. It is widely acknowledged that this is not a straightforward or linear process. Instead, it is increasingly seen as both a process and outcome resulting from dynamic collaboration between knowledge producers and consumers. Research that takes account of the needs, knowledges and contexts of consumers is more likely to be considered relevant, useful, and used.

This workshop will be facilitated by academics from Fuse (the Centre for Translational Research in Public Health), a collaboration of the five universities in North East England along with their policy and practice partners. We will present the Fuse Knowledge Mobilisation Model, which emerged through reflections on 10 years of collaborative research. We will also draw on specific qualitative, participatory and embedded research examples to draw attention to the importance of choosing “the right time and place” in attempting to maximise research impact. Various activities will help workshop participants plan their knowledge mobilisation efforts and provide hands-on experience of learning in relation to knowledge translation.

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Insider research is typically understood as when an individual conducts research within their own community. This might include, for example, a trans person doing research about barriers to care for trans people or a Korean person conducting research about the migration experiences of Korean people to Europe. However, the static positioning of identifying oneself as an ‘insider researcher’ can reinforce a binary insider/outsider framework that serves to obscure power differentials between the researcher and the researched. Instead, insider/outsider positioning is fluid and consists of ever-shifting negotiations throughout the research process. This workshop aims to support emergent researchers to deepen their capacity to engage in reflexive research in ways that challenge the prevailing notion of ‘objective’ research. This includes critically reflecting upon how every researcher’s social location and their ‘researcher interests’ profoundly shape what counts as knowledge. Mobilizing reflexivity and standpoint frameworks allows researchers to situate themselves within the knowledge-building process and broader social relations. Thus, ongoing critical self-reflection serves as a crucial tool to navigate the complexities of moving between insider/outsider positionings throughout the research process. Drawing from Notisha Massaquoi’s (2011) calls for ‘transformative disruption’, workshop participants will be guided through an exercise related to their own experiences in being confronted with this issue. This workshop is especially relevant for those involved in projects whereby they are considered (at least partially) part of the directly impacted community being researched. The facilitator will also draw from their research experiences related to community-engaged health and social work research.

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This workshop will introduce the possibilities of art (and story) within art-based research (ABR). A short introductory presentation will demonstrate how arts and ABR compare, showcasing art's expressive, communicative, and layered meaning-making possibilities and ABR’s artistic possibilities in social justice place-making research projects. Through a series of exercises, participants will explore their relationship to context in imagery–how we implicitly story objects and images to make sense; how we use story and images to interpret; and, the multiplicity of image reading, because images always have layered meanings. Participants will consider the possibilities of art to connect time, place, and imagination in research–how it can decentre perspectives; allow for creative interpretation, expression and communication; and be used by participants, researchers, and audiences. No artistic experience is necessary.

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Land, Community, and Healing: Using Indigenous Approaches to Re-Think Qualitative Methods in Health Contexts

This keynote will be focused on sharing an Indigenous approach to re-thinking qualitative research methodologies in health contexts. When we ask the question, “What else is possible?”, we can open ourselves up to transformational research that is grounded in the healing and well-being and strengthening of the collective. This presentation will share examples from a community-led project with Athabascan (Dena) Elders from Interior Alaska focused on food sovereignty and intergenerational continuity of cultural knowledge and practices. The Elders have shared their wisdom and priorities for our communities to heal and for our cultural way of life to move forward into the future. This presentation will highlight the importance of connection to land and place as it relates to our research methodology. With a grateful heart and spirit, lessons from this research journey related to healing centered engagement will be shared with the hopes of inspiring new ways of knowing and being in the research process.

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Situational analysis (SA) is an extension of grounded theory for analyzing qualitative data, including interview, ethnographic, historical, visual, and/or other discursive materials. It is especially useful for multi-site research, feminist research, and critical inquiry. Emphasis is on grasping often messy complexities in data and understanding relations among the elements constitutive of the situation. SA uses four cartographic strategies for working with and analyzing data: situational maps, relational maps, social worlds/arenas maps, and positional maps. Through mapping, the analyst constructs the situation of inquiry empirically and the situation per se becomes the ultimate unit of analysis. The maps themselves offer coherent means of representing analysis useful for presentations and publications. The maps can be reconstructed over time to specify emergent elements in the research situation about which data have been and/or still need to be gathered. The maps thus intentionally work against the usual simplifications that are often characteristic of research. This workshop will provide an introduction to situational analysis and the major mapping strategies noted above. The workshop will place particular emphasis on developing situational maps, which can be used for initial project design and later revised in a flexible and iteratively responsive manner across the duration of the project. Participants are encouraged (but not required) to come to the workshop with a draft map and be prepared to discuss it in the group. The workshop goal is to help participants get a strong analytic grip on the situation they are studying.

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This workshop offers opportunities to explore ideas of time and space in online and hybrid online/offline research sites. How do we adapt our research strategies to account for varying ideas of what “place” is on the internet, and to make sense of both asynchronous and synchronous online participation? We will take a practical tour through current issues in online qualitative inquiry through interactive activities and discussion of ethical sharing, data storage, online safety, and disseminating research through multimedia formats. We will explore particular considerations for researchers starting new hybrid research projects. Learners will discuss examples from contemporary hybrid qualitative research in order to plan research that is responsive to how our experiences in the hybrid field are transformed by the online platforms in which we are interacting. Designed for attendees to be able to apply knowledge to their own research sites, the workshop will offer additional resources on how we collect and share qualitative information over time and across geographies. Learners can plan to leave with resources and refined questions that will help them jump-start or further their hybrid online/offline research goals.

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Grounded in the ambition to unravel the intricacies of spatial dimensions, the main goal of this workshop is to cultivate a nuanced understanding of the existential and phenomenological aspects of health experiences. By scrutinizing the lived experience of hospital meals, the role of human space in healthcare environments, and the spatial practices within healthcare settings, our aim is to elucidate the complex interplay of space and place in shaping healthcare phenomena. The workshop integrates Bollnow's theoretical framework, "Human Spaces," to offer participants a methodological lens to explore and apply spatial considerations in their own research endeavours. Through in-depth paper analyses and interactive discussions, we aspire to foster a scholarly environment where participants actively engage with the scientific content, gaining practical insights and contributing to the advancement of qualitative methodologies. Ultimately, the workshop seeks to deepen theoretical comprehension and instill a sense of scholarly scientific curiosity and methodological rigour, positioning participants at the forefront of cutting-edge research within the health-based phenomenological domain.

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Take a break from the digital grind and explore embodied research methods with Danielle Fuller and Lin Snelling.

GETTING READY FOR THE MINI RESEARCH SPA

We are excited to welcome you to the mini research spa! Since our time together is short, we've got some "setting up" suggestions.

Please set yourself up ready to begin promptly by ensuring that you are comfortable, warm but not hot, and, if you can manage it, in a quiet place with no or few distractions. If you are able to make the lighting in the room or space dim or low-level that would be great. If it is available to you, we invite you to lie on the floor, on a blanket, rug or yoga mat. If that isn't comfortable for your body, you could be lying back or sitting in a comfortable chair. Wherever your body is situated, you should feel able to relax. You might want to have a blanket, eye pillow, cushion/s to hand as well to help with comfort and relaxation. You might like to have a notebook and pen nearby.

 You can have your camera on or off: it's up to you. If you'd like to have soft music on, please ensure that your mike is on "mute."

Now you can relax! We will do the rest!

Danielle Fuller and Lin Snelling [U of Alberta]

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Tired of peering at screens? Run down? Overwhelmed? Join us for a research event with a difference. We invite you to join us in our research spa, an online environment and experience that you can create in your home (with a little help from us). Relax in a quiet, calm atmosphere. Lie down and rest. Relax. Listen to the sounds around you. Maybe take a nap. Reflect on any ideas through movement or on paper. See what stories emerge when your body slows down and you allow yourself to take a creative breathing space. 

We invite colleagues at all career stages to join us for this research creation-inspired event to explore with us the notion of embodied stories and silent states of being.

The research spa was inspired by a discussion at the launch event for Stories of Change and it is a collaborative creation by Professor/Dancer Lin Snelling (she/her) and Professor Danielle Fuller (she/her & they/them).

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We invite you to join us in an interactive, experiential, and conversational workshop where we will individually and collectively explore time and place in autobiographical narrative inquiry (Clandinin & Connelly, 2000; Clandinin, 2013; Cardinal, 2010, 2011, 2020). We will explore the significance of time and place in creative expression and autobiographical narrative inquiry by sharing examples and processes drawn from formal research studies, one-on-one writing support service, and from our students’ course-based term-long inquiry projects. Drawing on diverse knowledges and understandings of time and place, and how they intersect in the composing of identities and lives and human and more-than-human relationships, we will explore our own questions, as well as invite the past and present questions of the workshop participants about the potentials of autobiographical narrative inquiry as a relational research methodology and as a relational pedagogy.

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Together, qualitative research and geospatial analysis present many opportunities for meaning-making practices. Critical geographers make the claim that space is actively produced through the social processes occurring within it. As such, recent movements by critical geographic researchers have developed approaches that embed qualitative research into geospatial analysis – providing an added layer of deep contextual analysis to both methods of research. This workshop introduces participants to the theoretical and methodological framings of qualitative geospatial research through a mixture of instructor presentation and experiential learning. I will first introduce Qualitative Geographical Information Systems (QGIS), with a focus on embedding qualitative methods into geospatial analysis, along with its potential, developments, and limits. We will consider methods and processes of design, coding, and analysis that can be utilized in QGIS research. Participants will be introduced to ArcGIS, a software used in QGIS (no prior knowledge is necessary). We will then rely on participant input and hands-on experiential learning to understand the ways QGIS can be utilized in various types of qualitative and/or geospatial research. Finally, we will close the workshop with a discussion of theoretical frameworks of space, time, participatory research, and representing communal relationships as different ways of being as continued developments of QGIS. Adequate time will be given at the end of the workshop to answer any lingering questions by participants.

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We invite you to join us in an interactive, experiential, and conversational workshop where we will individually and collectively explore time and place in autobiographical narrative inquiry (Clandinin & Connelly, 2000; Clandinin, 2013; Cardinal, 2010, 2011, 2020). We will explore the significance of time and place in creative expression and autobiographical narrative inquiry by sharing examples and processes drawn from formal research studies, one-on-one writing support service, and from our students’ course-based term-long inquiry projects. Drawing on diverse knowledges and understandings of time and place, and how they intersect in the composing of identities and lives and human and more-than-human relationships, we will explore our own questions, as well as invite the past and present questions of the workshop participants about the potentials of autobiographical narrative inquiry as a relational research methodology and as a relational pedagogy.

To join this session, click the "join now" button, which will appear 15 minutes before the start time. You'll also receive an email reminder with the link. Note that this session is only available to those who reserved it. To check if you are confirmed for this session, click on the "My Sessions" tab at the top of the "Schedule" page.

Knowledge translation describes the work required to close or bridge the gaps that exist in translating ideas from research into new approaches and putting those approaches into practice. It is widely acknowledged that this is not a straightforward or linear process. Instead, it is increasingly seen as both a process and outcome resulting from dynamic collaboration between knowledge producers and consumers. Research that takes account of the needs, knowledges and contexts of consumers is more likely to be considered relevant, useful, and used.

This workshop will be facilitated by academics from Fuse (the Centre for Translational Research in Public Health), a collaboration of the five universities in North East England along with their policy and practice partners. We will present the Fuse Knowledge Mobilisation Model, which emerged through reflections on 10 years of collaborative research. We will also draw on specific qualitative, participatory and embedded research examples to draw attention to the importance of choosing “the right time and place” in attempting to maximise research impact. Various activities will help workshop participants plan their knowledge mobilisation efforts and provide hands-on experience of learning in relation to knowledge translation.

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Juxtaposing (hetero)sexualities 1990/2020: Time Binds, Rematriation, and Caring for the Neglected Things of Social Research

Dr. Rachel Thomson shares some of the learning, experiences, and creative outputs from Reanimating Data: experiments with people, places and archives. This project sought to secure, digitize, and share a landmark feminist social research study (the Women, Risk & AIDS Project 1988-90) with new audiences in new times. Through the research, Thomson and her team have worked with ideas from queer theory (operationalizing Freeman’s concept of time binds) and from indigenous and feminist archiving and activism (Muthien’s notion of rematriation and Moore’s conceptualisation of careful risk-taking). They have also developed a method of reanimation that includes practices of re-asking, collaging, re-voicing, and re-collecting. Dr. Thomson's aim in this keynote is to share insights from the study and to show the potential of working with the archives of qualitative research as a starting point for collaborative and creative enquiry that places time at the center. The presentation includes sharing a short film that showcases their collaborative work.

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What does institutional ethnography (IE) look like in practice? How is it unique and what does it have in common with other qualitative approaches? What are some of the challenges and strengths of using IE? In this workshop, we will provide our perspectives on answers to these questions, based on our individual and collective experiences of engaging with IE. We understand IE as a research methodology and a way of critically and reflexively seeing and thinking – a research paradigm. Through a combination of presentation and interactive formats, we will introduce key concepts within IE and explore what this approach can provide for researchers and practitioners interested in unpacking everyday problematics, contextually situated in the here and now.

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This workshop will introduce the possibilities of art (and story) within art-based research (ABR). A short introductory presentation will demonstrate how arts and ABR compare, showcasing art's expressive, communicative, and layered meaning-making possibilities and ABR’s artistic possibilities in social justice place-making research projects. Through a series of exercises, participants will explore their relationship to context in imagery–how we implicitly story objects and images to make sense; how we use story and images to interpret; and, the multiplicity of image reading, because images always have layered meanings. Participants will consider the possibilities of art to connect time, place, and imagination in research–how it can decentre perspectives; allow for creative interpretation, expression and communication; and be used by participants, researchers, and audiences. No artistic experience is necessary.

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Join us for an engaging workshop on "Health Research Praxis in Communities," where we will explore participatory methods and their application in addressing global health concerns in women's health. Drawing from a doctoral dissertation examining access to reproductive healthcare for conflict women in a relief settlement in Nigeria, this workshop will delve into the methodology and findings of the study, emphasizing the importance of community perspectives in shaping research outcomes. Our workshop embraces participatory praxis, valuing the reliability, validity, and relevance of research results. Acknowledging and respecting local knowledge ensures community perspectives are not marginalized, fostering a collaborative approach to addressing reproductive health challenges in Nigerian refugee camps. Through experiential engagement, participants will learn how participatory methods contribute to more equitable and effective healthcare interventions.

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Qualitative research can involve collecting data in the native language, and then presenting the analysis in a second language (primarily English). How do we ensure the local reader comprehends the data from local participants and outside researchers? Analyzing data and presenting findings becomes complex because no formula for translating culture exists. The process involves language translation with a deep understanding of the context—of time and place—which helps the researcher, and ultimately the reader, to better understand the phenomenon. This introductory webinar will present strategies for analyzing and presenting data with cross-cultural and cross-language origin. Methods discussed will include content analysis and constant-comparative analysis, with case studies in analyzing and coding interviews and focus groups.

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