mixed methods

In this episode of the Methods podcast, host Catherine McDonald talks to JD Carpentieri, Associate Professor of Social Science and Policy in the Department of Education, Practice and Society at University College London, and an Honorary Research Associate at the Centre for Longitudinal Studies.

JD talks about how qualitative research can add nuance to theory, which questions he feels are best suited to mixed methods longitudinal research and he shares his top tip on keeping participants on board. He also explains how he likes to try different analytic techniques for different studies.

This series of the Methods podcast is produced by the National Centre for Research Methods as part of the EU Horizon2020 funded YouthLife project, and is looking at how researchers can do better longitudinal research on youth transitions.

For further information on the YouthLife project, visit www.EUqualimix.ncrm.ac.uk

Dr Alexandra Burton reports on the SHAPER-PND study exploring singing's effect on postnatal depression in new mothers Singing has shown positive effects on maternal mood and mother–child bonding. The Scaling-Up Health-Arts Programmes: Implementation and Effectiveness Research-Postnatal Depression (SHAPER-PND) study will analyse the clinical and implementation effectiveness of a 10-week programme of singing sessions for PND in new mothers. This talk will present findings from the evaluation of an adapted online programme during the COVID-19 pandemic and describe the methods used to evaluate the main in-person programme. This free guest lecture is part of the Mixed Methods in Health Research module, part of the Oxford University Evidence-Based Health Care (EBHC) programme (https://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/courses/mixed-methods-in-health-research?code=O22C212B9Y). About the speaker: Dr Alexandra Burton is a Senior Research Fellow in Behavioural Science/Behaviour Change at University College London. She currently leads the qualitative component of the Shaper-PND implementation trial exploring the experiences of new mothers with postnatal depression who take part in group singing sessions, and the INSPYRE study evaluating social prescribing for young people who are on waiting lists for child and adolescent mental health services. Questions? Please contact the Evidence-Based Health Care (EBHC) team by emailing: cpdhealthadmin@conted.ox.ac.uk To stay informed of programme news, including lectures and research news, sign up to the EBHC mailing list: https://conted.us6.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=b349338a9a&id=9769482733 Links: Dr Alexandra Burton: https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=ABURT01? Evidence-Based Health Care Programme Overview: https://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/evidence-based-healthcare Mixed Methods in Health Research: https://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/mixed-methods-in-health-research

In this episode of the Methods podcast, host Catherine McDonald talks to Dan Woodman, Associate Professor of Sociology at the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne. Dan is an internationally recognised authority on conceptualising generational change and the social conditions impacting our young adults.

Dan discusses explains what drew him to his area of study, why iterative models are so important in longitudinal research and how reciprocity can help reduce attrition. He also talks about his approach to writing and being wary of allowing the data to simply say what you want it to say.

This series of the Methods podcast is produced by the National Centre for Research Methods as part of the EU Horizon2020 funded YouthLife project, and is looking at how researchers can do better longitudinal research on youth transitions.

For further information on the YouthLife project, visit www.EUqualimix.ncrm.ac.uk.

A series of narrative workshops helping make life better for fat people. Drawing on training in social science and medicine respectively, Rachel Fox and Kelly Park describe a series of workshops for medical students and fat participants designed to combat weight stigma. They outline their quantitative and qualitative findings, including the importance of physical presence in tackling the physiological and phenomenological aspects of fat phobia, the importance of narrative cues in permitting obliquely creative transformations of difficult experiences, and the importance of getting beyond one-sided correction of prejudice towards a more equal and reciprocal learning process.

From climate change to water security - there are some problems facing the world that often seem unsolvable. So how can researchers stay positive about the role they have in tackling these huge challenges and which research methods should they consider using? In this episode of our podcast, Dr Donna Mertens, Professor Emeritus at Gallaudet University in Washington DC, and keynote speaker at the 2018 Research Methods Festival, calls on researchers to stay optimistic about the role they have in beating the world's ‘wicked’ problems and explains why she believes a mixed methods is key to doing research in troubling times.

This talk will introduce the realist review methodology as a strategy for combining qualitative and quantitative data to answer the question “what works, for whom, and in what circumstances” This methodology is proving popular in addressing questions around complex and social interventions. The talk will provide a brief overview of approaches to synthesizing qualitative and quantitative research for mixed methods reviews, discuss approaches to dealing with different study types in realist reviews, and question the adequacy of published studies when developing theory for complex interventions.

Dr. Small (University of Chicago) presents his mixed-methods work on child care centers and their roles on social capital building for mothers.