Qualitative Research Reference Group

The Qualitative Research Reference Group is a group of experienced qualitative researchers belonging to different topic-based research groups within the Medical School. This includes using a broad range of qualitative research approaches to explore health services delivery, perspectives on social care, and the environment and human health.

Our aim is to develop qualitative research, support rigorous methods and promote the use of innovative approaches in this field.

To support qualitative research within the Medical School we currently run introductory workshops for postgraduate students, undergraduate and MSc teaching, and Qualitative Research Advice Clinics. We run a Qualitative Research Forum which has hosted internal and external speakers, as well as an annual Symposium. We have previously run a seminar series and workshops about writing papers for the Research Excellence Framework.

Past events

Event 18	Telling a story or reporting the facts? Innovation and Creativity in Qualitative Analysis	1st December 2025
Event 17	Innovation and creativity for impact in health and social care research	25th September 2025
Event 16	Creative methods / Arts-based approaches	9th July 2025
Event 15	Postgraduate Research: Work In Progress	22nd April 2025
Event 14	Doing more than ‘barriers and facilitators’	10th February 2025
Event 13	Postgraduate and Postdoctoral Research: Work In Progress	5th December 2024
Event 12	Artificial Intelligence and Qualitative Research: Possibilities and Pitfalls	26th September 2024
Event 11	Frontiers, Peripheries and Boundaries: Qualitative Research, PPIE, and Peer Research	21st September 2023
Event 10	Making Collage-art with Women affected by Gender Based Violence: The effects of emotional research and understanding the challenges and possibilities for supporting researcher-health	15th June 2023
Event 9	Postgraduate and Postdoctoral Research In Progress	6th March 2023
Event 8	Mobile Methods: What are they, why use them and how?	10th October 2022
Event 7	Panel discussion on involving patient representatives	3rd March 2022
Event 6	Rigour in Qualitative Research	26th November 2021‌‌
Event 5	Qualitative Research With Children	15th June 2021‌
Event 4	Qualitative Research in Times of Covid 19	30th March 2021
Event 3	Visual Data Collection and Dissemination for Qualitative Research	26th January 2021
Event 2	Collaboration in Analysing Qualitative Data	24th November 2021
Event 1	Digital Health and the Coronavirus Crisis	15th September 2021

Address: South Cloisters, St Luke’s Campus, Heavitree Road, Exeter, EX1 2LU
Email: J.Frost@exeter.ac.uk
Tel: +44 1392 722970

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