Venue: School of Nursing, Dublin City University

The School of Nursing, Dublin City University invites you to a Qualitative Research Summer School that is aimed at qualitative researchers in healthcare, social sciences and related fields. The Summer School consists of thirteen workshops, each of which is conducted over one or two days. Each workshop will be led by an established figure in their field of qualitative research and attended by participants with a particular interest in that field. The workshops, and their leaders, are as follows:

Ethnography Qualitative Interviewing	Martyn Hammersley, Professor of Educational & Social Research, Open University
Invitation to grounded theory research	Agnes Higgins, Lecturer In Nursing, Trinity College Dublin
Grounded theory troubleshooting workshop	Tom Andrews, Lecturer in Nursing, University College Cork
Focus groups	David Morgan, University Professor, Portland State University
Interpretative phenomenological analysis: introductory and advanced workshops	Jonathan Smith, Professor of Psychology, Birkbeck College-University of London
Appreciative inquiry Qualitative data analysis	Bernie Carter, Professor of Children’s Nursing, University of Central Lancashire
Foucault’s methods and qualitative research	Mike Hazelton, Professor of Mental Health Nursing, University of Newcastle
Realist qualitative research	Sam Porter, Professor in Nursing Research, Queen’s University Belfast
Comparative keyword analysis Assessing the quality of qualitative research	Clive Seale, Professor of Sociology, Brunel University Jonathan Charteris-Black, Professor of Linguistics, University of West England
Mixed methods research	Alicia O’Cathain, Senior Research Fellow, Medical Care Research Unit, University of Sheffield

Fees:

• Two-day workshops- €300; €150 for unwaged
• One-day workshops- €160; €100 for unwaged

Further information can be obtained from Siobhan Doherty at siobhan.doherty@dcu.ie or 353 (0)1 7007987.

Register for the Qualitative Research Summer School Workshops