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The Health Experiences Research Group, Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford has had an excellent response to its course programme for the beginning of 2014. Some courses are already fully booked with waiting lists, others are filling fast. Please book early to avoid disappointment. 

For further details about each course or to make a booking, please go to
https://www.oxforduniversitystores.co.uk/browse/product.asp?catid=165&modid=5&compid=1 

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We look forward to welcoming you and your colleagues on one or more of our courses in 2014.

INTRODUCTION TO QUALITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS  
7-11 April 2014 FULLY BOOKED – WAITING LIST

“This has been a fantastic week, an excellent combination of theory and practice.  I feel much more confident to go back to work on my project. This should be an example to others of how to run a course. Excellent.

This one week course is aimed at health professionals, researchers, and postgraduate students with little or no understanding of qualitative research methods. Everyone is welcome, regardless of research background. The course aims to provide hands on practical experience of different qualitative methods including in-depth interviewing, focus groups and ethnography, as well as practice in analysing qualitative data. It is particularly suited for people who are starting work on a project with a qualitative dimension, doctoral students at the beginning of their projects or those who are thinking about using qualitative research methods.  The course also provides a useful introduction/refresher for researchers, academics, or managers who are supervising students or staff doing qualitative research projects.

INTRODUCTION TO QUALITATIVE INTERVIEWING
16-17 January 2014 – FULLY BOOKED

                       

INTRODUCTION TO FOCUS GROUPS
14 March 2014 PLACES AVAILABLE - BOOK NOW

“I go on a lot of training courses. This was one of the best I have been to! So rarely do you get practical experience whilst training. Excellently structured and facilitated course.”

This one day course is aimed at health professionals, researchers and postgraduate students who want to develop skills in organising and facilitating focus groups and in analysing focus group data.  The course is suitable for those with little or no understanding of focus group method as well as those wishing to review and broaden existing skills. Practical exercises and small group work will be used throughout the course to develop competence in designing topic guides, moderating focus groups and analysing data.                                   

ANALYSING QUALITATIVE INTERVIEWS
5-6 February 2014 FULLY BOOKED
29-30 April 2014 PLACES AVAILABLE - BOOK NOW

Overall, really really excellent. So worth my time and energy and I feel energised and inspired to tackle my qualitative analysis with much more confidence in my abilities, than before I came on the course.”

This two day course is aimed at researchers who are planning to undertake or manage qualitative research using in-depth or semi structured interviews or those who have already collected qualitative interview data which they are unsure how to analyse.  It aims to introduce the principles and practice of qualitative interview data analysis, with particular emphasis on thematic analysis techniques. It uses a combination of practical workshops, group discussions and formal lectures. The course will also give an overview of other approaches to qualitative analysis.
           

INTRODUCTION TO MEDIA CONTENT ANALYSIS 
6 March 2014 PLACES AVAILABLE - BOOK NOW

“Very good overview; good balance between lecture and practical exercises; really useful to focus on the coding process, which is often ignored in these types of courses.”

This one day course is aimed at researchers who have little or no experience of content analysis.  Everyone is welcome, regardless of research background. The course aims to introduce researchers to the method of manifest and latent content analysis with step by step instruction on developing a coding frame, coding and analysing media stories. Although the course is primarily targeted at those with an interest in examining the media’s influence on health using content analysis, the method can be used to analyse a variety of text. 

           

Dr Jenny Hislop
Senior Researcher, Health Experiences Research Group
Co-ordinator, Qualitative Research Methods Teaching Programme
Department of Primary Care Health Sciences
University of Oxford
23-38 Hythe Bridge Street
Oxford OX1 2ET

Telephone: 01865 289328
Direct telephone: 01865 289325
Fax: 01865 289287
Email:
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www.healthtalkonline.org

For details about our teaching courses see http://www.oxforduniversitystores.co.uk/browse/product.asp?catid=165&modid=5&compid=1