Methods Matter - Focus Groups

Published: Sept. 12, 2022, midnight

The Methods Matter Podcast - from Dementia Researcher & the National Centre for Research Methods. A podcast for people who don't know much about methods...those who do, and those who just want to find news and clever ways to use them in their research.\n\nIn this second series Clinical Research Fellow, Dr Donncha Mullin from The University of Edinburgh brings together leading experts in research methodology, and the dementia researchers that use them, to provide a fun introduction to five qualitive research methods in a safe space where there are no such things as dumb questions!\n\nEpisode Four \u2013 Focus Groups\n\nIn expert corner - Dr Kahryn Hughes, from University of Leeds. Director of the Timescapes Archive, Editor in Chief of Sociological Research Online, Convenor of the MA Qualitative Research Methods and a Senior Fellow for the NCRM.\n\nIn researcher ranch \u2013 Nadine Mirza is a PhD Student and Research Assistant in the Centre for Primary Care and Health Services Research at the University of Manchester. Nadine\u2019s research explores cognitive testing in ethnic minorities and the experience of dementia diagnosis and access to dementia services in British South Asians.\n\nFurther reading referenced in the show:\n\nJenny Kitzinger, The Methodology of Focus Groups - https://bit.ly/3ey6YMR \nRosaline Barbour, Doing Focus Groups - https://bit.ly/3TNxzWe \nRosaline Barbour, YouTube - https://youtu.be/5xPYGXJ_hM4 \nFocus Group Methodology: Principles and Practice - https://bit.ly/3x31OPk \nNCRM Focus Group Resources - https://bit.ly/3TP38Pr \n\n--\n\nRead more about our guests and listen to more great podcasts at:\nhttps://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk \n\nThe National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) provides a service to learners, trainers and partner organisations in the research methods community - methodological training and resources on core and advanced quantitative, qualitive, digital, creative, visual, mixed and multimodal methods.\n\nhttps://www.ncrm.ac.uk \n\n--\n\nThis podcast is brought to you in association with Alzheimer's Research UK and Alzheimer's Society, who we thank for their ongoing support.