I provide bespoke qualitative training courses on various research methods. I draw on over 15 years’ experience in academia and external professional research roles. I have extensive experience teaching qualitative methods nationally and internationally including for clients such as: the Social Research Association, market research companies, police forces, inspectorates, local authorities, charities, voluntary sector, universities, summer schools and ESRC doctoral training centres.
Who has taken my courses?
- Academics, including PhD students
- Market researchers
- Social researchers working in various organizational settings
- Professionals conducting in-house research (i.e. in medicine, health care, social care, education, criminal justice and policing)
- Researchers working for charities, voluntary sector and NGOs
- Government and local authority research departments
- Research consultants
Courses I regularly deliver include:
- An introduction to qualitative research
- Qualitative research during Covid-19: moving research online
- Designing a qualitative study
- Focus groups – including conducting focus groups online
- Qualitative interviewing – including conducting digital interviews
- Qualitative data analysis (including thematic analysis)
- Storytelling as method
- Narrative analysis
- Smartphones in qualitative research
- Observational methods and ethnography
- Participatory action research (PAR)
- Reflexivity and reflective practice
- Writing up qualitative data
*Due to Covid-19 courses are currently delivered online via Zoom, MS Teams or Skype. The above courses can also be adapted to accommodate your requirements. Contact me for more information: karen@qualitative.training.com
