Qualitative Methods in Applied Health Research
Module code: MD7433
This module is also available as a stand-alone CPD course.
Topics
- Epistemological and ontological assumptions underlying qualitative research methodologies
- Identifying research questions for qualitative enquiry
- Developing a critical and reflexive approach
- Designing and planning a qualitative research project including consideration of ethical issues and research data management
- Conducting interviews, focus groups and ethnographic observation
- Approaches to the analysis of qualitative data (including open coding and the constant comparative method, discourse analysis and visual analysis)
- Using qualitative analysis software
- Critical appraisal of qualitative research papers
- Communicating findings of qualitative research
Learning
- 18 hours of lectures
- 12 hours of seminars
- 6 hours of fieldwork
- 114 hours of guided independent study
Assessment
- Critical appraisal of research paper (30%)
- Essay, 3,000 words (70%)