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Professor Jennifer Mason is Professor in Sociology at the University of Manchester, UK Title: 'Creative Tensions? Reflections on Mixing Methods in a Qualitatively-Driven Way' Jennifer Mason is Director of ‘Realities’ www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/realities which is a phase 2 ‘Node’ of the UK National Centre for Research Methods, and was formerly Director of the phase 1 Node, Real Life Methods. She is also Co-Director of the Morgan Centre for the Study of Relationships and Personal Life at the University of Manchester. Before joining Manchester University in 2005, Jennifer was Reader in Sociology at the University of Leeds. She gained her PhD in 1987 from the University of Kent. Jennifer’s main research focus over her career has involved asking questions about 'relatedness’ and the connections people make with others in their everyday personal lives. She is interested in the lived realities of personal relationships as well as socio-cultural changes, transformations and continuities in which these relationships figure so centrally. Along with colleagues in the Realities and Real Life Methods teams, she has been developing expertise in the methodologies that social scientists can use to ask these kinds of questions about 'relatedness’ and lived realities, with a particular interest in qualitative and mixed method approaches. Her current work involves exploring the potential of creative, qualitatively-driven, 'multi-dimensional’ methodological approaches. Jennifer’s books include: Qualitative Researching, 2002, Sage (second edition), and (with Janet Finch) Passing On: Kinship and Inheritance in England, 2000, Routledge. She has written numerous articles and papers on qualitative and mixed methods, family and kinship. Dr Leslie Curry is Senior Scientist at the Yale School of Public Health and Core Faculty of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program, Yale University, USA Title: Mixed methods provide unique benefits in understanding health care quality and delivery Leslie Curry, PhD, MPH, is Senior Scientist at the Yale School of Public Health and Core Faculty of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program at Yale. Her research interests include three overlapping areas with particular emphasis on older adults: approaches to improve the quality of health care; patient experiences with health and the health care system; and trends in health insurance coverage and benefits. She is particularly committed to applied policy research, with a primary objective of informing the development of health policy at the state and national levels. She is a recognized expert in qualitative and mixed methods and has served as co-PI on a series of grants awarded by NIA, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the John A Hartford Foundation designed to enhance the rigor and credibility of qualitative and mixed methods in aging and public health research. Together with colleagues from Brown, she conceived, developed and implemented two national training conferences on this topic, and was lead editor of a reference text published in 2006 by the American Public Health Association and Gerontological Society of America: Curry L, Shield R, Wetle T. (Eds.) Improving Aging and Public Health Research: Qualitative and Mixed Methods. Dr. Curry has extensive experience teaching qualitative research methods at the graduate and postgraduate levels and mentoring RWJ Clinical Scholars conducting qualitative and mixed methods studies. Dr. Curry also serves on editorial boards of several aging journals, and regularly conducts reviews for many others, particularly for manuscripts reporting qualitative or mixed methods studies. She is the former Director of the Braceland Center for Mental Health and Aging, a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America and a member of Academy Health. Dr Alicia O'Cathain Senior Research Fellow, University of Sheffield, UK Title: What makes a good mixed methods study? Dr Alicia O’Cathain, School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, UK How can one judge whether a mixed methods study has been undertaken well or poorly? It is important to assess the quality of mixed methods research, yet currently there are no accepted criteria for doing so (Creswell & Plano-Clark, 2007). A number of researchers have, however, conceptualised the quality of mixed methods research (Bryman, 2006; Bryman, Becker, & Sempik, 2008; Caracelli & Riggin, 1994; Erzberger & Kelle, 2003; O'Cathain, Murphy, & Nicholl, 2008; Onwuegbuzie & Johnson, 2006; Sale & Brazil, 2004; Tashakkori & Teddlie, 2008; Teddlie & Tashakkori, 2003) and indeed have constructed frameworks for quality assessment (Dellinger & Leech, 2007; Teddlie & Tashakkori, 2009). I will describe some key aspects of quality and explore their usefulness by applying them to a real life mixed methods study. The aim of the talk is to generate debate about quality assessment within the mixed methods community Back to top of page |
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