Archive

The below list starts with the most recent seminar. 

Brokered Dialogue: A new research method for addressing controversial health and social issues

Jim Lavery, PhD, Centre for Research on Inner City Health and Centre for Global Health Research, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael’s Hospital and Joint Centre for Bioethics, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto.

Janet Parsons, PhD, Applied Health Research Centre, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael’s Hospital and Department of Physical Therapy, University of Toronto
 
Podcast - coming soon
Powerpoint - coming soon
 

Qualitative analysis in gay men's health research:  Comparing thematic, critical discourse, and conversation analysis

Jeffrey Aguinaldo, PhD, Department of Sociology, Wilfred Laurier University

Podcast 
P
owerpoint

 

"Think with your senses, feel with your mind" –  A strategy for integrating and analyzing multisensory data in qualitative research

Paula Gardner, PhD, Research Scientist, the Bridgepoint Collaboratory for Research and Innovation

Podcast
 

Qualitative synthesis methods: A decision tree for aggregating, integrating and interpreting islands of knowledge

Michael Saini, Assistant Professor, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto

Podcast
Powerpoint

Critical dramaturgy: A methodology for studying a psychoeducational support group for children of parents with mental illnesses

Brenda M. Gladstone, Ph.D., Researcher in the Community Health Systems Resource Group at SickKids and Adjunct Lecturer, Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto

Podcast
Powerpoint

Attending to the ‘active properties’ of texts: Using municipal bylaws as an entry point into trans-biopolitics and the negotiation of urban space

Melanie Rock, Ph.D., University of Calgary; Canadian Institutes for Health Research New Investigator in Societal and Cultural Dimensions of Health; Alberta Innovates - Health Solutions Population Health Investigator, Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research

Podcast
PowerPoint

Synthesising social & discursive histories in qualitative research: methodological challenges

Krista Maxwell, SSHRC postdoctoral fellow, Department of Social Sciences, UTSC

Podcast

Returning the gaze: ethical-methodological approaches in a study with persons with intellectual disabilities

Dr. Ann Fudge Schormans, Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, McMaster University
Dr. Adrienne Chambon, Professor, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto

Podcast
PowerPoint

Theatre as hermeneutic methodology: A case study of the use of theatre in bioethics research

Dr. Kate Rossiter, Assistant Professor, Health Studies, Wilfrid Laurier's Brantford Campus

PowerPoint

Narrative analysis as a turn to theory and angles of vision

Brett Smith, PhD, Senior Lecturer, School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough University, Leicestershire, UK
*No slides or video are available for this seminar.

Texts in Their Social Contexts: Including Critical Discourse Analysis in Qualitative Research Projects

Dr. Catherine Schryer, Professor and Chair, School of Professional Communication, Ryerson University

Podcast
PowerPoint

Methodological Conventions in Transition - Shifting the Balance between Theorizing and Application

Dr. Sally Thorne, Professor and Director, School of Nursing, University of British Columbia and Associate Editor, Qualitative Health Research

Podcast
PowerPoint

Doing research reflexively: The case of disability research

Chrissie Rogers,PhD, Reader in Education and Director of Research Degrees in the Faculty of Education, Anglia Ruskin University, UK

Podcast
PowerPoint

UnMasking Power Relations: From Interview Research to Dialogue for Social Change

Blake Poland, Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
Francisco Cavalcante Jr, Faculty of Education, Federal University of Ceara, Fortaleza, Brazil

Podcast
PowerPoint

Other ways of knowing: how does photovoice work?

Lilian Magalhaes, PhD, OT Reg.(Ont.), Associate Professor, School of Occupational Therapy, University of Western Ontario

Podcast
PowerPoint

Can Qualitative Social Science Make it in the Health Research Field?

Mathieu Albert, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Scientist at the Wilson Centre

Podcast
PowerPoint

Not the real thing: Is telephone interviewing in qualitative research like phone sex?

Linda Rozmovits (DPhil), Toronto-based independent qualitative researcher specializing in health and social care

Arts-based approaches to knowledge translation in health research: Exploring theater and dance

Pia Kontos, PhD., Research Scientist at Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and Assistant Professor in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto
Katherine Boydell, PhD., Sociologist and Scientist in Population Health Sciences at The Hospital for Sick Children and Department of Psychiatry and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto

Podcast
PowerPoint
PowerPoint

Meta-analysis and systematic reviews in qualitative research: Mission impossible?

Ellen MacEachen, PhD, Assistant Professor at Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto and Scientist at Institute for Work and Health
Scott Reeves, PhD, Scientist at Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute at St. Michael's Hospital and the Wilson Centre for Research in Education, Director of Research at the Centre for Faculty Development, St. Michael's Hospital and Associate Professor in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto

PowerPoint
Related Article (DOC)

Hearts, bodies and identity: Towards a critical visual phenomenology of heart transplantation

Jennifer Poole, MSW, PhD, Assistant Professor,School of Social Work, Ryerson University
Oliver Mauthner, PhD(c), Clinical Research Associate,University Health Network, General Division, Department of Cardiology and Transplant
Enza De Luca, MN, Clinical Research Associate,University Health Network, General Division, Department of Cardiology and Transplant

PowerPoint Additional References (DOC)
PITH Publications (DOC)

Ethical reflexivity in community-based research: Unpacking the implications of engaging community members as co-researchers

Sarah Flicker, PhD, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, Ontario HIV Treatment Network Scholar
Adrian Guta, MSW, Doctoral Student, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
Brenda Roche, PhD, Director of Community-Based Research, Wellesley Institute

PowerPoint

Conversation Analysis

Dr. John Heritage, Professor, Sociology, UCLA
Dr. Tanya Stivers, Research Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, The Netherlands.

The struggles of teaching and learning qualitative research

Ping-Chun Hsiung, Associate Professor, Sociology, University of Toronto, Carol-Anne Moulton, PhD student, IMS, and Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto - With comments from Jennifer Wong, MASc (Industrial and Applied Engineering)
Joan Eakin, Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences.

Qualitative Secondary Analysis: Asking a ‘new’ question of ‘old’ data

Brenda M. Gladstone, PhD (candidate), Public Health Sciences and Research Manager, The Hospital for Sick Children
Tiziana Volpe, PhD (candidate), Institute of Medical Science and Research Manager, The Hospital for Sick Children

PowerPoint

The Privileges and Pitfalls of Conducting Narrative Research: Deconstructing My Collaborative Storytelling Methodology

Dan Mahoney, PhD, School of Nutrition, Ryerson University

PowerPoint

Doing Research on Aging When Nobody Is Old

Stephen Katz, Professor, Department of Sociology, Trent University

Transcript (Doc)

What Actor-Network-Theory Taught Me About Narrative Analysis

Arthur Frank, FRSC, Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Calgary

Knowing, Knowing How, And Knowing How To Say: Transferring Knowledge Between The Academy And The Community

Adrienne Chambon & Deborah Knott, Faculty of Social Work & Health Sciences and New College Writing Centres

Data Co-production and Analysis: The Example of Video Diaries

Barbara Gibson, Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy, University of Toronto, and Postdoctoral Fellow, Community Health Systems Resource Group, Hospital for Sick Children

PowerPoint

What’s there and what isn’t? Thinking about Texts, Truths, and Analysis

Pamela Moss, University of Victoria

PowerPoint

"In praise of methodological messiness: (re)claiming the hermeneutics of inquiry"

Ann Robertson and Jessica Polzer, Department of Public Health Sciences

PowerPoint

The Ethics of Qualitative Research: Negotiating the Nature of Closeness and the Closeness of Nature.

Elizabeth Peter, Associate Professor, Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto
Judith Friedland, Professor Emerita, past Chair of the Department of Occupational Therapy, and current member of the Health Sciences 11 Research Ethics Board and the Committee for Human Subjects in Research

PowerPoint
PowerPoint

Research Outreach in Qualitative Research

Denise Gastaldo, Associate Professor, Faculty of Nursing
June Larkin, Associate Professor, OISE,
Joan Eakin, Professor, Public Health Sciences
Blake Poland, Associate Professor, Public Health Sciences

PowerPoint (Poetry)
PowerPoint (Theatre)
PowerPoint (Photovoice)
References (DOC)
Audio Part 1 (MP3)
Audio Part 2 (MP3)
Audio Part 3 (MP3)

Sharpening our Focus: Focus Groups and the Challenge and Potential of Qualitative Methods

Dr. Rosaline S. Barbour, Chair of Health & Social Care, School of Nursing & Midwifery, University of Dundee

Where History Meets Qualitative Health Research

Dr. Claire Hooker, Postdoctoral Fellow in Public Health

PowerPoint
References (DOC)

Beyond the science fair: Exploring conventional constraints and representational possibilities of poster presentations

Anu MacIntosh-Murray, Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, U of T
Brenda Gladstone, The Hospital for Sick Children & Department of Public Health Sciences
Esther Ignagni, Department of Public Health Sciences

Shifting subject positions: examining expertise and citizenship in relation to human genetics

Sarah Cunningham-Burley, University of Edinburgh, Visiting Scholar, University of British Columbia

Methodology as cultural practice: dialoguing with the arts

Adrienne Chambon, Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto

Pompous pedants, medical monsters and humane healers: Learning from the representations of physicians in opera and literature

Linda Hutcheon, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Michael Hutcheon, Respirology, Faculty of Medicine

How are things? Making a place for material objects in qualitative research

Kathryn Church, Independent researcher

Making a mess and spreading it around: Critical reflections on the process of creating and performing research-based drama

Ross Gray, Psychosocial and Behavioural Research Unit, Toronto-Sunnybrook Regional Cancer Centre

Arts-informed research for public education: the Alzheimer project

Ardra Cole, Maura McIntyre, Department of Adult Education, Community Development and Counselling Psychology, OISE/University of Toronto

The Status of Qualitative Research as Evidence

Ross Upshur, Director, Primary Care Research Unit Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Science Centre Assistant Professor, Departments of Family and Community Medicine and Public Health Sciences and Joint Centre for Bioethics, University of Toronto

The quality of qualitative research: A critique of criteria used in the health sciences and a proposal for reconceptualizing the bases of judgement

Joan Eakin, Public Health Sciences
Eric Mykhalovskiy, Public Health Sciences
Leslea Peirson, Public Health Sciences

Telling health insurance stories: Towards a dialogic social science

Tim Diamond, University of Michigan

In search of Gudrun Goodman, Reflections on doing history and memory

Lesley Biggs, University of Saskatchewan

 

Videotapes of selected seminars are available for loan from the audiovisual library located in Robarts Library.