Qualitative Applied Health Research Centre

Book launch: The Migrant Art of Coping | QUAHRC Join us for an interactive book launch and wellbeing workshop with Dr Sohail Jannesari, QUAHRC Methods Engagement & Innovation Lead, to celebrate the release of his new book The Migrant Art of Coping ...

Interested in migration and mental health?

Join us for an interactive book launch and wellbeing workshop with Dr Sohail Jannesari, QUAHRC Methods Engagement & Innovation Lead, to celebrate the release of his new book The Migrant Art of Coping (Pluto Press, 2026). www.quahrc.co.uk/training-sem...

A lovely quote from Kai on this @unisouthampton.bsky.social news piece about our latest podcast which featured guests Kai Syng Tan and @groockstudio.bsky.social
www.southampton.ac.uk/wsa/news/202...

Listen to the podcast here: www.quahrc.co.uk/resources/ne...

Impact in Qualitative Research: Nada I. J. Abualfita and Alhasan F. I. Ahmed on Ethics and Empathy in Healthcare | QUAHRC Dr Nada I. J. Abualfita is a medical graduate from Mansoura University, Egypt and successfully completed six months of clinical training in the Emergency Department at Mansoura University Hospitals. D...

How do doctors in Palestine use qualitative research in their work, and what does it tell us about their experiences?

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@kingsioppn.bsky.social @kingscsmh.bsky.social @bethlehem.bsky.social

Neurodiversity Matters: Kai Syng Tan and Georgia Thom on creative practice | QUAHRC Qualitative researchers are increasingly turning to creative methods and methodologies to expand perspectives on health, healthcare, and divergent ways of being. In this episode Sohail speaks to Kai S...

Fantastic final episode in the QUAHRC podcast series on neurodiversity with @groockstudio.bsky.social and Kai Syng Tan

www.quahrc.co.uk/resources/ne...

Immigration detention: A mental health crisis without borders Asylum-seekers and refugees are at high risk of mental health problems because of adverse experiences before, during, and after their journeys. Many of these individuals are placed in immigration…

"Immigration detention: A mental health crisis without borders" by Reem Saifeldeen -- a new Refugee Mental Health and Place blog is out. #RefugeesWelcome🧡
An important read: www.kcl.ac.uk/immigration-...

QUAHRC Seminar: Rethinking Power in Autism Research Rethinking Power in Autism Research: Intersectional, Participatory, and Afrocentric Futures?

Speaker update!

We've added a new speaker, Danielle Baptiste, to the line-up for our seminar next week on power in autism research. Danielle is a PhD student at the University of Warwick, researching Black women's experiences around adult autism diagnosis.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/quahrc-sem...

Qualitative health research involving children: ethical and methodological considerations | QUAHRC Join the NIHR Research Support Service (RSS) Hub at King’s College London for a session exploring the ethical and methodological considerations in conducting qualitative health research involving chil...

Free online workshop this coming Monday:

#Qualitative health #research involving children: ethical and methodological considerations

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#ResearchEthics #ResearchMethods #HealthResearch #QualitativeResearch

Lived Experience Advisory Board Coordinator | King's College London

Job alert! Come work with our friends at the Centre for Society and Mental Health www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/131165-...

Happy new year! Just under two weeks to go until our free seminar on power in autism research www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/quahrc-sem...

QUAHRC Seminar: Rethinking Power in Autism Research Rethinking Power in Autism Research: Intersectional, Participatory, and Afrocentric Futures?

Rethinking power in #AutismResearch: Intersectional, Participatory, & Afrocentric Futures?

Book our January seminar with @drmbothapsych.bsky.social & Dr Olivia Matshabane, facilitated by Dr Sohail Jannesari.

@kingsioppn.bsky.social @journalautism.bsky.social

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Impact in Qualitative Research: Deborah Chinn on the Feeling at Home photovoice project with people with learning disabilities | QUAHRC Deborah Chinn is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Palliative Care and also works as a lead clinical psychologist in the Hackney Integrated Learning Disability Service. She us...

What helps you feel at home where you live? What gets in the way?

Our new #ResearchImpact blog looks at a #QualitativeResearch project asking these questions to people with #LearningDisabilities living in shared homes with staff support.

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Participatory Research Ethics Surgery: Mad-Centred Participation | QUAHRC Are you feeling stuck or uncertain about handling ethical issues in your research? Whether you are dealing with ethics applications, ethical practice, ethical decisions, or ethical dilemmas in planned...

Next week! Mad-centred #ResearchParticipation

Join experts from the @nihr.bsky.social Research Support Service at @kingsioppn.bsky.social for a session on #ResearchEthics and #ParticipatoryResearch next Thursday

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Impact in Qualitative Research: Jo Law on Messy, Emotional and Necessary Ethical Research with Marginalised Populations | QUAHRC Jo Law is a qualitative research assistant at the Qualitative Applied Health Research Centre at King’s College London, working on the qualitative component of the EDEN project, which examines the use ...

Messy, emotional, and necessary: PhD student and research assistant Jo Law reflects on ethical #QualitativeResearch with marginalised groups in this month's #ResearchImpact blog:

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@kingsioppn.bsky.social @bethlehem.bsky.social

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Participatory Research | King's College London Job id: 125605. Salary: £45,031 to £48,607 per annum pro rata, including London Weighting Allowance.

Final call to work with us at the QUAHRC! This #postdoc closes on Thursday 2nd October #AcademicSky #JobAlert

Neurodiversity Matters: Daria Khanolainen on dyslexia and self-esteem Neurodiversity and neurodivergence have been revolutionary ideas in autism research, and later in ADHD. But how do they apply to other diagnoses or experiences? This month Sohail speaks to Dr Daria Khanolainen, a dyslexia researcher in Finland, about qualitative dyslexia research, self-esteem, and pathologising reading difficulties.

This month's podcast gets into #neurodiversity beyond #autism and #ADHD: Sohail speaks to Dr Daria Khanolainen, a #dyslexia researcher in Finland, about qualitative dyslexia research, self-esteem, and pathologising reading difficulties.

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Participatory Research | King's College London Job id: 125605. Salary: £45,031 to £48,607 per annum pro rata, including London Weighting Allowance.

One week to go to apply for this #postdoc in #qualitative #participatory research with us! Working on experiences of #CoerciveControl. #WomensHealth #JobAlert #AcademicSky

Unequal pressures: how disadvantage shaped young people's education… School closures during the COVID-19 pandemic didn’t just disrupt learning, they revealed and intensified deep inequalities that continue to shape young people’s lives today. While some children…

Unequal pressures: new #qualitative work from the QUAHRC team explores how young people from different backgrounds had very different #Covid experiences, and why this is still relevant to widening inequality

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Peer researchers in NHS research: approved in principle, undermined in… Bryher Bowness and Peter Bates highlight persisting organisational barriers to involving non-salaried, public contributors in healthcare research.

Peer workers in the NHS: approved in principle, undermined in practice?

This blog from QUAHRC PhD student Bryher Bowness should be of interest to both #MadSky and #AcademicSky - exploring the challenges of #PeerResearch and #ParticipatoryResearch in the NHS www.kcl.ac.uk/peer-researc...

Reimagining qualitative research education: A look inside the Summer… Qualitative research is more than just learning how to conduct interviews. At the Introduction to Qualitative Research Summer School at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience we…

Reimagining qualitative research education: in this blog our summer school lead Sohail Jannesari reflects on the 2025 school and looks forward to 2026.

To hear about next year's summer school, join our mailing list here or email us. www.quahrc.co.uk/join-our-mai...

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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Participatory Research | King's College London

Work with us! We're recruiting a postdoc in #ParticipatoryResearch to work on an exciting project exploring recovery from #CoerciveControl.

@vamhn.bsky.social

www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/125605-...

Unequal pressures: how disadvantage shaped young people's education… School closures during the COVID-19 pandemic didn’t just disrupt learning, they revealed and intensified deep inequalities that continue to shape young people’s lives today. While some children…

New research shows how disadvantage shaped young people’s education & wellbeing during the #COVID19 pandemic — and why the effects persist.

Read more:
🔗 www.kcl.ac.uk/how-disadvantage-shaped-young-peoples-education-and-wellbeing-during-the-pandemic

@kingscsmh.bsky.social @quahrc.bsky.social

Participatory Research Ethics Surgery: Navigating Ethics Applications | QUAHRC Are you feeling stuck or uncertain about handling ethical issues in your research? Whether you are dealing with ethics applications, ethical practice, ethical decisions, or ethical dilemmas in planned...

Are you a participatory researcher struggling with ethics processes?

Join this surgery next week for support around tensions between ethics committees' need for certainty & #ParticipatoryResearch 's need for flexibility: www.quahrc.co.uk/training-sem...

#ResearchHelp #ResearchMethods #AcademicSky

The Qualitative Open Mic Podcast | QUAHRC Our podcast asks why we do qualitative research, how do we do it well, and how it can be effectively applied

Are you at #AECongress25 or watching along on bsky? You might be interested in our podcast series on #Neurodiversity and #QualitativeResearch, including interviews with @drmbothapsych.bsky.social, Damian Milton, & Morénike Giwa Onaiwu: www.quahrc.co.uk/podcasts-blo...

Training course: Introducing Qualitative Secondary Analysis: from why to do it, to how to do it This one-day online, interactive course will provide a practical introduction to Qualitative Secondary Analysis. The morning session will explore key debates and histories characterising the beginnin

NCRM is running a one-day interactive course that will provide a practical introduction to qualitative secondary analysis.

The online course takes place on 15 September 2025.

Learn more:

Dear colleagues,
The call for abstracts for the 3rd Equip conference to be held in Lyon, France, from 8 to 10 July 2026, is now open. The deadline for abstracts submission is the 17th of October.
www.equip2026.inviteo.fr
We look forward to seeing many of you in Lyon in July 2026 !

Building on our survey study, we want to interview #autistic adults aged 18+ about dancing at home (kitchen disco anyone?), out socially, or at a dance class 💃🕺 To find out more and take part, email: claire.planner@manchester.ac.uk This study has been designed with autistic project advisors. #dance

‘It’s the perfect storm’: why are people with eating disorders at risk of suicide? A qualitative study - BMC Medicine Background Eating disorders (EDs) are associated with elevated all-cause mortality, with suicide cited as the second leading cause of death among individuals with EDs. Evidence suggests that individua...

📢New research 📢 Our new qualitative study provides the first in-depth study exploring individuals experiences and views regarding why people with eating disorders are at risk of suicide. bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
@saakshikakar.bsky.social @mrtzhrl.bsky.social
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Neurodiversity Matters: Victoria Castle on participatory research and neuroinclusive parenting measures | QUAHRC Parents get a lot of advice, and a lot of it is conflicting or inappropriate. Parenting research aims to be better than that – but is it, when neurodivergence is in the mix? Sohail speaks to Dr Victor...

New podcast: #ParticipatoryResearch and neuroinclusive #parenting measures

Parents get a lot of advice, and a lot of it is conflicting or inappropriate. Parenting #research aims to be better than that – but is it, when #neurodivergence is in the mix?

#qualitative

www.quahrc.co.uk/resources/ne...

Are they who they say they are? Exploring impostor / fraudulent participants in qualitative research and PPIE | QUAHRC A practical and ethical conversation for researchers and PPIE practitioners, facilitated by the NIHR Research Support Service (RSS) Hub at King's College London.

Free training with the @nihr.bsky.social research support service hub at @kingsioppn.bsky.social & partners:

Are they who they say they are? Exploring impostor / fraudulent participants in #qualitative research & PPIE

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#researchmethods #researchhelp #academicsky

I really loved editing this episode. I’ve always found it hard to figure out how to “show my working” as a neurodivergent researcher and I’m super excited about this series starring to really get into the processes of neurodivergent research.