Brett Smith - Professor, Durham University

YouTube video by Dr Peter Blundell My PhD Life as a Qualitative Researcher with Dr Bethan Taylor and Dr Peter Blundell

I've been interviewing some #Qualitative researchers for my YouTube channel exploring their experiences of the PhD process. New interview each month

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25 years of Qualitative Research in Sport and Exercise Psychology: How Did it Go? and What Now? Qualitative research in sport and exercise psychology has grown over the last 25 years. The number of papers published in journals like Psychology of …

New paper '25 years of Qualitative Research in Sport and Exercise Psychology: How Did it Go? & What Now?'

We talk about fallacies, interviewing, AI, digital methods, story completion, analysis & physical activity guidelines!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @dusportexsci.bsky.social

Women football players as role models – an uneven playing field? - Durham University

Still thinking about the Euros? (I know I am) Read this great piece from @staceypope.bsky.social on a recent article of ours on women footballers as 'role models!'
www.durham.ac.uk/research/cur...

A new postdoc position at LIROMS, Luxembourg. Check out all details on our website and apply soon! www.issa1965.org/news/news-it...

We’re delighted to share some projects supported in our Community Outreach Active Travel (COAT) programme,
including Ride on Time, a Didcot-based project teaching road safety to Early Years, using ride-on vehicles and a role-play road! 🚗

🚸 Find out more about the COAT programme:
lnkd.in/e7JRHqTJ

25 years of Qualitative Research in Sport and Exercise Psychology: How Did it Go? and What Now? Qualitative research in sport and exercise psychology has grown over the last 25 years. The number of papers published in journals like Psychology of …

New paper '25 years of Qualitative Research in Sport and Exercise Psychology: How Did it Go? & What Now?'

We talk about fallacies, interviewing, AI, digital methods, story completion, analysis & physical activity guidelines!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @dusportexsci.bsky.social

Sunrise study logo: a graphic of the sun rising over a sea

'We need to move beyond the objective vs subjective divide' on a teal background

'Many people's stories are left out' on an orange background.

How is subjective experience used in #mentalhealth research? We’re looking for researchers (especially neuroscientists, geneticists, big data scientists, and biomedical researchers, and non-UK researchers) to take part in a short survey, as part of the SUNRISE study.
www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/774USE/

📢 CALL FOR STUDENT VOLUNTEERS 📢

We are looking for 4x student volunteers to support DSEP 2025 👀👌

🗓 Please e-mail a cover letter and CV to r.simpson@leedstrinity.ac.uk by Friday the 30th of May.

@bps-dsep.bsky.social

A lot of fit with co-production 😀 Sounds amazing

En l’academia com en el futbol els premis individuals s’obtenen gracies als companys d’equip. Gràcies infinites a @uab-gepe.bsky.social i a tots els que hi han passat

Great thread by @ipanalysis.bsky.social on AI and qualitative analysis (and other things). I remain completely baffled about the enthusiasm for using AI to do qualitative analysis and (reflexive) TA specifically... not least because it is profoundly unethical, exploitative, eco disaster technology

At the University of Kwazula-Natal in South Africa giving talks - great to be back with old friends, meet new colleagues, and learn more. Thanks too for the Honorary Prof! @dusportexsci.bsky.social @durham-university.bsky.social @durhamimh.bsky.social

Why are Disabled People Still Punished for Being Active? - Get Yourself Active News like this explains the Activity Trap, a phenomenon where Disabled people do not engage in sports for fear of having their benefits removed.

🚨Disabled man lost his PIP after being filmed by DWP at his cricket club🚨

It's deeply concerning that Disabled people face punishment for being active.

We must resist the welfare reform bill that will only make the DWP more harmful!
getyourselfactive.org/punished-for...

Deeply concerning to hear that Disabled people are facing surveillance, with evidence of being physically active is used against us.

The only 'welfare reform' the government should be talking about is a complete overhaul of this ableist system.

Developing good qualitative research questions: an NIHR RSS webinar | QUAHRC Join the NIHR Research Support Service (RSS) Hub at King’s College London for an interactive session designed to help you craft clear, focused, and purposeful qualitative research questions.

Looking for help designing #QualitativeResearch?

Join this free webinar with @nihr.bsky.social Research Support Service #qualitative experts on how to write good research questions:

#ResearchMethods #ResearchHelp #AcademicSky

www.quahrc.co.uk/training-sem...

A PowerPoint slide showing a brightly coloured abstract painting with text that reads 'Divergent socialites and Textualities in post-truth landscapes, Dr Abs Ashley, University of Bristol'.

A PowerPoint slide with white text printed on bright pink rectangles against a black and white line drawing of a rainbow and a cloud. The text reads 'compulsively yours: ruminating on trans-mad futures, m. remi yergeau (they/them), carleton university, canada research chair in critical disability studies and communication'. All the text is lower case.

A clay sculpture with round eye-like shapes on a plastic sheet. There is an orange lead pencil and a card with hand-writing on it to the right hand side.

Day 2 of our Critical Neurodiversity Studies Conference! @remiyergeau.bsky.social, @ainokash.bsky.social, the round-table on intersectional privilege, self-(a)criticality & micro-politics in critical neurodiversity studies, and a neuroscribbling in clay workshop were just some of the highlights ...

International Consortium on Hallucination Research June 24-26, 2025 @vanderbilt.edu Keynotes: Tanya Luhrmann, Stephan Heckers, Angela Woods @literati.bsky.social
Author evening with @aldersonday.bsky.social
Working Group Talks
@echrhallucinations.bsky.social Networking Event
@theichr.bsky.social

Liorah Hoek and Sanne van Driel smiling at the camera. They are standing in front of a PowerPoint slide in a seminar room. On half of the slide is blue and the other is white with orange and green paint splotches. On the blue slide of the slide the text reads 'The Plurality Game'.

The floor in The Sensory Den – a pop up sensory room. There are yellow and red jigsaw pieces, a red glowing stool, and three marble effect tiles in pink and orange and green and blue.

A lime green and orange lava lamp on a bench, a large cube to the right, and fibre optic tails in white/light blue on the floor.

A fan arrangement of conference programmes with abstract artwork in pink, orange, light blue and black. On the right there are white circles connected with white lines. The title on the programme reads: 'Critical Neurodiversity Studies Conference: Directions / Intersections / Contradictions, 24–26 June 2025, Durham University and Online.'

Great day today at our Critical Neurodiversity Studies Conference! Highlights included a keynote from Lisa Johnson and Liorah Hoek & Sanne van Driel’s workshop on what understanding experiences of plural identities can bring to critical neurodiversity studies. The Sensory Den was also a real hit!

We love hearing from you In Essex @brettsmithprof.bsky.social. Excited to be building conversations about physical activity into our practice 💃🏻

Moving Social Work is today in Essex with the amazing @tanyamoore.bsky.social

Want to learn more about Moving Social Work? bit.ly/4kVUhZy

@getyrselfactive.bsky.social @disrightsuk.bsky.social @sport-england-se.bsky.social @dusportexsci.bsky.social @durhamimh.bsky.social

Thanks Prof. A-C - yes!!!

#cfp - using novel & rigorous qualitative methods/methodologies from multiple fields & on less explored topics on motherhood & high performance sport.

@qrsesociety.bsky.social @brettsmithprof.bsky.social @cassie-phoenix.bsky.social @youlia83.bsky.social

Lindsay Macnaughton, was recently invited by the Swiss Sports Nutrition Society to delivered a keynote session on Body Composition Assessment in Athletes: Why? When? How?. Lindsay also co-presented with her collaborator Therese Fostervold Mathisen from Østfold University College (HiØ) in Norway.

Delighted that the #JASPA team have been shortlisted for #FuseAwards25 more info on our project and amazing young people below #coproduction #physicalactivity #youngpeople @nihrsphr.bsky.social @dusportexsci.bsky.social

Thanks Virginia - my captured look doesn't reflect the content of what was said!

Very inspiring listening to people with lived experience (e.g., from Activity Alliance) and to @brettsmithprof.bsky.social, lead of our #movingsocialwork project, discussing what co-production is, why it is fundamental to include people’s voice in knowledge production and how to dot it.
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3 in 4 Disabled people want to be more physically active. Why are we not?

💰Financial barriers
❌Inaccessible facilities
📚Social care professionals not given the tools to help Disabled people be active
🩺Stigma from health professionals (it will not 'cure' us!)
🪤Activity Trap: fear of losing benefits

📢We are excited about our upcoming event in the series 'Innovative Methodologies in Qualitative Health Research': by Dr Joanna Brooks: "ECQHRN Innovative Methodologies Learn & Network: Understanding the REF for qualitative health researchers". 26/06/25, 12:30-14:00 UK. To register: lnkd.in/gpZh6-8Q

Attending it too. Very inspiring. Also very aligned with our Moving Social Work Project @brettsmithprof.bsky.social
How powerful to be more active creatively and more creative actively?

New Co-production Resource by @disrightsuk.bsky.social & with @dusportexsci.bsky.social Launch 5th June @durhamimh.bsky.social @nihrarcs.bsky.social @sport-england-se.bsky.social @bps-dsep.bsky.social @pahrc.bsky.social @jpahjournal.bsky.social @ifapanet.bsky.social us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

2025–26 Bridging Fellows: Applications Open! We are currently recruiting three Bridging Fellows with an interest in race and health, neurodiversity and lived experience research. Applications close 25 April 2025.

📣 Applications closing on 25 April!
Could you be one of our Bridging Fellows? If you are a recent PhD graduate interested in researching the medical humanities, apply for the chance to develop your research and grow your connections with us!

Find out more 👇
medhumsplatform.org/2025-26-brid...