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Qualities & Quality in Qualitative Research Methodology Seminar

Presented by Dr Rosalind Pearmain

Thursday, 30 April 2009, 5.30pm - 7.00pm at Regent's College

One of the main purposes in employing qualitative methodology is to obtain vivid and direct subjective experience for analysis yet this is often lacking in what comes out in the interview. This seminar will explore how to facilitate more experiential exploration with interview subjects. It will also propose some tools for researchers to use in their reflection on the meanings emerging from participants’ communication. 

  • This workshop will offer practical tools to try out in interviews that could encourage more evocative language and lived experience to emerge.
  • It will also consider how the researcher immerses themselves within data in order to synthesise new understanding to emerge from nuance and qualities within the text

Dr Rosalind Pearmain

Dr Rosalind Pearmain is a Senior Lecturer in SPCP. Her doctoral study involved comparison of changes in meditators and psychotherapists in training. She has presented findings from this at the BPS Transpersonal Section Conference.

Her research work has continued with exploration of young people’s experiences of transformation in summer schools. She has also presented a workshop at the International Conference of Childhood Spirituality on the use of evocative cues in qualitative research. She has been working with students on M.A. dissertations for many years and has published a book with Sage, The Heart of Listening: Attentional Qualities in Psychotherapy (2001) and The Ecology of Shopping: A Transformational Experience Ch 6 in Serious Shopping ( Free Association Books 1999)

Further Information

For more information please contact:

Petros Tsiros
Short Courses, Events & Conferences
School of Psychotherapy & Counselling Psychology 
0207 487 7840
tsirosp@regents.ac.uk

Seats are of a limited number so avoid disappointment please apply early to guarantee your seat.

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