Events 2024

Qualitative Research Forum

Ana Lucia Estrada Jaramillo - Is this an Ethnography? Exploring Current Debates
During the Covid 19 pandemic, I conducted document analysis, interviews, Online Asynchronous Focus Groups and diaries through mobile phones and WhatsApp to understand Congenital Syphilis prevention in Colombia. Some reflections from my online fieldwork experience help to ignite and illuminate current debates around ethnography. What counts as an ethnography? What counts as a site? Is it fundamental to be present as an ethnographer to observe a practice? Can ethnographies be limited only to observation and sight? Can other senses also provide possibilities for ethnographies? I explore and discuss these questions to enrich avenues for ethnography, especially in health research.

Jim Reeder -What are the Barriers to Empowerment for Parent Carers of Children with Neurodisability? A Qualitative Study
Supporting parent carers to become empowered - to have greater agency and control over the decisions and actions regarding the care of their child - is a central tenet of global contemporary health and social care policy. This study explored how and where barriers to empowerment exist for parent carers of children with neurodisability accessing health care services. We used focus groups and semi-structured interviews to collect data from 28 participants (Fifteen parent carers, nine children’s health professionals, three service managers and one commissioner). Audio recordings were transcribed verbatim and data were analysed using a process of reflexive thematic analysis.

Abdul Ghani Amin - Diaspora and Homeland Peacebuilding: A Comparative Study of Afghan and Iraqi Diaspora Engagement with External Support amidst Post-9/11 Peacebuilding
In the lead up to the peacebuilding in Iraq amidst post-9/11 events, the Iraqi diaspora has demonstrated a strong mobilisation. In contrary, the Afghan diaspora's engagement is viewed as a weak mobilisation. Despite several similarities, Iraq and Afghanistan have undergone markedly different peacebuilding experiences, with Iraq's initiative remaining ongoing while, Afghanistan's ceded, following the withdrawal of the US in 2021. This disparity prompts an inquiry as to how and why these two diasporas interacted with US support in distinct ways, as well as their varying durations of peacebuilding experiences. This thesis examines the divergent ways diasporas from these two countries engaged with the US support for peacebuilding and examine its implications for the peacebuilding processes.

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Medical School Inaugural Lecture

Health and environment through space and place: a health geographer’s journey in 10(ish) maps

Professor Ben Wheeler, Public Health and Sport Sciences
Health

Ben Wheeler is a health geographer and environmental epidemiologist whose research focuses on the complex interconnections between the environment and public health, particularly relating to geographical health inequalities. Since joining the European Centre for Environment and Human Health in 2010, his work has primarily been on the health and wellbeing benefits of natural environments. He is co-director of the WHO Collaborating Centre on Natural Environments and Health and collaborates widely to help inform strategies and policies that enhance human health, while protecting and improving our environments.