On-Demand Seminar

Developing as a qualitative researcher - skills & mindset

Qualitative research interactions are like intersecting ripples. Reflexivity in qual means that respondents react to the researcher; how they present themselves, how they approach the subject, build relationships and manage energy.

You can work adequately without full awareness and understanding of how you are and how you affect others, or you can work with full consciousness and mastery to become truly excellent.

• An overview of the competencies that underpin successful qual
• How researchers can unwittingly influence the research results
• How researchers make effective relationships with a wide range of different people
• Best practice in qual, quality of attention, listening and presence, roles and staying authentic, modeling
• Tools to use to help you understand yourself, how you relate to others, for stretching your comfort zone and reducing any bias EQ, comfort zone, bracketing, how others see you

You will understand the roots of best practice in interviewing and moderating. You'll have a set of tools to help you think about developing yourself and others, and you will have the confidence to tackle projects that stretch you.

• Pre-course exercise
  1. Take the Implicit Association Test to find out if you are truly neutral and unbiased.
  2. Which Joanna would you relate to best - and why?
• Course notes
• Post- seminar coaching - a range of questionnaires to build an understanding of who you are and how you are as a researcher

An on-demand seminar is pre-recorded so you can watch the seminar at a time convenient to you. Included is an option to ask questions via a secure link after the seminar. The seminar can also be given live so you can interact with the presenter in real time in Bespoke option. See Bespoke option.