Schedule at a glance – all times in Australian Eastern Standard Time
| Time | A | B | C | D |
| 1030-1055 | Opening Session | |||
| 1100-1155 | Keynote ANZA-KN-A1: Victoria Palmer – A New Paradigm: The Role of Qualitative Research | |||
| 1200-1325 | Workshop ANZA-WS-A1:Dr. Virginia Dickson-Swift, Undertaking qualitative research on sensitive topics | Workshop ANZA-WS-B1: Professor Seung Eun Chung, Dr Jay Jung Jae Lee. The epistemology wars: justifying the use of qualitative research | ||
| 1330-1355 | Lunch and poster viewing ANZA-PO-A1 | |||
| 1400-1455 | ANZA-CC-A1 – Mental Health 1 | ANZA-CC-B1 – Education | ANZA-CC-C1 – Older Adults | |
| 1500-1555 | ANZA-CC-A2 – Mental Health 2 | ANZA-CC-B2 – Public Health; Leisure; Culture | ANZA-CC-C2 – Experience of Health and Illness 3 | ANZA-CC-D2- Health Admin; Career Development 1 |
| 1600-1725 | Workshop ANZA-WS-A2: Professor Stuart Lane, Using the learning pathway grid to ensure reflexivity and optimisation of data collection during interviews and focus groups | Workshop ANZA-WS-B2: Dr. Engle Angela Chan – Qualitative data analysis: Navigating the different and evolving terrains | Workshop ANZA-WS-C2: Victoria Palmer – Returning to the Roots – qualitative theory and methods in experience-based co-design | |
| 1730-1825 | ANZA-CC-A3 – Experience of Health and Illness 1 | ANZA-CC-B3 – Methodology 1 | ANZA-CC-C3 – Health Admin; Career Development 2 | ANZA-CC-D3 – Covid-19 1 |
| 1830-1925 | ANZA-CC-A4 – Experience of Health and Illness 2 | ANZA-CC-B4 – Methodology 2 | ANZA-CC-C4 – Participation in Decision Making | ANZA-CC-D4 – Covid-19 2 |
| 1930-2025 | Keynote ANZA-KN-A2: Dr. Anna CohenMiller – Equity and inclusion in qualitative research | |||
| 2025-2030 | Closing Session | |||
| Check your local time for the equivalent in your area. All concurrent sessions have up to 3 presentations. | ||||
Keynote
1100-1155 AEST
Victoria Palmer
Through the looking glass – Alice’s foray into the qualitative world.
Things are not as they should be when Alice goes through the looking glass. Things are back to front. The central importance of qualitative research is quite largely misunderstood and big data has taken over the small stories! Whatever should Alice do? She finds herself in a world where everything is reversed. Running to standstill Alice realises the central importance of qualitative methods for ensuring meaning-making, experience and understanding to drive the change that is needed following the contemporary global pandemic.
Associate Professor Victoria Palmer has a PhD in applied ethics and trained in the humanities. She leads the Integrated Mental Health Research Program (IMFRP) and is the lead of the Co-Design Living Lab at the University of Melbourne. The IMHRP is focused on health system reform based on user-centred, lived-experience approaches, integration between primary care and other sectors, whole person approaches to mental health care, and the integration of innovative interventions into primary mental health care. Victoria has been through the looking glass – she trained in qualitative and conceptual theoretical models and is now a CIA of a NHMRC project grant that trials a coproduced intervention with people living with severe mental illness in the primary care setting–Assertive Cardiac Care Trial (ACCT) (2018-2023). She was the principal investigator of the world first trial of an experience-based co-design model called Mental Health Experience Co-Design (a participatory quality improvement method) for people living with severe mental illness in Victoria, Australia who accessed community mental health services (The CORE Study). She has expertise in participatory design, mixed methods and health care systems improvement.
Keynote
1930-2025 AEST
Anna CohenMiller
Equity and Inclusion in Qualitative Research
What is equity and inclusion in qualitative research? How can we maintain these ideas as embedded approaches for our work? And how can critical self-reflections support these practices? In this keynote, I draw from our forthcoming book, Questions in Qualitative Social Justice Research in Multicultural Contexts (CohenMiller & Boivin, Routledge) to explore how to hear and highlight others’ voices, especially those who have been historically marginalized or oppressed. As such, this keynote will raise awareness and promote action for the purposeful commitment and advocacy to address systemic inequities when researching within and across multicultural contexts.
Dr. CohenMiller is an arts-based qualitative research methodologist and award-winning innovative pedagogue who examines issues of equity and inclusion in higher education in Kazakhstan and internationally. She focuses on issues of gender in education and on improving teaching and learning across educational contexts. Dr. CohenMiller has a background in developing interdisciplinary, grant funded international collaborations and community initiatives. Select leadership include: Co-Founding Director of The Consortium of Gender Scholars (Kazakhstan, www.gen-con.org) leading a partnership with the Asian Qualitative Research Association, Founder of The Motherscholar Project (www.motherscholar.org), and Editor in Chief of Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy (www.journaldialogue.org). Her forthcoming book, Questions in Qualitative Research in Multicultural Contexts, will be available from Routledge in Fall 2021.
Workshops
Click below for the full workshop descriptions in each stream.
Undertaking qualitative research on sensitive topics
1200-1325 AEST
Dr Virginia Dickson-Swift
There is growing international interest in the impact that undertaking qualitative research (particularly on sensitive topics) has on the researcher. Based on a range of theoretical and empirical research, this workshop introduces participants to some of the challenges of undertaking qualitative research on sensitive topic. Participants will be provided with an overview of the practical, ethical, and methodological challenges faced by researchers throughout the entire research process from conceptualization, ethics approval, and fieldwork to analysis and publication. Using a range of case examples highlighting the researcher's perspective, participants will be encouraged to consider the issues inherent in their own research projects. In the workshop, a number of practical recommendations for researchers, supervisors and research ethics committees will also be outlined. A range of further reading to support the workshop activities will also be provided.
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Dr Virginia Dickson-Swift is a public health researcher with a particular interest in the role of emotion in qualitative research, and the use of qualitative methodologies in health research. She is currently a Senior Research Fellow in the Violet Vines Marshman Centre for Rural Health Research in the La Trobe Rural Health School based in Bendigo, Australia. She is an accomplished qualitative methodologist who is best known for her methodological work in sensitive research. Virginia’s key publications relate to issues for researchers when undertaking qualitative research on sensitive topics. She has over 20 years’ experience in teaching research methods to both undergraduate and postgraduate students throughout Australia and internationally. Virginia has published over 50 articles on a range of topics and has presented a number of master classes in conjunction with the International Institute of Qualitative Methods (IIQM). She has been an active participant, presenter and keynote speaker at the IIQM and TQ2U conferences for many years. |
Using the learning pathway grid to ensure reflexivity and optimisation of data collection during interviews and focus groups
1600-1725 AEST
Stuart Lane
The Learning Pathways Grid (LPG) is a visual template used to assist analysis and interpretation of conversations, allowing educators, learners, and researchers, to discover links from cognition to action, usually in a retrospective manner. It is often used in simulation educational research, with a focus on understanding how learners access their cognitive frames and underlying beliefs. The LPG can also be used as a prospective adjunct to data collection for interviews and focus groups, allowing optimisation of future data collection and interpretation by ensuring reflexivity within the researchers, a vital part of research conduct.
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Associate Professor Stuart Lane graduated from medical school at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK. He commenced his appointment with Sydney Medical School in 2007, along with his clinical role as a Senior Staff Specialist in Intensive Care Medicine at Nepean Hospital. He has a strong passion and decorated record for teaching and has developed a national and international reputation in researching human experience using qualitative methodologies. He is a part 1 and part 2 examiner for the College of Intensive Care Medicine (CICM), NSW CICM Supervisor of training, and chair of the NSW CICM regional committee. He is a keen swimmer and in 2017 he swam the English Channel, raising $12500 to assist research into chronic critical illness (CCI). |
The epistemology wars: justifying the use of qualitative research
1200-1325 AEST
Professor Seung Eun Chung
Epistemological perspective plays a critical role in research design including the choice of research methodology, yet its consideration is often ignored. In this workshop, we will explore major epistemological perspectives in qualitative research in comparison with epistemological perspectives in quantitive research. An understanding of the differences and similarities between multiple competing epistemologies will help you justify the use of qualitative research. We will also explore how different epistemological perspectives determine qualitative research design and findings using examples from existing articles. Finally, we will have an open discussion about the epistemological influence on research in the Asia-Pacific context.
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Prof. Seung Eun Chung is the dean of the College of Health and Life Sciences and a professor in the Department of Nursing at the Korea National University of Transportation. Her research interests are qualitative research methodologies and nursing education. Prof. Chung is currently the President of The Academy of Qualitative Research and an editorial board member of Qualitative Health Research (QHR) journal. Prof. Chung has led and co-authored many qualitative research articles and published many qualitative research methodology books in South Korea. |
Qualitative data analysis: Navigating the different and evolving terrains
1600-1725 AEST
Dr Engle Angela Chan
In this workshop, there will be a continuous and open dialogue of the general nature of qualitative data analysis and its intricate tie to an understanding of the ontology and the epistemology. Some researchers experience challenges and dilemmas that could lead to struggles, others generate creative new insights. Examples will be used to illustrate some of the common issues, and possible evolving alternatives to provoke thinking more qualitatively.
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Inspired by narrative as both a story of experience and a research methodology, Angela has embarked on her own narrative journey from Canada to Hong Kong where she now serves as the Associate Professor & Associate Head of the undergraduate division at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, School of Nursing. Her research focuses on the person/relation-centered care underpinned by caring/human science paradigm that has evolved into an emphasis on caring communication in health care and interprofessional collaborative practice. Her work on communication studies in education and practice has enabled her to work with overseas colleagues and to assume her former role of being the Associate Director of the International Research Centre for Communication in Healthcare. Angela’s teaching of the course caring concepts is informed by her research in caring science and communication studies. As nursing education is part of her interest, Angela has had the opportunity to develop projects, with international collaborators, on the concept of “internationalization at home” that has sparked new possibility for student exchange without leaving home. The sustainability of these intercultural and international aspects in the curriculum design is essential as part of students’ narrative caring experience in the broadening of their intercultural learning and beings. |
Returning to the Roots – qualitative theory and methods in experience-based co-design
1600-1725 AEST
Victoria Palmer
In this workshop we turn to the underpinning theoretical frameworks that are of central importance in what is called experience-based co-design (EBCD). EBCD is a method for improving services and changing experiences within healthcare settings. It typically follows a trajectory of identifying the touch points (that is, both the positive and negative places that we come in touch with in a service, organisation or experience). This is followed by the development of further shared understanding around the touch points which ideally leads to the identification of what might need to be the focus of change. Once the focus of change is established, a process of facilitated co-design is undertaken with different groups affected by the desired change to co-create solutions and improvements for implementation. In this workshop we will introduce some key qualitative approaches that are central for experience-based co-design to achieve its objectives and explore the role of visual and creative methods in particular for generating change and engaging people in co-design processes.
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Associate Professor Victoria Palmer has a PhD in applied ethics and trained in the humanities. She leads the Integrated Mental Health Research Program (IMFRP) and is the lead of the Co-Design Living Lab at the University of Melbourne. The IMHRP is focused on health system reform based on user-centred, lived-experience approaches, integration between primary care and other sectors, whole person approaches to mental health care, and the integration of innovative interventions into primary mental health care. Victoria has been through the looking glass - she trained in qualitative and conceptual theoretical models and is now a CIA of a NHMRC project grant that trials a coproduced intervention with people living with severe mental illness in the primary care setting--Assertive Cardiac Care Trial (ACCT) (2018-2023). She was the principal investigator of the world first trial of an experience-based co-design model called Mental Health Experience Co-Design (a participatory quality improvement method) for people living with severe mental illness in Victoria, Australia who accessed community mental health services (The CORE Study). She has expertise in participatory design, mixed methods and health care systems improvement. |
Concurrent sessions (AM and PM)
All times listed below are in AEST. Click below for the Abstract schedule – abstracts and bios will be available on our Pheedloop event site once opened June 30.
1030-1055 Opening session
1100-1155 Keynote, see above
1200-1325 Workshops, see above
1330-1355 Lunch and poster session, see below
1400-1455 ANZA-CC-A1 - Mental Health 1
Dr. Laura Biggs
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Murdoch Children's Research Institute
ANZA-CC-A1.2 - Pathways, Contexts, and Voices of Shame: Suicidality during Pregnancy and the Following Year
Miss Sherilyn Chang
Senior Research Officer
Institute Of Mental Health
ANZA-CC-A1.1 - Using eHealth Platform to Promote Positive Mental Health: A Qualitative Study from Psychotherapist’s Perspectives
Dr. Susan McDonough
Researcher
La Trobe University
ANZA-CC-A1.3 - The Culture-Oriented Mental Health Practice of Bicultural Professionals: A Mixed Method Grounded Theory Study
1500-1555 ANZA-CC-A2 - Mental Health 2
Asst. Prof. Ken Hok Man Ho
Assistant Professor
Nethersole School of Nursing, Faculty of Medicine
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
ANZA-CC-A2.2 - A Phenomenological Study on the Loneliness of Older Adults in Residential Care Homes during COVID-19
Mr. Aditya Ranjan
Senior Research Fellow
Jamia Millia Islamia
ANZA-CC-A2.3 - The Spiritual Dimension of Nature-Based Tourism
Ms. Shazana Shahwan
Researcher
Institute Of Mental Health, Singapore
ANZA-CC-A2.1 - Strategies to Reduce Mental Illness Stigma-Perspectives of Individuals with Lived Experience
1600-1725 Workshops, see above
1730-1825 ANZA-CC-A3 - Experience of Health and Illness 1
Dr. Darshini Ayton
Deputy Head Of Unit - Health And Social Care Unit, Nhmrc Investigator
Monash University
ANZA-CC-A3.3 - Understanding Patient and Healthcare Workers Experiences and Perspectives of Carbapenemase-Producing Enterobacteriaceae and Other Drug-Resistant Infections
Dr. Ally Calder
Lecturer
University Of Otago
ANZA-CC-A3.1 - Blokes with Strokes Reflect on Participating in a Community Participatory Action Research (Par) Project: A Qualitative Evaluation Study
Mr. Kostas Hatzikiriakidis
Research Assistant
Health And Social Care Unit, Monash University
ANZA-CC-A3.2 - “I Can Breathe”: Exploring Post-transplant Life Experiences and Satisfaction with Healthcare among Young People Who Have Received a Lung Transplant
Eliza Watson
Research Assistant
Monash University
ANZA-CC-A3.3 - Understanding Patient and Healthcare Workers Experiences and Perspectives of Carbapenemase-Producing Enterobacteriaceae and Other Drug-Resistant Infections
1830-1925 ANZA-CC-A4 - Experience of Health and Illness 2
Assoc. Prof Stuart Lane
Coordinator Of Clinical Studies
Sydney Medical School
ANZA-CC-A4.1 - The Use of Phenomenology and Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis to Study Intensive Care Patients’ Experiences at Post-ICU Discharge Follow-Up: Ensuring Communication and Empathy as the Cornerstones to Good Clinical Practice
Dr. Rona Weerasuriya
Evaluation Officer
Murdoch Children's Research Institute
ANZA-CC-A4.3 - Patient Priorities, Preferences and Reported Outcomes When Using Treatment Directed Genomic Testing for an Advanced Cancer: A Qualitative Study
2000-2055 Keynote, see above
2100-2110 Closing
1030-1055 Opening session
1100-1155 Keynote, see above
1200-1325 Workshops, see above
1330-1355 Lunch and poster session, see below
1400-1455 ANZA-CC-B1 - Education
Prof. Sharon Goldfeld
Senior Research Officer
Murdoch Children's Research Institute
ANZA-CC-B1.2 - Early Childhood Education Participation: A Mixed Methods Study of Barriers and Facilitators Experienced by Families in Three Australian Communities
1500-1555 ANZA-CC-B2 - Public Health; Leisure; Culture
Dr. Yazdan Mansourian
Lecturer
Charles Sturt University
ANZA-CC-B2.1 - Capturing the Joy of Information in Serious Leisure Research: A Methodological Reflection on the Applicability of Qualitative Methods
Prof. Erlinda Palaganas
Professor Of Management
University of the Philippines Baguio
ANZA-CC-B2.2 - The Nitty Gritty of Poverty: Rural Poverty in Perspective
1600-1725 Workshops, see above
1730-1825 ANZA-CC-B3 - Methodology 1
Zhadyra Makhmetova
PhD student
Nazarbayev University
ANZA-CC-B3.1 - Conducting Inclusive Focus Groups in Educational Multicultural Contexts
Ms. Elissa-kate Jay
PhD Student
University Of Wollongong
ANZA-CC-B3.2 - An Arts-Based Case Study of a Therapeutic Recreation Camp
1830-1925 ANZA-CC-B4 - Methodology 2
Ms. Jingyuan Fu
Phd Candidate
The University Of Hong Kong
ANZA-CC-B4.2 - Rationale and Potential In Qualitative Accounting Research: A Perspective from the Healthcare Environment
Ms. Umme Habiba Jasmine
Ph. D. Fellow
University of the Witwatersrand
ANZA-CC-B4.3 - Research Fieldwork in Bangladesh: A Reflection on “Distanciation” as a Methodological and Ethical Value
Miss Lisa Urquhart
Phd Student
The University of Newcastle
ANZA-CC-B4.1 - Recognising Difference about Knowing and Learning through Dialogue (Yarning): Critical Reflections on a Dialogical Literature Review
2000-2055 Keynote, see above
2100-2110 Closing
1030-1055 Opening session
1100-1155 Keynote, see above
1200-1325 Workshops, see above
1330-1355 Lunch and poster session, see below
1400-1455 ANZA-CC-C1 - Older Adults
Prof. Machiko Higuchi
Professor
National College Of Nursing, Japan
ANZA-CC-C1.3 - Community Development for Quality of Life among Senior Citizens in Developing Country
Prof. Helen Skouteris
Professor
Monash University
ANZA-CC-C1.2 - Co-designing MyCare Ageing: A Volunteer Psychosocial Support Program for Older Adults with Cognitive Impairment
Dr. Qi Yuan
Research Fellow
Research Division, Institute of Mental Health
ANZA-CC-C1.1 - Positive Experiences of Caring for Persons with Dementia – Findings from a Qualitative Study among Informal Dementia Caregivers in Singapore
1500-1555 ANZA-CC-C2 - Experience of Health and Illness 3
Assoc. Prof Jennifer Weller-Newton
Director Of Rural Health Academic Network
University of Melbourne
ANZA-CC-C2.1 - ‘It’s All in My Head’ – Women’s Lived Experience of Mid-urethral Mesh Sling Removal
1600-1725 Workshops, see above
1730-1825 ANZA-CC-C3 - Health Admin; Career Development 2
Assoc. Prof Pin Pin Sandy Choi
Associate Dean
Open University Of Hong Kong
ANZA-CC-C3.1 - Competencies of First-Line Nurse Managers: A Descriptive Phenomenological Study
Ms. Nicola Lloyd
Phd Candidate
La Trobe University
ANZA-CC-C3.3 - Challenges in Evaluating the Health Service Outcomes of Public Involvement in Health Service Design
Mrs. Rashmi Shrestha
Student
Kathmandu University
ANZA-CC-C3.2 - The Experience of Choosing Nursing as Career and Reasons behind the Migration of Nepalese Nurses
1830-1925 ANZA-CC-C4 - Participation in Decision Making
Dr. Darshini Ayton
Deputy Head Of Unit - Health And Social Care Unit, Nhmrc Investigator
Monash University
ANZA-CC-C4.1 - Antimicrobial decision-making in surgery: Who makes the decisions, when are decisions made and how are patients involved?
Prof. Jillian Hamilton
Professor
Qut
ANZA-CC-C4.2 - More Than Artefacts and Outputs: Evaluating the Outcomes and Benefits of Participatory CoDesign Methods
2000-2055 Keynote, see above
2100-2110 Closing
1030-1055 Opening session
1100-1155 Keynote, see above
1200-1325 Workshops, see above
1330-1355 Lunch and poster session, see below
1400-1455
1500-1555 ANZA-CC-D2 - Health Admin; Career Development 1
Asst. Prof. Yang Yann Foo
Assistant Professor
duke-nus medical school
ANZA-CC-D2.1 - How Healthcare Ecologies Impact Interprofessional Collaboration: A Qualitative Study
Mrs. Heidi Lavis
Phd Candidate And Occupational Therapist
University of Newcastle
ANZA-CC-D2.3 - It's Not as Easy as Flicking a Switch: Reflections by a Novice Researcher/Experienced Clinician on Dual-Role Challenges
Dr. Ka Po Mak
Senior Lecturer
Tung Wah College
ANZA-CC-D2.2 - Online Learning Experiences of Undergraduate Nursing Students in Baccalaureate Nursing Program: A Narrative Inquiry
1600-1725 Workshops, see above
1730-1825 ANZA-CC-D3 - COVID-19 1
Dr. Nico Canoy
Associate Professor
Ateneo de Manila University
ANZA-CC-D3.2 - Assembling Philippine Government’s Militarised Response to COVID-19: A Cultural Geopolitics of Bodies-in-Waiting
Dr. Rowan O'Hagan
Rural Health Academic Network Coordinator
University Of Melbourne
ANZA-CC-D3.3 - ‘Beyond Imagination’ – Lived Experience of Being a Frontline Rural Healthcare Worker in the COVID-19 Pandemic
Dr. Ohene Agyemang Opoku
Research Fellow
Jinan University
ANZA-CC-D3.1 - Are We Viruses? A Qualitative Study of COVID-19 - Racism and African Migrants in Guangzhou and Wuhan
1830-1925 ANZA-CC-D4 - COVID-19 2
Dr. Danielle Hitch
Allied Health Research And Translation Lead
Western Health
ANZA-CC-D4.2 - Life after COVID-19: A Qualitative Approach to Understanding the Lived Experience of 'Long COVID'
2000-2055 Keynote, see above
2100-2110 Closing
Poster session – 1200-1255 AEST
Click below for the full listing – details to follow by mid-late June.