We are excited to share news of this upcoming SLT workshop in qualitative research, led by a wonderful team of researchers based at the University of Sydney, the University of Galway, and the University of Limerick. Together, Professor Lindy McAllister, Dr Rena Lyons, Dr Clare Carroll, Dr Mary-Pat O’Malley, and Dr Aoife Gallagher will share a wealth of experience and knowledge about how best to integrate qualitative research in to clinical practice.
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9.30-10.00 |
REGISTRATION [tea/coffee and mini pastries] |
Introduction and overview of qualitative methodologies |
10.00-11.00 |
Plenary session: Overview of qualitative research |
Plenary session: Overview of some of the major qualitative research traditions · Phenomenology · Narrative Inquiry · Participatory Action Research |
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Planning your study |
11.00-11.30 |
Workshop 1 Positionality and designing research questions |
11.30-11.40 |
Comfort break |
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11.40-12.25 |
Plenary Session - Planning study design: overview of sampling and data collection methods |
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12.25-13.00 |
Workshop 2 Planning your study: selecting study design and data collection |
Lunch |
13.00-13.45 |
LUNCH (at your own expense) |
Data analysis |
13.45- 14.35 |
Plenary Session: Approaches to data analysis · Reflexive thematic analysis · Content analysis · Discourse analysis |
14.35-15.30 |
Workshop 3 Practice data analysis |
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Review |
15.30-16.00 |
Rigour |
Speaker Biographies
Rena Lyons, PhD, is a speech and language therapist and Associate Lecturer in the Discipline of Speech and Language Therapy, School of Health Sciences, University of Galway. She has over 35 years of clinical, teaching, and research experience. She has expertise in qualitative methodologies. Her research interests include exploring collaborative working with parents, the voice of children with developmental speech and language disorders, narratives, person-centred care and the social model of disability. She has co-edited two books on qualitative research, published qualitative research in peer-reviewed journals, and is the recipient of three journal editors’ awards for qualitative research papers.
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Lindy McAllister, PhD, is an Emeritus Professor at The University of Sydney. She is a Life Member of Speech Pathology Australia, and Fellow of the RCSLT. She was made a Member of the Order of Australia in the King’s Birthday Honours list in June 2023 for contributions to the development of speech pathology education and services in Australia and Vietnam. Lindy uses a range of qualitative methodologies in research into work integrated learning, ethics education, and development of the profession in Majority World countries. She provides curriculum consultancy to a range of universities in Australia and internationally.
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Clare Carroll, PhD, is a registered speech and language therapist and Lecturer at Discipline of Speech and Language Therapy, School of Health Sciences, University of Galway, Ireland. Clare has a wealth of clinical experience from working in the Irish Health Service and in private practice. She uses a range of qualitative methodologies to study interdisciplinary collaborative working and to support the participation of children, young people with disabilities and their families in research. Clare is passionate about family- and person-centred services being informed by the people who use them, in particular, understanding what is important to people with communication disabilities and their families.
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Mary-Pat O' Malley, PhD, is a speech and language therapist and Lecturer Discipline of Speech and Language Therapy, School of Health Sciences, NUI Galway, Ireland. She has a wealth of experience spanning clinical practice, teaching, and research with expertise in qualitative methods. Her research interests include assessing multilingual children's languages using narratives, representations of people with communication impairments in mass media, teachers' and speech and language therapists’ experiences of working with multilingual children and children’s drawings as a way of understanding the lives of multilingual children and children with a range of communication impairments including stuttering and speech sound disorders. She is creator of the award-winning, evidence-based blog on multilingualism for families, speech and language therapists, and teachers: Talk Nua.
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Aoife Gallagher, PhD, is a Lecturer in the School of Allied Health, University of Limerick. She was the first paediatric speech and language therapist to be awarded a scholarship from the Health Research Board of Ireland to complete a PhD as part of a national structured program (SPHeRe program). She was awarded her PhD in Health Services Research in 2019. Her research interests include engaging stakeholders in service improvement. She has a particular interest in child voice and in co-developing interventions with children and young people with speech, language and communication disabilities to improve their achievement and participation in school.
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