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Third international symposium: Engagement, co-production, and collaborative meaning-making: collaboration in qualitative health research

Date and venue

• Tuesday 7 February 2017, 9:00-17:00
• Venue: Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guildford Street, London, WC1N 1EH

Symposium theme

The brought together researchers from around the world to discuss how, in recent years, there have been increasing calls for collaboration between academia and the wider healthcare community in health research. As a result, traditional "lone researcher" models of qualitative health research have shifted to include research teams which are increasingly made up of qualitative researchers alongside quantitative researchers, members of the public, health professionals, policy-makers and other stakeholders.Ìý

However, such collaborations may be complex and may create challenges. To date, there has been limited critical consideration of these challenges and little is known about the assumptions and effectiveness of these collaborations.ÌýIn this Symposium, we explored and developed critical perspectives on:

• What 'collaboration' has come to mean, and the ways in which the concept is growing in prominence; 
• How collaborative relationships are established and embedded, and particularly how qualitative researchers are positioned in interdisciplinary teams;
• The production and reproduction of power differentials and inequalities in collaborative qualitative health research;
• How research designs, data interpretation and reporting are affected by collaboration;
• The role of the "lay researcher" and the extent to which they offer the views and experiences of the groups they represent, as well as how marginalised groups are accommodated.
• Examples of qualitative health research projects that are conducted in collaborative environments.

Conference proceedings

The conference proceedings of this Symposium have been published in (link opens in new window).

Oral and poster presentations

A selection of oral and poster presentations are now available to view online.Ìý

Supported by

This symposium was supported by the  (link opens in new window).

Programme

Poster presentations

Culture, creativity and innovation in research

• Minn Yoon (University of Alberta, Canada): 
• Valerie Dunn (CLAHRC East of England, UK/University of Cambridge): 
• Rachel Taylor (University College London Hospitals, UK): 
• Kay Inckle (London School of Economics, UK):
• Sarah Manns (University of the West of England, UK): 
• Bridget Lockyer (University of Manchester and University College London, UK):
• Evangelia Chrysikou (University College London, UK):

Health services and systems

• Rebecca Wright (New York University, USA): 
• Mirza Lalani (University College London, UK): 
• Ngozi Akwataghibe (VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands): 
• Joanne Land (University College London, UK): 
• Benjamin Tsofa and Sassy Molyneux (KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Programme; KEMRI Centre for Geographic Medicine Research Coast, Kenya): 

Making research accessible to marginalised and vulnerable groups

• Danielle Ferndale (Queensland Health and University of Queensland, Australia): 
• Jessica Potter (Queen Mary University of London, UK): 
• Sarah Carr (Middlesex University, UK): 
• Fiona Fox (University of Bristol, UK):
• Linda Birt (University of East Anglia): 
• Zahira Latif (University of Birmingham, UK): 

Theorising and reflecting on collaboration

• Matt Willis (University of Oxford, UK): 
• Roman Kislov (University of Manchester, UK): 
• Lisa McDaid (University of Glasgow, UK): 
• Elspeth Mathie (University of Hertfordshire, UK):
• Nicola Thomas (London South Bank University, UK): 
• Nicola Boydell (University of Glasgow, UK): 
• Mandy Cheetham (Teesside University, UK): 

This symposium is organised by the Qualitative Health Research Network (QHRN) with support from the .