Past sessions
Realist Interviewing (4th July 2023)
Speaker: Dr Lisa Grunwald, MINDS Study Manager, Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
The webinar discusses realist interviewing, from topic guide design to conducting the interviews to analysis, drawing on practical examples from the MINDS study.
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Designing and Conducting Focus Groups in Realist Evaluation (12th September 2023)
Speaker: Associate Prof Ana Manzano, Associate Professor in Public Policy, School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds
This webinar examines what type of knowledge focus group data can generate, and how this knowledge can support theory development in realist evaluations. Practical lessons for designing and conducting groups in realist evaluation are suggested using practical examples from previous realist evaluation projects.
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Applying and reporting relevance, richness and rigour in realist evidence appraisals (17th October 2023)
Speaker: Sara Dada, PhD Candidate, University College Dublin
This session aims to discuss the current challenges and practices for appraising documents’ relevance, richness and rigour and to provide pragmatic suggestions for how this can be put into practice.
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Doing realist analysis: three different ways in practice (14th November 2023)
Speakers: Cara Donohue, Dr Liz Meggetto & Dr Kerryn O’Rourke, Realist Research, Evaluation and Learning Initiative (RREALI) Team, Charles Darwin University
This session examines the different data analysis processes used by three realist evaluators to test and refine theory.
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Upcoming events
Using formal theory to assist in structuring review findings: A worked example
Speaker: Sam Redgate, Lecturer, Department of Social Work, Education and Community Wellbeing, Northumbria University
Click here for more information (Date TBC, booking link to follow)
Further details about the 2024 programme to follow soon