The secret diary of a health ethnographer - what's it *really* like doing qualitative observation in operating rooms, ambulances, triage call centres and other health care settings?
This guest lecture draws on nearly thirty years’ experience of doing qualitative research in a variety of health settings that contain people, blood, injury, disease, emotions, and technologies. Professor Catherine Pope will describe some of the practical difficulties and everyday challenges of doing ethnography in these environments, and reflect on what it feels like to be an embodied researcher.

Catherine Pope is Professor of Medical Sociology, and, from July 2019, will be based at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford. She has championed the use of qualitative methods in health research, and played a leading role in developing qualitative evidence synthesis. Her research includes studies of NHS urgent and emergency care, evaluations of health service organisation and reconfiguration, and projects about everyday health care work.

This talk is being held as part of the Qualitative Research Methods course which is part of the Evidence-Based Health Care Programme. This is a free event and members of the public are welcome to attend.
Date: 26 June 2019, 17:00 (Wednesday, 9th week, Trinity 2019)
Venue: Rewley House, 1-7 Wellington Square OX1 2JA
Speaker: Prof Catherine Pope (University of Southampton)
Organising department: Department for Continuing Education
Organisers: Robin Beachy (University of Oxford, Department for Continuing Education), Robin Beachy (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address: cpdhealthadmin@conted.ox.ac.uk
Part of: Evidence-Based Health Care Programme
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Booking required?: Recommended
Booking url: https://the-secret-diary-of-a-health-ethnographer.eventbrite.co.uk/
Booking email: cpdhealthadmin@conted.ox.ac.uk
Cost: Free
Audience: Public
Editor: Robin Beachy