Through our 2024 symposium, we will reflect on ethics and power dynamics in qualitative research We're open dicsuiions around key questions like:

• how knowledge is created?
• who or what creates it?
• how it can be contested?

Ethics is a key consideration in and of qualitative research. Considering the nature of qualitative studies, the interaction between researchers and participants can be ethically challenging for the former, as they are personally involved in different stages of the study. Researchers face ethical challenges in all stages of the study, from designing to discussing.

2022: Researcher Vulnerability

• The keynote lecture was delivered by Dr Milli Lake
• Find out more about QRS 2022

2021: due to COVID 19 the Qualitative Research Symposium was replaced with:

• a series of online workshops
• a virtual book launch of the Centre's first book Temporality in Qualitative Inquiry published by Routledge

2020: Tick tock: Unpacking temporal aspects of qualitative inquiry.

• The keynote lecture was delivered by Professor Virginia Braun
• Find out more about QRS 2020

2019: Myths, Methods and Messiness: Insights for Qualitative Research Analysis.

• The keynote lecture was delivered by Professor Gary Goertz
• Find out more about QRS 2019
• Read more about the day from this blog post

2018: Researcher Positionality Within Qualitative Inquiry.

• The keynote lecture was delivered by Dr Sara Delamont

2017: From the Established to the Novel: Possibilities of Qualitative Research.

• The keynote lecture was delivered by Sarah Riley

2016: Two Faces of Qualitative Inquiry: Theoretical and Applied Approaches.

2015: Quality in Qualitative Research and Enduring Problematics.

• 2020: Temporality in Qualitative Inquiry: Theories, Methods and Practices: Edited book published by Routledge based on 6th Annual Qualitative Research Symposium.
• 2019: Myths, Methods, and Messiness: Insights for Qualitative Research Analysis: Edited Proceedings of 5th Annual Qualitative Research Symposium.
• 2018: How Do We Belong? Researcher Positionality Within Qualitative Inquiry: Edited Proceedings of 4th Annual Qualitative Research Symposium.