The seminar will be led by Prof. Benedikte Lindskog and held in partnership with Bugando Medical Center and the Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences, as well as the Institute for Health and Society at the University of Oslo.
Attendees include a diverse group of researchers, health care professionals, and PhD students, from both Tanzania and abroad. Specific topics include methodological techniques in qualitative methods, using qualitative methods in medical research, and co-creation methodologies.
Wide and comprehensive scientific knowledge is needed in the discipline of medicine and health studies. A range of phenomena that cannot be explained through using a quantitative approach can be explored through employing qualitative methods. Rather than thinking of qualitative and quantitative strategies as incompatible, we should see them as complementary. The objective of qualitative inquiry is to explore, describe and explain the richness and complexity of human behavior and action and to make sense of the complex reality in which medical phenomena are embedded.
The lecture and workshop will provide a crash-course in qualitative methods and its various techniques. We will discuss various issues that arise in knowledge production using qualitative methods, such as validity, trustworthiness, reflexivity, transferability, credibility and transparency. In addition, we will take a critical gaze at challenges in combing different methods in a single study and the difference between a multimethods study and a mixed-methods study.