CROW NOTES 5/3/18

Clinical Research Oriented Workshop (CROW) Meeting: May 3, 2018

Present:   Marianne Burke, Levi Bonnell, Justine Dee, Juvena Hitt, Ben Littenberg, Jennifer Oshita, Koela Ray, Gail Rose, Connie van Eeghen

Guest: Rycki Maltby, Professor of Nursing

Notes: Connie

Start Up: Introductions all around; Ricky works extensively internationally, including community based research (public health, cultural competency, service work)

1.                   Qualitative Research

a.       Rycki has a variety of examples and resources to learn from, as well as good experience in using NVivo 9

b.       Example: hermeneutical phenomenology, where assumptions are not bracketed (not set aside) but included in the process

                                                   i.      The research admits non-objectivity, up front

                                                 ii.      Public Health students doing this learning in Bangladesh place themselves in the research frame, and make observations about their own reactions (e.g. I’m very rich), leading to the question “Do students who go to high income countries learn something different from those who go to low income countries?”

                                               iii.      Coding: an exercise in sorting and describing findings

1.       Similarities between the two groups (“I’m a stranger in a strange land”)

2.       Differences between the two groups

                                               iv.      Next question: “Do students who go abroad learn differently from those that stay in VT?” (based on the objectives of the course) – the questions build on previous findings

c.       Presentation of data: based on exemplars

                                                   i.      How much data are enough?  It depends: 5 is plenty for a student

1.       Grounded theory: a new theory – 40-50 sources

                                                 ii.      Summarizing into categories – not what Rycki prefers but does appear in the literature

1.       Don’t count the subjects to report them

2.       Notice: what is showing up consistently?  Identify the major themes

d.       Conclusion: so what? Develop the take-away for the audience; policy and philosophic points

e.       Types of qualitative data

                                                   i.      Phenomenology: the lived experience, described by the source

                                                 ii.      Grounded theory: looking at developing theory by wide ranging data and constant dwelling with data, from many different researchers’ perspectives

f.        Data analysis

                                                   i.      First round: each researcher de novo, blinded to others

                                                 ii.      Later: negotiations and agreement

                                               iii.      It identifies what, but not degree or how much

g.       No funding – unless there is a quantitative aspect

2.                   The article she mentioned at the end of the session that talks about the difference between descriptive and interpretive phenomenological research is here.

Understanding the Differences between Husserl’s (Descriptive) and Heidegger’s (Interpretive) Phenomenological Research

Next workshop meetings: Thursdays @ 11 AM. Given Courtyard South Level 4

·         May 10: Email Levi

·         May 17: Email Levi

·         May 24: Connie and Roger Kessler

·         May 31:

·         June 7: Adam Atherly: MEPS Data