The Methods Matter Podcast - from Dementia Researcher & the National Centre for Research Methods. A podcast for people who don't know much about methods...those who do, and those who just want to find news and clever ways to use them in their research.

In this second series Clinical Research Fellow, Dr Donncha Mullin from The University of Edinburgh brings together leading experts in research methodology, and the dementia researchers that use them, to provide a fun introduction to five qualitive research methods in a safe space where there are no such things as dumb questions!

Episode Four – Focus Groups

In expert corner - Dr Kahryn Hughes, from University of Leeds. Director of the Timescapes Archive, Editor in Chief of Sociological Research Online, Convenor of the MA Qualitative Research Methods and a Senior Fellow for the NCRM.

In researcher ranch – Nadine Mirza is a PhD Student and Research Assistant in the Centre for Primary Care and Health Services Research at the University of Manchester. Nadine’s research explores cognitive testing in ethnic minorities and the experience of dementia diagnosis and access to dementia services in British South Asians.

Further reading referenced in the show:

Jenny Kitzinger, The Methodology of Focus Groups - https://bit.ly/3ey6YMR

Rosaline Barbour, Doing Focus Groups - https://bit.ly/3TNxzWe

Rosaline Barbour, YouTube - https://youtu.be/5xPYGXJ_hM4

Focus Group Methodology: Principles and Practice - https://bit.ly/3x31OPk

NCRM Focus Group Resources - https://bit.ly/3TP38Pr

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Read more about our guests and listen to more great podcasts at:

https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk

The National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) provides a service to learners, trainers and partner organisations in the research methods community - methodological training and resources on core and advanced quantitative, qualitive, digital, creative, visual, mixed and multimodal methods.

https://www.ncrm.ac.uk

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This podcast is brought to you in association with Alzheimer's Research UK and Alzheimer's Society, who we thank for their ongoing support.