Please join us for a Qualitative Working Group and Qualitative Methods COP* Seminar:
Title: Conceptualizing Large Multi-Topic Qualitative Studies
Speaker: Michael Duke, PhD
Wednesday, May 22, 2024: 9am – 10am Pacific Time / 11am – noon Central Time
Register to join via Zoom: https://ucsf.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwrdu6uqD4vHNDg_f37SIIbMNiJEt603d45
Qualitative interview studies tend to be relatively modest in scope, both in terms of sample size and the number of data items subject to interpretation and analysis. In contrast, large complex studies require a rethinking of scale, study design, saturation, analytic approaches, and other considerations. For this presentation, I will describe a large multi-site project focusing on homelessness in California whose design was informed by the epistemological framework of mereology. The overall goal of this presentation will be to facilitate a discussion regarding the challenges and opportunities of designing and initiating large-scale qualitative studies.
Dr. Michael Duke is a medical anthropologist whose ethnographic and mixed method work focuses primarily on the impact of contemporary and historical trauma on the physical and mental health of Latinx and Pacific Islander immigrant communities, particularly regarding drug and alcohol use, anxiety and depression, stress, and housing precarity. After receiving his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin, he was a researcher at the Hispanic Health Council in Hartford, CT, where he directed several studies on HIV risk among heroin injectors, and was the PI for a series of NIH-funded binational studies focusing on drinking, masculinity, and HIV risk among US-based migrant farmworkers and their home communities in Mexico. He then worked for several years at the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, where he directed a number of federally funded mixed method studies focusing on drinking and occupational culture among blue-collar workers. Most recently, he was a tenured Associate Professor at the University of Memphis, where he coordinated a dual Master’s program in Public Health and Medical Anthropology. An author or co-author of numerous peer-reviewed publications, he has also held affiliated faculty appointments at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and Yale University Department of Psychiatry.
Questions? Email UCSF QWG: Dr. Kimberly Koester Kimberly.koester@ucsf.edu or email the OUHSC CMCOP co-directors: Dr. Julia McQuoid at Julia-McQuoid@ouhsc.edu; Dr. Neil Jordan at Neil-Jordan@ouhsc.edu; Dr. Kerstin Reinschmidt at Kerstin-Reinschmidt@ouhsc.edu
*Qualitative Methods Community of Practice