Very exciting that our paper on qualitative researchers' experiences of the peer review process has struck a chord and is the third most downloaded article from an APA journal in 2025! @janeemcallaghan.bsky.social @jeffnz.bsky.social @andrealamarre.bsky.social @joannasemlyen.bsky.social

Inequality and health: Lost in the mists of time? Inequality has a profound negative effect on health and wellbeing: not because it suddenly kills, but by slowly reshaping how people live, relate, cope, and age

“Inequality has left such a deep imprint on health and wellbeing not because it suddenly kills, but because it slowly reshapes how people live, relate, cope and age”

– Richard Wilkinson & @profkepickett.bsky.social of @equalitytrust.bsky.social

#LSEInequalitiesBlog

The APEx Cancer Diagnosis and Detection Theme articulates its strategic vision: tinyurl.com/4474rs4v @apexcomms.bsky.social, @hls.exeter.ac.uk, @uniofexeternews.bsky.social,@nihrspcr.bsky.social

Bridging the gap towards working in equal partnerships between researchers and public members: the potential of the ‘Patient Bridge Role’ by Beccy Summers, Research Associate
tinyurl.com/mvrfd9wn @apexcomms.bsky.social, @hls.exeter.ac.uk, @uniofexeternews.bsky.social,@nihrspcr.bsky.social

It's been great to catch up with friends and colleagues @qmul-wiph.bsky.social do come and hear @hdemnitzking.bsky.social present our Apple-Tree trial findings 4.15pm Tuesday aaic if you are here; looking forward to sharing our findings

‘Memories we treasure’: Evaluating the impact on co-designers and audiences of a photographic exhibition by participants with memory problems - Sinéad McIntyre, Claudia Cooper, Natalia Chemas, Sukey P... Visual research, including photovoice methods are increasingly used to elicit the experiences of people living with memory loss, though few such studies have in...

@shinsmc.bsky.social describes experiences of Apple-Tree dementia prevention exhibition. Thanks to @libdemdaisy.bsky.social for support. Trial results coming soon. doi.org/10.1177/1471... @denpru-qm.bsky.social @qmulpsychiatry.bsky.social @paulfdhiggs.bsky.social

New research, born out of community engagement work, shows that the symptoms people report prior to receiving a dementia diagnosis vary across ethnic groups.

www.qmul.ac.uk/media/news/2...

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Early presentations of dementia in a diverse population INTRODUCTION Improved recognition of non-cognitive presentations of dementia could reduce inequalities in dementia diagnosis, particularly if sociocultural factors influence help-seeking for cogniti...

What symptoms do people tell their GP about when they are developing dementia?

Lots of non-cognitive symptoms - and in a highly diverse population we can see that it is culturally influenced.

Recognising this is key to equitable diagnosis

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Good morning, thank you to @sarahlonges.bsky.social for today's portrait #FoxOfTheDay

The British stand in solidarity with American scientists. www.bmj.com/content/bmj/...

I just added my open registration #CAQDAS events for January to linktr.ee/Christina_QDAS
Includes 2 FREE webinars (by IpsosUK on use of AI personas, & with Aine Humble &colleagues about their new #qualitative book "beyond themes emerged", & also workshops for @dedoose.bsky.social #MAXQDA and #NVivo

Really pleased to have this paper on qualitative researchers' experiences of peer review with @ginnybraun.bsky.social @janeemcallaghan.bsky.social @joannasemlyen.bsky.social out there - open access. We recruited lots of the contributors on the other place... psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...

When Ethics Becomes Unethical: An Autoethnographic Account of Gaining Ethics Approval to Conduct Ethnography in a Healthcare Setting - Journal of Academic Ethics Many ethnographic researchers have raised concerns over the potential impacts that the institutionalization of ethics review boards can have on social science research, especially within healthcare se...

This is an excellent paper by Jillian Schneidman about all the things I'm frustrated in the ethics of the governance of ethics. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
There's something really ironic about the fact that the distress and frustration due to bureaucracy don't feature in the risk assessments!

Selim Palmgren ~ Snowflakes Op. 57 YouTube video by markku51

Snowflakes www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn4p...

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Fraudulent Participation in Online Qualitative Studies: Practical Recs on an Emerging Phenomenon

Khaylen Mistry, Sophie Merrick, Melissa Cabecinha, Susanna Daniels, John Ragan, Miran Epstein, Louisa Lever, Zoe Venables, Nick Levell

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Very timely paper on going beyond 'barriers and facilitators' in qualitative health research journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Reporting guidelines for qualitative research: a values-based approach Evaluative tools for qualitative research need to be developed and designed in a way that allows them to be used by the research community to assess qualitative research on its own terms, and thus ...

New open access paper by me & @ginnybraun.bsky.social on reporting guidelines for qualitative research. We centred qualitative research values in creating these guidelines rather than the more typical expert consensus or consolidation/synthesis: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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New webpages fostering appropriate use of AI in qualitative analysis

For more info, read this post on our CAQDAS blog, also launching today
blogs.surrey.ac.uk/caqdas/

Both created for the community, and we hope #qualitative researchers around the globe will contribute.