QHRN conference (2024)

Registration for our 2024 conference is now open! 

We are excited to share that our sixth conference will take place on the 28^th and 29^th February 2024. This will be a virtual conference with a range of supplementary in-person events held at University College London.

The QHRN organises biennial international conferences to allow emerging and experienced researchers from within and outside the UCL community to present, experiment with, and learn about qualitative theory, methods, and writing.

For our sixth conference, we turn our attention to what we have learned through crisis and continued disruption, and how this has the potential to aid understanding and inform progress in the field of qualitative health research. This conference seeks to embrace the learnings that have arisen in response to ongoing significant political, social and societal disruptions and their impact on human relationships, healthcare services, as well as political and ethical based values. 

By focusing on emergence as a lens to understand the challenges and uncertainty we are facing in our work, the conference theme is designed to address questions on how we creatively proceed, and how the variety of responses might align on a spectrum between success and failure. 

In this way we are building a platform for critical reflection and discussion on the complexities that impact us as a global research community.

Keynote speakers

We are delighted to announce that so far, the following speakers have been confirmed: 

• Professor Jennie Popay, Lancaster University  

• Dr Laura Sheard, University of York 

• Dr Sohail Jannesari, Kings College London 

• Dr Alison Thomson, Queen Mary University of London 

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