Qualitative Research Centre
CO-FOUNDERS OF THE QUALITATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE
Roanne Thomas, Ph.D.
Associate Professor School of Rehabilitation Sciences University of Ottawa
Email: Roanne.Thomas@uottawa.ca |
Ulrich Teucher, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor Phone:306 966-2529 Email:ulrich.teucher@usask.ca |
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LOCATION AND CONTACT INFORMATION:
- ARTS 288
- Office Phone: 306 966-6944
TO BORROW EQUIPMENT OR BOOK SPACE:
Please contact Laurie Schimpf
laurie.schimpf@usask.ca or 966-6944
FACILITIES:
- Focus group meeting room
- Smart board
- White board
- Teleconference equipment
- Interview room
- Interview space for 1-2 interviewees
- Computer work stations
- NVIVO
- SPSS
- Microsoft Office
- Filemaker
- Adobe Master Collection
- Data storage room
EQUIPMENT FOR LOAN:
- Digital cameras
- Digital recorders
BACKGROUND:
The complexity of health research in Canada with its multicultural society has resulted in a demand for qualitative, quantitative and mixed method approaches that incorporate interdisciplinary collaborations. The emphasis on such initiatives is reflective of national and international movements toward interdisciplinary health research, which is increasingly centered upon health outcomes and social impacts.However, there are inherent divisions between the various approaches, which must be bridged to generate and support new policies and lateral knowledge transfers. Few researchers are trained in interdisciplinary health research that integrates biomedical and social scientific knowledge. Clearly, fostering connections between the health disciplines, the social sciences and the humanities is required to ensure institutions keep pace with continuing national and international developments in health research.
The Qualitative Research Centre (QRC) at the University of Saskatchewan provides facilities, expertise, and capacity to bridge divisions between qualitative and quantitative research approaches through the creation of research synergies. The development of new methodological and interdisciplinary collaborations will promote the understanding, adoption, and promotion of the health and well-being of all Canadians.
The QRC provides space to carry out qualitative research as well as the most innovative hardware to support qualitative and mixed methods analytic software across platforms, which are expected to facilitate real solutions to important social problems. An additional hallmark of qualitative research is its participatory dimension. The QRC has meeting rooms and communication facilities for researchers to meet with participants and key stakeholders. This facility also promotes collaborative relationships between researchers, providing space for them to meet in person and/or electronically in order to foster the expansion of qualitative and mixed methods research.
Further, the QRC provides infrastructure that contains the resources and space required to attract graduate scholars to the University, as well as access to the lead researchers with their expertise utilizing the most innovative analytical tools in this emerging, diverse field of research—one that cuts across many existing disciplines—promising an invigorating research culture that will attract, train, and retain the best researchers and graduate students.
Developments in the lead researchers’ research areas (cancer, Aboriginal health, human development) are increasingly national and international in scope. Studies of cancer and human development carried out by the lead researchers are extending to other national and international research programs occurring in the United States, Britain and Japan. These research programs make use of innovative research paradigms and build on research synergies that require an infrastructure that is currently not found in any Canadian university.