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How to stay well while doing qualitative research

Lunch Time Lecture Series

Date

13th Oct 2021

DRI's Dr Lorraine Grimes will be delivering a talk about undertaking sensitive/traumatic research and its impacts on the researcher as part of a lunchtime webinar series hosted by Trinity College Dublin on how to stay well while doing qualitative research.

Time: 13:00 – 14:00 IST

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Doing qualitative research can take an emotional toll on the researcher – especially when researching marginalised groups who are likely to have experienced considerable trauma. While there are now more public debates around mental health, in academia, many researchers still struggle to talk openly about how their work at times negatively impacts on their wellbeing.

This lunchtime webinar series, run by Trinity College Dublin and taking place monthly between June and October 2021, will offer inputs on how to stay well while doing qualitative research. It will also offer an interactive space where we can discuss experiences of handling emotionally difficult situations and share strategies of how to protect ourselves and each other.

For the fourth lunchtime seminar taking place on Wednesday, 13th of October, 2021, 1-2pm (Dublin, Ireland time) Trinity College Dublin welcomes Mandy Lee, PhD Candidate in Sociology / Centre for Health Policy and Management, Trinity College Dublin and Dr Lorraine Grimes, Postdoctoral Researcher and Digital Archivist, Social Science Institute, Maynooth University. They will talk about doing sensitive/traumatic research and its impacts on the researcher, and share experiences of developing a self-care protocol and applying it to one’s own research journey.

This lunchtime webinar series is kindly supported by the Trinity College Dublin Postgraduate Community & Wellbeing Fund and is organised by Cordula Bieri, PhD Candidate, School of Social Work & Social Policy, Trinity College Dublin.

Lorraine Grimes is a member of the Digital Repository of Ireland team based in Maynooth University. She is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Social Science Institute at Maynooth University on the project ‘Digital Preservation of Reproductive Health Resources: Archiving the 8th’. She has a PhD from the National University of Ireland Galway. Her thesis titled ‘Migration and Assistance: Irish Unmarried Mothers in Britain 1926-1973’, examines the institutionalisation of Irish unmarried mothers in Mother and Baby Home institutions in Britain, and explores issues of maternity care, adoption, socio-economic class, unmarried fathers and advocacy for unmarried mothers in the 1970s.

Lorraine has worked on a number of projects including the World Health Organisation funded project; ‘Reproductive Health: The Implementation of Abortion Policy in Ireland’ which developed policy recommendations to the Department of Health, HSE and other key bodies on developing women’s access to abortion in Ireland. Lorraine has also co-authored a number of publications focusing on unmarried motherhood, maternity care and stillbirth in Britain and Ireland.

Mandy Lee is a PhD candidate in Sociology at Trinity College Dublin. She is also an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Health Policy and Management, School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin. Her PhD research is focused on exploring the trauma and resilience of the Hong Kong pro-democracy movement from the disciplinary perspectives of narrative medicine, resistance studies and social movement research. She has published and disseminated work on health policy and healthcare management research, and her scholarly interests are on the themes of person-/people-centredness and ethics. She helped establish the HPM-CGH Research Ethics Committee at Trinity, and is a co-founding member of the Research and Development Sub-group of the National Health and Social Care Professionals Office of the HSE.

 

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