Qualitative Research Hub

About

The Qualitative Research Hub was established by Dr Melissa Day and Dr Karen Rodham in 2022 to serve as a forum for encouraging the development of qualitative research across all disciplines.

While qualitative methodologies have provided exciting and challenging ways of doing research for some time now, the road to establishing their legitimacy has been rocky, with many disciplines dominated by (post-) positivist empiricist research paradigms.

Despite these challenges, however, qualitative research has continued to flourish across many areas, with a variety of qualitative-specific journals, conferences and societies leading the way.

Embracing these developments, our Qualitative Research Hub is building an open community of qualitative researchers in West Sussex, with the aim of widening interdisciplinary discourse, fostering new ways of thinking and embracing new and innovative research methodologies.

People

Dr Karen Rodham

Senior Lecturer in Health Psychology

Dr Bruno De Oliveira

Lecturer in Psychology

Valentina Canessa-Pollard

Senior Lecturer in Psychology

Dr. Michelle Cleveland

Senior Lecturer in Psychology

Tina Crowley

Careers Consultant

Dr Suzanne Everley

Reader in the Sociology of Physical Education, Activity and Health, Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Deputy Director South Coast Doctoral Training Partnership, Chair of the Association of Child Protection Professionals’ Special Interest Group Safeguarding in Sport, Development Lead for the Women’s Sport Leadership Academy

Alison Woodward

Deputy Director, University of Chichester Conservatoire

Tanya Goosen

Senior Lecturer

Dr Rachel King

Senior Lecturer in Biological Psychology

Dr Chris Pocock

Senior Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Psychology

Dr Tilly Spurr

Senior Lecturer Sports and Exercise Nutrition

Dr James Stiller

Senior Lecturer in Psychology

Hollie Newman

Lecturer in Criminology, Programme Lead for MSc Criminology