running on some sort of cultural delay, but spent part of today *really* enjoying ROSALÍA and Björk's BRIT award performance of 'Berghain' www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fyu...

📣CFP: "Relationships and Mental Health", Birmingham, May 12th 2026 We are excited to announce a collaboration with our lovely colleagues in the Phenomenology of Health and Relationships (PHaR) group at Aston University on a one-day conference along the theme: Relationships and Mental Health 🧵1/4

The @euroqualpsy.bsky.social online research seminar is happening today! 4pm UK; 5pm CET; 6pm EET @wiam.bsky.social will be presenting " How can we visually share findings from our qualitative analyses?" Details here: www.equipsy.org/agor%C3%A1/2... Link to join on teams here: tinyurl.com/vavhzn3w

to the tune of Let It Be When I find myself in times of trouble, this video of Tim Heidecker and Fred Armisen comes to me youtu.be/0hwoN0QHX9E?...

Doctoral Award winner @wiam.bsky.social presents their research on young people's experiences on health based welfare during COVID-19 @qmip.bsky.social #qmip2025

New paper out! We propose a novel dialogical method for qual interviews using audio-visual elicitation + mid-point member reflection. It sparked fresh insights for participants & researchers alike. 📄 Prodgers et al. (2025) 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1478... #QualResearch

Great oral history event @qmip.bsky.social! Key points ➡️ Importance of QMiP providing a sense of belonging. Future of qualitative research involves embracing range of methods and data Plus supporting our international networks Thanks to @wiam.bsky.social for chairing and organising 👏

Bleakly embarrassing to see pundits praise the U.K. government for standing up to Israel. Tens of thousands of Palestinians have been murdered, children’s limbs ripped off. And government and media support let that happen. There should be no applause for finally noticing a genocide they helped arm.

this Friday, join us to learn about the history of Qualitative Research Methods in UK Psychology @qmip.bsky.social free for all @bpsofficial.bsky.social members; meeting online! Registration and further details: www.bps.org.uk/event/qmip-2...

The conference programme is now available! It's packed full of talks about all things qualitative: Research, methods and teaching Don't forget to register so you can join us on 9th and 10th July in Leeds. cms.bps.org.uk/sites/defaul...

It’s 2022 and I’m in a meeting about generative AI and academic regulations. It’s 2023 and I’m in a meeting about generative AI and academic regulations. It’s 2024 and I’m in a meeting about generative AI and academic regulations. It’s 2025 and I’m in a meeting about generative AI and…

Dr William Day is the winner of the BPS's Qualitative Methods in Psychology section Doctoral Award for his thesis on experiences of living with chronic 'unseen' illnesses within the wider context of the UK's health-based welfare systems. Congratulations, Will!

Just signed up for the QMiP oral history event! Great opportunity to hear from current and former chairs about the development of QMiP and the future of qualitative research Thanks to @wiam.bsky.social for getting things organised www.bps.org.uk/event/qmip-2... @qmip.bsky.social

We* had a lovely discussion with @ellarhodespsych.bsky.social from @psychmag.bsky.social about 20 years of QMiP and qualitative research! * @drcandicewhitaker.bsky.social @drseymour-smith.bsky.social @wiam.bsky.social @gillianhendry.bsky.social Laura Kilby and me

Great news! The @qmip.bsky.social conference abstract deadline has been extended to 4th April so there's still time to submit! You can also apply for an #ECR conference registration bursary! Find out more here: www.bps.org.uk/event/qualit... @bps-social-psych.bsky.social @bpsenvpsych.bsky.social

A lot in today's health and disability #pathwaystowork Green Paper. Might be helpful to see this in four areas: 1. Big savings (aka cuts) by removing PIP from some disabled people (those who never score 4+ on a single daily living descriptor). Number of losers unclear from today's materials. 1/4

after the weeks of speculation, it's disappointing to see what the government's welfare proposals amount to. The tightening of PIP criteria and increase in frequency of reassessments are particularly unhelpful

I know coverage of disability benefits can be very distressing. So, I’ve worked with colleagues to make a range of support visible on The Guardian’s site. If you click on a relevant news story, you’ll see a “drop box” of signposted mental health help as well as benefits advice.

We are alive and we don't agree. xenogothic.com/2025/03/17/b...

might as well face it, I'm addicted (to reading about how the 'one-shot' Netflix show Adolescence was made)

Join us at the International Society for Critical Health Psychology conference in Galway this summer! It will be of interest to all concerned with research & action at the intersection of health & social justice. Rarely has this been more important! Submit your abstract here: ischp2025.ie Fáilte!

doing some good old 'mandatory training'. Never one to actively judge on appearances, but this guy *definitely* bribes

On the #projectEPIC blog today is one part of two (because I do like to spoil you) on a report from the PHaR conference "Feeling and Being Understood". In the post, I summarise the incredible workshops we took part in: epistemicinjusticeinhealthcareproject.blogspot.com/2025/02/work...

PHaR conference this week has been inspiring, invigorating and exhausting. My brain is now mush. Top 4 photos.

Had a lovely morning at PHaR!

by teaching, we learn (things about ourselves)

Methodological Considerations for the Use of Longitudinal Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis in Healthcare Research Marta Wanat, William Day, and @ipanalysis.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

New paper from Marta Wanat - Methodological Considerations for the Use of Longitudinal Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis in Healthcare Research - journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... - #IPA

😔 damn, the greatest to ever do it

My first methodological paper has just been published! If you are involved in IPA research and would like some ideas about creating effective theme names, this may help. It was great to work with Sheryl Chatfield. Thank you @ipanalysis.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

We're excited to share the program for our Phenomenology of Health & Relationships event in Feb: astonphar.blogspot.com/2025/01/regi... Qualitative & creative methodologies, philosophy, lived experience, epistemic injustice! Registration is open til 16th January: store.aston.ac.uk/conferences-...

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-...

will be forever thankful to whoever edited the 28 Years Later trailer for introducing me to this amazingly taut, full of terror, recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rx8n...

Call for papers: rapid response required! #qualitative #phenomenology #interdisciplinary Come join us for our second PHaR conference in Birmingham, UK, February 6th and 7th 2025. Abstracts by 20th Dec 2024! Theme - 'Feeling and Being Understood.' astonphar.blogspot.com/2024/12/call...

October was spent doing less-than-spooky things, so I’ve recently been mainlining a hoard of horror (/horror adjacent) films. Running out and need recommendations! A rough ranking of recent watches:

New publication! Co-authored with Anna Madill & Brendan Gough, "How Do Men Who Post Publicly on Social Media Author Themselves and Their Experiences of Crohn’s Disease?: A dialogical analysis of three cases" has just been published in Qualitative Health Research doi.org/10.1177/1049...

managed to eke some of my 'earliest' work out of my PhD. With an eye toward transparency and transferability, I was trying to think about how we could incorporate systematic processes into collating data corpora for discursive analyses... doi.org/10.1080/1478...

is it someone’s job to time the standing ovations at film festivals?

my two favourite signs from Albania. Especially like the ‘Tim and Eric’ feel of your children getting to know a real farm H O R S E

And Will Day @wiam.bsky.social on multi-modal creative methods! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We are super-proud of our PGR colleague Kat Slade. This is a lovely piece: www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

always a nice feeling; to watch something that you know will stay with you for a long time: www.richardsandler.com/gods-of-time...

We had a really enjoyable PHaR meeting yesterday: astonphar.blogspot.com/2024/05/its-...

something has gone wrong (right?). My most recent paper has been cited 842 million times. stop the count!!

Final bit of promo is for a methods paper based on my favourite PhD chapter. I deployed an interpretivist, phenomenological, approach to participant-created photographs. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.metip.2024.100135

Separated away from participants' narratives, I analysed the photos using IPA. I then made collages from the Group Experiential Themes - using them to communicate the affective and analytical meanings of each theme

Wanted to make a shameless thread (is that a thing here?) of writings I've had published over the past few months First up is a chapter in the International Handbook of Innovative Qualitative Psychological Research. What a line-up! https://shorturl.at/dewPS

Death by Authenticator app

December 2023. after 6(+) years, I finally finished. Got a mug as proof. What happens now??