Webinar - , 09-11-2023

Using conversation analysis in health intervention studies

Speaker(s):

Bio: I'm Jack, a Qualitative Researcher in Health Behaviours at the Nuffield Dept. of Primary Care Health Sciences (Uni. of Oxford). My work primarily uses Conversation Analysis and similar interactional methods to study how talk and social interaction plays out in real life encounters. I am working on helping more people achieve remission from type 2 diabetes, how open science is applicable for qualitative research, evaluating and developing interventions to motivate blood donation, and, disputative encounters in public places.

Bio: I am a conversation analyst, working at the University of Oxford, who explores how communication in clinical settings supports changes to health behaviours. I lead the Clinical Communication and Behaviour Change team, and our research focuses on understanding relationships between clinical communication and longer-term behaviour change, including weight loss, smoking cessation, and treatment adherence. Over the last seven years I've used conversation analysis across a broad range of health intervention studies, including as part of mixed methods process and implementation evaluations.

Abstract:

This workshop is open to anyone who would like to understand how conversation analytic research may be used within health intervention studies. Participants will learn about the different ways that conversation analysis may contribute to pre-intervention and intervention phases of a study. For example, to inform training for a talk-based intervention, to enhance trial conduct or to assess intervention implementation. The workshop will include:

 

1. What is conversation analytic research and why might it be useful for health intervention studies?

2. Designing conversation analytic research within a randomised trial or implementation study.

3. Case studies of previous and ongoing use of conversation analysis in randomised trials.

 

Participants do not need to have any previous experience, skills or knowledge, although involvement in, or future ambitions towards using conversation analytic methods in health intervention studies would make the course more relevant.