By Kara Schick Makaroff, RN, PhD
Are you interested in and curious about research using mixed methods? A group of current nursing doctoral students/candidates and alumni have formed a “Mixed Methods Club” for just this reason. They are meeting in person and via Skype every month to learn from each other, read one article for discussion, and talk about their burning questions pertaining to this approach. Some of the questions the Mixed Methods Club is grappling with include:
• What is mixed methods research?
• Why are nurse researchers taking up this approach?
• How can a researcher bring qualitative and quantitative data sets together to answer a research question?
• How are philosophical perspectives from qualitative and quantitative complementary (or not) in mixed methods?
• As a researcher, where am I philosophically situated to engage in mixed methods?
• How do researchers’ come to their conclusions when doing mixed methods research?
Perhaps you have additional questions about mixed methods you are interested in exploring. We welcome other graduate students, alumni, and faculty who are interested in this approach to join us. For more information about our next meeting times, please contact Kara Schick Makaroff (2011 UVic alumnus) at kara.schickmakaroff@ualberta.ca
Kara Schick Makaroff completed her PhD from UVic School of Nursing in 2011 and currently is a post-doctoral fellow at the
University of Alberta.
From the 2012 Autumn Communiqué — Nursing Ethics
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