BU Research Blog

Professor Edwin van Teijlingen will be running a Skills Building Workshop at the 14th national Nepal Study Days of the Britain-Nepal Academic Council (BNAC) in Liverpool.  FHSS Professor van Teijlingen is a long-standing member of BNAC.  Registration for this year’s Nepal Study Days is open now, if you are interested click here!  Edwin van Teijlingen has conducted many qualitative studies and supervised many postgraduate students doing focus group research. He has published widely on qualitative methods, including research papers on Focus Group Research.^1-3

Anybody interested in learning more about Focus Group Discussions as a research method should consider signing up for up for Bournemouth University’s two-day Masterclass ‘Focus Group Research‘ to be held next week Monday 18th and Tuesday 19th April in Bournemouth. Over a two-day period this Masterclass will cover the journey for a research project on focus group research.  Basic previous knowledge on qualitative research will be assumed.

References:

1. van Teijlingen, E.R., Pitchforth, E. (2006) Focus Group Research in Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care, J Fam Plan Reprod Health Care 32 (1): 30-32.
2. Pitchforth, E., Teijlingen van, E., Ireland, J. (2007) Focusing the group, RCM Midwives J 10(2): 78-80.
3. van Teijlingen, E., Simkhada, P., Stephen, J. (2013) Doing focus groups in the health field: Some lessons from Nepal, Health Prospect 12(1): 15-17. http://www.nepjol.info/index.php/HPROSPECT/article/view/8722/7111