Conceptualizing Large Multi-Topic Qualitative Studies with Michael Duke, PhD

Conceptualizing Large Multi-Topic Qualitative Studies with Michael Duke, PhD
Qualitative interview studies tend to be relatively modest in scope, both in terms of sample size and the number of data items subject to interpretation and analysis. In contrast, large complex studies require a rethinking of scale, study design, saturation, analytic approaches, and other considerations. For this presentation, I will describe a large multi-site project focusing on homelessness in California whose design was informed by the epistemological framework of mereology. The overall goal of this presentation will be to facilitate a discussion regarding the challenges and opportunities of designing and initiating large-scale qualitative studies.
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Dr. Michael Duke is a medical anthropologist whose ethnographic and mixed method work focuses primarily on the impact of contemporary and historical trauma on the physical and mental health of Latinx and Pacific Islander immigrant communities, particularly regarding drug and alcohol use, anxiety, depression, stress, and housing precarity. After receiving his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin, he was a researcher at the Hispanic Health Council in Hartford, CT, where he directed several studies on HIV risk among heroin injectors, and was the PI for a series of NIH-funded binational studies focusing on drinking, masculinity, and HIV risk among US-based migrant farmworkers and their home communities in Mexico. He then worked for several years at the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, where he directed a number of federally funded mixed-method studies focusing on drinking and occupational culture among blue-collar workers. Most recently, he was a tenured Associate Professor at the University of Memphis, where he coordinated a dual Master’s program in Public Health and Medical Anthropology. An author or co-author of numerous peer-reviewed publications, he has also held affiliated faculty appointments at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and Yale University Department of Psychiatry.
A Qualitative Working Group and Qualitative Methods COP (Qualitative Methods Community of Practice) Seminar.
0:00 Introductions
1:34 Conceptualizing Large Multi-Topic Qualitative Studies
3:52 Qualitative Research and the Problem of Scale
9:38 Ethnography
13:29 Mererology
15:54 CA Statewide Study of People Experiencing Homelessness
19:28 Qualitative Sub-Studies
25:32 Data Management and Coding
33:12 Levels of Analysis: Within, Between, And Across Substudies
35:02 Mereological Research Design
41:01 Limitations
42:16 Potential Benefits
43:58 Q & A. Discussion
Recorded Tuesday, May 22, 2024