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This workshop is an advanced 'how to' designed for those interested in doing qualitative research from a community-based perspective (focus groups, interviews, participant observation, etc.). Develop the skills and strategies needed to gather and manage ‘quality’ data.   Learn the tips and techniques needed to design well formulated questions, gather & manage qualitative data, perform collaborative data analysis and effectively present your findings from qualitative data.

The ethical principle 'do no harm' should be the foundation for all the work we do as community practitioners and researchers. However, sometimes in our quest for getting 'good data' we forget to put all the safeguards in place to protect the confidentiality, privacy and the vulnerability of community members engaged in research. This workshop will focus on ethical dilemmas commonly presented in community-based research. Case studies of real life examples will be used.

This workshop is designed for those interested in doing quantitative or qualitative interviews for research in a wide variety of research settings. In a fast, complex and changing urban socio-economic environment such as Toronto, there is a growing need among stakeholders, researchers, community members and health professionals to attain information via interviews. We will explore how to design different types of questions, probing techniques and data management.

We are increasingly being called upon to develop, describe, and document the impacts / results of our programs and services. Learn the steps required to create a comprehensive client satisfaction survey to gather both quantitative and qualitative data.  There is a skill required to write good questions .. learn how to formulate and evaluate survey questions.   Bring your own survey to the class and identify ways in which it can be improved!