Looking Beyond “Good” and “Bad” Care: Using Feminist Relational Discourse Analysis in the Emergency Department Written by Bella van Hattum and Tracy Morison. Emergency Departments often face challenges in addressing the emotional and physical needs of patients experiencing threatened miscarriage. Although these encounters are prioritised lower clinically, the relational complexities and emotional labour in providing care under constraints are significant. This blog reports on recent research exploring these complexities using Feminist Relational Discourse Analysis.

Looking Beyond “Good” and “Bad” Care: Using Feminist Relational Discourse Analysis in the Emergency Department

Written by Bella van Hattum and Tracy Morison. Emergency Departments often face challenges in addressing the emotional and physical needs of patients experiencing threatened miscarriage.…

From wandering wombs to reproductive control: Why women’s health was never (and is never) neutral Written by Emily Young. This blog explores how sexism in contemporary healthcare can be traced to the historical origins of Western medicine. Emily argues that the marginalisation of women’s bodies is not an accident of modern medicine, but a feature of its foundations.

From wandering wombs to reproductive control: Why women’s health was never (and is never) neutral

Written by Emily Young. This blog explores how sexism in contemporary healthcare can be traced to the historical origins of Western medicine. Emily argues that the marginalisation of women’s bodies is…

Abortion Accompaniment as Reproductive Justice: Rethinking Care on the Island of Ireland This blog written by Anna Theresa Schmid explores the concept of abortion accompaniment, shifting the perspective from an individual experience to communal support. It highlights how communal care transforms abortion into a shared process, challenges stigma, and promotes reproductive justice through relational practices that foster trust and collective empowerment.

Abortion Accompaniment as Reproductive Justice: Rethinking Care on the Island of Ireland

This blog written by Anna Theresa Schmid explores the concept of abortion accompaniment, shifting the perspective from an individual experience to communal support. It highlights how communal care transforms…

Puberty blockers: why politicians overriding doctors sets a dangerous precedent Written by Jaimie Veale. The government’s ban on puberty blockers for gender-affirming care marks a troubling shift: politicians are now making decisions that should sit with clinicians working alongside young people and their families or whānau.

Puberty blockers: why politicians overriding doctors sets a dangerous precedent

Written by Jaimie Veale. The government’s ban on puberty blockers for gender-affirming care marks a troubling shift: politicians are now making decisions that should sit with clinicians working alongside young people…

Reflexivity: How to actually do it Written by Tracy Morison. Let’s be honest: reflexivity is one of the most overused and under-explained terms in qualitative research. We all say we’re being reflexive—often in a neat little paragraph in the methodology section—but what does that actually look like in practice? This post is a practical (and hopefully honest) attempt to answer that question.

Written by Tracy Morison.
Let’s be honest: reflexivity is one of the most overused and under-explained terms in qualitative research. We all say we’re being reflexive—often in a neat little paragraph in the methodology section—but what does that actually look like in practice?

Critical Realism: Opening the door to enriching the evidence base of public health co-creation Written by Katrina Messiha. In this blog, the author advocates for critical realism as a philosophical approach to better understand the complex nature of health issues and to guide the co-creation of public health interventions.

Written by Katrina Messiha. In this blog, the author advocates for critical realism as a philosophical approach to better understand the complex nature of health issues and to guide the co-creation of public health interventions.

Ostomates show how TikTok can be used to educate, reform and support online health communities In this blog, Craig Owen & Emma Butel share findings from their recent research analysing TikTok videos related to #ostomy and #IBD. They discuss how young "ostomates" use the platform to share vital health education about stomas and IBD while combating stigma.

In this blog, Craig Owen & Emma Butel discuss how young "ostomates" use TikTok to share vital health education about stomas and IBD while combating stigma.

Wendy Stainton-Rogers joins us to look back on receiving the ISCHP lifetime achievement award (2023), shares her plans for (more!) book-writing, reflects on q-methodology as a ‘boutique method’, and reminisces about memorable conference moments (including a story about the infamous water pistols!).

Balancing Tools and Trust: Rethinking Child Safeguarding in Health Settings In this blog, Lauren Alexis advocates for balancing standardised tools with personal connection, support and nuanced understanding in child safeguarding practices within healthcare.

Balancing Tools and Trust: Rethinking Child Safeguarding in Health Settings

In this blog, Lauren Alexis advocates for balancing standardised tools with personal connection, support and nuanced understanding in child safeguarding practices within healthcare.

5 hours in qualitative research

Written by Dave Nicholls. Re-published with permission from ParaDoxa. A recent article published in Physiotherapy Theory & Practice found that US-based physical therapy programs allocate, on average, just five hours to teaching qualitative research.

The next episode of The Operative Word, with Gareth Treharne is out now! Gareth reflects on his research and teaching, experiences attending ISCHP conferences, and his term as ISCHP Chair. Listen below, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Co-producing with Care and Cake Anjuli Muller's research explores participatory public engagement and co-production within women's health in Aotearoa, New Zealand. Emphasizing care, the project facilitates vulnerable conversations through 'Cuppa & Cake' sessions, fostering social connections.

"A cuppa and a cake" is the ethos underpinning the methods used in Anjuli Muller's research as part of The Co-production Project.

2.1. Kerry Chamberlain: Support The Operative Word · Episode

Kicking off Volume Two of The Operative Word podcast, Kerry Chamberlain discusses how the society came to be what it is today and what he sees as the challenges and future possibilities for qualitative research in health psychology.

Listen below or subscribe wherever you get your podcasts 🎙️

Enduring Hardships: The Life-Course Journey of Women in Kenyan Resource-Poor Urban Neighbourhoods Written by Joseph Mwita Kisito. Empirical research has shown that, from socio-economic and cultural perspectives, poverty often presents different outcomes for girls and boys, with girls being particularly disadvantaged, not only in the present but across generations. In this blog, Joseph reflects on gender pressure and poverty across the life course and points towards gender-responsive policies that address these issues.

Poverty can present different challenges and outcomes for girls and boys, with girls being particularly disadvantaged. In this blog, Joseph Mwita Kisito reflects on gender pressure and poverty across the life course, pointing towards responsive policy-based solutions.

Good news! You still have time to submit your abstract to our 2025 conference!

Deadline extended for one more week due to demand! Follow the link to submit.

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Check out our keynote speakers for our biennial international conference taking place in Galway, Ireland on 1st - 4th July 2025

Registration & abstract submission is open until 7th March at ischp2025.ie

Check out our keynote speakers for our biennial international conference taking place in Galway, Ireland on 1st - 4th July 2025

Registration & abstract submission is open until 7th March at ischp2025.ie

Delighted that ISCHP is now on Bluesky... A favourite community of scholars critically engaged in "health psychology" (in scare quotes because it's not a narrow view of health or psychology). GREAT conferences too!

Our next conference - University of Galway Ireland - July 1st - 4th 2025

Our theme “Contesting borders” challenges borders across health research - highlights issues that divide us and how 'histories of now' shape health inequalities

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Our next conference - University of Galway Ireland - July 1st - 4th 2025

Our theme “Contesting borders” challenges borders across health research - highlights issues that divide us and how 'histories of now' shape health inequalities

universityofgalwaypsychology.clr.events/event/136643

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