Research Accelerator 2023 December 5–7 2023

Our popular virtual conference is back! Hosted by Academic Consulting's Director, Lyn Lavery, this year we have an amazing line-up of guest speakers including Pat Bazeley, Nigel King, Helen Sword, Christina Silver and Daniel Turner.

This year's conference will be focused on different ways of working as a researcher, whether that's embracing AI (or not!) or exploring visual and creative methods in your qualitative research. Join us for an action-packed three days of inspiration and new learnings – we can't wait to see you there!

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Nigel King

Nigel is a Professor in Applied Psychology. He has a longstanding interest in using qualitative methods, especially in “real world” settings and has written extensively on template analysis, interview methods and visual elicitation methods, amongst other topics. Theoretically, he draws on a variety of experiential traditions, especially phenomenology and personal construct theory. His substantive interests include human meaning-making in relation to nature and outdoor spaces, bereavement experiences and collaborative working in health and social care. Nigel is the author (with Christine Horrocks and Jo Brooks) of ‘Interviews in Qualitative Research’ (SAGE 2019), and (with Jo Brooks) ‘Template Analysis for Business and Management Students’ (SAGE 2017).

Pat Bazeley

Pat Bazeley is Director of Research Support P/L and Adjunct Professor at the Translational Research and Social Innovation Centre at Western Sydney University. Since graduating in psychology she has worked in community development, as an evaluation researcher, and in academic research development. For almost 30 years, Pat has provided research training and project consulting to academics, graduate students and practitioners representing a wide range of disciplines across Australia and internationally. Pat’s research has focused on qualitative and mixed methods data analysis, the development and performance of researchers, and the well-being of older women. She has published books, chapters, and articles on mixed methods and qualitative data analysis. She serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Mixed Methods Research and was president of the Mixed Methods International Research Association from 2015–2016.

Helen Sword

Professor Helen Sword is a scholar, poet, and master teacher whose research-based books on writing and writers include ‘Stylish Academic Writing’ (Harvard 2012), ‘The Writer’s Diet’ (Chicago 2016), ‘Air & Light & Time & Space: How Successful Academics Write’ (Harvard 2017) and ‘Writing with Pleasure’ (forthcoming from Princeton UP). She is a Professor of Humanities, a research fellow in the Centre for Arts and Social Transformation at the University of Auckland and the recipient of several major research and teaching awards. Helen has facilitated writing workshops at more than 100 universities, conferences, and research institutes on every continent except Antarctica.

Christina Silver

Associate Professor Christina Silver has been a researcher and methods trainer since the late 1990s, when she began working with the CAQDAS Networking Project (University of Surrey). She now leads the CAQDAS Networking Project’s training and capacity-building activities, which includes raising awareness about digital tools for qualitative and mixed methods analysis. Christina’s interests coalesce around the relationship between technology and methodology and the adoption of computer-assisted analysis. She has trained more than 12,000 students and researchers over the past 25 years, undertaken numerous research projects and provided consultancy for hundreds of individuals and teams in academic, government, voluntary and commercial contexts. She co-authored ‘Using Software in Qualitative Research: A Step-by-Step Guide’ with Ann Lewins (SAGE 2014) and ‘Using NVivo for Qualitative Analysis: The Five-Level QDA Method’ with Nick Woolf (Routledge 2018).