Workshop: Integrating quantitative, qualitative and participatory research to study intersections of climate change and physical activity in older adults

Prof. Erica Bennett & Kassi Welch

The purpose of this workshop is to:

1. Engage in interdisciplinary dialogue and grow research relationships amongst members of a large interdisciplinary research team.

2. Refine the aims of the qualitative study component of our team’s collective research attending to aging, gender, physical activity, and climate change in the Anthropocene.

3. Identify “themes of complementation” where the qualitative and quantitative study components complement each other, with the goal of generating “integrated” output, such as for policy recommendations, physical activity guidelines.

4. Highlight cultural norms related to sex dimensions in health sciences that research team members need to be aware.

5. Teach the research team members about the foundations of qualitative inquiry.

6. Teach the research team some of the prac:cali:es of doing qualitative research.

The workshop facilitators will be:

Dr. Erica Bennett  – Assistant Professor, The University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, Canada - Forum Basilience Visiting Scholar.

Erica Benett is an Assistant Professor in the School of Kinesiology at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Her program of research is guided by the question: “how can everyBODY be supported to actualize their potential in sport and physical activity spaces to optimize health and wellbeing”? Erica’s research focuses on the interrelated psychological and sociocultural factors that shape how people experience, cope with, and adapt to body and physical activity - related challenges as they grow older. Erica teaches in the area of qualitative research methods and is a collaborator on the PERSISTENCE grant, playing a key role in the Work Package 1: qualitative component work package of the grant which is led by P.I. Dr. Sarah Koch at the University of Basel.

Kassi Welch– PhD student, the University of Bri1sh Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, Canada

Kassi is a PhD student in the School of Kinesiology supervised Dr. Bennett. Kassi employs narrative, qualitative methods in her work to understand how individuals navigate idendity construction and physical activity after limb amputation, and works as a research assistant on several qualitative research projects pertaining to physical activity and the (aging) body given her methodological expertise. Kassi is also a student involved with the PERSISTENCE project, and will co-lead this proposed workshop with Dr. Bennett.

Workshop details:

The workshop will entail 3 days of work with our research team in Basel. Day 1 will include work with the entire research team, and day 2 and 3 will entail work with a sub por:on of the research team (researchers associated with WP1: Qualita:ve of PERSISTENCE). We outline our

Day 1, June 16: Foundations of qualitative research

Attendees: ~20 research team members

Format: Hybrid

Time: 1-3pm (2 hours)

Day 2 (June 18): The “how to” of qualitative research

Attendees: ~8 attendees

Format: In person

Time: 9am-4pm

Follow up training day June 26th

Attendees: ~ 8 attendees

Format: In person

Time: 9am-1pm

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