Online Events

Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis: Outlining an experiential qualitative methodology for psychology
Jonathan A Smith, Birkbeck University of London, UK

I will begin the talk with a short definition of Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) and speak to its theoretical underpinnings in phenomenology, hermeneutics and idiography. I will then present a short example from own research where I have used IPA to address an issue in health. This is because I think the best way to see how a methodology works is to see what it can achieve in practice. While relating the example, I will endeavour to illustrate how it can be seen to be illustrating the three theoretical touchstones mentioned above. I will also briefly discuss what is entailed in getting the sort of data that produces a good IPA study and more recent complex designs which are emerging in IPA work.

Challenging conversations happen often, both in our classrooms as well as outside of them. In fact, it is becoming more common to have differing and strongly held perspectives raised in our increasingly polarized political climate. In this session, we’ll talk about how to frame classroom discussion to center around constructive dialogue rather than fraught debates where everyone wants to, but no one actually will, win. We’ll also talk about the interpersonal and intrapersonal skills students need to be able to engage in challenging dialogues in productive ways as well as some strategies to help students identify and build on the skills they have. The structured session (with Q+A) will be followed 2 weeks later with a full discussion of these topics where we can all share ideas and perspectives.

This two hour workshop, free for Division 1 members, will introduce participants to the fundamentals of R needed to manipulate, visualize, and describe data. This workshop has a particular emphasis on producing clean and reproducible code in line with coding and open science best practices. 

In this webinar, Alicia will share bias-reduction and compassion-promoting assignments, activities and approaches from small steps to the bold and the beautiful. Learn how to build rapport and trust in just one class period, turn your course into a model of shared authority by shrinking the power gap between instructor and student, and explore Alicia's class assignment, The Voices Project, empirically supported to reduce racism and mental health stigma in college students. The most recent version of the APA Guidelines for the Undergraduate Psych Major 3.0 (2023) has tasked us with "empowering people to make a difference in their lives and communities" so if this is your goal, this is the webinar for you.

In this webinar, Dr. Tate will share her work on gender identity highlighting the ways in which she has worked to develop innovative gender-related measures, and field advancing theory. This webinar is free for Division 1 members.