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Researcher Wellbeing Group – with guest Dr Donna Poade
July 15, 2024 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
The Researcher Wellbeing Group will be hosting its final guest talk of the academic year (we’ll be taking a break over August and coming back in September). This session will be a guest talk by Dr Donna Poade from Falmouth University, Cornwall. Donna is a senior lecturer in experience design and has a special academic expertise in dark tourism, the phenomenon of travel to visitor sites associated with death and suffering alongside a keen interest in research methods and methodology, specifically when researching sensitive issues as a qualitative researcher. Donna is passionate about wellbeing and works as a community researcher evaluating mental health initiatives with regular published articles and as is a trainee psychotherapist.
In her talk, Donna will share her experiences and reflections associated with her research journey in dark tourism research as a qualitative researcher. She will highlight the opportunities and challenges of ‘emotional methodologies’ of qualitative research on sensitive issues and the impact her research had on her both personally and professionally. Her contribution aims to raise awareness of the importance of wellbeing for all people connected to a research process including researchers and supervisory and support teams alongside the need to open the discussion on methodological training and resources to support researchers.