The Swiss Programme for Research on Global Issues for Development organized an r4d Skills Mixed Methods Research Workshop with Alicia O’Cathain, on integration and quality assessment. The full-day workshop took place in Bern on 28 October 2016 and congregated project leaders, project coordinators and Ph.D. students of r4d projects funded by the Programme, including COHESION.

Alicia O’Cathain is a Professor of Health Service Research, University of Sheffield, UK; and has published widely on mixed methods, mixed teams and randomized control trials. During the workshop, Dr. O’Cathain engaged participants in sessions covering definitions, rationales, designs, reporting, integration of qualitative and quantitative data, and assessing quality.

Four members of the COHESION team (Jorge Correia, Nathaly Aya Pastrana, Olivia Heller, Sarah Lachat) and one member of the project Advisory Board (Dr. Sigiriya Aebischer-Perone) participated in the workshop. Team members discussed and reflected on how to integrate and disseminate the findings of   data to be collected by the Project, balancing the insights obtained from qualitative methods with those from quantitative methods. Dr. Aebischer-Perone will share the reflections during the first Swiss COHESION Advisory Board meeting in Geneva on 21 November 2016.

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