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AI-Human Collaboration: From Quant to Qual, Turning Data into Meaning

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Written by Paulina Bondaronek and Siobhán Healy-Cullen

Image depicting AI-Human collab created using rather primitive prompting in Ideogram.

Machine-assisted topic analysis (MATA) aims to use the efficiency of Artificial Intelligence and combines it with the nuanced and rich insights derived from qualitative analysis. I call this a “meaningful AI-Human collaboration”. MATA was developed in response to a significant challenge during the COVID-19 pandemic; I was tasked with analysing and providing actionable insights based on 16,000 free-text responses to the question “How could we improve the service” (rapidly). The service in question was the NHS Test & Trace, which managed the pandemic response in England. With only my eyeballs to rely on (…and my expertise as a Behavioural Scientist), I recognised the potential of technology to speed up this task.

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Unmasking Jack S. Hatcher

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By Kerry Chamberlain

Some years ago, Jack S. Hatcher* published a (rather unusual) article in Qualitative Research in Psychology (Hatcher, 2011). Who was this person, and how did this come about?

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Qualitative Methods in Psychology (QMiP) conference – a safe space for qual researchers (immediately before ISCHP 2017!)

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By Sarah Riley, QMiP 2017 Conference Chair (edited by Gareth Treharne)

Details of conference: https://www.bps.org.uk/events/conferences/qualitative-methods-psychology-section-bi-annual-conference-2017

“Conferences are liturgical celebrations, affirmations of solidarity, symbolic spaces for those who speak a language (whether socialism or orthodontics) unintelligible to most of their fellow-humans, and who therefore need from time to time to relax with those of their own kind, as a cross-dresser might feel the gathering urge to withdraw from the world of the bank or bakery and ease into a pair of corsets” Terry Eagleton The Gatekeeper

Being amongst kind is important for all academics. But when it came to organising the British Psychology Society’s Qualitative Methods in Psychology (QMiP) conference in 2017 this need felt particularly salient. To this end, QMiP’s aims have been to provide a safe space as well as an exciting space.

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