Taught a couple of hours on the residential school for students on the Forensic Psychology and Crime MSc degree course. Although most of the course is delivered online, students come for an intensive residential once a year. This is a great opportunity for students and tutors to meet up, and to do some practical skills development.
Today we were looking at a range of qualitative research approaches including discourse analysis and interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA).
My session was a short lecture on IPA with an opportunity to do some analysis. Although for their assessed coursework students will be doing a full analysis on some forensic related data (Schulz, 2005, Not monsters: analyzing the stories of child molesters), for today's session we used a short data set on the experience of being adopted. Although the topics might seem very different, the same basic principles and analytical procedures can be applied.
Students did a really good job - getting stuck in to the preliminary analysis. Am really looking forward to seeing how they get on in the assessed work.
Course entry from Cov Uni website:
Forensic Psychology and Crime MSc degree course
- The course is British Psychological Society (BPS) accredited and was designed to cover the BPS Division of Forensic Psychology’s core curriculum
- Online delivery of materials, activities, and discussion opportunities enables students to learn at their own pace, combining work and study
- The Forensic Psychology and Crime MSc is the only online Forensic Psychology course in the UK
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