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Half Day Workshops

EHPS 2024 will accommodate three (3) Half Day workshops, which will be held on Tuesday 3rd of September 2024. Conference attendees who wish to participate in these workshops will be required to register and pay the appropriate fee. Details on the workshop registration process can be found at https://2024.ehps.net/registration. Please note that this year the Half Day workshops, as well as the Full Day workshops will be held in parallel. So you can register to participate in just one workshop, Half or Full Day.

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) in Health Psychology Research

Experience mapping in health psychology research: discovering embodied
and embedded experiences in the lived space

The Behavioural Science Approach to Realist Reviews/Evaluations (BARR/E)

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) in Health Psychology Research

Objectives:

This workshop on Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) in Health Psychology Research is a valuable opportunity to foster awareness, understanding, and actionable steps toward a more inclusive and equitable research environment

Participants will gain an increased understanding about EDI in health psychology research and culture.

Participants will gain insight into identifying and addressing biases in their own research and recognise the potential impact of their work on diverse populations.

Participants will have opportunities to critically consider barriers and facilitators to including EDI considerations their own research and funding bids.

Participants will develop skills and knowledge to implement EDI considerations into their research and funding applications.

Activities:

Understanding EDI in Health Psychology research. (45 minutes):

Presentation: Provide an overview of EDI concepts, including equality, equity, diversity, and inclusion.

Interactive Discussion: (20 minutes)

Why does EDI matter in Health Psychology research? Engage participants through small group work to discuss the importance of EDI in health psychology research practice and culture. Present to main group.

Inclusive Research Practices (45 minutes):

Presentation: Highlight best practices for inclusive research design, participant recruitment, and data analysis.
Q&A Session: Address participants’ questions and concerns.
Small group work: barriers and facilitators to EDI in research practice and culture.
Networking session: Opportunities to collaborate, share ideas over coffee.

Action Planning (30 minutes):

Group Activity: Participants brainstorm actionable steps to promote EDI in their research.
Commitment Pledge: Each participant commits to specific actions.

Closing Remarks and Next Steps (15 minutes):

Recap key takeaways.
Encourage ongoing learning and implementation.

Intended Participants:

Open to anyone interested in equality, diversity and inclusion in health psychology research and research culture.

Maximum number of participants for the workshop:

50

Convenors:

Joanna Semlyen, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom

Dr Joanna Semlyen (responsible for workshop) is PI for Wellcome Trust funded grant to develop inclusive and diverse research culture Increasing Diversity & Equality of Access to Inclusion (IDEA) study at University of East Anglia, UK and PI for the study Equality, Diversity and Inclusion inTo research (EDIT) study, a mixed methods study to develop toolkit for EDI and Research. Dr Semlyen is Associate Dean for ED&I in the Faculty of Health and Medicine and Associate Professor of Psychology and Medical Education. She publishes in health inequalities and anti discrimination practice.

Leanne Tyson, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom

Dr Leanne Tyson is lead researcher for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion inTo research (EDIT) a mixed methods study to develop EDI Guidelines for EDI and Research. Dr Tyson has published in the field of health inequalities and tackling discrimination in health settings.

Experience mapping in health psychology research: discovering embodied and embedded experiences in the lived space

Objectives:

Lived experiences of health and illness are deeply rooted in our bodies and the physical spaces that are significant to us: they are embodied within us and embedded in our environment. Embodied and embedded experiences encapsulate the complexity of a person’s motions, self-regulation and relationship processes encompassing health and illness.

First, we developed the Emotional Map of the Home interview procedure, which allowed us to investigate the self-regulation processes of family members within their homes. Building upon the foundations of systemic thinking and environmental psychology, we have further advanced the concept of experience mapping (experiMAP).

ExperiMAP procedures are a bunch of semi-projective methods: participants draw a layout of their significant places and then locate predefined positive and negative experiences (e.g., the place of security, insecurity, etc.). The adjacent qualitative interview focuses on stories about these experiences and the selfregulatory processes linked to health and illness. Whether it be their home, workplace, or other significant life spaces, we can explore emotionally significant experiences through an experiMAP-based assessment.

Accordingly, the workshop aims

to present the scientific background behind the experiMAP based qualitative interview methods.

to help the participants acquire basic skills in using experiMAP procedures for research and practice.

Activities:

During the workshop, participants will have the opportunity to:

engage in firsthand experience with the experiMAP-based interview protocol as it is employed in qualitative health research and clinical practice;

explore real-life study examples and gain practical information on applying experiMAP-based procedures;

develop their ideas for using the experiMAP approach in their professional practice.

By the end of the workshop, participants will have a solid understanding of the theoretical underpinnings, practical implementation, and potential applications of experiMAP in their qualitative health psychology research and clinical practice.

Participants:

Researchers and practitioners in health psychology

Maximum number of participants for the workshop:

30

Convenors:

Viola Sallay, University of Szeged, Hungary

Viola is a psychologist and Assistant Professor at the Institute of Psychology, University of Szeged, Hungary. She received her PhD in 2014. Her PhD thesis discussed qualitative grounded theory research of emotional self-regulation processes in the family home. Her research interests include environmental and systemic aspects of well-being, the role of environmental self-regulation in personal growth processes and the use of qualitative methodologies in well-being research. She is a clinical health psychologist and family therapist, Board Member of the European Family Therapy Association.
Tamas Martos, University of Szeged, Hungary
Tamás is a psychologist, full professor and head of the Personality, Clinical and Health Psychology Department at the Institute of Psychology, University of Szeged, Hungary. He received his PhD in 2010. In addition to lecturing in psychology, he serves as a psychodrama group leader and family therapist. His research interests include the role of motivational processes and goal constructs in healthy human functioning, measurement of positive psychological constructs, and systemic aspects of couple’s functioning. He is a licensed clinical health psychologist and family therapist.

The Behavioural Science Approach to Realist Reviews/Evaluations (BARR/E)

Objectives:

By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:

List the key principles of realist methodology, including; realist reviews, evaluations of interventions, realist philosophy, the process of a realist review, Context, Mechanism, Outcome (CMO) configurations, initial programme theories and programme theories.
Describe the current challenges within the field of ‘traditional’ realist review methodology when defining intervention contexts and mechanisms.
Describe how behavioural science may guide researchers and provide clarity when defining intervention contexts and mechanisms.
Apply the above learning to generate initial programme theories, underpinned by behavioural science for a hypothetical realist review study.

Activities:

The convenors will provide a brief introduction of the key principles of realist methodology. Participants will first be given a passage of text, describing a complex intervention and asked to annotate relevant content pertaining to the intervention context(s), mechanism(s) and outcome(s) described in the passage.
After discussion and feedback from the first activity, participants will be given information on a hypothetical realist review study and asked to generate initial programme theories, using context, mechanism, outcome configurations, explaining how the target intervention may work to produce the desired outcome(s). Participants will then be asked to use the domains of the Theoretical Domains Framework (TDF) and re-write their initial programme theories, using the TDF to help identify and define the potential mechanisms of the intervention.

Intended participants:

No prior understanding of realist methods is necessary.

Maximum number of participants for the workshop:

50

Offered for online participation:

No

Convenors:

Debi Bhattacharya, University Of Leicester, United Kingdom
I am a Professor of Behavioural Medicine, leading a portfolio of research targeting patient and practitioner behaviour change. I conceptualised and have applied the BARR/E to develop interventions that have progressed to implementation and impact within the UK healthcare system.
Caroline Smith, University Of Leicester, United Kingdom
I am a final year PhD researcher who has utilised the BARR/E approach to inform the development of a practitioner behaviour change intervention. I have previously worked as a research associate on several research programmes applying behavioural science to understand and address patient and practitioner behaviour change. I have completed over 30 hours of training in realist methods, delivered by experts in the field. My work using the BARR/E has been published in scientific journals and I have also presented this work at several conferences.
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