Invited Speaker: Renate Kahlke, PhD
Bio: Dr. Renate Kahlke is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Scientist at the McMaster Health Education Research, Innovation and Theory Centre at McMaster University. Her work seeks to explore the impact of on change-making among healthcare professionals and trainees. She has significant expertise in qualitative and qualitatively oriented mixed methods knowledge syntheses. She has extensively used and published methodological guidance on critical/narrative reviews. She has also engaged with qualitative integrative reviews, including a complex a methodological review synthesizing the literature on diverse qualitative research interview approaches across multiple fields. Dr. Kahlke holds grants from across major funding agencies, including recognition for her integrative review work at the Society of Directors of Research in Medical Education.
Session Description: Knowledge synthesis (KS) is a key tool in our education research toolkit, offering educators, researchers, and policymakers an entry point into the often complex landscape of educational scholarship. Many HPE researchers are relatively familiar with KS approaches like systematic and scoping reviews; however, there is a vast array of qualitatively-oriented approaches to knowledge synthesis that are less well understood. A subset of these are pivotal to addressing questions about how scholarly conversations in a field or on a topic is functioning - the questions we ask, the assumptions we make, and the approaches we use. This presentation will offer an overview of these approaches, such as critical and metanarrative reviews, clarifying how they can best be used to advance scholarship in a field or on a particular topic.
Learning Objectives:
- Describe key features of a qualitatively-oriented knowledge synthesis approaches.
- Discuss how qualitatively-oriented syntheses can be used to map and critique scholarly conversations within a field or topic.
- Describe iterative data generation and analysis strategies within qualitative-oriented knowledge synthesis.
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