Dalhousie University

Faculty Member, Faculty of Health Professions

About

Raewyn Bassett, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor (Sociology) with the Faculty of Health Professions, Dalhousie University, and qualitative methodologist with the Capital Health District Authority, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.  Her interests and research lie at the intersection of researcher, data analysis software programs, and qualitative methodologies and methods. She uses a range of data sources, including maps, drawings, diagrams, photographs, video, and audio. Raewyn provides workshops in a number of qualitative software programs, and seminars in qualitative research methodologies and methods and their use within qualitative software programs. Currently she is developing and exploring novel qualitative research methods using new technologies; examining researchers’ engagement with qualitative software; and investigating the influence of technologies such as qualitative software and digital tools including cellular phones and geographic positioning systems (GPS) on qualitative methodologies. She has published on methodological issues in peer review journals and reference books, including contributing to the Encyclopaedia of Case Study Research (Sage, 2010), and the Handbook on Visual Research Methods (Sage, forthcoming 2011). Raewyn was the special issue editor for the Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Volume 19, Issue 1, February 2010, on qualitative research.  Contact: rbassett@dal.ca