Noori Akhtar-Danesh is scheduled to direct a workshop entitled “Q-methodology: Bridging between Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Health Research” at the 8th International Conference on Information Communication Technologies in Health, July 15-17, Samos Island, Greece. The workshop is designed to help participants to develop an understanding of Q methodology as an emerging research method for the study of subjectivity in health research. The different steps of Q methodology in health research will be explained as it is applied to a research topic and participants will have the opportunity to participate actively in the different steps of the research process. Also, some common issues in Q methodology such as sample size, reliability and validity, and interpretation of the statistical analysis will be discussed.

Noori Akhtar-Danesh is Associate Professor of Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, and former president of ISSSS.

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Author of Political Subjectivity (Yale University Press 1980), founding editor of Operant Subjectivity (1977), organizer of first Q conference (1985) and founding member of the International Society for the Scientific Study of Subjectivity (1989), founder and moderator of Q-Method electronic discussion list (1991), and laureate of ISSSS's William Stephenson Award (2010). Also past editor of Policy Sciences, co-founder of the International Society of Political Psychology and the Society of Policy Scientists, list manager of PolicySciencesSociety, executive director of ISPP, laureate of ISPP's Harold Lasswell Award (2009) for lifetime scientific contributions, and Kappa Tau Alpha award (2001) for contributions to journalism and mass communication.