Tell me your story... Qualitative approaches to health and indigenous research

- these, and many other questions will be addressed by our prominent speakers, panelists and particpants during this one day open conference at Campus Tromsø on June 2, 2025.

Cost: Free

Organizers: Centre for Care Research North at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, DIPEx Norway, the Norwegian centre for e-health research

Preliminary Program: 

0830-09 Coffee
09-0930 Welcome
0930-1015 Upping our game – how can qualitative researchers do more to include diverse voices?
Catherine Pope – Professor Medical Sociology, University of Oxford UK

1015-1030 Break

1030-11  Title to be announced
Torjer Olsen, Professor Indigenous Studies, UiT the Arctic University of Norway

11-1130  Title to be announced
Bodil Blix, Professor Health Sciences, UiT the Arctic University of Norway

1130-12 The stories behind the statistics: research with Māori communities in Aotearoa New Zealand
Maria Stubbe, Professor Primary Health Care, the University of Otago, New Zealand with her team: Cervantee Wild, TJ Ranga and Ally Gibson

12 – 13 Lunch break (buy your own lunch)

13 – 1330 Challenges in the research with underserved and vulnerable groups: experiences with marginalized Roma communities in Slovakia
Daniela Filakovska, PhD, Pavol Jozef Safarik University in Kosice, Slovakia

1330-14 Creating conceptual and consensual frameworks using participatory action research: The concept mapping methodology
Lucia Bosáková, Associate Professor, Pavol Jozef Safarik University in Kosice, Slovakia

14-1430 Coffee

1430-15 Title to be announced
Robert Henry, Associate ?rofessor, Department of Indigenous Studies, University of Saskatchewan and Chelsea Gabel, Scientific Director of the Institute of Indigenous Peoples' Health, Canadian Institutes of Health Research

15-16 Fireside storytelling session (Ardna)
Rani Sanderson, Executive Director, Story Centre Canada