FMHU5004: Qualitative Analysis and Writing in Health

There are four written assessments: Coding and memo writing (10%); Developing candidate themes (10%); Draft analysis (20%); Polished analysis (20%). A series of interactive oral assessments is conducted across three workshops: Presenting your ideas (30%).

You will receive a set of transcripts. For each assessment you will apply the techniques you have learnt and practiced in the workshop. This stepped approach is designed to build your skills and confidence, and allow us to assess your understanding of a common data analysis technique, your application of writing skills, and your ability to apply these to the process of analysis and the production of a polished piece of analysis. These are core skills for any researcher.

You will use your work on each assignment task to inform the subsequent assignment. That is, each assignment relies on the successful and timely completion of the previous assignment task. Meeting the assignment deadline will allow the marker to provide you with timely feedback so you can also use feedback to improve subsequent work.

The following uses of AI tools are prohibited:

• Do not - under any circumstances - enter raw research data, transcripts or participant quotes into any AI tool.
• You cannot use AI to write the first draft of any of your assignments.
• You should not copy and paste text generated by AI without incorporating original writing and your own interpretation.
• It is your responsibility to ensure that anything produced by AI is accurate, referenced appropriately, and reflects your thinking. (AI does not know best!)

The following uses of AI tools are permitted:

• Generating ideas. You could ‘talk’ with CoPilot about the codes you are generating and what patterns you are seeing.  
• Suggesting a structure or outline for your memos.
• Searching for and summarising relevant literature to help interpret your data, themes/core concepts, and the implications of your findings.
• Translation, or to help you understand words or phrases in the transcripts.
• ChatGPT, CoPilot, and automatic writing tools like Grammarly can be helpful for checking grammar, and for editing, polishing, and proofreading initial drafts.
• We may provide specially-developed AI agents - we encourage you to use these to help you complete the unit. 

While you can use AI for assessments, please remember the value of these assessments as a learning activity is for you to practise and develop your thinking, analytic and writing skills. We want you to finish the unit feeling confident in YOUR skills.  

Finally, you must declare your use of AI by adding a note at the end of your assessment describing the AI tool(s) you used, what you used it/them to do, and how you used the AI output.