Activities

• “Harm Reduction and Tensions in Trust and Distrust in a Mental Health Service: A Qualitative Approach”, published in 2017 in Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy; and
• “An Exploration of the Relational Autonomy of People with Substance Use Disorders: Constraints and Limitations”, published in 2018 in the International Journal of Mental Health Addiction.

First term, 2018

• 23 April 2018 — Prof. Denise Gastaldo — Narrated body mapping.
• 7 May 2018 — João Tadeu de Andrade — Life history.
• 14 May 2018 — Prof. Alex Branco Fraga — Discourse analysis.
• 11 June 2018 — Prof. Lilian Magalhães — Synthesising the literature: where does research start from?

First term, 2019

• 29 May 2019 — Prof. Rozilaine Redi Lago — The case study method.
• 5 June 2019 — Prof. Lilian Magalhães — Synthesising the literature: where does research start from?
• 19 June 2019 — João Tadeu de Andrade — The biographical method.
• 3 July 2019 — Prof. Denise Gastaldo — Body narratives: the methodology of narrated body maps.

• Prof. João Tadeu de Andrade served as external examiner on the doctoral defence of Jaqueline Tavares de Assis, “Uso ritualístico da ayahuasca: percursos terapêuticos, saúde e espiritualidade” (Ritual use of ayahuasca: therapeutic pathways, health and spirituality), supervised by Prof. Maria Inês Gandolfo Conceição, on 19 August 2017, PPGPsiCC/UnB, Brasília — DF.
• Prof. João Tadeu de Andrade served as external examiner on the doctoral defence of Rebeca Trindade Rocha Mohr, “Um olhar complexo sobre o uso ritualístico da ayahuasca em indivíduos com histórico de uso problemático de psicoativos” (A complex view of the ritual use of ayahuasca among individuals with a history of problematic psychoactive substance use), supervised by Prof. Maria Inês Gandolfo Conceição, on 6 December 2017, PPGPsiCC/UnB, Brasília — DF.
• Prof. Rozilaine Redi Lago served as external examiner on the thesis defence of Ana Terra de Araújo, “Compreensão dos profissionais da saúde mental do município de Palmas/TO quanto aos desafios da assistência” (How mental health professionals in Palmas/TO understand the challenges of care), supervised by Prof. Marta Azevedo dos Santos, on 14 November 2018, Professional Master’s in Health Sciences/UFT, Palmas — TO.

• Profs. Maria Inês Gandolfo Conceição and Alex Branco Fraga took part in the round table “Qualitative research in health prevention and promotion: state of the art” at the 1st Congress of the Brazilian Association for Research in Health Prevention and Promotion: Challenges of research in health prevention and promotion in contexts of social inequity, Brasília — DF.
• Profs. Maria Inês Gandolfo Conceição, Denise Gastaldo, Alex Fraga, João Tadeu de Andrade and Lilian Magalhães ran the workshop “Teaching qualitative research in health: realities and proposals for Brazil and Ibero-America” at the 8th Ibero-American Congress on Qualitative Research, Florianópolis — SC.

• Prof. Rozilaine Redi Lago — coordination of a project supporting the Graduate Programme in Public Health at the Federal University of Acre in developing a research and teaching stream in qualitative health research, resulting from a partnership with Corrie Young, Academics Without Borders (Montreal, Canada) and Professors Denise Gastaldo and Brenda Gladstone, CQ (UofT).
• All the network’s faculty take part in the ongoing project “Qualitative Health Research in Brazil and Canada: Methodological Strategies for Excellence in Researcher Training”, agreed between the University of Brasília (UnB), UFRGS, the Federal University of Ceará (UFC) and the University of Toronto (UofT), with funding from CAPES/DFATD.