Public understandings of health and social media

Hosted by the Health and Wellbeing Faculty Research Group

A Work in Progress session, in which Roberta Bernardi seeks your input on research methods to understand public understandings of health and social media.

This session will focus on work by Dr Roberta Bernardi (Senior Lecturer in Management, University of Bristol Business School) and colleagues from the University of Bristol and the University of Manchester, who would value your input into the following research challenge: 

We are developing a grant proposal for the Better Methods, Better Research Scheme of the UK Medical Research Council (MRC). The proposal aims to develop a socio-semantic network analysis method to improve qualitative research on health communication and the public understanding of health on social media. In this work-in-progress session, we welcome feedback on how our proposed research method can meet the needs of researchers and/or practitioners with an interest in analysing health-related conversations on social media. Feedback from colleagues who have had experience with this type of grant application is also welcome.

Catering will be provided, reply to Nick Townsend by 24 April 2023 if you intend to come so they can estimate numbers.