Publishing qualitative research in addiction with Jo Neale and Brian Kelly

In this episode, Dr Elle Wadsworth speaks to Professor Joanne Neale from the Addictions Department at King’s College London and Professor Brian Kelly from the Department of Sociology at Indiana University. The interview covers their editorial titled, ‘Over a decade later and Addiction journal is still committed to publishing qualitative research’.

· The origins of the editorial and why it is needed [01:01]

· The goal of the changes Addiction is implementing for qualitative submissions [01:44]

· The importance of increasing the word limit to 6,000 words [02:49]

· Whether similar journals in the addiction field struggle with low numbers of qualitative submissions [04:19]

· The increase in qualitative editors at the Addiction journal since 2013 [05:52]

· Finding consensus among a diversity of disciplines on the editorial board [07:21]

· Semi-quantification over quantification in qualitative research [08:30]

· What the authors hope to achieve with this editorial [09:36]

· The take-home messages for qualitative researchers [11:04]

About Professor Joanne Neale: Jo is Professor of Addictions Qualitative Research based within the National Addiction Centre at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, UK. She is also Conjoint Professor in the Centre for Social Research in Health at UNSW Sydney, Australia. Joanne trained in social work and is the Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement Lead for the UK NIHR Addictions Policy Research Unit. Her current research focuses largely on patient perceptions of treatments and interventions for alcohol and other drug use. In the last three years, Joanne Neale has received, through her university, research funding from Mundipharma Research Ltd and Camurus AB and honoraria from Camurus AB and Indivior for presentations.

About Professor Brian Kelly: Brian is a Professor of Sociology at Indiana University and also Senior Research Program Leader at the Irsay Institute. His research examines social contextual influences on health, mainly focusing on substance use. His current research projects include the influence of policy contexts on youth substance use trajectories, sibling socialisation processes of adolescent substance use, and the impact of disasters on community drug-related outcomes.

Original editorial: Over a decade later and Addiction journal is still committed to publishing qualitative research https://doi.org/10.1111/add.70047

Qualitative guidelines for Addiction: (1) https://doi.org/10.1111/add.12408 and (2) https://doi.org/10.1111/add.12857

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