The Paradigm Games: The journey into the world of the research paradigm: Invited workshop at the Centre for Health Sciences Annual Conference, 19th July 2022, Engineers House, Bristol, UK

Have you ever considered the philosophical standpoint under which you undertake your work as an academic? How do your beliefs and experiences influence and affect your teaching or research practices? This session will reflect on my own experiential journey into the language and philosophy of qualitative research, and share how gaining a better understanding of the research paradigm, can improve the quality of pedagogy both teaching and research. The session will explore concepts of aims, axiology, ontology, epistemology, rhetoric and methodology and get participants to explore their own views and values in the context of the scholarship of learning and teaching.