八田 太一

Dr. Taichi Hatta is a senior assistant professor at Shizuoka Graduate University of Public Health. His research interests lie in health science, medical sociology, medical ethics, cultural psychology, quantitative and qualitative research, and mixed methods. His doctoral paper, published online in 2018 in the Journal of Mixed Methods Research, demonstrated a new way of analyzing temporal changes of moods in physician-patient dialogues for cancer treatment at hospital in Japan using a Japanese narrative framework. Following that, he was awarded a Ph.D. from Kyoto University in 2019, and also received the Honorable Mention award for the Mixed Methods International Research Association’s Dissertation Award in 2022. He served as an Executive MMIRA Board member at Large from 2019 to 2022. He is one of the few scholars having imported mixed methods to Japan, encouraging home students and researchers to engage in mixed methods research and writing articles in Japanese. Translated Foundations of Mixed Methods Research (Tashakkori & Teddlie, 2009) into Japanese as one of the translation supervisors.