June 15

This session will give participants an insight into who, what, why, where, when and even how journalists and producers gather interviews with academics.

This workshop will give you the confidence and agency to move forward with your career planning, helping you identify personal skills and strengths, success drivers and values, and what this means for your future post PhD.

Participants will understand the methodological underpinnings of sampling in quantitative social sciences research. They will learn to select appropriate sampling procedures, evaluate and critique sampling plans.

This session will reflect on the use of comparative case studies as a research design. It is aimed at students who are undertaking - or plan to undertake - a comparative case research design. It is not primarily aimed at disciplines that have well-developed methodological positions on this approach (e.g. comparative political economy) although researchers from those disciplines are welcome to join us.

The workshop consists of a lecture/seminar and practical research activities where attendees will learn about anthropological approaches to questions of time, history, and their material culture, including archival documents, images, monuments, and commemorative art. Through a series of comparative empirical examples, the workshop will discuss experiences of time as knots rather than lines and explore challenges of interpreting history on the basis of partial records and silenced stories such as stories of slavery and political dissent.

Multilevel modelling is an umbrella term for a wide range of statistical models appropriate for clustered data. Multilevel modelling can be thought of as an extension of the classical Multiple Regression Models that allows the researcher to assess the variation in an outcome of interest at different levels of a predefined hierarchy structure and simultaneously analyse the characteristics associated with that variation.

This workshop aims to introduce and explain what can be described as new materialist approaches to research. It aims to offer first an introduction to new materialist ontology and second an explanation of how this might be translated into a research methodology in the social sciences.

It has long been recognised that diary methods are excellent for capturing people’s daily lived experiences (Bartlett and Milligan, 2020). Diary methods are particularly good at bypassing researcher/researched power relations as the power to document and what to document lies with the participant and not with the researcher.

The UKRI, which governs the advanced research academic sector in the UK, and is home to the Economic and Social Research Council have increasingly demanded stronger awareness of and practice around research integrity. In turn, research integrity is being 'understood' somewhat differently across the disciplines with some dominance of its translation into quantitative research.

This session will draw form a range of qualitative projects  conducted in the UK based and with partners in the Global South to explore and discuss principles of equal partnerships, and meaningful community engagement.

This workshop will take participants through a range of different comparison methods in social science, ranging from the use of analogy and metaphor, through to more systematic methods such as Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA).