Future Events
Autumn and Spring Term Ethics Workshops
Dates to be arranged (watch this space)
Workshop One: Issues of Informed Consent
Workshop Two: Researching Children and Young People
Workshop Three: NHS Local Research Ethics Committees
Past Events
Methods@Plymouth 2007. A Two Day Event of Seminars and Workshops of Practitioner Led Research. April 19th and 20th : Robbins Conference Centre
This is the second annual event in which researchers from inside and outside the university talk about their experience of conducting research. A range of methodological problems and solutions will be presented. This year we will welcome W Paul Vogt, of the University of Illinois, as our Keynote Speaker. Paul is a leading survey researcher, in the US, with many years experience of academic, public sector and evaluation research. Additionally there will be a presentation from Qualidata, at the University of Essex ESDS led by the UK Data Archive (UKDA). The service provides access and support for a range of social science qualitative datasets, promoting and facilitating increased and more effective use of data in research, learning and teaching.
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Download presentations from the event:
Karen Bowler: Soft Systems of Interdisciplinary Knowledge
Julie Evans, College of St. Mark and St. John: Researching Children and Childhood
Liam French, College of St. Mark and St. John: Social Science and the Internet
Zoë James and Rebekah Southern: Engaging Gypsies and Travellers: Researching need in Devon
Kirsty Magnier and Matthew Sharples: Using observation to research how students in the environmental and natural sciences learn through fieldwork
Donna Poade: Sampling and Response: the experience of conducting an online student survey
John Southall, Qualidata, University of Essex: Qualidata and encouraging the growth and use of archived qualitative research
Jason Truscott: Capturing the Student Experience: What are the options?
Paul Vogt, University of Illinois: What’s wrong with how its done in the US. Reflections on contemporary methodology and methods
Martyn Warren: Qualitative Research and the Internet
Malcolm Williams: Can’t Count Won’t Count? Results from the ESRC Student Survey
Mini Methods Festival and launch of Methodological Innovations online
26-27 April 2006
The mini methods festival is an opportunity for social researchers to discuss different methodological innovations and methods.
Workshop Topics Include
- Writing about the Self: The methodological ups and downs of doing autoethnography
- Doing Historical Research with the Internet
- Some Methodological dilemmas – Sex, Lies and Videotape
- Using Ethnography to access hard to reach populations: Talking to New Age Travellers
- Methodological Issues in Medical Education
- Mixed Methods
- Doing Action Research with Government
- Using the Office for National Statistics Longitudinal Study (LS)
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Postgraduate Poster Competition
Students are encouraged to submit a poster display on their methods and methodological experiences, both good and bad!