Real Life Methods ran from October 2005 to January 2009. This website is archived and no longer maintained. For up to date information, please see www.manchester.ac.uk/realities
These pages are for the first Vital Signs conference in 2008.
Click here for information on the second Vital Signs conference:
Vital Signs 2: Engaging Research Imaginations
University of Manchester
7-9 September 2010
Vital Signs: Researching Real Life
Date: 9 - 11 September 2008
Location: University of Manchester, UK
Vital Signs is an international and interdisciplinary conference organised by Real Life Methods. It will provide a major forum for the discussion of approaches to researching real lives in complex worlds.
We are using the concept of ‘real lives’ in an open way to stimulate debate about how research methodologies and methods in the social sciences and beyond can rise to the challenge of producing knowledge and understandings that are 'vital' and that resonate with complex and multi-dimensional lived realities.
Post-conference update
Thank you to everybody involved in the conference for helping to make it such a lively and interesting event.
Lots of our speakers have kindly agreed that we can put copies of their presentations on our programme pages.
Vital Signs marked the end of the Real Life Methods events programme, but also the start of the Realities events programme. (Realities is another "node" of the National Centre for Research Methods.) If you came to Vital Signs and enjoyed it, or if you missed it, then Realities will be organising Vital Signs 2 in September 2010. Go to the Realities events page.
