Methods Workshops
The series of Real Life Methods workshops has now finished, though they continue in 2008/09 under the Realities programme. Go to the Realities website for more details of forthcoming workshops.
About this workshop series
This workshop series at the University of Manchester focuses on the practice and experience of social science research. The aim is to stimulate debate and to share experiences of methodological issues in researching a range of social science issues.
Our methods workshops are two hour sessions where three speakers each introduce the different methodological approach they have taken to researching the same broad topic. This is followed by discussion from participants exploring how different ways of seeing and conceptualising research questions lead to different methodological possibilities and challenges.
Past Methods Workshops
Click on a workshop title for a full programme and presentations from the sessions.
- 8 May 2008: Researching Social Relations in Urban Environments
- 6 February 2008, 3-5pm: Researching Socio-Cultural Change
- 6 March 2008, 3-5pm: Approaches to Secondary Comparative Analysis (European Social Survey)
- 29 November 2007: Rethinking the Qualitative Interview: Some thoughts from social psychology
- 18 October 2007: Researching Ethnicity
- 17 May 2007: Researching Kinship and Relatedness
- 3 May 2007: Researching Comparative Cases
- 30 November 2006: Researching Social Networks
- 19 October 2006: Researching Localities
