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Methods Workshop: Researching Ethnicity
Date: Thursday 18 October 2007, 2-4pm
Location: Arthur Lewis Building, University of Manchester (see below for directions)
Workshop Content
This workshop is part of a series 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. Sessions will explore how different ways of seeing and conceptualising research questions and topics lead to distinctive methodological possibilities and challenges.
Each workshop starts with short and relatively informal presentations from people who have approached the same broad research concern in different ways, followed by discussion and debate.
Tej Purewal (University of Manchester) 'Researching Son Preference Through Global Ethnography'
Tej will discuss some of the issues that have emerged through her research on son preference in South Asia and in the diaspora. She will highlight how her focus upon epistemology and reflexivity have impacted upon how she has approached her 'field' as multi-sited in addressing an issue of global significance. Her study engages with qualitative methods while attempting to remain conscious and acknowledging of the politics of ethnicity, gender and culture inherent in the research process. More about Tej's research [new window].
Bridget Byrne (University of Manchester) 'Talking - and not talking - about race in interview research on whiteness'
Bridget will raise some of the methodological (and ethical) questions raised in research on race and whiteness. Bridget's study involved talking to white women in London about raising young children. More about Bridget's research [new window].
James Nazroo (University of Manchester) 'Quantitative studies of ethnicity, health and wellbeing: what happened to real life?'
James will discuss how ethnicity and its link with inequality have become reified in quantitative research on health, and the implications of this for our more general understandings of ethnicity. He will then try and convince you that this need not be the case, and that a more theoretically informed, subtle and reflexive approach can introduce meaning into quantitative work. More about James' research [new window].
Registration
Academics, researchers working outside academia, and postgraduate students are all welcome. There is no fee. If you register for the workshop and find out later that you can't come, please do let us know.
THIS WORKSHOP IS NOW FULL. If you would like to be added to the waiting list, please continue to complete the online registration and you will be contacted if a place becomes available.
Venue
2nd floor boardroom, Arthur Lewis Building, Bridgeford Street, University of Manchester.
- View campus map [pdf opens in new window] Arthur Lewis Building is number 36.
- Directions to the University of Manchester [new window].
