Methods Workshop: Researching Socio-cultural Change
Date: Wednesday 6 February 2008 , 3-5pm
Location: Harold Hankings Building, University of Manchester (directions)
Workshop Content
This workshop is part of a series on the practice and experience of social science research.
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.
Ed Fieldhouse (Institute for Social Change, University of Manchester)
'Combining and linking data sources in the study of local campaign effects in election studies'
Ed will give an illustration of how he has used multiple quantitative data sources including a primary survey of political actors, secondary data from a large national survey of voters and publicly available administrative records on party spending. By freeing oneself from narrow reliance on single data sources and by adopting appropriate statistical methods of analysis, he was able to resolve some longstanding academic debates about the measurement of campaign effects.
More about Ed's research [opens in new window].
Frank Mort (CIDRA, University of Manchester)
'Researching Sexuality in Time and Space: London in the 1950s '
More about Frank's research [opens in new window].
Dale Southerton (Morgan Centre, University of Manchester)
'Exploring the changing temporalities of everyday life: the necessity for multiple methods of analysis'
Dale will discuss the range of empirical probes he employed in his on-going research into the changing temporal organisation of everyday life. He argues that to understand socio-cultural change 'multiple methods of attack' are necessary to open-up research questions, reveal theoretical assumptions and re-focus conceptual tools of analysis.
More about Dale's research [opens in new window].
Registration
Academics, researchers working outside academia, and postgraduate students are all welcome. There is no charge for attending.
Register for the workshop (please note that you are only registered once you have received an email confirming your place).
Venue
Conference suite, 10th floor, Harold Hankins Building.
Harold Hankins building is number 30 on the campus map [pdf, new window].
The building can be tricky to find. If you haven't been before, you might want to have a look at our directions to the Harold Hankins building page.
