News
Real Life Methods finished on 31 January 2009.
Survey report: Children's activities and being a parent today
We surveyed parents of children who went to organised activities like sport, performing arts and chess club. We asked them what they thought about the activities their children took part in, what they thought their children got from them and their views on being a parent today.
More information about the project and what we found out >
Date added: 16 December 2008
Community Life Exhibition
The Connected Lives project team produced an exhibition and organised a workshop at the Burley Lodge Centre on September 15-16th. Slides from the workshop presentation by Andrew Clark and Nick Emmel are available below:
Connected Lives: Understanding networks, neighbourhoods and communities [new window]
You can also view an online version of Community Life exhibition.
Date added: 6 November 2008
Vital Signs: Researching Real Life - presentations online
9-11 September 2008, University of Manchester
You can see slides from most of the papers given at Vital Signs conference on our programme page.
Date added: 1 October 2008
Vital Signs: Researching Real Life - Registration open
9-11 September 2008, University of Manchester
How can research methodologies and methods rise to the challenge of producing knowledge and understanding that resonate with everyday lives?
Three day conference marking the end of our Real Life Methods programme of work.
Full programme and registration >
New working paper: Assessing Satisfaction
"On a scale of 0 to 5, how satisfied were you with..." This new working paper looks at some of the issues that arise in research attempting to measure and define satisfaction using numerical scales. The paper draws on a project which used multiple research methods to explore parents' satisfaction with the care they received after discovering that their unborn baby had a serious abnormality. The paper is by Josephine Green (University of York) with with Helen Statham and Wendy Solomou (Centre for Family Research).
View the paper [opens in new window]
Date added: 23 April 2008
Data Analysis and Interpretation book chapter
Sarah Irwin has written a chapter in the newly-published Handbook of Emergent Methods (Guilford Publications, 2008) on Data Analysis and Interpretation.
View more details about the book [new window]
Date added: 22 April 2008
Training workshops in working with different kinds of qualitative and quantitative data
Registration is now open for the last two training workshops in our programme:
- Bringing Together Quantitative and Qualitative Data, 9 May 2008, Leeds
Analysing Real Life Mixed Methods Data, 24 June, Nottingham
Date added: 9 April 2008
Registration open: Researching social relations in urban environments
Registration is now open for this methods workshop exploring different approaches to researching social relations in urban environments. More details and registration >
Date added: 2 April 2008
Real Life Methods projects in the Festival of Social Science
Two of our projects are running events as part of the 2008 Festival of Social Science:
- Who are you like? An exhibition about family resemblances (Zion Arts Centre, Manchester, and online) 11-16 March 2008
- Timescapes: Exhibiting the Young Lives and Times project (West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds, 15 March 2008, 10-1pm) Download a flier for more information.
Date added: 28 February 2008
A few places on Nvivo 7 introductory course: 8 February
Due to cancellations, there are a few places available on our introductory level Nvivo 7 training workshop on Friday 8 February in Manchester. If you are interested, please check the course content and get in touch as soon as possible!
Date added: 1 February 2008
Methods workshop: Researching Socio-cultural change, 6 February
Registration is now open for this methods workshop. Programme and registration >
Date added: 30 January 2008
[Update on 1 February 2008: We always send details of our events to our email newslist before we publicise them more widely. This workshop was almost fully booked by people who are on our email list within a day of sending the news.]
Who are you like? Photo competition and exhibition
Our Living Resemblances project is researching why and how likenesses to family and friends are important to people.
Who in your family has the same curly hair, 
big nose or cheeky grin? Are two of your brothers the spitting image of each other? Are you all really sporty?
As part of the 2008 Festival of Social Science we are holding a photo competition and exhibition on the theme of likenesses. 
Send us a photo and you could win up to £50 in vouchers and be part of our exhibition. Closing date: 11 February 2008. More details and how to enter.
Date added: 10 January 2008
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Vital Signs: Researching Real Life, September 2008
Abstracts are invited for 'Vital Signs: Researching Real Life' on 9-11 September 2008. The conference will explore ways of researching 'real lives' in complex worlds. See our call for abstracts for more information.
Keynote speakers will be:
- Professor Les Back (Sociology, Goldsmiths)
- Professor Tim Ingold (Anthropology, Aberdeen)
- Professor Carolyn Steedman (History, Warwick)
Date added: 12 December 2007
