methods@manchester: research methods in the social sciences

Methods Fair

 

Wednesday 29 September 2010, 9.30 - 5.00


Lecture Theatre, MANDEC Manchester Dental Education Centre

Book a place for this event – but you do not have to come for the entire day.

As well as the talks running throughout the day in MANDEC there will be additional presentations in the Humanities Bridgeford Street Building.

Programme

My methods - a rolling series of methods-related presentations

Each talk will last 20 minutes followed by 5 minutes for questions. There will then be 5-minutes for participants to enter and leave the lecture theatre.
   
9.30 Coffee
   
10.00

Why I use ethnography

Tony Simpson, Anthropology

   
10.30

Why I have used ethnography to research the institutional cultures and experiences of scientists in former Yugoslavia

Andrew Hodges, Anthropology

   
11.00

Why I use participative methods for investigating audiences 'inner life worlds’

Uwe Groschel, Drama

   
11.30

Why I use comparative case studies to research the impact of privatization on management control systems

Ahmed Derbala, Management Accounting

   
12.00

Why I use biographical interviews and photo diaries to research Community, Place and Identity?

Julia Bennett, Sociology

   
12.30

Why I use in-depth interviews

Carol Smart, Realities and Morgan Centre

   
1.00 Buffet lunch and an opportunity to talk to poster owners
   
2.00

Why I use social network analysis

Martin Everett, Mitchell Centre

   
2.30

Why I use Q-methodology to identify and explore perspectives amongst non-medical prescribers

Clare Maddox, Pharmacy

   
3.00

Why I use a quantitative approach to studying young people's drinking patterns and violent behaviour

Carly Lightowlers, CCSR

   
3.30

Why I am using survival analysis to study immigrants' employment?

Ju Helen Wong, ISC

   
4.00

Why I use Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium models for researching monetary theory and policy

William Tayler, Economics

   
4.30

Why I use structural equation modelling

Nick Shryane, ISC

   
5.00 End