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.

 

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 Lightowler, CCSR

   
3.30

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

Ju Helen Wong, ISC

   
4.00 To be confirmed
   
4.30

Why I use structural equation modelling

Nick Shryane, ISC

   
5.00 End

 

Poster submissions

Please indicate whether you would like to contribute a poster on the booking form. We have produced a short guide to producing a poster.

Prizes for the three best posters on display will be announced during the afternoon.

 

Directions

The day will be held at the Manchester Dental Education Centre (MANDEC). This is building 41 on the campus map.