methods@manchester: research methods in the social sciences

A talk and workshop on Timescapes - a qualitative longitudinal study

Tuesday 29 November 2011

Room G030/031, Arthur Lewis Building, University of Manchester

Timescapes is an ESRC-funded qualitative longitudinal study which explores how personal and family relationships develop and change over time. Its focus is on relationships with significant others: parents, grandparents, siblings, children, partners, friends and lovers, using the method of 'walking alongside' people to document their changing relationships.

In depth interviews, oral narratives, photographs and other visual documents are being collected for the Timescapes archive. The archive offers exciting possibilities for re-using data for research through time and across the generations.

Programme

12.30 - 1.00 Lunch
   
1.00 - 1.50

Thinking Qualitatively through Time: an Introduction to Qualitative longitudinal research

Bren Neale, Director of Timescapes

   
1.50 - 2.20

The Timescapes Archive: sharing and re-using QL Data

Libby Bishop, Senior Research Archivist

   
2.20 - 2.45 Tea plus archive demos
   
2.45 - 4.00

QL research workshop on Designing QL research and generating QL data

Bren Neale, Director of Timescapes