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May 2012

  • 16:
    • Quantitative Criminology
      The course will start with a summary of the different methods of measuring crime, touching on recent newspaper debates on the relative metits of a survey approach compared to police recording. The rest of the first day will be a discussion of various types of study (experimental, and quasi experimental) and methods of analysing such data (matched case-control, case –control and propensity score matching. The second day will cover advances in latent class and latent growth curve analysis and latent trajectory modelling for understanding criminal offending. A highlight of this course is its topicality – most of the references and textbooks have been published only recently
       Venue: Postgraduate Statistics Centre. Starts at 09:00.
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    • Population Estimating and Forecasting
      Population Estimating and Forecasting - a level 1 course.
       Organised by: Cathie Marsh Centre
      Venue: CCSR, Humanities Bridgeford St Building. Starts at 09:30.
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    • Engaging Qualitative Material: coping with reader's anxiety
      This workshop addresses the challenge of invoking a tone and presenting some devices which can help re-assure examiners or reviewers the contribution at hand is worthy of serious consideration.
       Organised by: methods@manchester
      Venue: Room G.019, Arthur Lewis Building. Starts at 14:00.
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    • How to Do Epidemiological Research – Diagnostic Interventions at the Interface between Society, Culture and Disease
      Talk by Luis Cuevas
       Venue: University of Liverpool. Starts at 16:00.
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  • 17:
    • Demographic Forecasting with POPGROUP
      Demographic Forecasting with POPGROUP - a level 3 course.
       Organised by: Cathie Marsh Centre
      Venue: CCSR, Humanities Bridgeford St Building. Starts at 09:30.
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    • Discourse Analysis Workshop - Language, Hidden Meanings and Power
      A workshop exploring the opportunities offered by ‘critical discourse analysis’ to shed light and add further insight to policy analyses
       Organised by: methods@manchester
      Venue: Room A116, Samuel Alexander Building, University of Manchester. Starts at 10:00.
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    • What is cultural consensus analysis?
      A talk by Russ Bernard, University of Florida and Simon Visiting Professor, University of Manchester
      Organised by: methods@manchester
      Venue: Room 5.210, University Place . Starts at 13:00.
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  • 18:
    • Mapping Controversies in Architecture - Book Launch
      Please register for this event by sending an email to Susan Stubbs: S.Stubbs@manchester.ac.uk
       Organised by: methods@manchester
      Venue: RIBA Hub, CUBE, 113 - 115, Portland Street, Manchester. Starts at 17:30.
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  • 24:
    • The Impact Agenda, Seminar 6: Making an Impact
      The series adopts an interdisciplinary perspective to examine and clarify the concept of ‘impact’ in the context of academic research in the humanities and social science. The aim is to identify the processes that influence impact and explore mechanisms that maximise it.
      Organised by: methods@manchester
      Venue: St Hugh's College, University of Oxford. Starts at 09:00.
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  • 30:
    • Longitudinal Data Analysis
      Longitudinal Data Analysis - a level 3 course.
       Organised by: Cathie Marsh Centre
      Venue: CCSR, Humanities Bridgeford St Building. Starts at 09:30.
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    • Doctoral Research Clinic - Mixed Methods
      Methods NorthWest is running a series of six doctoral research clinics for PhD students on various aspects of doing a PhD. These clinics are available to all PhD students registered at Lancaster, Liverpool or Manchester Universities. Thirty places are available at each clinic and each will have a panel of up to five academics with expertise in the topic of the clinic. The clinics will involve a mixture of activities, including group work on particular problems facilitated by the academic panel. The clinics are arranged over three days (one at each of the three universities).
      Venue: Lecture Theatre 11, Management School Building, Lancaster University. Starts at 11:00.
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    • Doctoral Research Clinic - Qualitative Research Methods
      Methods NorthWest is running a series of six doctoral research clinics for PhD students on various aspects of doing a PhD. These clinics are available to all PhD students registered at Lancaster, Liverpool or Manchester Universities. Thirty places are available at each clinic and each will have a panel of up to five academics with expertise in the topic of the clinic. The clinics will involve a mixture of activities, including group work on particular problems facilitated by the academic panel. The clinics are arranged over three days (one at each of the three universities).
      Venue: Lecture Theatre 11, Management School Building, Lancaster University. Starts at 14:00.
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June 2012

  • 06:
    • Causal Modelling in STATA
      Causal Modelling in STATA - a level 3 course.
       Organised by: Cathie Marsh Centre
      Venue: CCSR, Humanities Bridgeford St Building. Starts at 09:30.
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  • 11:
    • Statistical Methods for Ordered Categorical Data

       Venue: Postgraduate Statistics Centre. Starts at 09:00.
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  • 18:
    • Critical theories of ‘social representation and reality symposium
      Organised in affiliation with the International Herbert Marcuse Society University of Liverpool, Monday 18 June 2012 (1pm. – 5pm.) A symposium that will be of interest to researchers, students and professional practitioners who are engaged with or use critical approaches in their work. The multiple and proliferating streams of Critical Theory continue to enrich scholarly and research fields in the humanities and political sciences. In the fields of education theory to media analysis, from cultural theory to theories of ‘the city’, from aesthetics to theories of the law critical theorists continue to employ perspectives and approaches that challenge, provoke and subvert the standard cliché’s and tropes of empirical sociology and positivism in the humanities and political sciences. At this symposium we will hear papers presented by four scholars whose work questions and exposes the power dynamics and hidden conflicts that underlie and structure our social realities. Each in their different ways explore the myriad meanings of ‘representation’ in our culture. Douglas Kellner (UCLA) considers the role that critical educators can play in the context of the Arab Spring revolutions; Penny Burke (Paulo Friere Institue, Roehampton) interrogates the British widening participation agenda with a ‘critical eye’; Catalina Montoya (Javeriana University, Bogota) explores the changing role of the media in Colombian civil society using Chomsky’s ‘propaganda model’; and Mark O’Brien (Centre for Lifelong Learning, University of Liverpool) considers the deceptions of language in the policy rhetoric of the UK Coalition Government. All critically-inclined researchers, students and professional practitioners are invited to this symposium. A collaboration between the Centre for Lifelong Learning at the University of Liverpool and the Paulo Friere Institute at the University of Roehampton and organised in association with the International Herbert Marcuse Society, the event takes place at the University of Liverpool on Monday 18 June. To book your free place from within the University of Liverpool, go to: http://www.liv.ac.uk/cll/booking/ To book your free place from outside the University (or if you are a student) go to: eddev@liv.ac.uk (please provide your institution, if relevant, your email and a contact number). For more information contact Mark O’Brien at mtobrien@liv.ac.uk
       Venue: University of Liverpool. Starts at 13:00.
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  • 19:
    • Multilevel Social Networks Symposium
      The Multilevel Network Modelling Group in association with the Mitchell Centre is hosting an International Symposium on the Statistical Analysis of Multilevel Social Networks. The symposium will explore new approaches in multilevel network analysis and the challenges that lie ahead. The keynote speaker is Professor Tom Snijders (Oxford/Groningen), and other speakers include: Noshir Contractor, Philippa Pattison, Garry Robins, Johan Koskinen, Emmanuel Lazega, Stanley Wasserman, Alessandro Lomi, Rafael Wittek, Mark Elliot, and Mark Tranmer. If you would like to attend, please complete the booking form at before 1st March 2012.
      Venue: Digital Centre, The Lowry, Manchester. Starts at 09:00.
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  • 22:
    • Envisioning Landscapes: Adaptation and Renewal
      Summer Colloquium: Landscape features prominently in perceptions and interpretations of the past. Whether depicting a specific location in its own right, or providing a backdrop for historical action, the physical environment pervades modern reconstructions of past places, peoples and events. Thus, just as rural and urban landscapes are active in the construction of memory and ideas in the lived environment, historical landscapes play a crucial role in shaping present-day conceptions of the past. It is the purpose of this interdisciplinary colloquium to investigate how newly envisioned landscapes shape our understanding of the past, and how these understandings impact upon and transform physical landscapes in turn.
      Venue: University of Liverpool. Starts at 09:00.
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  • 26:
    • Attitudes Symposium
      What are attitudes? How do we know about them? How should we measure them? How are attitudes used in research to explain and describe other phenomena? How is an understanding of attitudes useful for policy makers? These are some of the questions that we hope to cover in this one day symposium, hosted by the new Attitudes Research Group at the University of Manchester.
       Venue: Humanities Bridgeford Street, University of Manchester. Starts at 09:30.
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  • 29:
    • An Introduction to the International Passenger Survey
      A one-day workshop to introduce the International Passenger Survey to those with no or little knowledge of the IPS.
      Organised by: ESDS Government
      Venue: Basement Computer Lab, Humanities Bridgeford Street Building, University of Manchester. Starts at 10:00.
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August 2012

  • 02:
    • Postgraduate Researcher Student Conference 2012: The Impact of Educational Research Methods on Policy, Teaching and Learning
      This is an exciting event that brings together postgraduate researchers working in the broad fields of education. This conference is intended to promote current discussion and new developments in educational research across disciplines with particular emphasis on examining its impact on policy, teaching and learning.
       Organised by: methods@manchester
      Venue: Roscoe Building, University of Manchester. Starts at 10:00.
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  • 28:
    • "Doing Ethnography"
      University of Liverpool and Keele University Joint Annual Ethnography Symposium Doctoral Students’ Workshop Sponsored by the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies
       Venue: University of Liverpool Management School. Starts at 10:00.
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  • 29:
    • Ethnographic Horizons in Times of Turbulence
      The 7th Annual Joint University of Liverpool Management School and Keele University Institute for Public Policy and Management Symposium on Current Developments in Ethnographic Research in the Social and Management Sciences In association with the Journal of Organizational Ethnography and the Journal Ethnography Conference Chairs Dr. Manuela Nocker, University of Essex Business School (Email mnocker@essex.ac.uk) Dr. Geoff Pearson, University of Liverpool Management School (Email: pearsong@liv.ac.uk) Organising Committee Dr. Matthew Brannan, Keele University Institute for Public Policy and Management Dr. Jason Ferdinand, University of Liverpool Management School Dr. Manuela Nocker, University of Essex Business School Dr. Geoff Pearson, University of Liverpool Management School Dr. Mike Rowe, University of Liverpool Management School Dr. Frank Worthington, University of Liverpool Management School Key Note Speakers Dr Simon Down, Newcastle University Business School, UK Professor Karen Ho, Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota Professor Gideon Kunda, Department of Labour Studies, Tel Aviv University, Israel Professor John Weeks, IMD Business School, Lausanne, CH
       Venue: University of Liverpool Management School. Starts at 09:00.
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    • Ethnography Conference
      The 7th Annual Joint University of Liverpool Management School and Keele University, Institute for Public Policy and Management Symposium on Current Developments in Ethnographic Research in the Social and Management Sciences. In association with the Journal of Organizational Ethnography and the Journal Ethnography. Ethnographic Horizons in Times of Turbulence
      Venue: University of Liverpool Management School. Starts at 09:00.
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