Past events

We regularly organise methods-related events and our archive is a great way to see which topics have been covered previously.

Browse through our past events by academic year:

Past events 2022-2023

  • Methods Masterclass: 'Ethics in Times of Adversity' with Dr Helen Kara
  • Methods Masterclass: 'Latent Growth Models and Latent Growth Mixture Models' with Prof Roberta Fida
  • Methods Masterclass: 'Researcher vulnerability workshop' with Dr Chloe Steadman (Manchester Metropolitan University)
  • Methods Fair 2023
  • Summer School 2023

Past events 2018-2019

  • Stand: North West Digital Research Methods Festival – 13th  September 2018
  • Seminar: Research Careers (Social Research Association) – 18th  September 2018
  • Workshop: Introduction to Python (Royal Statistics Society) – 18-19th  September 2018
  • Workshop: Introduction to R Regression Modelling in R (Royal Statistics Society) – 20-21st  September 2018
  • Presentation by Director: School of Education, Environment and Development, University of Manchester, PGR welcome event – 20th  September 2018
  • Workshop: Interactive Data Visualisation (Royal Statistics Society) – 25-26th  September 2018
  • Stand: Government Statistical Service Conference – 2-3rd October 2018
  • Seminar: Practices of sensory attention in multi-species ethnography (Maisie Tomlinson, Dept. of Sociology, University of Manchester) – 4th October 2018
  • Workshop: Cultivating Curiosity - multi-species ethnography (Maisie Tomlinson, Dept. of Sociology, University of Manchester) – 11th October 2018
  • Workshop: Introduction to Quantitative Evaluation and Survey Design for Evaluation (Methods for Change) – 12th October 2018
  • Seminar: The Wonderful World of Market Research (Irina Dimitriade, Mustard Research) – 25th October
  • Methods Fair 2018 – Digital Methods for Social Research – 29th October 2018
  • Seminar: Doing Visual Sociology – Case Studies from the Grave (Terence Heng, University of Liverpool) – 6th November 2018
  • Workshop: Exploring your research through LEGO Serious Play (Alison James, University of Winchester) – 13th November 2018
  • Seminar:  Studying Extreme Teams (Nathan Smith, Dept of Politics, University of Manchester) – 5th December 2018
  • Workshop: Academic Presentation Skills (Tina Hannemann, Dept of Social Statistics, University of Manchester) – 7th December 2018
  • Workshop: Gentle Introduction to Statistical Analysis for Evaluation (Methods for Change) – 14th February 2019
  • Seminar: How to do Citizen's Juries (Malcolm Oswald, School of Law, University of Manchester) – 12th March 2019
  • Webinar: Using app-based and sensing methods for social science research (Reka Solymosi, School of Law, University of Manchester and Michael Chataway, School of Justice, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia) – 21st March 2019
  • Seminar: An introduction to n-of-1 methods in health-related research (Suzanne MacDonald, Centre for Clinical Research, University of Queensland, Australia) – 25th March 2019
  • Sponsored Workshop: Researching (In)equalities at Work': Postgraduate Researchers' Methods Symposium (Kara Ng, Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester – 5th April 2019
  • Workshop: The Beautiful Science of Data Visualisation using Tableau (Thierry Driver, Tableau) – 21st May 2019
  • Workshop series: TQ2U 2019 (Bailey de Sousa, Thinking Qualitatively 2U, University of Alberta, USA) – 28 – 29th May 2019
  • Seminar: Researching Online Communities (Irina Dimitriade, Mustard Research) – 30th May 2019
  • Course: NVIVO (Christina Silver, QDAS) – 3 – 4th June 2019
  • Conference: Methodological innovations for 21st century societal challenges (with the Cathie Marsh Institute) – 10th June 2019
  • Sponsored Workshop: Measurement error in longitudinal data analysis (Alex Cernat, Dept of Social Statistics, University of Manchester) – 20 – 21st June 2019
  • Workshop: Reducing Plastic Use Data Dive (UK Data Service/JISC)
  • Summer School – 1 – 12th July 2019

Past events 2017-2018

  • Presentation: SEED PGR welcome event - 01 September 2017
  • Seminar: Social Science Research: good fortune - 04 October 2017
  • Seminar: What is data linkage for longitudinal cohort studies - 09 October 2017
  • Seminar: What is crowdsourced data? - 18 October 2017 
  • Methods Fair 2017 - 01 November 2017 
  • Seminar: Doing research with letters - 08 November 2017
  • Workshop: Intro to CLOSER: Longitudinal resources for reaching and research - 21 November 2017
  • Seminar: How to do Social Network Analysis using STATA - 22 November 2017
  • Workshop: Academic Presentation Skills - 24 November 2017
  • Presentation: Innovative qualitative methods for researching everyday life - 29 November 2017
  • Seminar: MMarching Learning and its applications - 13 February 2018
  • Seminar: Ethno science fiction: projective inprovisation of future scenarios in ethnographic film - 19 March 2018
  • Seminar: Object Interviews and Elicitations - 24 April 2018
  • Seminar: How to use Olfactory methods - 14 May 2018
  • Workshop: Academic Presentation Skills - 16 May 2018
  • Stand: Data Science Conference - 21 May 2018
  • Workshops: Thinking Qualitatively Travelling Workshop - 29-30 May 2018
  • Workshop: NVivo - 4-5 June 2018
  • Summer School 2018

Past events 2016-2017

  • PGR Welcome event - 20 September
  • Seminar: Evaluating the quality of survey and administrative data - 21 September
  • Policy evaluation methods - 4-6 October
  • PGR open day stand - 2 November
  • Methods Fair - 4 November 
  • Course: Discrete choice demand estimation - 7-8 November
  • Playful research methods – new practices and technologies - 15 November
  • Seminar: Employing meta-ethnography in the analysis of qualitative data sets: A new tool for transnational research projects? - 23 November
  • Seminar: Spoken English collections at the British Library - 21 February
  • Workshop: Academic Writing - 13 March 
  • Seminar: A dynamic analysis of word and sound-level effects in sound change - 22 March
  • Workshop: Academic presentation skills - 6 April
  • Workshop: Academic Writing - 4 May
  • Methods North West – Methods X - 10 May
  • SEED PGR Conference stand - 15 May
  • Workshop: Academic presentation skills - 18 May
  • International Institute for Qualitative Methodology: TQ2U Manchester - 23-24 May
  • Course: Harnessing NVivo for qualitative and mixed methods research - 1-2 June

Past events 2015-2016

Past events 2014-2015

Past events 2013-2014

  • Methods Fair 2013 - 9 October 2013
  • R, R-studio and the R-commander: tools for statistical analysis - 16 October 2013
  • Surveying migrants in Europe: an important challenge? - 22 October 2013
  • Data coding and management - 23 October 2013
  • Policy Evaluation Methods - 22-25 October 2013
  • What is UK Data Service? - 24 October 2013
  • Generalized Linear Models: a simple structure for test selection - 30 October 2013
  • Engaging Qualitative Material - 6 November & 16 October 2013
  • Understanding Models using graphics: effect displays - 6 November 2013
  • Research Ethics Workshop - 12 November 2013
  • Ethnography and Observation in Criminological Contexts - 13 November 2013
  • Categorical explanatory variables: Contrast coding, dummy codes and reference categories - 13 November 2013
  • What is Bayesian Analysis? - 14 November 2013
  • Hands-on and visual, an introduction to using Ketso in research - 20 November 2013
  • Logit models: modelling ordered and unordered categorical data - 20 November 2013
  • What is Life History and Biographical Approaches to Research? - 21 November 2013
  • What is Focus Groups? - 28 November 2013
  • Internet Ethnographies - 4 December 2013
  • What is Fixed Effects vs Multilevel Models? - 5 December 2013
  • Workshop 1: Using Latent Variables in Health Inequalities Research - 5 December 2013
  • Statistical Models - 15-17 January 2014
  • What is Path Analysis (for people who hate statistics)? - 30 January 2014
  • Modelling continuous data - 5 February 2014
  • Diagnostics and data transformation - 12 February 2014
  • What is The difference between Latent Class Analysis and Cluster Analysis? - 13 February 2014
  • Modelling ordered categorical data using the proportional-odds logit model - 19 February 2014
  • What is Mind reading with eye tracking... for less than £100!? - 20 February 2014
  • Modelling unordered categorical data using multinomial logistic regression - 26 February 2014
  • Variable selection and multi-model inference - 5 March 2014
  • What is How can agent-based modelling be used in the social sciences? - 6 March 2014
  • Internet Ethnographies - 6 March 2014
  • Missing Data - 12 March 2014
  • Qualitative Software Planning Seminar - 19 March 2014
  • NVivo v10 Introductory hands-on workshop - 20-21 March 2014
  • What is Post-structuralist discourse analysis? - 3 April 2014
  • Statistical Models - 27-29 August 2014
  • LEMMA 3 - 11-12 September 2014

Past events 2012-2013

  • Methods Fair 2012 - 10 October 2012
  • What is Social Network Analysis? - 25 October 2012
  • Internet ethnographies - 27 November 2012
  • What is Case-Control Study? - 8 November 2012
  • What is Confirmatory Factor Analysis? - 15 November 2012
  • What is good qualitative research? - 22 November 2012
  • Seminar on Rasch Modeling - 28 November 2012
  • What is Generalized Method of Moments? - 29 November 2012
  • Pathways from Social Disadvantage to Health: What can we Learn from Longitudinal Analysis? - 5 December 2012
  • What is Survey Weights? - 6 December 2012
  • Auto-photography - 10 December 2012
  • What is Systematic Reviews? - 13 December 2012
  • An Introduction to Multimodal Methods for Researching Digital Data - 17 January 2013
  • Seminar 2: Rasch (and/vs) Factor Analysis - 23 January 2013
  • What is Confounding? - 24 January 2013
  • Generalized Linear Models: a basic statistics course - 28-30 January 2013
  • R and the R-commander (Rcmdr): tools for statistical analysis - 6 February 2013
  • What is Power Calculation? - 7 February 2013
  • Data coding and management - 13 February 2013
  • What is Causal Inference? - 14 February 2013
  • Measures of Deprivation and Area Type - 18 February 2013
  • Generalized linear models: a system for data analysis and test selection - 20 February 2013
  • Categorical explanatory variables: Contrast coding, dummy codes and reference categories - 27 February 2013
  • What is Cost benefit and cost effectiveness analysis? - 28 February 2013
  • A hands-on introduction to Agent-Based Modelling for Social Scientists: Exploring Complex and Dynamic Social Processes - 28 February - 1 March 2013
  • Logit models: modelling ordered and unordered categorical data - 6 March 2013
  • What is Meta-analysis? - 7 March 2013
  • 7th annual UK Rasch User Group Meeting - 8 March 2013
  • Variable selection: using restricted-set, multi-model presentations - 13 March 2013
  • Construction, methods and the city: Materiality, visibility and anticipation in the crafting of urban interventions - 20 March 2013
  • Siblings Day @Manchester Art Gallery - 23 March 2013
  • Researching Conflict: Methods and Ethics - 18 April 2013
  • Hands-on and visual, an introduction to using Ketso in research - 24 April 2013
  • Qualitative Software Planning Seminar - 2 May 2013
  • NVivo version 9 introductory one-day hands-on workshop - 3 May 2013
  • NOVELLA Workshop - 17 May 2013
  • Symposium and public lecture: The future of the multi-ethnic city - 29 May 2013
  • Manchester Methods Summer School - 17-21 June 2013
  • Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA): an interdisciplinary introduction - 2 July 2013
  • Researching everyday life -  9 August 2013

Past events 2011-2012

Past events 2010-2011

  • Research methods for new immigrant groups - 10 September 2010
  • Denim workshop: interdisciplinary methods for exploring Narratives and Materiality - 13 September 2010
  • Life Journey: ethnographic methods that merge art and collaborative anthropology in pursuit of a better understanding of disease, death and dying - 16 September 2010
  • Methods Fair - 29 September 2010
  • What is participatory research? - 7 October 2010
  • A one-day workshop on the British Cohort Studies - 8 October 2010
  • What is multilevel modelling? - 14 October 2010
  • A workshop on formulating a research strategy and choosing appropriate design and statistical tools - 19 October 2010
  • What is material culture? - 21 October 2010
  • What is ethnofiction? - 28 October 2010
  • What is data matching and linkage? - 4 November 2010
  • Multilevel modelling day - 10 November 2010
  • Working with International Development Data - 11 November 2010
  • What is time series analysis? - 11 November 2010
  • A talk and workshop on Timescapes: a qualitative longitudinal study - 17 November 2010
  • What is creative interviewing? - 18 November 2010
  • What is action research? - 25 November 2010
  • An introduction to online resources for the analysis of qualitative data - 29 November and 6 December 2010
  • What is sensitive interviewing? - 2 December 2010
  • Research Computing Support for the University of Manchester - 6 December 2010
  • Ethical Concerns for Conducting Sensitive Interviews - 7 December 2010
  • What is GIS? - 9 December 2010
  • Cross-national comparisons and the European Social Survey - 19 January 2011
  • Experiments Research Network Launch Seminar - 19 January 2011
  • Introduction to Qualitative Coding Software - 26 January 2011
  • What is blog analysis? - 27 January 2011
  • What is formal logic? - 3 February 2011
  • What are bayesian methods? - 10 February 2011
  • Reflective practice online: logging, blogging and cataloguing - 15 February 2011
  • Methodological perspectives on causality from different disciplines - 16 February 2011
  • Longitudinal resources for researching ethnicity: Understanding Society and the Millennium Cohort Study - 22 February 2011
  • What is confirmatory factor analysis? - 24 February 2011
  • Using social media tools for marketing and engagement - 1 March 2011
  • Manchester Digital Media Network (MDMN) method(s): challenges of online research - 2 March 2011
  • What is grounded theory? - 3 March 2011
  • You’re having a laugh? Using comedy for communicating your research - 8 March 2011
  • Qualitative Data Analysis Software - 24 March 2011
  • Qualitative Innovations in CAQDAS (QUIC) events - 25 March 2011
  • Experiments Research Network Second Seminar - 30 March 2011
  • Are national statistics on subjective well-being valid and reliable? - 4 April 2011
  • What is archival research? - 10 March 2011
  • What is experimental design? - 17 March 2011
  • What is Visual Analytics (VA)? - 31 March 2011
  • Using Ethnographic Methods Workshop - 6 April 2011
  • What is agent-based social simulation - 7 April 2011
  • Research Ethics and the University's Research Ethics Committee - 13 April 2011
  • What is email interviewing? - 14 April 2011
  • Critical Reading for Self Critical Writing: Introduction to a Structured Approach for Reviewing Literature - 13 May 2011
  • Voters in Social and Political Context - 26 May 2011
  • Estimating and Measuring the effects of Inequality - 15 June 2011
  • Third Experiments Research Networks Seminar - 22 June 2011
  • Measurement and Modelling - 1 July 2011
  • Open Educational Resources for Research methods - 27 July 2011

Past events 2009-2010

Upcoming events

Oral Histories & Futures workshop

14:00 - 16:00 12 December 2023

This Methods@Manchester Masterclass is co-hosted with the Morgan Centre and features: Dr Liz Ackerley, Dr Santiago Levya del Rio & Dr Laura Fenton from the Austerity and Altered Life-courses project. Oral Histories and Futures is a research method that allows us to delve into memories, experiences, thoughts, hopes, dreams and desires, to und..

Empowering Change: Harnessing Qualitative Data for Impactful Project Evaluation in Charitable Work

14:00 - 16:00 02 February 2024

This Methods@Manchester Masterclass is co-hosted with the Greater Manchester Third Sector Research Network and features Dr Amir Raki (University of Liverpool) Dr Ilma Chowdhury and Prof Judy Zolkiewski (University of Manchester). Amir, Ilma and Judy will tell you about a research project conducted in collaboration with charity organisations..

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