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Sessions are booking up:
5th ESRC Research Methods Festival, 2-5 July 2012, Oxford


Bookings for the 5th ESRC Research Methods Festival, organised by the NCRM, are going so well that some of the sessions are already fully booked. We expect over 800 people to attend this biggest research methods event of the year.


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Genetics in social sciences

At first glance, genetics and social science lie at opposite ends of a spectrum. Our genes are fixed at conception and irrevocably determine our individual potentials for a multitude of physical, medical, and behavioural outcomes. Social science, by contrast, is concerned with actions and results in a fluid world of human interaction. What can genetics do for social scientists in the post-genomic era?