5th ESRC Research Methods Festival, 2-5 July 2012

National Centre for Research Methods organised the 5th ESRC Research Methods Festival, once again at the St Catherine's College in Oxford. The Festival took place on 2-5 July 2012.

Photographs from the Research Methods Festival 2012

1/66: Professor Sir john Beddington, the Government Chief Scientific Advisor from the Government Office for Science, gave the NCRM Annual Lecture

 

2/66: Festival delegates gathered to the Metaphorical Models LEGO serious play session with David Gauntlett

 

3/66: Graham Crow, NCRM Deputy Director

 

4/66: Delegates building metaphorical models of what Higher Education should be about

 

5/66: Chris Ashford from the Office for National Statistics

 

6/66: Justin Hayes, University of Manchester

 

7/66: John Stillwell, Centre for Interaction Data Estimation and Research (CIDER), University of Leeds

 

8/66: Carol Blackwood, EDINA, University of Edinburgh

 

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10/66: Andy Hudson-Smith from TALISMAN node of NCRM, University College London

 

11/66: Steven Gray from TALISMAN node of NCRM, University College London

 

12/66: Nick Malleson from TALISMAN node of NCRM, University of Leeds

 

13/66: Adeline Delavande, ISER, University of Essex and Chris Skinner, LSE

 

14/66: Jorg Blasius, University of Bonn

 

15/66: Harvey Goldstein from NCRM node LEMMA 3, University of Bristol

 

16/66: Fiona Steele from NCRM node LEMMA 3, University of Bristol

 

17/66: David Hand, Imperial College London

 

18/66: Gemma Moss, Institute of Education, University of London

 

19/66: Sally Stares, LSE

 

20/66: Sue Venn and Kate Burningham, University of Surrey

 

21/66: Murray Goulden, Horizon Resesarch Institute, University of Nottingham

 

22/66: Joanne Parker, University of Loughborough

 

23/66: Andrew Abbott, University of Chicago

 

24/66: Sharon Witherspoon, Nuffield Foundation

 

25/66: Graham Crow from NCRM and Caroline Wintersgill from Bloomsbury Academic launching the 'What is?' book series. Graham Crow is the editor of the series.

 

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28/66: Marxist magician Ian Saville preparing to pull his biggest trick and make socialism work. It didn't work, but at least he gave it a go.

 

29/66: Roger Burrows, University of York and Goldsmiths

 

30/66: Noortje Marres, Goldsmiths, University of London

 

31/66: Mark Brown, University of Manchester

 

32/66: Julie Scott Jones, Manchester Metropolitan University

 

33/66: Emily Clough, Newcastle University

 

34/66: Luke Sloan, Cardiff University

 

35/66: Donald Green, Columbia University

 

36/66: Anandi Mani, University of Warwick

 

37/66: From left: Pat Sikes (University of Sheffield), Elizabeth Todd (University of Newcastle), Melanie Nind (NCRM, University of Southampton), Yvonne Downs (University of Huddersfield), Helen Orton (Taylor & Francis)

 

38/66: Pat Sikes, University of Sheffield

 

39/66: Top 10 reasons for article rejection

 

40/66: Yvonne Downs, University of Huddersfield

 

41/66: Emily Grundy, NCRM node Pathways, University of Cambridge

 

42/66: Bianca DeStavola, NCRM node Pathways, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

 

43/66: Gaby Durrant, University of Southampton

 

44/66: Rebecca Vassallo, University of Southampton

 

45/66: Patrick Sturgis, NCRM Director, University of Southampton

 

46/66: Gillian Rose, the Open University

 

47/66: William Lowe, University of Mannheim

 

48/66: Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey, LSE

 

49/66: André Salem, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3

 

50/66: Delegates relaxing at the evening reception

 

51/66: Delegates networking at the evening reception

 

52/66: NCRM Hub staff relaxing at the evening reception

 

53/66: Exhibitors' stands attracted many visitors

 

54/66: PhD poster exhibition was judged by Malcolm Williams (Cardiff University), Kaisa Puustinen (NCRM, University of Southampton) and Mike Wallace (Cardiff University). The third prize was awarded to Jaimie Ellis (University of Southampton) for her poster 'Young people with autism: A case study of methodological innovation in researching socially exluded groups'.

 

55/66: The secord prize was awarded to Will Cook (University of Manchester) for his poster 'Modelling the effect of inclusion of pupils with special educational needs on pupiul attainment in England'.

 

56/66: The first prize was awarded to Laura Gibson (University of Sheffield) for her poster 'Does breastfeeding really protect against childhood obesity?'

 

57/66: Laura Gibson, the winner of the first prize in PhD poster competition, with her award certificate

 

58/66: Peter Hammond, University of Warwick

 

59/66: Eugenio Proto, University of Warwick

 

60/66: Sayantan Ghosal, University of Warwick

 

61/66: Alita Nandi, ISER, University of Essex

 

62/66: Peter Elias, University of Warwick

 

63/66: David Martin, NCRM, University of Southampton

 

64/66: Andrew Bengry-Howell, University of Southampton

 

65/66: Rose Wiles, NCRM, University of Southampton

 

66/66: Laura Stoker, University of California, Berkeley

 

Festival themes

• The interface between social and natural sciences
• Methodological innovations
• Mixed and multimodal methods
• Career and skills development
• Interventions and evaluations

To see a more detailed description of each session and available presentation slides, please take a look at the Research Methods Festival programme.

Keynote speakers

• Professor Sir John Beddington, Government Office for Science: The challenges of the 21st century - the ineluctable need for multidisciplinarity
• Professor Andrew Abbott, University of Chicago: The vicissitudes of methods
• Professor Gillian Rose, Open University: Now you see it, now you don't - visual culture and visual methods
• Professor Laura Stoker, University of California, Berkeley: Choosing and combining units - common problems in multilevel and cross-temporal research