NCRM Autumn School 2011: Methods Crossing Borders - Journeys of methodological innovation and evolution
Dates: 9-11 November 2011
Venue: De Vere Grand Harbour Hotel, Southampton
The National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) will be holding its seventh residential training event for early career researchers. This year’s Autumn School will be an exploration of the ways in which methods evolve across time, space and disciplinary boundaries, focusing particularly on methodological innovations relating to researchers from different disciplines coming together. Participants will be introduced to a range of examples of methodological developments and will be encouraged to think about what these might potentially offer to their own research.
The Autumn School will be led by Professor Melanie Nind, University of Southampton.
Programme
Wednesday 9 November | |
| 2.30-3.00 | Registration and tea/coffee |
| 3.00-3.15 | Autumn School welcome by Melanie Nind, NCRM, University of Southampton |
| 3.15-4.00 | Introductions |
| 4.00-5.15 | Opening plenary by Geoff Payne, Newcastle University: Methodological development: the evolution of methods in UK sociology |
| 7.00 | Dinner at Hotel |
Thursday 10 November | |
| Methods on the Move (1) When the arts meet the social sciences… | |
| 9.00-9.45 | Look at Me! Arts in the New Dynamics of Aging study, Susan Hogan, University of Derby |
| 9.45-10.30 | Arts-based work in criminology, Maggie O’Neill, Durham University |
| 10.30-10.45 | Discussant: Graham Crow, NCRM, University of Southampton |
| 10.45-11.15 | Tea/coffee |
Methods on the Move (2) When social science and computer science interact … | |
| 11.15-12.00 | What social science researchers are learning from computer science (and vice versa), Nigel Gilbert, University of Surrey |
| 12.00-12.45 | 10,000 lines of code vs. supporting children's learning: evaluating innovative technologies for children with autism in real-world classrooms, Sarah Parsons, University of Southampton & Karen Guldberg, University of Birmingham |
| 12.45-1.00 | Discussant: David Martin, NCRM, University of Southampton |
| 1.00-2.00 | Lunch |
Workshop session | |
| 2.00-4.30 | Applied Psychometrics and Computing: a toe-dippers (visual) guide, Tim Croudace, University of Cambridge OR Narrative forms of analysis in action: Some embodied case studies, Andrew Sparkes, Liverpool John Moores University |
| 7.00 | Dinner in town (restaurant tbc) |
| Friday 11 November | |
| 9.00-11.00 | Open session: Methodological challenges posed by Autumn School participants |
| 11.00-11.30 | Tea/coffee |
| 11.30-12.15 | Closing plenary: Maria Xenitidou, University of Surrey, Crossing disciplinary & international borders |
| 12.15-12.30 | Closing remarks: Patrick Sturgis, NCRM, University of Southampton |
| 12.30 | Lunch |
| 1.30 | End of Autumn School |
Target audience
The NCRM Autumn School is targeted at post-doctoral early career researchers from across the UK social science community who are employed in research-led contracts and who often do not have the same opportunities to participate in training events as PhD students and junior lecturers. Sessions will not assume expert knowledge, but some familiarity with qualitative research will be an advantage.
How do I apply?
There are 30 fully-funded places available (to include accommodation, all meals, and reasonable travel expenses to and from Southampton). Priority will be given to NCRM researchers, but around half of the places will be available by open competition.
All applicants should complete and return the registration form (please see link below) by Friday 23 September and applicants for the open competition will be notified whether their application has been successful shortly after this date. Full details of the final programme will also be sent to successful applicants at this point.
Registration form (opens a .doc file)
Previous NCRM Summer and Autumn Schools
- Five years of qualitative innovation - NCRM Autumn School 2010
- Hybrid and crossover methods (2009)
- Exploring new data sources in the social sciences (2008)
- Presentations from 2007 summer school:
- Challenges of conducting collaborative research across disciplinary and methodological boundaries (2006)
- Data Generation, Complexity and Synthesis (2005)