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Research Methods Festival 2010

RMF2010 Abstracts

Tea and coffee breaks will occur at 10.45-11.15 and 15.30-16.00 on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday

Monday 5th July PM (15.30 - 17.30)
Session: 01  Prospects for research methods in the coming decade

Session: 02  What Is Multilevel modelling? What is Event history analysis? What is the analysis of discrete outcomes in longitudinal studies?

Session: 03  Engaging young people as researchers

Session: 04  Reassessing Hollway and Jefferson's Doing Qualitative Research Differently ten years on

Session: 05  Getting published: publishing your first book

Session: 06  Time Diary Research

Monday 5th July evening (20.30 - 22.00)
Session: 07  In conversation: Tom Cook, Northwestern University

Tuesday 6th July AM (9.15 - 12.45)
Session: 08  What Is CAQDAS? What Is Framework? What are frame analyses? What Is discourse analysis?

Session: 09  The implications for training and capacity building of trends in fixed-term employment among social science researchers

Session: 10  Research methods for understanding ethnic population trends and processes

Session: 11  Methodological innovation I

Session: 12  Survey Measurement

Session: 13  Researching geographies and mobilities

Session: 14  Teaching Research Methods I

Session: 15  Researching British elections

Session: 16  School effectiveness

Session: 17  Resources I: resources for data management

Tuesday 6th July PM (14.00 - 17.30)
Session: 18  What is qualitative inquiry? What is sensory ethnography? What Is social network analysis? What are community studies?

Session: 19  Multilevel modelling - methodology

Session: 20  Research Methods for Population Projection

Session: 21  Methodological innovation II

Session: 22  Non-response in surveys

Session: 23  Researching locality and place

Session: 24  Teaching Research Methods II

Session: 25  Methodological and technical innovations in CAQDAS: integrating data and analyses

Session: 26  Writing with different types of data

Session: 27  Resources II: crime data resources at ESDS

Tuesday 6th July evening (20.30 - 22.00)
Session: 28  In conversation: Michael Agar, Ethknoworks

Wedneday 7th July AM (9.15 - 12.45)
Session: 29  What Is missing data in qualitative research? What Is qualitative longitudinal research? What is collaborative research with 'service users' and other 'user groups'? What is participatory video?

Session: 30  Simulation

Session: 31  Researching personal life and relationships I

Session: 32  Multilevel modelling - applications

Session: 33  Creating internet delivered interventions

Session: 34  Critical Reading workshop

Session: 35  Analysis of crime data

Session: 36  Researcher Development Initiative session I, Workshop on ethics

Session: 37  Methods of research synthesis

Session: 38  Resources III: Re-using qualitative data for teaching purposes incl. consent and anonymity

Wedneday 7th July PM (14.00 - 17.30)
Session: 39  What is survey weighting? What is the analysis of longitudinal survey data? What could complexity science offer social science? What are imitation games?

Session: 40  Euroqual

Session: 41  Researching personal life and relationships II

Session: 42  Methods for the analysis of social mobility

Session: 43  Feminism counts

Session: 44  Working with archived data

Session: 45  The ethical issues of e-research

Session: 46  Researcher Development Initiative session II, Workshop on research design

Session: 47  Participatory methods

Session: 48  Resources IV: mapping and visualising Census data

Wedneday 7th July evening (20.30 - 22.00)
Session: 49  In conversation: Ann Oakley

Thursday 8th July AM (9.15 - 12.45)
Session: 50  What is eResearch? What is an e-lab? What is web link mining? What is webometrics?

Session: 51  Getting your message across: Communications Clinic

Session: 52  Combining data: quantitative methods and applications

Session: 53  Developments in research methods publishing

Session: 54  Collaborative analysis of micro data resources I

Session: 55  Researching the Third Sector

Session: 56  Understanding Society

Session: 57  Researcher Development Initiative session III, Workshop on linguistic ethnography

Session: 58  Career development: presentations by winners of the Michael Young & Neville Butler prizes

Session: 59  Resources V: International data - new resources and future directions

Thursday 8th July PM (14.00 - 17.30)
Session: 60  Researcher Development Initiative session IV, What are on-line research methods? What is applied psychometrics? What are visual methods? What is meta-analysis/quantitative synthesis?

Session: 61  Maximising the impact of social science research: communication media and messages, focusing on 'The Spirit Level' and 'Sleepwalking into Segregation?'

Session: 62  Career development: beating thesis blues and writing a good research proposal

Session: 63  Four Methods in Search of Understanding Labour Markets

Session: 64  Researching lives through time

Session: 65  Causal inference

Session: 66  Collaborative analysis of micro data resources II

Session: 67  Latent class analysis