ESRC Advanced Training: Methodological Advances in Applied Ethnography

Description:

2-day advanced course. Limited places. Ethnography is increasingly used as a research tool to provide a reliable evidence base and to inform policy and interventions in diverse disciplines (eg education, social sciences, medicine and health), as well as in professional settings. Furthermore this time-honored approach has been adapted, developed and amended in creative ways in response to wider social and technological change. This 2-day intensive and advanced-level course is specifically designed to: 1) address complex advances in contemporary ethnographic techniques and approaches, and 2) consider diverse issues around the application of ethnography to real-world problems and solutions. The course is suitable for those who wish to take the approach and techniques forward in flexible ways, or for application in public or applied research. It is also designed for those who wish to communicate their ethnographic research findings using non-traditional forms of technology such as Twitter, Facebook and blogs, to ensure they are confident to do so in an ethically sensitive and reflexive manner. The above aspects are unpacked via not just traditional ‘on the ground’ ethnography, but also via consideration of innovative and adaptive ethnographic methods that take the methods forward in finding ways to address atypical ethnographic encounters and specific challenges.

The course will be delivered by a highly-experienced team whose work has engaged with diverse end-users such as the UN and Commonwealth Secretariat, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, police forces in the UK, local authorities in different countries, the DWP, and Age UK, as we produce findings to assist future policy and practice. We are thus able to illustrate ethnographic advancements and adaptations in policy, practice, and public, through a diverse range of real-world case studies and settings drawing on our own experience. The Loughborough ethnography team has published extensively in national and international peer-reviewed journals, has authored highly-cited books based on ethnographic encounters, and are renowned in social science methods in terms of teaching, publications, and advancing debates. The course itself draws on the team’s own national and international case studies in diverse settings, all of which have attracted funding from bodies such as the ESRC and AHRC. As ethnographers we all have experience of the application of findings in a variety of settings at the national and international level.

Places on the course are limited.

Cost:

Free - but places are limited to five from outside the host institution

Website and registration:

http://www.lboro.ac.uk/services/graduateschool/events/name-582874-en.html

Region:

East Midlands

Keywords:

Qualitative Interviewing, Online Data Collection , Ethnography, Qualitative Approaches (other), Writing for publications, Disseminating with social media, Alternative Methods of Dissemination, Applied ethnography , Digital ethnography , Innovation

Related publications and presentations:

Qualitative Interviewing
Online Data Collection
Ethnography
Qualitative Approaches (other)
Writing for publications
Disseminating with social media
Alternative Methods of Dissemination

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