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Animal "Culture" and Sociology: Some Symmetrical Reflections

Date: 08/02/2012

Venue: University Place 4.209

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"Doing Something Worthwhile" in Gap Year Narratives

Date: 02/11/2011

Venue: Boardroom, Arthur Lewis Building

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EDACwowe data retrieval workshop

EDACwowe (European Data Centre for Work and Welfare) is an initiative under the EU Framework 6 Network of Excellence "Reconciling Work and Welfare in Europe" (RECWOWE) to provide researchers with an easier access to comparative European data sources.

Date: 01/11/2011

Venue: 2.1 Mansfield Cooper Building

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Where the Truth Lies: Some Critical Commentary on Lie Detection Technologies

Date: 05/10/2011

Venue: Boardroom, Arthur Lewis Building

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Proximities: Thinking about Relationality An International Conference

Date: 14/09/2011

Venue: University of Manchester, UK

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CRESC Annual Conference, Framing the City

Date: 06/09/2011

Venue: Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester

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Minority Internal Migration in Europe Conference

Date: 05/09/2011

Venue: University of Manchester, UK

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Methods in Dialogue - Researching Mobilities

Our three speakers will introduce the different methodological approaches they have taken to researching mobilities. This is followed by by discussion and debate from participants, exploring the distinctive research questions, practices, insights and types of knowledge claim that different methodological approaches to researching a topic can offer.

Date: 09/03/2011

Venue: G7, Humanities Bridgeford Street building

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Methods in Dialogue - Researching Diversity

Our three speakers will introduce the different methodological approaches they have taken to researching diversity. This is followed by by discussion and debate from participants, exploring the distinctive research questions, practices, insights and types of knowledge claim that different methodological approaches to researching a topic can offer.

Date: 09/02/2011

Venue: G33, Humanities Bridgeford Street building

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Methods in Dialogue - Researching Closeness

Our three speakers will introduce the different methodological approach they have taken to researching closeness. This is followed by by discussion and debate from participants, exploring the distinctive research questions, practices, insights and types of knowledge claim that different methodological approaches to researching a topic can offer.

Date: 10/11/2010

Venue: Room 2.219, University Place

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Vital Signs 2: Engaging Research Imaginations

3 day conference

Date: 07/09/2010

Venue: Humanities Bridgeford Street Building

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Social Networks Day

This day is organised jointly by The Mitchell Centre for Social Network Analysis and methods@manchester. It brings together research on social networks based in Manchester.

Date: 08/08/2010

Venue: Room 1.69/1.70, 1st Floor, Humanities Bridgeford Street

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Training Workshop: Doing Mixed Methods Research

This course is for people who have prior experience of doing mixed methods research and would like some training and guidance. The course will focus particularly on doing mixed methods research with longitudinal survey data. We will examine different strategies for doing mixed methods research, the limitations of survey data, sampling from a survey for qualitative work, and ways of generating and mixing data, offering examples from our own work with the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) and the National Child Development Study (NCDS). The course will open with a short introduction from each of the two studies on the kinds of mixed methods work that we are doing, followed by three sessions, each focusing on a different issue related to mixed methods research.

Date: 23/06/2010

Venue: University of Manchester

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Advance Courses on Social Network Analysis: 21st – 25th June 2010

Two parallel courses:

  • A. Advance methods for one mode, two mode and egonetworks
  • B. Statistical analysis for social networks

Date: 21/06/2010

Venue:

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Mathematics as Practice and Culture: interdisciplinary perspectives on mathematics

Date: 27/05/2010

Venue: Centre for Interdisciplinary Research (ZIF), University of Bielefeld, Germany

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Dr David Evans

Food waste in domestic space: some preliminary findings

Date: 19/05/2010

Venue: Room G.035 (Arthur Lewis)

Methods in Dialogue - Researching Home

Speakers: Inge Daniels (Oxford); Stewart Muir (Manchester); Rebecca Leach (Keele)

Date: 12/05/2010

Venue: TBA

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Young Feminism

It is a widespread misconception that feminism is ‘post’ and did not make it into the 21st Century. Ideas that young women are post-feminist and do not engage with feminism is a trap! Since 2000 there has been an international and national surge in formal and informal, institutional and grassroots, transnational and local feminist initiatives. As a result, there has been an increase in popular feminist and academic publications on the subject. With this in mind, we organise an interdisciplinary PhD seminar on Young Feminism on the 11 May 2010, at the University of Manchester.

Date: 11/05/2010

Venue: University Place Room 6.207

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Critical Whiteness and Transformative Sociology

The critical examination of whiteness and the racial position of white people and institutions becomes increasingly part of the curriculum of Sociological research and teaching. This raises the question what the transformative potential of Sociology is and could be as a discipline.

Date: 05/05/2010

Venue: Lecture Theatre A (University Place)

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Dr Anna Einarsdottir

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Date: 28/04/2010

Venue: Room G.035 (Arthur Lewis)

Max Travers (University of Tasmania, Australia)

Sentencing in the children’s court: an ethnographic perspective

Date: 15/04/2010

Venue: Geoffrey Manton Buildingو Manchester Metropolitan University

6th UK Social Networks Conference

The UK Social Networks Conference offers an interdisciplinary venue for social and behavioural scientists, sociologists, educationalists, political scientists, mathematicians, computer scientists, physicists, practitioners and others to present their work in the area of social networks. The primary objective of the conference is to facilitate interactions between the many different disciplines interested in network analysis. The conference provides a unique opportunity for the dissemination and debate of recent advances in theoretical and experimental network research.

Date: 12/04/2010

Venue: The University of Manchester

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Prof Martin Everett

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Date: 24/03/2010

Venue: Room G.035 (Arthur Lewis)

Björn Sjöblom (Linköping University, Sweden)

Competence, cooperation and competition in co-located computer gaming

Date: 17/03/2010

Venue: Geoffrey Manton Building, Manchester Metropolitan University

Methods in Dialogue - Researching Nature

Methods workshop

Date: 10/03/2010

Venue: G33 Lescure Theatre, Humanities Bridgeford Street Building

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Stuart Reeves (University of Glasgow)

Watching football together

Date: 04/03/2010

Venue: Geoffrey Manton Building, Manchester Metropolitan University

Vanessa May

What is Narrative Analysis?

Date: 04/03/2010

Venue: Room 1.69/1.70, 1st Floor, Humanities Bridgeford Street

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Training Workshop: Writing Methods

Speakers: Jennifer Mason and James Nazroo (Realities, University of Manchester) and Stephen Webster (NatCen)

Date: 02/03/2010

Venue: Harold Hankins Building

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Lucy Gibson

'It'll never be over for me': threading popular music through the life course

Date: 24/02/2010

Venue: Room G.035 (Arthur Lewis)

Peter Halfpenny

What is eResearch?

Date: 28/01/2010

Venue: Room 1.69/1.70, 1st Floor, Humanities Bridgeford Street

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Martin Everett

What is Social Network Analysis?

Date: 21/01/2010

Venue: Hanson Room, Ground Floor, Humanities Bridgeford Street

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Prof Alan Warde

Accounting for Tastes

Date: 20/01/2010

Venue: Room G.035 (Arthur Lewis)

Methods in Dialogue - Researching Migration

Speakers: Nina Glick Schiller (RICC, Manchester); Alice Bloch (City University); Rob Ford (CCSR, Manchester). See website to register for a place.

Date: 16/12/2009

Venue: Hanson Room, Humanties Bridgeford Street Building

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Dr Sophie Woodward

Denim jeans: The art of being ordinary

Date: 02/12/2009

Venue: Room G.019 (Arthur Lewis)

Training Workshop: Using Unusual Data

Sessions will explore conceptual and practical issues and include introductions to using music elicitation, historical letters, wardrobe research and online surveys. See our website for more details and how to register.

Date: 19/11/2009

Venue: Arthur Lewis Building

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Dr Yousaf Ibrahim

Between revolution and defeat: student protest cycles and networks

Date: 21/10/2009

Venue: Room 2.017 (Arthur Lewis)

Methods in Dialogue - Researching Place

Our three speakers will introduce the different methodological approach they have taken to researching place. This is followed by by discussion and debate from participants, exploring the distinctive research questions, practices, insights and types of knowledge claim that different methodological approaches to researching a topic can offer.

Date: 14/10/2009

Venue: Arthur Lewis Boardroom

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Methods in Dialogue: Researching Place

Speakers:Penny Harvey and Hannah Knox (Anthropology, Manchester); Dimitris Ballas (Geography, Sheffield); Andrew Karvonen (Architecture, Manchester)

Date: 14/10/2009

Venue: Arthur Lewis Building

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Turning Personal: An interdisciplinary conference

Turning Personal will explore how social research can incorporate more complex and multi-layered accounts of personal lives into academic writings and analyses. It has been argued that we now have a sociology without real people and the same may be said of some sister disciplines and although there have always been threads of work which re-imagine the personal (eg biographical work) there is more to be done and said about capturing some of the more detailed aspects of personal lives, as well as theorising personal life more cogently.

Date: 16/09/2009

Venue: University of Manchester

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Social Movements, Participation and Protest

The aim of this one day conference is to bring together scholars working within the field of social movement theory, participation and protest in order to learn about each others work, share ideas and possibly come up with new ones. All Welcome.

Date: 15/09/2009

Venue: Arthur Lewis Building, G.0.30/31

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Sensory Methods

Date: 14/05/2009

Venue: Whitworth Council Chamber

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Workshop on the Analysis of Network Data and Egonetworks via UCINET and NetDraw

The aim of the workshop is to provide a grounding in social network analysis. During the first day the main concepts and the basic techniques of social network analysis will be presented. In the second day we will focus on the analysis of egonetworks.

Date: 07/05/2009

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Researching Sexualities

Speakers: Laura Doan, KAye Wellings & Brian Heaphy

Date: 22/04/2009

Venue: 3.204 University Place

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Researching Emotions

Date: 25/02/2009

Venue: 2.017 & 2.018 Arthur Lewis Building

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Tourists at Home: Australian New Agers and their love of the land

For many Australian practitioners of alternative spiritualities the landscape has enormous significance as a source of personal and spiritual meaning. This significance is frequently enacted and understood by reference to sites with particular spiritual energies, historical associations, or where spiritual beings have been encountered. Recognition and knowledge of such places – particularly those perceived to have an Aboriginal history or ‘spirit’ – both celebrates and lays claim to the land. However, such claims are not always straightforward. Although Aboriginal people often serve as a synonym for the land itself, and thus are intrinsic to much of the land’s spiritual and personal value, their prior claims to its ownership can also discomfort non-Aboriginal practitioners of alternative spiritualities who wish to love the land but find that others have a higher claim.

Date: 22/10/2008

Venue: 2.219 University Place

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Morgan Centre Seminar

Date: 22/10/2008

Venue: 2.219 University Place

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Valuing Older People: The Manchester Full of Life Festival

Manchester University’s inter-disciplinary group for research on ageing present an afternoon of academic debate as part of the Manchester Full of Life Festival, sponsored by Valuing Older People.

Date: 03/10/2008

Venue: Boardroom, Arthur Lewis Building, Oxford Road, University of Manchester

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The forgotten generation? Girls and Young women in the 1950s

A One-day Seminar to be held at the University Women’s Club, London

Date: 22/09/2008

Venue: University Women’s Club, London

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Photographs and Historical Practice

In this one-day seminar we explore how photographs are used to research histories.

Date: 17/09/2008

Venue: University of Manchester

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Vital Signs: Researching Real Life

Three day conference exploring ways of researching real lives in complex worlds. Organised by Real Life Methods, part of the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods

Date: 09/09/2008

Venue: University of Manchester

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Photography and Memory

Date: 19/06/2008

Venue: University of Manchester

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Training Workshop: Bringing Together Qualitative and Quantitative Data

Organised by Real Life Methods, part of the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods

Date: 09/05/2008

Venue: University of Leeds

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Methods Workshop: Researching Social Relations in Sub/Urban Environments

Organised by Real Life Methods, part of the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods

Date: 08/05/2008

Venue: University of Manchester

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Training Workshop: Analysing Real Life Mixed Methods Data

Organised by Real Life Methods, part of the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods

Date: 18/04/2008

Venue: Open University

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Methods Workshop: Researching Socio-Cultural Change

Organised by Real Life Methods, part of the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods

Date: 06/02/2008

Venue: University of Manchester

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Muslims in Europe Research Meeting - Open Session

1. Professor Berta Alvarez-Miranda 2. Dr Manuela Stanculescu 3. Professor Claudine Attias-Donfut 4. Dr Mina Shirali 5. Professor Karien Stronks

Date: 31/01/2008

Venue: Boardroom, Arthur Lewis Building

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Professor Dominique Anxo, University of Växjö, Sweden

The Swedish model and the patterns of labour Markey integration and income development over the life course

Date: 05/12/2007

Venue: Manchester Business School West, room 3.76

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Methods Workshop: Rethinking the Qualitative Interview: Some thoughts from social psychology

Organised by Real Life Methods, part of the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods

Date: 29/11/2007

Venue: Harold Hankins Building, University of Manchester

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Professor Dominique Anxo, University of Växjö, Sweden

Time allocation between work and family over the life-cycle: a comparative gender analysis of Italy, France, Sweden and the United States

Date: 28/11/2007

Venue: Arthur Lewis Building room 2.016/2.017 (Boardroom)

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"Not greater wealth, but simpler pleasures" An account of co-operative housing in the early twentieth century: lessons for today

Speaker: Anne Bottomley, University of Kent

Date: 22/11/2007

Venue: Ken Kitchen Committee Room, John Owens Building, 3-5pm

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Training Workshop: Real Life Ethics

Organised by Real Life Methods, part of the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods

Date: 14/11/2007

Venue: Harold Hankins Building, University of Manchester

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Methods Workshop: Researching Ethnicity

Organised by Real Life Methods, part of the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods

Date: 18/10/2007

Venue: Arthur Lewis Building, University of Manchester

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Nvivo 7: A Practical Introduction

Hands-on training workshop organised by Real Life Methods, part of the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods. Fees: Students £20, Staff in academic institutions £40, Other £175.

Date: 12/10/2007

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Creating Visual Knowledge Seminar

Organised by Real Life Methods, part of the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods

Date: 11/10/2007

Venue: Harold Hankins Building, University of Manchester

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Thinking Through Relationality: Relationships, connectedness and social distance

Organised by the Morgan Centre for the Study of Relationships and Personal Life

Date: 19/09/2007

Venue: Harold Hankins Building, University of Manchester

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Photographs and Historical Practice

Photo Time Network Event

Date: 17/09/2007

Venue: University of Manchester

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