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New toolkit: Using email interviews
Using email interviews toolkit page
Date added: 14 June 2010
New toolkit: Transcribing your own data
Transcribing your own data toolkit page
Date added: May 2010
User panel members wanted!
We are looking for a few more people to join the Realities user panel to give us feedback on our online resources.
More information (opens Word document in new window)
Date added: 2 March 2010
New toolkit: Using music elicitation
Nicola Allett describes using music in group research to explore people's memories and attachments to music, and the part that it plays in their life.
Date added: 2 March 2010
New working paper: Disciplined Writing
In this working paper, Carol Smart reflects on the difficulties of finding ways of writing sociologically that reflect and represent real life.
Date added: 11 January 2010
Registration open: Researching Nature
Three speakers each introduce the methodolgical approach they have taken to researching sexualities, followed by discussion from all participants. This is part of our Methods Workshop series.
More information on Researching Nature workshop
Date added: 6 January 2010
Methods in Dialogue workshops - extra places added to future events
These workshops are now booking up within a couple of days of registration opening, so we will be changing the venues for future events to allow more people to come along. We encourage you to join our email newslist to hear first when registration opens.
We are also going to make more of the presentations available as audio presentations, where possible.
Date added: 6 November 2009
Vital Signs 2: Call for abstracts open
See our conference pages for more information.
Date added: 1 November 2009.
Registration open: Researching Migration
Three speakers each introduce the methodolgical approach they have taken to researching sexualities, followed by discussion from all participants. This is part of our Methods Workshop series.
More information on Researching Migration workshop
Date added: 1 October 2009
Recordings now available of some workshop presentations
We usually find that more people want to come to our events than we can fit into the room on the day, so we have started trialling making audio recordings of some of the presentations which we can combine with the powerpoint slides and put on this website. We hope that they will be of interest to people who can't come to the events on the day. Do let us know if you find them useful.
The first two presentations are: Carol Smart's presentation at our Researching Emotions workshop and Brian Heaphy's presentation at our Researching Sexualities workshop.
For more details, see our online presentations page >
Date added: 6 July 2009
New toolkit on ethics in research teams
This toolkit is taken from a panel session at our Real Life Ethics training workshop. It highlights some of the issues around ethics within the research team and suggests some helpful approaches to ethical working relationships. Topics covered include: ethics and team roles, the role of a mentor and producing a publications strategy.
Go to our toolkits page >
Date added: 30 June 2009
New working paper on visual interview methods
Beyond the standard interview: The use of graphical elicitation and arts-based methods. new working paper by Anna Bagnoli (University of Cambridge)
Date added: 13 March 2009
Grandparenting: The challenge of balancing norms with real life experiences
As part of the Festival of Social Science, we have produced a website based on a paper examining norms of grandparenting and how grandparents negotiate these in everyday life.
Go to our Grandparenting Challenges website >
Festival of Social Science > [new window]
Date added: 12 March 2009
New working paper on sensory methodology
'Coming to our senses? A critical approach to sensory methodology'. New Realities working paper by Jennifer Mason and Katherine Davies (University of Manchester)
Date added: 3 March 2009
Register for Researching Sexualities, 22 April 2009
Three speakers each introduce the methodolgical approach they have taken to researching sexualities, followed by discussion from all participants. This is part of our Methods Workshop series.
More details and registration >
Register for Researching Emotions, 25 February 2009
Three speakers each introduce the methodological approach they have taken to researching emotions, followed by discussion from all participants. This is part of our Methods Workshop series.
More details and registration >
Date added: 12 January 2009
Register for Researching Social Class workshop
Our next Methods in Dialogue workshop will be Researching Social Class / Stratification on 10 December, 3-5pm, University of Manchester.
Full workshop details and how to register >
Date added: 15 October 2008
Creative Interviewing Training workshop
Our first training workshop will be Creative Interviewing on 20 November at University of Newcastle, with an online follow-up tutorial.
Full workshop details and how to apply for a place >
Date added: 17 September 2008
Register for Researching Ageing workshop
Our first Methods in Dialogue workshop will be Researching Ageing on 15 October, 3-5pm, University of Manchester.
Full workshop details and how to register >
Date added: 15 September 2008