Training Workshop: Doing Mixed Method Research
Date:
Wednesday 23 June 2010
Location: Hanson Room, Humanities Bridgeford Street, University of Manchester (Directions)
Workshop organiser: Vanessa May and James Nazroo (Realities, part of the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods), Mike Savage and Andrew Miles (ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change)
Workshop summary
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.
Programme
| Time | Session |
| 10.00 | Registration, tea and coffee |
| 10.25 | Welcome and Introduction |
| 10.30 | Inter/Generational Dynamics: A mixed method study using ELSA data (James Nazroo and Vanessa May)
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| 11.00 | Life history narratives and NCDS (Mike Savage and Andrew Miles) |
| 11.30 | Sampling from a survey (Andrew Miles) |
| 12.30 | Lunch |
| 1.30 | What to do with contradictory data? (Vanessa May) |
| 2.30 | The benefits and risks of doing mixed methods research (James Nazroo) |
| 3.30 | Tea/Coffee and Closing session (Mike Savage) |
View PDF of James and Vanessa's slides [opens in a new window] Registration and fees
This workshop has now taken place.
Directions
The Humanities Bridgeford Street Building is building number 35 on the University of Campus map [opens in a new window].
If you are heading from the city centre down Oxford Road, watch out for a pedestrian bridge over the road with University of Manchester on it. Just past the bridge, you will see a big building on the left that looks like a giant tin drum. Bridgeford Street is opposite this building.