Welcome and Introduction

Professor Carol Smart (University of Manchester)

(Cordingley Lecture Theatre)

Plenary Session 1

Professor Jennifer Mason (University of Manchester) View biography

Knowing the In/tangible

(Cordingley Lecture Theatre)

Paper Session 1:

1a. Futures, expectations and imaginings

'Vital scripts?: Expectations and experiences of 'married' life' - Dr Anna Einarsdottir and Dr Brian Heaphy (University of Manchester)

'‘I just think of all the water and the rain washing through him’: postmortem imaginings and the practice of natural burial' - Andy Clayden, Prof Jenny Hockey and Trish Green (University of Sheffield)

'Jigsaws with missing pieces: research imaginations and children’s  lives' - Prof Allison James (University of Sheffield)

1b. Material Culture

'Objects, affect and the research relationship' - Prof Rachel Thomson (Open University)

'Mirabilia Domestica - a guided tour through a cabinet of textile wonders' - Solveigh Goett (University of East London)

'The materiality and sensuality of clothing: researching and representing the non-verbal and textual' - Dr Sophie Woodward (University of Manchester)

1c. Writing real lives

'In between reality and imagination: writing a case' - Prof Wendy Hollway (Open University)

'Hearing voices for written conversation in research' - Gail Simon (The Relate Institute and The Pink Practice)

Paper Session 2:

2a. Researching home and memory

'Inadvertent (re)collections: forgotten spaces / remembered objects' - Alyssa Grossman (University of Manchester)

'Migrant Homescapes' - John Watters (National Institute for Regional and Spatial Analysis, NUI, Maynooth)

'Material Possessions and the Identity research' - Anna Pechurina (University of Manchester)

2b. Representation, valid knowledge and metaphor

'Writing Camphill' - Miriam Snellgrove (University of Edinburgh)

'Metaphorical Imagination: a surrogate methodology for social inquiry' - Dr Muhammad Tanweer Abdullah (University of Peshawar)

'Interactions that Matter: Researching Critical Relationships' - Dr Brian Heaphy and Katherine Davies (University of Manchester)

2c. Researching feelings, affect and experience

'Drawing as Countersignature to Experience' - Dr Matthew Reason (York St John University)

'Exploring the Fan/Music Relationship with Memory Work and Music Elicitation' - Dr Nicola Allett (University of Manchester)

'‘Image-Affect’ in the Social Dreaming Matrix and its Potential in Psycho-Social Research' (Working Title) - Julian Manley (University of the West of England)

Plenary Session 2

Professor David Inglis (University of Aberdeen) View biography

Modernity/Imagination/Imagery/Methods

(Cordingley Lecture Theatre)

Paper Session 3:

3a. Connections, relationships and realities

'Getting the story right: Lesbian love and troublesome sperm donors' - Dr Petra Nordqvist (University of Manchester)

'Family lives and relational living: taking account of otherness' - Dr Jacqui Gabb (Open University)

'Relating to Bart Simpson: interactions with and about fictional characters' - Katherine Davies (University of Manchester)

3b. Competing epistemologies

'Exploring product choice and critical price thresholds among young people who drink alcohol in North East England' - Stephanie O'Neil (Newcastle University)

'Research Methods in Practice: The Qualitative-Quantitative Divide Revisited' - Dr Christian Greiffenhagen, Michael Mair and Prof Wes Sharrock (University of Manchester)

‘Watching Dance Through Qualitative Audience Research and Neuroscience’ - Prof Dee Reynolds (University of Manchester)

3c. The artistic image and the exploration of multi-layered realities

'On the Emotional Work in Protests: The Two Agendas of Contentious Art and Contentious Politics' - Cristiana Olcese (University of Reading)

'Gender, Knowledge and Art: Feminist Standpoint Theory synthesised with Arts-Based research in the study of domestic violence' - Jamie Bird (University of Derby)

'Look at Me! Visual Methodologies. Exploring Images of Woman & Ageing' - Prof Susan Hogan (University of Derby), Dr Lorna Warren (University of Sheffield), Rosy Martin (freelance phototherapist), Naomi Richards (University of Sheffield), Prof M Gott (University of Auckland) and Clare McManus (Aventus)

Paper Session 4:

4a. Making sense of (unusual) visual data

'Ethical Considerations in Using Visual Methods: Intersections between power relations, social contexts and visual cultures' - Antoinette Kriel, Carlos Galan-Diaz, Liz Dinnie and Katrina Brown (Macaulay Institute)

‘Implications of using a head mounted camera to observe learning in the field’- Nicola Beddall-Hill (City University, London)

'Mobile practices and visual data: what's the use(s)?' - Rachel Aldred and Katrina Jungnickel (University of East London)

4b. Capturing the intangible

'The elusiveness of life: limits can be conditions too' - Hayder Al-Mohammad (University of Kent)

''The Feeling of Fleeting Things': researching everyday encounters with animals' - Becky Tipper (University of Manchester)

'"Who do you think they were?" Family histories and placing people in the past - investigating absences' - Dr Wendy Bottero (University of Manchester)

4c. Positioning, participation and authentic knowledge

'Participation, authenticity and rhetoric: Community-based Participatory Research with an Australian Indigenous community' - Julie Mooney-Somers (University of New South Wales & University of Sydney), Anna Olsen (University of New South Wales), Robert Scott (Townsville Aboriginal and Islanders Health Service), Angie Akee (Townsville Aboriginal and Islanders Health Service) and Lisa Maher (University of New South Wales)

'Instruments of knowing –intersubjectivity in the research process' - Heather Elliott (Open University)

'Big Bodies Dancing: reflections on doing fat research' - Dr Rachel Colls (University of Durham)

Plenary Session 3

Professor Nigel Rapport (University of St Andrews) View biography

Voice, History, and Vertigo: Doing justice to dead voices through imaginative conversation

(Cordingley Lecture Theatre)

Conference Dinner

Whitworth Art Gallery

Paper Session 5:

5a. Engaging with/through arts and the visual

'Using visual methods to explore policy controversies from within organisations: some preliminary ideas on cartoons as a means of opening closed spaces' - Tess Lea (Charles Darwin University)

'Combining self portraits with repeat interviews to explore the impact of cancer on young people’s sense of self' - Dr Julie Mooney-Somers (University of Sydney), Peter Lewis (University of Sydney), Kris Smith (University of Newcastle), Christopher Jordens (University of Sydney) and Ian Kerridge (University of Sydney)

'Using a collaborative arts-based activity to elicit South Asian women’s views and beliefs about Type 2 Diabetes' - Dr Sabi Redwood (University of Birmingham), Caroline Jariwala (Artist) and Dr Sheila Greenfield (University of Birmingham)

5b. Belonging, history and memory

'Telling family histories: Story-telling and interior lives' - Dr Anne-Marie Kramer (University of Warwick)

'Practices of Belonging' - Julia Bennett (University of Manchester)

'Capturing everyday belongings' - Dr Vanessa May and Dr Stewart Muir (University of Manchester)

5c. Other Knowledges

'Is there anybody there?: reflections on using evidence from beyond the grave' - Dr Sara MacKian (Open University)

'Places in the heart: nostalgia, psychogeography and late-life dementia' - Andrea Capstick (University of Bradford)

'Ways of Knowing: crossing species boundaries' - Prof Carol Smart (University of Manchester)

Paper Session 6:

6a. Performance, exhibition and social memory

'Exploring social memory and ageing through theatre: preliminary findings from the ‘Ages and Stages’ project' - Michelle Rickett, David Amigoni, Miriam Bernard, Lucy Munro, Michael Murray (Keele University) and Jill Rezzano (New Vic Theatre)

'Second life for the hunting trophy: mounted heads in contemporary art' - Petra Tjitske Kalshoven (University of Manchester)

'The Effects of Institutionalization on Risk and Experimentation in Performative Experiences' - Lisa Newman (University of Manchester)

6b. Participating in sensory worlds

'‘Researching the Material’: a Sensorial Approach to Shoe Design' - Naomi Braithwaite (Nottingham Trent University)

'‘Common-sense’ research: Senses, emotions and embodiment in researching stag tourism in Eastern Europe' - Thomas Thurnell-Read (University of Warwick)

'Licence to thrill: ethnographic imagination in multidisciplinary research' - Griet Scheldeman (Lancaster University)

6c. Linking micro and macro social worlds

'The Husbandry of Technology: 'Radical' technologies within the everyday context of the UK family farm' - Clare Perkins (University of Worcester)

'Reversing the Abracadabra: Using photo-elicitation techniques to render the taken-for-granted visible' - Karen Parkhill, Dr Catherine Butler and Nick Pidgeon (Cardiff University)

'And what if the sociological imagination was symmetrical? On the implications of an actor-network approach to qualitative and material complexities: The case of dairy milk' - Dr Richie Nimmo (University of Manchester)

Plenary Session 4

Professor Gillian Rose (Open University) View biography

Inhabiting spaces, seeing things: complex visualities and the making of private spaces (Working Title)

(Cordingley Lecture Theatre)