Slides and audio recordings from presentations given at our events, or presentations given by Realities staff.
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Title and author |
| 4 April 2011 |
 From 'Engaging Qualitatively and Quantitatively' Interdisciplinary Dialogue
 'Facet Methodology' Jennifer Mason (Morgan Centre, University of Manchester)
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| 9 March 2011 |
 From Methods in Dialogue: Researching Mobilities
'Watching, talking, writing diaries and counting: exploring technologies and travel' - Juliet Jain ( University of the West of England)
'The use of new technologies to collect data on travel behaivour' - Peter Bonsall (Institute of Transport Studies, University of Leeds) |
| 9 February 2011 |
 From Methods in Dialogue: Researching Diversity
'Mixing and Mixedness: Researching Difference and Belonging through Diverse Methods' - Rosalind Edwards (University of Southampton)
'Quantitative approaches to researching ethnicity and difference: how can we trouble and interrogate the categories we are stuck with?' - James Nazroo (CCSR, University of Manchester) |
| 18 November 2010 |
From methods@manchester 'What is?' seminar series:
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| 10 November 2010 |
From Methods in Dialogue: Researching Closeness
'Jean-ealogies: material culture approaches to understanding relationships through people's clothing' Sophie Woodward (Morgan Centre, University of Manchester)
'Thinking about closeness from a distance: quantitative approaches to social distance' Wendy Bottero (Morgan Centre, University of Manchester) |
| 13 October 2010 |
From Methods in Dialogue: Researching the Environment
'Researching Material and Social Landscapes using Multi-Modal and Mobile Methods' Amanda Coffey (Cardiff University)
'Researching Sustainability: Integrating social science methods, practices and engagement into the research agenda' Alex Franklin (Cardiff University/BRASS) |
| 7-9 September 2010 |
From Vital Signs 2 conference:
33 presentations
Presentations and recordings |
| 18 May 2010 |
From 'Qualitative and Quantitative Dialogues in the NCRM'
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| 12 May 2010 |
From Methods in Dialogue: Researching Home
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| 15-16 March 2010 |
From Agenda Setting Workshop on Family, Regulation and Society
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| 10 March 2010 |
 From Methods in Dialogue: Researching Nature
Cathrine Degnen (Newcastle University)
'Cultivating Knowledge? Ethnography and Gardening'
Richie Nimmo (University of Manchester)
'The methodological dilemmas of an actor-network approach to historical heterogeneities' |
| 4 March 2010 |
From methods@manchester 'What is...?' seminar series
Vanessa May (Morgan Centre, University of Manchester)
'What is narrative analysis?' |
| 16 December 2009 |
 From Methods in Dialogue: Researching Migration
Rob Ford (University of Manchester)
'What surveys can (and can't) teach us about migration
Open presentation (presentation opens in new window) |
| 14 October 2009 |
 From Methods in Dialogue: Researching Place
'Delivering social change: an anthropological approach to the ethnography of place'
Penny Harvey and Hannah Knox (Social Anthropology/CRESC, University of Manchester)
This paper describes a collaborative research project which explored the promise of roads to deliver social change. The research team chose to focus ethnographically on two specific road building projects in Peru, looking in detail at what we termed 'the politics of knowledge' in the construction process and in the everyday relations along the roads in question.
Open presentation (presentation opens in new window)
'Innovative ways of mapping data about places'
Dimitris Ballas (Geography, University of Sheffield)
This presentation introduced the idea of visualising society using human area population cartograms. In particular, it discusses equal area cartogram methods (also known as density-equalising maps), which typically re-size each area according the variable being mapped.
Open presentation (presentation opens in new window)
'Urban Mess and the Relational City'
Andrew Karvonen (Manchester Architecture Research Centre, University of Manchester)
This presentation introduces an emerging methodological approach that interprets cities as sociotechnical ensembles, drawing on ideas and methods from human geography, urban planning, architecture and science and technology studies.
Open presentation (presentation opens in new window) |
| 22 April 2009 |
 From Methods in Dialogue: Researching Sexualities
'Exploring Situated Sexualities: Identities, Relationships and Forms of Existence' Brian Heaphy (University of Manchester)
In this presentation, Brian argues that to understand the contemporary sexualities as they are lived in day-to-day life, it is important to develop approaches that can illuminate sexualities as identities, relationships and forms of existence.
Open presentation (presentation opens in new window) |
25 February 2009 |
 From Methods in Dialogue: Researching Emotions
'The Allure of Restraint: Doing Emotionless Sociology' Carol Smart (University of Manchester)
This presentation explores Sociology's complex relationship to emotions, from the early years to the present day. Examples are given of how emotions are dealt with (or not) during the design, data collection, analysis and writing of research. Carol Smart argues that sociology should recognise and deal with the emotions of everyday life.
Open presentation (presentation opens in new window) |
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Carol Smart 'Qualitative Research Impact Beyond Academia'