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5th ESRC Research Methods Festival, 2-5 July 2012

National Centre for Research Methods organised the 5th ESRC Research Methods Festival, once again at the St Catherine's College in Oxford. The Festival took place on 2-5 July 2012.

PhD poster exhibition
Social programme

 

Filmed presentations

Intro-level 'What is?' audio slideshows

A quantitative approach to framing in political speech Framing policy debates in the EU: new techniques to answer old questions Geovisualisation, spatial analysis and simulation Happiness and welfare with changing preferences Human validation of latent trait scaling from textual data International journal of social research methodology lecture: The vicissitudes of methods, by Professor Andrew Abbott Is there a single 'right' way to study political text? Legislative hearings on monetary policy, as viewed from three different perspectives Key lecture: Choosing and combining units, by Professor Laura Stoker Key lecture: Now you see it now you don't, by Professor Gillian Rose Leadership without leaders? Starters and followers in on-line collective action Life satisfaction and income Machining geography and spatial analysis NCRM Annual Lecture: The challenges of the 21st century, by Professor Sir John Beddington Social choice and individual reports of subjective well-being Using randomized experiments to develop effective tax collection strategies

What are qualitative research ethics? What is analytic induction? What are cohort studies? What are community studies? What is discourse analysis? What are electronic data collection methods? What is event history analysis? What is geosimulation? What is multilevel modelling? What is multimodality? What is narrative interviewing? What is online research? What is propensity score matching? What is the regression discontinuity approach? What is social network analysis? What is Web 3.0/crowdsourcing?   Demonstrator videos at ESRC stand Obesity e-Lab and MethodBox Geoportal by Wales Institute of Social & Economic Research, Data & Methods (WISERD)

 

Festival themes

• The interface between social and natural sciences
• Methodological innovations
• Mixed and multimodal methods
• Career and skills development
• Interventions and evaluations

 

To see a more detailed description of each session and available presentation slides, please take a look at the Research Methods Festival programme.

 

Keynote speakers

• Professor Sir John Beddington, Government Office for Science: The challenges of the 21st century - the ineluctable need for multidisciplinarity
• Professor Andrew Abbott, University of Chicago: The vicissitudes of methods
• Professor Gillian Rose, Open University: Now you see it, now you don't - visual culture and visual methods
• Professor Laura Stoker, University of California, Berkeley: Choosing and combining units - common problems in multilevel and cross-temporal research

Photographs from the Festival on FaceBook.