7th ESRC Research Methods Festival, 5-7 July 2016
The 7th ESRC Research Methods Festival was for the first time organised outside of its traditional location – Oxford. This time we met in another beautiful historical city – Bath. The Festival took place from 5th to 7th July 2016 and it was an event full of seminars, activities and lively discussions about established and new methods used in social science research.
Main Festival themes were: iInternational knowledge exchange; cohort and longitudinal methods; analysis of complex data sets; pedagogy of methods; careers and skills development.
Keynote speakers:
- Professor Jane Elliott, Chief Executive of ESRC;
- Professor Emeritus Aaron Cicourel, University of California in conversation with Professor Malcolm Williams (Cardiff); Dr. Emma Uprichard (Warwick), Dr. Robin Smith (Cardiff), Professor Roberto Franzosi (Emory) and Professor Paul Atkinson (Cardiff);
- Professor Andrew Gelman, Columbia University
Filmed presentations are available from the NCRM YouTube channel
Tuesday 5th July
- New forms of data will eventually replace the survey, Professor Mark Elliot and Patrick Sturgis
- Engineering geoprivacy using automated zone design, Dr James Robards
- The pedagogy of methodological learning, Michela Insenga and Cordelia Sutton
- Learning together in communities, Professor Juana M Sancho Gil and Fernando Hernandez
- Research methods pedagogy in the digital era, Debbie Collins
- Big data: bridging the qualitative/quantitative divide, Professor Jane Elliott
- The ethics of sensors in the home, Professor Nigel Gilbert
- The ethics of sensing and design, Professor Barry Brown
- What is... Diary Method? Dr Ruth Bartlett
- What are... Discrete Choice Experiments? Matthew Quaife
- What is... Action Research? Professor Danny Burns
Wednesday 6th July
- Data Collection in Zones of Violence and Conflict, Professor Jenny Pearce
- What is... a statistical eBook? Professor William Browne
- What is ... biosocial research? Professor Michaela Benzeval
- What is ... Policy Evaluation? Dr Dylan Kneale
- The role of self and emotion within qualitative data analysis
- Can We Trust the Polls? Reflections on the 2015 Election Poll Miss
- Methods and Measurement – IJSRM sponsored in conversation, Professor Aaron Cicourel
- Realist evaluation, Dr Geoff Wong
- Applying Realism, Dr Nick Emmel
- A realist synthesis of PROMs feedback to improve the care of individual patients
- A realist synthesis of PROMs feedback to improve the care of individual patients
- How qualitative and comparative analysis works and how to test the result? Professor Wendy Olsen
Thursday 7th July
- What are... Mobile Methods? Dr Tim Jones
- What is… Big Data? Professor Mark Birkin
- What is... Mass Observation? Dr Rose Lindsey
- Complexity, cases and policy-making, Professor Lasse Gerrits
- Complexity, cases and health, Professor Brian Castellani
- How could mobile devices improve survey measurement and social research? Carli Lessof
- Synthesising Qualitative Research Findings, Dr Ruth Garside, Professor James Thomas
- Crimes against data – Professor Andrew Gelman
Photographs and doodles from the Festival on FaceBook