4th ESRC Research Methods Festival, 5-8 July 2010

Overall aims of the Festival

The Festival, held at St. Catherine's College, Oxford, aimed to engage social scientists across a wide range of disciplines and sectors and at different points in their research careers. We aimed to stimulate interest, raise issues, highlight opportunities and showcase new developments.

Programme

For detailed information about the programme please see the downloadable Programme Booklet. Alternatively you can view the festival programme online which also includes links to some of the presentations.

Festival themes

• Resources for research
• Research impact
• Substantive themes
• Ethical and Philosphical issues
• Survey methods
• Development in Qualitative methods
• What is?
• Support for PhD students, researchers and teachers
• Developments in Quantitative Methods
• Methodological innovation
• Mixed methods

There was also be an open session run by Anna Vignoles and ADMIN/LEMMA/CEMMAP on: Colleagues on school league tables

Workshop organised by Nigel Gilbert and Maria Xenitidou (invitation only) on: Methodological Innovation

Photographs from the Festival on FaceBook.