Programme: 2021 Research Methods e-Festival

Bio: Adriana is a Geographer with +15 years of experience working with communities and policymakers in Australia, Chile (her home country), Colombia and the UK. She is interested in conducting interdisciplinary research that promotes transformation towards more just and sustainable futures. Her PhD in Environment, Energy and Resilience from the University of Bristol (June 2020) examined community water management in rural Chile. Using Institutional Ethnography (IE) allowed her to map textually mediated work processes wherein rural people seek access to drinking water, navigating an institution that prevents them from accessing this basic human right. My research findings advise concrete policy and legislation changes on conceptualizations of ‘vulnerability’ and ‘water rights’ to achieve clean water for all. She is a member of the Society for the Study of Social Problems and of the International Sociological Association, specifically Working Group 6 on Institutional Ethnography, and Research Committee 24 on Society & Environment.

Bio: Dr Emily Bradfield is an Independent Arts Consultant and Researcher who supports people to reimagine evaluation and manage projects creatively, creating bespoke visually engaging and impactful evaluation reports and other creative outputs. She is also Charity Director at Arts and Minds, an arts and mental health charity working across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. Emily holds a PhD in Creative Ageing (University of Derby) and an MSc in Cultural Events Management (De Montfort University). She is passionate about bridging the gap between research and practice, advocating arts for social change and weaving creativity throughout research, evaluation and practice. During her PhD research, Emily developed her own style of visual note taking, #CreativeCapture.

Bio: "Dr Ash Watson is a sociologist of technology and fiction with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society at UNSW Sydney. Her research uses arts-based and qualitative methods to explore the socio-cultural impacts of emerging technologies as well as the kinds of futures that are opened or closed off by current trends. She is particularly interested in the visions and practices of 'DIY' collectives, including startups and queer archives. Ash’s debut novel Into the Sea (2020), published in Brill's award-winning Social Fictions Series, is ‘an experiment in sociological imagination.’ Drawing on ethnographic research, the story follows a group of young adults through a year of the mundane and extraordinary to consider what it means to live the so-called 'Australian way of life'. Ash is the creator/editor of So Fi Zine (sofizine.com), an open-access publication for sociological fiction, poetry and visual art. She is also Fiction Editor of The Sociological Review, heading the journal's short story series, and an Editorial Board member of Qualitative Research. She recently co-guest edited a special issue of Art/Research International on Fiction as Research. Prior to her current position, she was an ARC-funded Postdoctoral Fellow on the Discovery Project ""Living with Personal Data"", working with Prof Deborah Lupton and Prof Mike Michael, based at the UNSW Vitalities Lab. During her doctoral studies she was awarded an Endeavour Research Fellowship which she undertook at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her PhD in Sociology was awarded by Griffith University in 2018."

Bio: Louise Corti is Head of Insights, Development and Impact for the Secure Research Service, at the Office for National Statistics (ONS), joining this year. For 20 years she was Associate Director at the UK Data Archive, UK Data Service, where she directed a range of operations across the research and data lifecycle concerning the sharing, curation and reuse of data in the social sciences. Louise has sat on a number of international advisory boards for social science data services and is co-author of the handbook on Managing and Sharing Research Data: A Guide to Good Practice.

Bio: "Felix Ritchie is an applied economist, at UWE since 2012 following a varied career in the public and private sectors as well as academia. His main research interests are: - labour economics, especially low pay and career transitions - data governance - data access and management - data quality - statistical disclosure control"

Bio: "Martin is Director of Research Engineering at the Turing, leading a team of research software engineers and research data scientists working with researchers to increase the impact of research software and data science analyses by making these reusable, reliable and robust. Martin has a strong interest in enabling researchers to work safely, securely and productively with sensitive data, co-leading work on the Institute's cloud-based secure research environment, as well as a project evaluating techniques for generating synthetic datasets, to understand if these can effectively replace more sensitive datasets for some aspects of the data science analysis workflow. He also has a strong interest in reproducible research and, as a member of the Turing Way community and the Institute's Tools, Practices and Systems programme, is working to improve the tools and working practices available at the Turing to make it easier for researchers to work reproducibly."

Bio: Andy Coverdale is a Research Fellow in Southampton Education School at the university of Southampton and member of the Centre for Research in Inclusion. He is currently working with the National Centre for Research Methods on their project looking at social research in the context of Covid-19 alongside research into how digital accessibility is taught and learned in Higher Education and the workplace. Andy has many years’ experience of working with, supporting, and teaching people with learning disabilities, and recently completed work on the ‘Self-build Social Care‘ research project, using inclusive and participatory methods to work collaboratively with people with learning disabilities and their allies. Andy has previously conducted research in the educational use of digital media and technology through his work with iRes at Falmouth University and the Visual Learning Lab at the University of Nottingham. His PhD examined the role of social and participatory media in doctoral education.

Bio: Melanie Nind is Professor of Education at the University of Southampton and a co-director of NCRM, leading on pedagogic research (https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/research/pedagogy.php) and methodological responses to Covid-19 (https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/research/socscicovid19/). Melanie guest-edited the 2015 special issue of International Journal of Social Research Methodology on the teaching and learning of social research methods, she is editor of the Bloomsbury Research Methods for Education book series and author of Inclusive Research in the NCRM Bloomsbury Research Methods series.

Bio: "Robert Meckin is a presidential fellow in the School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester and works closely with the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM). He is interested in emerging technosciences, interdisciplinarity and research infrastructures. He has spent recent years collaborating with and working alongside scientists practicing a design-led approach to biotechnology, and exploring how publics anticipate the potential of new biotechnological capabilities by using the chemical menthol as a way into discussing everyday technological understandings. Publications include explorations of scientific practices in increasingly automated, digitalised laboratories, and the affordances of sensory methods in engaging publics. At NCRM he has been focused on interdisciplinary research methods and has been examining the nascent areas of investigative methods and computational social science methods with Mark Elliot (University of Manchester) and Michael Mair (University of Liverpool), and exploring changing research practices in Covid-19 with Melanie Nind and Andy Coverdale (both at the University of Southampton)."

Bio: Maggie has a long history of doing participatory research using biographical and arts based methods (visual and performative) in collaboration with artists and communities. Maggie has researched and published widely on critical theory, 'ethno-mimesis', PAR, sex work, migration, asylum and borders, walking as a biographical and arts based method. She is currently working with: Umut Erel, Tracey Reynolds & Erene Kaptani on 'Participatory Arts based Methods For Civic Engagement In Migrant Support Organizations', funded by AHRC, 2020-22, and with Dee Heddon, Harry Wilson, Morag Rose, and Clare Qualmann, on 'Walking Publics/Walking Arts', funded by UKRI, 2021 - 2023. Maggie is a member of the Executive Board of the European Sociological Association, a past Chair of RN03 and a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.

Bio: Tim Sykes @RiversandPeople is a mature, part-time post graduate researcher at the University of Southampton. Tim is conducting situated walking interviews with people who are emotionally, creatively and physically engaged with or inspired by chalk streams, especially their intermittent headwaters, and chalk springs and aquifers, in order to try understand our relationship with these special places. With particular regards to wellbeing, Tim is asking what feelings (positive and/or negative) and relational and intrinsic values do these ephemeral places stir in people, how, why, and do their emotions ebb and flow with the water?

Bio: Martine Shareck Ph.D. is a population health researcher and Assistant Professor in Community Health Sciences at the Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada, and holds a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Urban Health Equity Among Young People (2020-2025). Trained in social epidemiology, public health, health promotion and health geography, she has expertise in research with marginalized populations, on the social determinants of health, in mixed-methods program evaluation and in urban health inequities. She is currently involved in several studies evaluating the impact of built environment changes on health and health inequalities.

Bio: Nicole is a Knowledge Mobilization & Relationship Specialist working with PolicyWise for Children & Families in Edmonton, AB, Canada. She is a critical experiential scholar with a passion for creative data collection methods and story-telling. She is committed to engaged, community-led research, evaluation, and knowledge mobilization that promotes equitable and inclusive practices and policies.

Bio: "My primary research interests lie within human factors and pedestrian dynamics engineering, specifically focusing on experimental approaches. From October 2016 to February 2021, I pursued a PhD in human behaviour in terrorist attacks. This research focused on micro-level behaviour, aiming to improve our understanding of how people react in scenarios that elicit states of extreme fear, requiring a multidisciplinary approach, including elements of sociology, psychology, human factors, pedestrian dynamics, experimental design and terrorism. As part of this research I ran full scale experiments, developed virtual reality environments, performed data analysis, and implemented the findings in software packages. My future work will expand on this research, and develop further methods of quantifying, measuring and examining pedestrian movement characteristics, including different cognitive states and responses to autonomous vehicles."

Bio: Dr Helen Kara FAcSS has been an independent researcher since 1999 and an independent scholar since 2011. She writes about research methods and research ethics, and teaches doctoral students and staff at higher education institutions worldwide. Her books include Creative Research Methods: A Practical Guide and Research Ethics in the Real World: Euro-Western and Indigenous Perspectives for Policy Press, and she has written and edited several other books for Policy Press, SAGE and Routledge. She is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Manchester and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.

Bio: "Joe is a Research Associate based in sunny Manchester. Joe works within the UK Data Services Computational Social Science team helping to bridge the gap between social science and computational thinking. Recently his focus has been on social media data and synthetic data. In his spare time, he organizes PyDataMCR, one of Manchester's largest data meetups."

Bio: "Adam Smith was born in the north, a long time ago. He wanted to write books, but ended up working in the NHS, and at the Department of Health. He is now Programme Director in the Office of the NIHR National Director for Dementia Research (which probably sounds more important than it is) at University College London. He has led a number of initiatives to improve dementia research (including creating Dementia Researcher, Join Dementia Research & ENRICH), as well as pursuing his own research interests. He also write blogs, hosts podcasts and is passionate about improving the lives of people living with dementia and supporting early career researchers. In his spare time, he grows vegetables, builds Lego & spends most of his time drinking too much coffee and squeezing technology into his house."

Bio: Dr. Isobelle Clarke is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Sciences at Lancaster University. In May 2020 Isobelle was awarded the Leverhulme Trust's Early Career Researcher Fellowship to examine anti-science narratives from a corpus linguistic perspective, which she began in May 2021. Isobelle received her PhD from the University of Birmingham in 2020. Her PhD research introduced a new modified version of Multi-Dimensional Analysis (MDA) that works with short texts and she applied this technique to a corpus of general English tweets and trolling tweets. More recently, Isobelle has developed this short text MDA approach, which uses Multiple Correspondence Analysis on the presence/absence of grammatical features, to the analysis of keywords in an approach she calls 'Keywords MCA'. The approach successfully identifies patterns of keyword variation and these are interpreted for the discourse they signal. Isobelle, along with Distinguished Professor Tony McEnery and Dr. Gavin Brookes have applied keywords MCA to a corpus of UK national press articles mentioning Islam and Muslims.

Bio: Dr Linzi Ladlow is a Research Fellow at the University of Lincoln, working on the ‘Following Young Fathers Further’ project, a qualitative longitudinal, participatory study of the lives and support needs of young fathers. Her research interests include young parenthood, families, housing, and disadvantage.

Bio: "Tracing the lives and support needs of young fathers: A participatory, qualitative longitudinal and comparative analysis Anna is a Reader in Sociology at the University of Lincoln. Her research interests include men and masculinities, family life, the lifecourse, and methodological developments in qualitative secondary analysis. She has recently completed research that examines the care responsibilities and support needs of men in low-income contexts, including young fathers. The Future Leaders Fellowship builds out of this work, seeking to implement, evaluate and promote father-inclusive and gender equal practice approaches and environments across the health and social care landscape in the UK. A unique and dynamic evidence base will be built to challenge the stereotypes, misconceptions and marginalisations that are experienced by young fathers. They will also enable a clearer picture to emerge about the impact of different cultures of understanding and expectations on young fathers, and how varied professional and policy responses shape young fathers’ experiences, their capacity to sustain positive relationships with their children, and their social and economic participation."

Bio: Feminist sociologist working in the areas of young fatherhood, and punk (particularly concerning punk pedagogies and punk, gender and ageing). Experienced qualitative researcher, particularly interested in developing creative research methods. Currently part of the Following Young Fathers Further team, a UKRI funded longitudinal study (2020-2024) exploring the parenting trajectories and support needs of young dads, and a steering group member of the Punk Scholars Network.

Bio: Aleksandra Nenadic is the Training Lead at the UK's Software Sustainability Institute based at the University of Manchester committed to ongoing improvement of research software practice through training and community engagement work. Aleksandra is working to improve the provision and access to training in foundational computational and data analysis skills for researchers and scientists and is advocating for openness, reproducibility, collaboration and inclusion in research. Aleksandra volunteers in several open communities and serves on the Executive Council of The Carpentries, an international community teaching foundational coding and data science skills to researchers worldwide.

Bio: "- Department of Social Monitoring and Methodology, German Youth Institute (DJI - Deutsches Jugendinstitut) (since 2011) - Ph.D. in Political and Social Sciences, European University Institute (2008) - Editorial board of the International Journal of Social Research Methodology (since 2011) Selected publications: - Buschle, Christina/Reiter, Herwig/Bethmann, Arne (2021): The qualitative pretest interview for questionnaire development: outline of programme and practice In: Quality and Quantity. (online first). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-021-01156-0 - Reiter, Herwig/Witzel, Andreas (2019): Problem-centred interview. In: Atkinson, Paul A./Delamont, Sara/Cernat, Alexandru/Sakshaug, Joseph W./Williams, Richard A. (Hrsg.): SAGE Research Methods Foundations. Sage Publications. https://methods.sagepub.com/foundations/problem-centred-interview - Witzel, Andreas/Reiter, Herwig (2012): The Problem-centred Interview. Principles and practice. London: Sage Publications. https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781446288030"

Bio: "Bobby Duffy is Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Policy Institute. He has worked across most public policy areas in his career of nearly 30 years in policy research and evaluation, including being seconded to the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit. Bobby also sits on several advisory boards including Chairing the Campaign for Social Science and the CLOSER Advisory Board, is a member of the Executive of the Academy of Social Sciences, and is a trustee of British Future and the Centre for Transforming Access and Student Outcomes in Higher Education. His first book, The Perils of Perception – Why we’re wrong about nearly everything, was published by Atlantic books in several countries, drawing on a set of global studies on how people misperceive key social realities. His latest book, Generations - Does when you’re born shape who you are?, came out in September 2021 and challenges myths and stereotypes around generational trends, seeking a greater understanding around generational challenges."

Bio: I have a passion for data literacy training, having spent the last 20 years working in this field. I am Director of User Support and Training at the UK Data Service, where I lead a national programme of data literacy training that is accessed by researchers across all sectors. I have taught data literacy to undergraduate and postgraduate students at the University of Manchester, including QStep undergraduates, and I have mentored/supervised QStep interns. I have led/lead cross-European data literacy programmes and I am a co-investigator on a project which aims to increase data literacy skills in Latin America (EmpoderaData).

Bio: "Holly is a Lead Analyst in the ONS's Public Policy Directorate, where she leads a team producing analysis and research with cross-cutting policy relevance, currently focussing on social mobility and education. Originally from Edinburgh (or Glasgow, depending on which parent is asked) she was a member of the University of Edinburgh's first Q-Step cohort, graduating with an MA(Hons) in International Relations with Quantitative Methods. This included a work placement with Audit Scotland which encouraged her to seek data-driven opportunities in the public sector. Holly has worked in a range of analyst roles in the Civil Service as well as in the private sector and in retail and hospitality. She is passionate about expanding opportunities having led the Civil Service Fast Stream's Social Mobility Network and mentored and tutored young people. In pandemic-less times, Holly loves to explore foreign cultures and has lived and travelled in a number of countries."

Bio: Clare Holdsworth is a social geographer whose work explores the temporalities and mobilities of everyday life. Her latest book, The Social Life of Busyness, was published by Emerald in September 2021. Her research uses different methodological approaches, including secondary analysis of longitudinal data sets, biographical narrative interpretative method interviewing and creative participatory methods. She is also a textile artist and has recently started to integrate this creative practice into her research. Her session on What is Autoethnography will outline how she uses her creative practice as a conduit for the self-study of intimate and family relationships.

Bio: Simone Eringfeld is an educationist, artist-researcher, poet and writer whose work explores new ways to blend academia with art. She graduated from the University of Cambridge with a master's degree in Education and International Development in 2020. Her thesis on the future of the post-Covid University, which used podcasting as its principal research method, won the BERA Master's Dissertation Award (1st Prize, 2021). In April 2021, she released her first spoken word music EP in which she presented data from her research at Cambridge. Most recently, she has been focused on further developing podcasting as an action research method and 'data music' as a new way of communicating research results.

Bio: Before moving to Sheffield, Andy was a lecturer at the University of Bristol, where he also completed his undergraduate degree (in Geography) and PhD (in Advanced Quantitative Methods). His current substantive research focuses on mental health from a life course perspective, but also spans a diverse range of other subject areas, including geography, political science, social epidemiology and economics. Methodologically, Andy’s interests are in the development and application of multilevel models, with work focusing on age-period-cohort analysis and fixed and random effects models.

Bio: "Jennifer Leigh is a Senior Lecturer at the Centre for the Study of Higher Education, University of Kent. j.s.leigh@kent.ac.uk Jennifer joined the Centre for the Study of Higher Education full-time in 2013. She initially trained as a chemist, somatic movement therapist, and yoga teacher before completing her doctorate in education at the University of Birmingham. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She edited a book for Routledge in 2019, Conversations on embodiment across higher education: Teaching, practice and research. Together with Nicole Brown, she edited and contributed to Ableism in Academia: Theorising Disabilities and Chronic Illnesses in Higher Education,(UCL Press, 2020), and authored Embodied Inquiry: Research Methods (Bloomsbury, 2021). She is a founder member of WISC (an international network for Women In Supramolecular Chemistry) and the only social scientist on the Board. The projects she has underway with WISC aim to bring embodied research approaches (and glitter) into the world of chemistry and public engagement. Her next book, The boundaries of qualitative research: with art, education, therapy and science will be published by Bristol University Press. Her research interests include embodiment, phenomenological and creative research methods, academic practice, academic development, and ableism as well as aspects of teaching and learning in higher education. She tweets as @drschniff @suprachem."

Bio: Sophie Woodward carries out research into materiality, fashion, consumption, feminist theory and everyday life. She is the author of five books, including recently Material Methods (2019), and Birth and Death (2019 with Kath Woodward). With an ongoing interest in creative methods and material methods she is currently carrying out research into Dormant Things – things in the home people keep but are no longer using, which she is currently developing into publications into the hidden spaces and materialities of the home.

Bio: Rachel is a sociologist by discipline and Professor of Childhood & Youth Research in the School of Education and Social Work at the University of Sussex. Her research interests focus on the interplay of biographical and historical change and has included work on childhood, the transition to adulthood, new parenthood and intergenerational dynamics within families. She has a particular interest in gender, sexuality and lived temporalities. Her methodological writings include (with McLeod, Sage 2009) Researching Social Change: Qualitative Approaches and (with Berriman & Bragg, Bloomsbury 2018) Researching Everyday Childhoods: Time, Technology and Documentation. She is engaged in innovative ways of sharing and animating data utilising digital platforms, and has collaborated on a number of open archives and showcases for social research data include www.modernmothers.org and www.reanimatingdata.co.uk

Bio: Neil Kaye is a Research Fellow at CLOSER and, as part of his role, leads on Training and Capacity Building. He has a focus on research methods and is enthusiastic about helping students and researchers make effective use of the UK's longitudinal studies. This work has involved running workshops, overseeing a refresh of CLOSER's Learning Hub and developing further online resources for the longitudinal population studies community.

Bio: Isabelle Latham is a Senior Lecturer at the Association for Dementia Studies at the University of Worcester having joined in 2011 as a Research Associate. Isabelle combines an active research role, leading the department's care home research with delivery of education programmes, enjoying the translation of research findings into practical skills and knowledge for frontline staff. Isabelle is particularly passionate about frontline care of people living with dementia and developing the skills and passion of frontline staff. This stems from her early career as a care worker with older people living in care homes and in the community. Isabelle has over 25 years’ experience of working in health and social care settings with a particular focus on safeguarding vulnerable adults from abuse and educating frontline care staff.

Bio: Adriana is a Geographer with +15 years of experience working with communities and policymakers in Australia, Chile (her home country), Colombia and the UK. She is interested in conducting interdisciplinary research that promotes transformation towards more just and sustainable futures. Her PhD in Environment, Energy and Resilience from the University of Bristol (June 2020) examined community water management in rural Chile. Using Institutional Ethnography (IE) allowed her to map textually mediated work processes wherein rural people seek access to drinking water, navigating an institution that prevents them from accessing this basic human right. My research findings advise concrete policy and legislation changes on conceptualizations of ‘vulnerability’ and ‘water rights’ to achieve clean water for all. She is a member of the Society for the Study of Social Problems and of the International Sociological Association, specifically Working Group 6 on Institutional Ethnography, and Research Committee 24 on Society & Environment.

Bio: "Adam Smith was born in the north, a long time ago. He wanted to write books, but ended up working in the NHS, and at the Department of Health. He is now Programme Director in the Office of the NIHR National Director for Dementia Research (which probably sounds more important than it is) at University College London. He has led a number of initiatives to improve dementia research (including creating Dementia Researcher, Join Dementia Research & ENRICH), as well as pursuing his own research interests. He also write blogs, hosts podcasts and is passionate about improving the lives of people living with dementia and supporting early career researchers. In his spare time, he grows vegetables, builds Lego & spends most of his time drinking too much coffee and squeezing technology into his house."

Bio: Amos Toh is a senior researcher on artificial intelligence and human rights at Human Rights Watch. Before joining HRW, Amos served as legal advisor to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to freedom of opinion and expression and was a clinical teaching fellow at the University of California (Irvine) School of Law. Between 2012 and 2015, Amos was Counsel and Katz Fellow at the Brennan Center of Justice. Amos is a graduate of New York University School of Law and the National University of Singapore School of Law.

Bio: I am a survey statistician for the UK Household Longitudinal Study. My current research focuses on improving quality and efficiency of survey data, specifically within three broad themes. The first theme is related to motivation and its role in improving quality of survey answers. The second theme is concerned with tackling nonresponse through fieldwork, including through motivation and adaptive design. And the third investigates improvements of statistical estimation and correction for nonresponse in complex sample design situations, including in longitudinal and cross-sectional surveys. My wider research interests also include work on satisficing, real-world eye-tracking in survey context, nonresponse bias, sample design, and social desirability.

Bio: Emilia Del Bono is Professor of Economics at the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the University of Essex, and Director of the ESRC Research Centre on Micro-Social Change (https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/misoc). Her research agenda is focused on the nature, causes, and consequences of disparities in children’s and young adults’ human capital that lead to inequalities later on in life.

Bio: Adeline specializes in various fields in Applied Economics and Econometrics, including Development Economics, Health Economics, Education Economics and Labour Economics. Her research focuses on understanding how people’s subjective beliefs and expectations about future events shape their current decisions in health, labour markets and education space. She has made major contributions to survey methodology for elicitation of such beliefs from individuals, and to economic analysis of the impact of these beliefs on people’s behavior.

Bio: James’ manages the ONS Secure Research Service impact team, tracking and reporting the public good of research. Before this, James work in the world of elite tennis, using innovative technology to research athlete performance.

Bio: UK Data Service Director of Impact

Bio: Mary leads the Research Programme on the Public Good of Statistics in the Office for Statistics Regulation. Before this, she worked in academia, carrying out research and lecturing in Psychology.

Bio: "Rob is CLOSER’s knowledge mobiliser. He raises the profile of longitudinal population studies, data and research within government and parliament and feeds evidence into policy and decision making. In May 2020, Rob took on an additional role as Head of the CLOSER COVID-19 Taskforce and is the architect of the COVID-19 Longitudinal Research Hub. In February 2021, Rob was awarded a CAPE Policy Fellowship in the House of Commons Scrutiny Unit to support the implementation of the 2017-19 Liaison Committee’s report recommendations on the use of research evidence in Parliament. This includes working with Select Committees on developing Areas of Research Interests (ARIs) and considering how to develop more systematic structures of cooperation between parliament and research institutions. Prior to taking up the position at CLOSER in 2016, Rob worked in and around government and parliament, including the Ministry of Agriculture, House of Lords, and Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman."

Bio: Debbie Holley is Professor of Learning Innovation at Bournemouth University. A National Teaching Fellow and a passionate educator, she blends learning to motivate and engage a diverse student body. She has used biographic narrative interpretative method in her own research projects, seeking to uncover the hidden barriers to accessing technologies, worked with researchers across London to draw upon biographic narrative to track student University aspirations into their home communities, and offers training to doctoral students seeking to use this method in their own research. Her research interests in digital, augmented and immersive worlds influence national policy through her published work, keynote addresses and policy articles.

Bio: Helen Johnson is a Principal Psychology Lecturer at the University of Brighton, UK, and Co-Director for the University's Centre for Arts and Wellbeing. She is a leading voice in spoken word/poetry slam scholarship and an expert in creative research methods. Helen is particularly interested in the intersections between arts-based research, participatory research and social justice, and has developed the ‘collaborative poetics’ method framed by these concerns. She is also an established spoken word poet/educator, and has been Stage Manager for the Poetry&Words stage at Glastonbury Festival, the world’s largest greenfield music and performing arts festival, since 2008.

Bio: "Richard is Business Engagement Lead of Alliance Manchester Business School and Senior Lecturer (Associate Prof) in Data Science at The University of Manchester. Prior to Manchester, he worked at the Biochemical Engineering Department, University College London. He studied Business Engineering at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and completed a PhD in Computer Science at The University of Manchester. Richard's research interests are in the field of data science and in particular in the development and application of optimization and machine learning techniques to real-world problems arising in areas such as healthcare, manufacturing, economics, sports, music, and forensics. Much of research has been funded by UK funding bodies (e.g. ESRC, EPSRC, Innovate UK) and industrial partners. Richard is a Member of the Editorial Board of several international journals, Vice-Chair of the IEEE CIS Bioinformatics and Bioengineering Technical Committee, Co-Founder of the IEEE CIS Task Force on Optimization Methods in Bioinformatics and Bioengineering, and contributes regularly to conference organisation and special issues as guest editors."

Bio: Sarah has an international reputation as a leader in the fields of knowledge exchange and research impact, and has been an invited speaker on this topic in the UK, Europe, Canada and Australia. She has conducted eight independent impact studies and supported organisations and individuals to create and understand the impact of research and evidence-use strategies within and outwith Universities. She is the co-founder of Matter of Focus - a company that supports organisations to use data and evidence effectively - and has built an innovative software tool ‘OutNav’ to support this process.

Bio: Dr Garcia is a Lecturer of Complexity Science and Public Health and co-leads the Complexity, Public and Planetary Health Cluster, at the Queen’s University Belfast. He has experience in the development and application of complex systems science methods in various public health issues, including but not limited to health-related behaviour, determinants of non-communicable diseases, urban health, and health inequalities.

Bio: Ruth Hunter is a Professor in the Centre for Public Health, Queen’s University Belfast with a particular interest in complexity science, and public and planetary health. She is co-lead of the Epidemiology and Public Health Research Group at QUB. She has authored over 90 papers and leads research projects totalling over £10m from the UKPRP, MRC, NIHR and ESRC. She is a member of the NIHR Public Health Research funding panel and WHO expert consultant.

Bio: I am a public health clinical lecturer in Queen's University Belfast, a consultant in public health medicine in the Public Health Agency, and Deputy Chief Scientific Adviser in Northern Ireland's Department of Health. My work is at the interface of policy, practice and research. Much of my research is in the realm of public health epidemiology, led by contemporary policy challenges. I am interested in methods that recognise and account for the complexity of the problems that we address.

Bio: "Prof. King Costa is Executive Dean at the G-CAR- South Valley University campus in South Africa and Managing Director of Global Centre for Academic Research, also known as G-CAR. He is an Associate Research Professor at AMADI University College in Swaziland, where his role is focussed teaching on a pedagogy he developed, the C.O.S.T.A. Research Coaching and Supervision Model. He is also supervising MBA Research at MANCOSA (Management College of Southern Africa). King Costa is a member of the Scientific Committee for the World Conference on Qualitative Research, a premier yearly international conference on qualitative and mixed methods research. The World Conference on Qualitative Research attracts scholars across the globe from different disciplines and industries (https://wcqr.info/committees/). Prof. King Costa is a Management Scientist, registered with the Southern African Institute for Management Scientists. He is a Full Member of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology of South Africa (SIOPSA). He is also a member of the Southern African Research and Innovation Management Association (SARIMA). King is continually doing some post-doctoral CPD programmes via online platforms, and currently has a Certificate in Research Methods from Harvard Medical School, Certificate in Introduction to Systematic Reviews from John Hopkins University, Certificate in Improving Global Health : Focussing on Quality and Safety from HarvardX, Certificate in Research Ethics endorsed by the Global Health Network and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. He also obtained a Certificate of Completion in Good Clinical Practice for Social and Behavioural Research from the Society of Behavioural Medicine. He also has a Certificate in Knowledge synthesis: Systematic Reviews and Clinical Decision Making provided via University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Centre. King Costa has further completed training on Essential Elements of Ethics from the Global Health Network in association with Multi-regional Clinical Trials, The MRCT Centre of BRIGHAM and WOMEN's HOSPITAL and HAVARD. He is also a certified ETDP Practitioner (Assessor) and a Constituent Assessor for the Service SETA on Generic Management Qualification 59201. Dr Costa is also a Certified Peer Reviewer from the Publons Academy – a division of the Web of Science Group. He has practiced as a leadership and management consultant with over 20 years’ experience in Human Capital consulting and Organizational Development. He has worked with many organizations within the public, private and non-governmental sectors in both South Africa and different African countries including Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Liberia, Namibia, Botswana, Lesotho, and Swaziland. He specializes in helping and enabling professionals within the HR, Healthcare, and Enterprise Development fields to understand their area of maximum contribution and maximize contribution and organizational returns. He is a change agent and employee engagement specialist – helping organizations unlock value in people and teams while at the same time enhancing a productivity-centric culture. He is also a learning and development specialist, a conference keynote speaker, a motivational speaker, a facilitator, and an author."

Bio: Aleksandra Nenadic is the Training Lead at the UK's Software Sustainability Institute based at the University of Manchester committed to ongoing improvement of research software practice through training and community engagement work. Aleksandra is working to improve the provision and access to training in foundational computational and data analysis skills for researchers and scientists and is advocating for openness, reproducibility, collaboration and inclusion in research. Aleksandra volunteers in several open communities and serves on the Executive Council of The Carpentries, an international community teaching foundational coding and data science skills to researchers worldwide.

Bio: Kate Orton-Johnson is a digital sociologist. She is a senior lecturer at the University of Edinburgh and is Programme Co-Director of the Edinburgh MSc in Digital Society. She is co-convenor of the BSA Digital Sociology study group and a co-investigator at NCRM. She researches and publishes on intersections between technology, culture and everyday life, currently related to issues around digital leisure, digitally mediated parenthood and trust in blockchain technologies.

Bio: Dr Helen Kara FAcSS has been an independent researcher since 1999 and an independent scholar since 2011. She writes about research methods and research ethics, and teaches doctoral students and staff at higher education institutions worldwide. Her books include Creative Research Methods: A Practical Guide and Research Ethics in the Real World: Euro-Western and Indigenous Perspectives for Policy Press, and she has written and edited several other books for Policy Press, SAGE and Routledge. She is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Manchester and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.

Bio: Eduardo (Ph.D. In Econometrics, The University of Manchester) is a statistician/econometrician specialised in Causal Inference. He uses nonparametric methods to study questions about ageing (e.g. the effect of retirement on health and skills), childhood (the formation of skills such as strategic behaviour) and to evaluate policies that could affect peoples' skills and development. His work has been published in leading journals, such as Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Journal of Applied Statistics, Statistical Papers or Health Affairs, among others.

Bio: "Sarah Turner is a PhD Researcher in the School of Computing at the University of Kent, and a member of the Institute of Cyber Security for Society (iCCS). Her research focuses on how families address the cyber security issues arising from using Internet of Things devices in the home. Prior to this, Sarah received an MPA in Digital Technology and Public Policy from UCL’s Department of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy, and spent some time working as a Research Associate at PETRAS, the National Centre of Excellence for IoT Systems Cybersecurity. A lifelong collector of degrees of all shapes and sizes, Sarah has an MA in Literae Humaniores from the University of Oxford, an LLB from BPP Law School, and an MBA from the Open University. The last two of those were undertaken whilst she worked full-time in the financial services industry, creating and managing teams and technologies to meet regulatory obligations. As a result of her interdisciplinary background and work experience, Sarah is particularly interested in how systems get to a point of needing to be regulated, and what that regulation should look like, why people use technology they don’t always fully understand, how they can hope to use them safely and how such technologies should be designed and created."

Bio: "Gwilym Pryce is Professor of Urban Economics and Social Statistics at the University of Sheffield where he holds a joint appointment between the Sheffield Methods Institute and the Department of Urban Studies and Planning. Gwilym is Director of the ESRC/Nordforsk Life at the Frontier Project researching the social mobility of migrants and the impacts of residential segregation. Gwilym is also the Sheffield Director of the ESRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Data Analytics and Society, an interdisciplinary PhD programme. Gwilym's research interests are primarily in social segregation and inequality, including the ways in which neighbourhood deprivation and social fragmentation influence patterns of crime and anti-social behaviour."

Bio: "Duncan is a Professor of Statistics in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Glasgow, and his research interests focus on developing models for spatio-temporal areal unit data, particularly in environmental public health applications. In addition to numerous published research papers and grants in this field, Duncan is the author of the well used CARBayes and CARBayesST R packages for spatial and spatio-temporal areal unit modelling. Additionally, he hosted the 2019 GEOMED conference in Glasgow, which is the premier interdisciplinary meeting focusing on spatial health data modelling. Finally, Duncan has ongoing collaborations with Public Health Scotland and Public Health England where he has honorary appointments, and has previously taught numerous short courses on spatial data modelling to researchers and public health analysts alike."

Bio: "Kitty Meeks obtained her DPhil in Mathematics from the University of Oxford in 2013, before taking up a postdoctoral position at Queen Mary University of London. She moved to the University of Glasgow in 2014, first as a Lecturer in the School of Mathematics and Statistics, before moving to the School of Computing Science where she held a Royal Society of Edinburgh Personal Research Fellowship (""Exploiting Realistic Graph Structure"") from 2016 to 2021. She currently holds an EPRSR Fellowship entitled ""Beyond One Solution in Combinatorial Optimisation"" (2021-2026). Her research focuses on techniques for the design of algorithms that are provably both correct and efficient, and on the application of these algorithms to many other areas, ranging from Social Network Analysis to Precision Medicine."

Bio: Bridget Bryan is a PhD student and research assistant at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London. Her PhD research investigates the associations between loneliness, social isolation and work, and their implication for mental health and socio-economic outcomes. Bridget joined King’s in 2018 to assist in the data collection, web development and dissemination of the Catalogue of Mental Health Measures. Before joining the project, she completed a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) at the University of Sydney and a Master of Science in Sociology at the University of Oxford. Previously, Bridget has worked in research focusing on workplace mental health and the Australian forensic mental health system at the University of New South Wales, the Mental Health Commission of NSW and the University of Oxford.

Bio: Lily is a Research Assistant and joined the team in September 2020 to assist with editing and updating the Catalogue and reviewing new documentation from cohort and longitudinal studies. She completed her BSc (Hons) in Psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London, before completing her MSc in Developmental Psychology and Psychopathology at King’s College, London. Previously, Lily has worked as a Research Assistant on projects primarily focusing on children’s behavioural and socio-emotional adjustment in relation to parenting and family relationships. Lily’s research interests include familial processes, behavioural genetics, and the role of early adversity and socioeconomic risk in relation to mental health and wellbeing.

Bio: Gabriele Durrant is Professor in Social Statistics and Survey Methodology in the Department of Social Statistics and Demography at the University of Southampton. She is Director of the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM). she has extensive research experience in the analysis of nonresponse, representativeness and paradata in large-scale surveys using linked data sources and for improving survey data collection, including online data collection. She was the PI of a 3-year ESRC funded research project on ‘Data Collection for Data Quality’ (Work Package 1 of the NCRM).

Bio: Dr Olga Maslovskaya is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Social Statistics and Demography at the University of Southampton. My area of research is in Survey Research and Survey Methodology. The main fields of my interest are survey data collection, data quality in online surveys, mixed-device online surveys, transitioning to online data collection in social surveys. I am the lead of the ESRC project which funds activities of GenPopWeb2 network of academic and non-academic partners. The network addresses issues associated with transitioning of social surveys to online data collection. I am also a Co-Investigator on the ESRC project which funds the collection of the first wave of Gender and Generations Survey in the UK. I lead the workpackage which focuses on methodological developments in this new online survey.

Bio: "Tim is a Senior Research Fellow at European Social Survey (ESS) Headquarters, based at City, University of London. He leads the Questionnaire Design and Fieldwork work packages for ESS, having joined the team in November 2019. This followed 15 years at Kantar where Tim started his research career, after graduating with a BA in Geography and Sociology from the University of Sheffield. Tim’s research interests include the design/adaptation of surveys based on online/mixed-mode approaches, use of mobile devices for online surveys/mobile-optimised design, item nonresponse, video interviewing, and a range of topics relating to questionnaire design."

Bio: Gerry Nicolaas is NatCen’s Director of Methods, and Head of its Methodology & Innovation Hub. For thirty years, she has worked as a survey researcher and methodologist in government, academia, and the non-profit and commercial sectors. Throughout this time, she has focused on emerging survey methodological issues in two key areas: (1) data collection modes and (2) non-response. In more recent years, this focus has shifted to the use of online data collection, including the transformation of existing surveys from single offline modes to web-only and mixed mode including web.

Bio: "Laura is a Principal Social Researcher and the Data Collection lead for the UK Government Data Quality Hub (DQHub). Although based at the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the remit of her role extends to improving the quality of all data across government. Laura is an expert qualitative researcher with over a decade’s industry experience in designing and developing official government surveys. Prior to working in DQHub, Laura led the Research and Design Team in ONS which was responsible for the transformation of its Social Surveys. There she pioneered and embedded a respondent centred approach to survey development which transformed the respondent user experience. Laura has a passion for ensuring data are collected accurately at source, and for bringing respondent needs to forefront of survey design."

Bio: "I am a Creative Facilitator and Public Engagement specialist. My research focuses around the cultural relations and ethical obligations that society creates by collaborating with non-human life in pursuit of health and wellbeing. I aim to make people a little less comfortable with the familiar, known and connected, and a little more comfortable with that which feels unfamiliar, different and other. I design collaborative interventions around everyday objects and experiences that make participants complicit in the consequences of their interactions. I have particular interests in queer things, monstrous things, performative roles and the ethics of participation, living technologies and the human/non-human bond."

Bio: Dr Alexandrina Vanke holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Manchester. She has more than 10 years of research experience and participated in nine team projects. Alexandrina specialises in the application of interdisciplinary qualitative research methods, including interviewing, participant observation, ethnography, and creative and arts-based approaches. Her research interests include everyday life, intersectional inequalities, urban space and cultural practice. Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Member of the British Sociological Association.

Bio: "Victoria Lomasko is a Russian contemporary artist based in Moscow. She has a degree in Graphic Arts from Moscow State University of Print¬ing Arts. Her book Other Russias is a collection of ‘graphic reportages,’ a self-described style of art making and record keeping. It was published in six countries, for example in the USA by n+1 and in the UK by Penguin. During the past few years, mural making has become the main passion of her practice. Her work has appeared in Art in America, The Guardian, GQ Russia, The New Yorker and in exhibitions around the world including Kunsthalle Wien in Vienna, Austria, Garage Museum in Moscow, Russia, Miami University Humanities Center in Oxford, USA, GRAD at Somerset House, London, UK and the Cartoonmuseum, in Basel, Switzerland. Lomasko’s art is based on the synthesis of text and images. In her graphic reportages text is an important element as drawing is. In her practice, writing essays and poems precedes the sketching of monumental works so she refers her murals as “frozen poems”. Her art has developed from Soviet style (the artist used to call herself The Last Soviet Artist) to fantasy compositions that are based on real events and include reworked sketches from nature. Moving from documentary depicting concrete cases and from journalism to a narrative on big historical processes using symbolic language, the artist continues describing the modern life."

Bio: Adriana is a Geographer with +15 years of experience working with communities and policymakers in Australia, Chile (her home country), Colombia and the UK. She is interested in conducting interdisciplinary research that promotes transformation towards more just and sustainable futures. Her PhD in Environment, Energy and Resilience from the University of Bristol (June 2020) examined community water management in rural Chile. Using Institutional Ethnography (IE) allowed her to map textually mediated work processes wherein rural people seek access to drinking water, navigating an institution that prevents them from accessing this basic human right. My research findings advise concrete policy and legislation changes on conceptualizations of ‘vulnerability’ and ‘water rights’ to achieve clean water for all. She is a member of the Society for the Study of Social Problems and of the International Sociological Association, specifically Working Group 6 on Institutional Ethnography, and Research Committee 24 on Society & Environment.

Bio: "Adam Smith was born in the north, a long time ago. He wanted to write books, but ended up working in the NHS, and at the Department of Health. He is now Programme Director in the Office of the NIHR National Director for Dementia Research (which probably sounds more important than it is) at University College London. He has led a number of initiatives to improve dementia research (including creating Dementia Researcher, Join Dementia Research & ENRICH), as well as pursuing his own research interests. He also write blogs, hosts podcasts and is passionate about improving the lives of people living with dementia and supporting early career researchers. In his spare time, he grows vegetables, builds Lego & spends most of his time drinking too much coffee and squeezing technology into his house."

Bio: I completed my PhD exploring changing tenure, household structure and spatial polarisation at Manchester in 2016. Since then I have taught in Sociology at Warwick and Geography at Nottingham. I recently joined the UK Data Service. Before studying I worked for the Audit Commission on performance assessment and improvement with organisations and partnerships across local government, health and criminal justice agencies.

Bio: "I first encountered Census data in 1995, working as a placement student for a year at Midas (Manchester Information, Data and Associated Services) within the University of Manchester. I was asked back when my degree had completed and initially worked as maternity cover, programming an object oriented database for the SuperJournal project. That was in 1997, Midas then became Mimas, my job changed to become infrastructure and programming support on Census data, then moved to International Time Series data as part of UKDS but still working within the University of Manchester, then when the unit moved to Jisc my role increased to become encompass training for aggregate data. My role now is as senior technical co-ordinator for aggregate data within the UK Data Service, looking after a team of 4 technical staff who are responsible for the ingest of data to our systems and the hardware and software infrastructure on which it sits. In my career I have been lucky worked on ground breaking interfaces such as Casweb, GeoConvert and DotStat and taken part in shared projects that have led to advances in UK Census Outputs, Open Geospatial Consortium APIs, e-Social Science and international data co-operation such as the SIS-CC."

Bio: Sophie Woodward carries out research into materiality, fashion, consumption, feminist theory and everyday life. She is the author of five books, including recently Material Methods (2019), and Birth and Death (2019 with Kath Woodward). With an ongoing interest in creative methods and material methods she is currently carrying out research into Dormant Things – things in the home people keep but are no longer using, which she is currently developing into publications into the hidden spaces and materialities of the home.

Bio: Dr Helen Holmes is a Lecturer in Sociology and Sustainable Consumption. Her work explores materiality, consumption and diverse forms of economy, especially the circular economy. In particular, Helen focuses upon social perspectives of objects and materials, to illuminate the lived everyday relationships we have with things. She has extensive expertise in using ethnographic methods to study micro level practices. Helen has published widely in high quality journals including Sociology, The Sociological Review, Work, Employment and Society and Geoforum.

Bio: Melanie Nind is Professor of Education at the University of Southampton and a co-director of NCRM, leading on pedagogic research (https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/research/pedagogy.php) and methodological responses to Covid-19 (https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/research/socscicovid19/). Melanie guest-edited the 2015 special issue of International Journal of Social Research Methodology on the teaching and learning of social research methods, she is editor of the Bloomsbury Research Methods for Education book series and author of Inclusive Research in the NCRM Bloomsbury Research Methods series.

Bio: "Robert Meckin is a presidential fellow in the School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester and works closely with the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM). He is interested in emerging technosciences, interdisciplinarity and research infrastructures. He has spent recent years collaborating with and working alongside scientists practicing a design-led approach to biotechnology, and exploring how publics anticipate the potential of new biotechnological capabilities by using the chemical menthol as a way into discussing everyday technological understandings. Publications include explorations of scientific practices in increasingly automated, digitalised laboratories, and the affordances of sensory methods in engaging publics. At NCRM he has been focused on interdisciplinary research methods and has been examining the nascent areas of investigative methods and computational social science methods with Mark Elliot (University of Manchester) and Michael Mair (University of Liverpool), and exploring changing research practices in Covid-19 with Melanie Nind and Andy Coverdale (both at the University of Southampton)."

Bio: Andy Coverdale is a Research Fellow in Southampton Education School at the university of Southampton and member of the Centre for Research in Inclusion. He is currently working with the National Centre for Research Methods on their project looking at social research in the context of Covid-19 alongside research into how digital accessibility is taught and learned in Higher Education and the workplace. Andy has many years’ experience of working with, supporting, and teaching people with learning disabilities, and recently completed work on the ‘Self-build Social Care‘ research project, using inclusive and participatory methods to work collaboratively with people with learning disabilities and their allies. Andy has previously conducted research in the educational use of digital media and technology through his work with iRes at Falmouth University and the Visual Learning Lab at the University of Nottingham. His PhD examined the role of social and participatory media in doctoral education.

Bio: Michael is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Liverpool. He is the Director of engage@liverpool (www.liverpool.ac.uk/engage), an Executive Board Member of Methods North West (www.methodsnorthwest.ac.uk), and a Senior Fellow at the UK’s National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM, www.ncrm.ac.uk). Michael has expertise in the methodology, philosophy and social scientific study of research with his empirical work focusing on methodological practice in the social sciences, natural sciences and the arts and humanities and covering ethnographic studies of qualitative, quantitative, investigative and digital methods as well as experimentation, machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Bio: "Robert Meckin is a presidential fellow in the School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester and works closely with the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM). He is interested in emerging technosciences, interdisciplinarity and research infrastructures. He has spent recent years collaborating with and working alongside scientists practicing a design-led approach to biotechnology, and exploring how publics anticipate the potential of new biotechnological capabilities by using the chemical menthol as a way into discussing everyday technological understandings. Publications include explorations of scientific practices in increasingly automated, digitalised laboratories, and the affordances of sensory methods in engaging publics. At NCRM he has been focused on interdisciplinary research methods and has been examining the nascent areas of investigative methods and computational social science methods with Mark Elliot (University of Manchester) and Michael Mair (University of Liverpool), and exploring changing research practices in Covid-19 with Melanie Nind and Andy Coverdale (both at the University of Southampton)."

Bio: David Martin is a Professor of Geography at the University of Southampton. He is a co-director of both the National Centre for Research Methods and the UK Data Service. He was the coordinator of ESRC's Census Programme from 2002-2012 and his research in Geographical Information Science particularly concerns grid-based population mapping and automated zone design. His work led to the system of Census output areas, Super output areas and Workplace Zones that have been used by the Office for National Statistics for the publication of area-based census data since 2001.

Bio: "I first encountered Census data in 1995, working as a placement student for a year at Midas (Manchester Information, Data and Associated Services) within the University of Manchester. I was asked back when my degree had completed and initially worked as maternity cover, programming an object oriented database for the SuperJournal project. That was in 1997, Midas then became Mimas, my job changed to become infrastructure and programming support on Census data, then moved to International Time Series data as part of UKDS but still working within the University of Manchester, then when the unit moved to Jisc my role increased to become encompass training for aggregate data. My role now is as senior technical co-ordinator for aggregate data within the UK Data Service, looking after a team of 4 technical staff who are responsible for the ingest of data to our systems and the hardware and software infrastructure on which it sits. In my career I have been lucky worked on ground breaking interfaces such as Casweb, GeoConvert and DotStat and taken part in shared projects that have led to advances in UK Census Outputs, Open Geospatial Consortium APIs, e-Social Science and international data co-operation such as the SIS-CC."

Bio: "I have two Masters degrees, one in French language and literature and the other in English. Mt first thesis was about a sociolinguistic analysis of Shakespearean female characters. The MPhil dissertation compared translation related features of English and Urdu short stories. For my PhD dissertation, I again made a comparative study of English and Urdu (the national language of Pakistan). For this sociolinguistic project, I decided to introduce grounded theory methodology in order to theorize the place of the two important languages in Pakistan. My research interests include"

Bio: "Maria holds a joint position, as a Senior Lecturer of Education and Social Statistics, at the University of Manchester. Her substantive research interest lies within educational research and in particular in the association between teaching practices and students’ learning outcomes focusing on STEM and recently on issues around gender (in)equality. Methodologically, her expertise and interests lie within evaluation and measurement, and advanced quantitative methods, including longitudinal data analysis and dealing with missing data. For more details: Email: maria.pampaka@manchester.ac.uk Profile: https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/maria.pampaka.html"

Bio: "Tina is a lecturer in Social Statistics at the University of Manchester. She is a trained Demographer and has researched topics such as socio-economic factors for the onset of cardiovascular disease across different ethnic groups, fertility and family formation and dissolution process among ethnic groups and the effectiveness of compensation methods for missing data in bio-marker dataset.

Bio: Mary has worked for the Office for National Statistics for just over a year, having formerly been an academic researcher. She works within the Statistical Support team, one of several teams within the Integrated Data Programme and Service directorate who run the Secure Research Service (SRS). The SRS is a trusted research environment where Accredited Researchers may access de-identified unpublished data for research projects that are for the public good.

Bio: "Dr. Maggie Laidlaw Maggie Laidlaw is a Post-Doctoral Researcher within the Department of Economics in the Glasgow School of Business & Society at Glasgow Caledonian University. She is also Lead Curator with D.Rad and Module Leader & Lecturer in (PG) Applied Skills in Qualitative Research Methods within the GCU Graduate School. Maggie received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Edinburgh, and her M.Res from The Glasgow School of Art. Her Ph.D. scholarship was funded by the Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC). Maggie’s research interests focused predominately on gendered temporalities of belonging and civic participation, however more recent work examines the use of creative arts to explore inclusion and belonging across various communities. She is a trained ethnographer and experienced in creative and collaborative qualitative research methodologies. Maggie’s field of expertise cover: The Arts & Social Inclusion & Belonging, Temporalities of belonging, Temporalities of volunteering & community engagement, Sociology of Time, Gendered Temporalities, Norbert Elias’s We-I balance, Qualitative research methods: Arts-based research, Poetry, Innovative Research Methods, Co-production and collaborative research. In a voluntary capacity, Maggie is actively engaged with her local community, and experienced in leading community arts projects. maggie.laidlaw@gcu.ac.uk"

Bio: Simone Eringfeld is an educationist, artist-researcher, poet and writer whose work explores new ways to blend academia with art. She graduated from the University of Cambridge with a master's degree in Education and International Development in 2020. Her thesis on the future of the post-Covid University, which used podcasting as its principal research method, won the BERA Master's Dissertation Award (1st Prize, 2021). In April 2021, she released her first spoken word music EP in which she presented data from her research at Cambridge. Most recently, she has been focused on further developing podcasting as an action research method and 'data music' as a new way of communicating research results.

Bio: "Professor Tracey Reynolds is Professor of Social Sciences and Director of the Centre for Applied Sociology Research at the University of Greenwich. Tracey’s teaching and research areas include an interest in Black and racialised migrant mothering, families and communities. Tracey’s most recent projects involve research collaboration with neighbourhood and local community organisations in London/SE and North-East England using creative, participatory and co-produced projects to explore migrant families community resilience and the impact of hostile environment policies during COVID-19 pandemic. These include projects with the webinar contributors: Migrant Mothers Caring for the Future: Creative interventions in making new citizens, Arts and Humanities Research Council, 2013 - 2015, (with Umut Erel, Open University, PI). http://www.open.ac.uk/socialsciences/migrant-mothers/. ‘Participatory Arts and Social Action Research’, ESRC (with Umut Erel, and Maggie O’Neill, York University), https://fass.open.ac.uk/research/projects/pasar, 2016-2018. Participatory Artsbased Methods for Civic Engagement in Migrant Support Organizations, Arts and Humanities Research Council, 2020 – 2022 (with Umut Erel, Erene Kaptani, Open University, Maggie O’Neill, UCC, Ireland). ‘Stronger Together: Our stories of the UK’s hostile environment’ (with Creating Ground and Citizens UK), 2021-22 https://www.theground.org.uk/strongertogether Tracey’s achievement was recently recognised in a national exhibition Phenomenal Women: Portraits of UK Black Female Professors at South Bank Centre, Oct-Nov 2020. This exhibition showcased 45 Black female Professors in the UK (put of a total of 21,000 Professors) https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/talks-debates/phenomenal-women-black-female-professors?eventId=858232. Associated links to collaborative partnership with community organisation Creating Ground (Link to performance https://www.theground.org.uk/noticeus Link to to join campaign https://forms.gle/Xwhq5tccc1VGcraK9 and our impact report https://d85c7b86-7c31-4ec0-9c01-f5530d8c9647.filesusr.com/ugd/41196f_76ae448a871b4280ba4b5f630e56be71.pdf"

Bio: Maggie has a long history of doing participatory research using biographical and arts based methods (visual and performative) in collaboration with artists and communities. Maggie has researched and published widely on critical theory, 'ethno-mimesis', PAR, sex work, migration, asylum and borders, walking as a biographical and arts based method. She is currently working with: Umut Erel, Tracey Reynolds & Erene Kaptani on 'Participatory Arts based Methods For Civic Engagement In Migrant Support Organizations', funded by AHRC, 2020-22, and with Dee Heddon, Harry Wilson, Morag Rose, and Clare Qualmann, on 'Walking Publics/Walking Arts', funded by UKRI, 2021 - 2023. Maggie is a member of the Executive Board of the European Sociological Association, a past Chair of RN03 and a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.

Bio: Dr. Erel is Professor in Sociology at the Open University, UK. She has widely published on the intersections of migration, ethnicity, citizenship, racism, gender, class. Her methodological interests are in creative and participatory methods for research and engagement. For recent publications, see http://www.open.ac.uk/people/ue27

Bio: "Laura is the Director of Creating Ground CIC which she founded in May 2016. Creating Ground CIC is a not-for-profit organisation that works with women from migrant backgrounds to promote cross-cultural awareness, learning and sharing across different communities in South East London through collaborative arts and educational projects. She is also the co-chair of Greenwich Citizens. Laura worked for 9 years at the Migrants Resource Centre where she was responsible for the community education and employability service. She also worked for 2 years at Action for Refugees in Lewisham managing a supplementary school for children aged 4 to 11 and at Renaisi as Community Inclusion Service Delivery Manager supporting a team of bilingual parent advisors working in different schools in Islington and Hackney. She will be presenting together with the Stronger Together Leaders, a group of women from Creating Ground."

Bio: "Julia Kasmire researches and teaches on how to use new forms of data for social scientists with the UK Data Service and the Cathie Marsh Institute at the University of Manchester. She approaches this task as an interesting combination of thinking like a computer (essential for data sciences) and thinking like a human (essential for social sciences) in the context of complex adaptive systems. She is deeply committed to equality, diversity and inclusivity and is currently dabbling with stand-up comedy as a form of science communication."

Bio: Adriana is a Geographer with +15 years of experience working with communities and policymakers in Australia, Chile (her home country), Colombia and the UK. She is interested in conducting interdisciplinary research that promotes transformation towards more just and sustainable futures. Her PhD in Environment, Energy and Resilience from the University of Bristol (June 2020) examined community water management in rural Chile. Using Institutional Ethnography (IE) allowed her to map textually mediated work processes wherein rural people seek access to drinking water, navigating an institution that prevents them from accessing this basic human right. My research findings advise concrete policy and legislation changes on conceptualizations of ‘vulnerability’ and ‘water rights’ to achieve clean water for all. She is a member of the Society for the Study of Social Problems and of the International Sociological Association, specifically Working Group 6 on Institutional Ethnography, and Research Committee 24 on Society & Environment.

Bio: Dr Emily Bradfield is an Independent Arts Consultant and Researcher who supports people to reimagine evaluation and manage projects creatively, creating bespoke visually engaging and impactful evaluation reports and other creative outputs. She is also Charity Director at Arts and Minds, an arts and mental health charity working across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. Emily holds a PhD in Creative Ageing (University of Derby) and an MSc in Cultural Events Management (De Montfort University). She is passionate about bridging the gap between research and practice, advocating arts for social change and weaving creativity throughout research, evaluation and practice. During her PhD research, Emily developed her own style of visual note taking, #CreativeCapture.

Bio: Dr Alexandrina Vanke holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Manchester. She has more than 10 years of research experience and participated in nine team projects. Alexandrina specialises in the application of interdisciplinary qualitative research methods, including interviewing, participant observation, ethnography, and creative and arts-based approaches. Her research interests include everyday life, intersectional inequalities, urban space and cultural practice. Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Member of the British Sociological Association.

Bio: "Victoria Lomasko is a Russian contemporary artist based in Moscow. She has a degree in Graphic Arts from Moscow State University of Print¬ing Arts. Her book Other Russias is a collection of ‘graphic reportages,’ a self-described style of art making and record keeping. It was published in six countries, for example in the USA by n+1 and in the UK by Penguin. During the past few years, mural making has become the main passion of her practice. Her work has appeared in Art in America, The Guardian, GQ Russia, The New Yorker and in exhibitions around the world including Kunsthalle Wien in Vienna, Austria, Garage Museum in Moscow, Russia, Miami University Humanities Center in Oxford, USA, GRAD at Somerset House, London, UK and the Cartoonmuseum, in Basel, Switzerland. Lomasko’s art is based on the synthesis of text and images. In her graphic reportages text is an important element as drawing is. In her practice, writing essays and poems precedes the sketching of monumental works so she refers her murals as “frozen poems”. Her art has developed from Soviet style (the artist used to call herself The Last Soviet Artist) to fantasy compositions that are based on real events and include reworked sketches from nature. Moving from documentary depicting concrete cases and from journalism to a narrative on big historical processes using symbolic language, the artist continues describing the modern life."

Bio: "Adam Smith was born in the north, a long time ago. He wanted to write books, but ended up working in the NHS, and at the Department of Health. He is now Programme Director in the Office of the NIHR National Director for Dementia Research (which probably sounds more important than it is) at University College London. He has led a number of initiatives to improve dementia research (including creating Dementia Researcher, Join Dementia Research & ENRICH), as well as pursuing his own research interests. He also write blogs, hosts podcasts and is passionate about improving the lives of people living with dementia and supporting early career researchers. In his spare time, he grows vegetables, builds Lego & spends most of his time drinking too much coffee and squeezing technology into his house."

Bio: Noshir Contractor is the Jane S. & William J. White Professor of Behavioral Sciences in the McCormick School of Engineering & Applied Science, the School of Communication and the Kellogg School of Management and Director of the Science of Networks in Communities (SONIC) Research Group at Northwestern University. He is also the President-Elect of the International Communication Association (ICA). He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and the International Communication Association (ICA). He also received the Distinguished Scholar Award from the National Communication Association and the Lifetime Service Award from the Organizational Communication & Information Systems Division of the Academy of Management. He was selected as the recipient of the 2022 Simmel Award from the International Network for Social Network Analysis. In 2018 he received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras where he received a Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering. He received his Ph.D. from the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Southern California.

Bio: Dr Kahryn Hughes is Associate Professor, University of Leeds. She is Director of the Timescapes Archive, Editor-in-Chief of the BSA Sociological Research Online, and Senior Fellow of the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM). Her research funding has been from flagship ESRC methods programmes, including the Research Methods Programme and Timescapes. She is internationally recognised for innovation in qualitative longitudinal methods, and Qualitative Secondary Analysis.

Bio: "Tracing the lives and support needs of young fathers: A participatory, qualitative longitudinal and comparative analysis Anna is a Reader in Sociology at the University of Lincoln. Her research interests include men and masculinities, family life, the lifecourse, and methodological developments in qualitative secondary analysis. She has recently completed research that examines the care responsibilities and support needs of men in low-income contexts, including young fathers. The Future Leaders Fellowship builds out of this work, seeking to implement, evaluate and promote father-inclusive and gender equal practice approaches and environments across the health and social care landscape in the UK. A unique and dynamic evidence base will be built to challenge the stereotypes, misconceptions and marginalisations that are experienced by young fathers. They will also enable a clearer picture to emerge about the impact of different cultures of understanding and expectations on young fathers, and how varied professional and policy responses shape young fathers’ experiences, their capacity to sustain positive relationships with their children, and their social and economic participation."

Bio: "I am a social scientist interested in the 'making of' digital technologies and policies. In addition, I research and practice interdisciplinary and collaborative inquiry as a way to address societal challenges. My academic journey started with pursuing a BSc in Geography and Geology, where I gained appreciation for nature and understood the urgency of environmental issues. This led me to embarking on a PhD programme where I explored the the notions of sustainability expertise in climate policy design. I was curious to find out how sustainability practitioners work together across sectors and what ""works"" for them when it comes to policy design. These epistemological questions naturally led me to a field called Science and Technology Studies (STS). Before joining Bristol, I worked on two STS projects analysing and evaluating inter- and transdisciplinary projects in robotics and sustainability. While cross-faculty collaborations are the norm in the contemporary academia, for the early-career researchers, they are still often a risky endeavour. What can universities and funders to to build capabilities and networks for collaborative research? Encouraged by the possibilities (if not challenges) of interisciplinarity, I joined the University of Bristol (Cyber Security Research Group) where I work on expertise creation during the implementation of a major industrial cyber security directive (NIS). This is an exciting area, which brings together engineers, IT experts, lawyers, regulators and sector-specific expertise. As the directive pertains to the critical infrastructures, I am mainly interested in the sectors like water, energy or transport. In addition, I continue my service at environmental science-policy interface as a member of Bristol's Advisory Committee on Climate Change where I lead a policy working group."

Bio: Mehdi has been a member of Bristol Robotics Laboratory since 2011 and worked on many EC-FP7 and EPSRC funded projects on Medical Robotics, safe interactive robots, Human-Robot Interaction, Robot Adaptive Behaviour, and Decision Making in joint-action. He had also a close collaboration with Experimental Psychologist and is experienced with Machine Learning and data analysis. He is currently a Research Fellow in the National Centre for Nuclear Robotics where his research is focused on the user-centred design of novel teleoperation interfaces using Virtual Reality.

Bio: "Lindsay is an Advanced Research Fellow in mental health at the NIHR Patient Safety Translational Research Centre and Honorary Research Psychologist at West London NHS Trust. She currently leads projects examining patient safety in mental health, and her work primarily focuses on detecting youth mental health deterioration using digital devices. Her works embeds meaningful patient and public involvement (PPI) and/or co-production. Her latest work examines the impact of COVID-19 lockdown on the mental health and coping strategies of young people. This work is co-produced with young people with experience of mental health difficulties. Other work centres on sleep, suicide, self-harm and care transitions in vulnerable and seldom-heard groups. She is also Topic Lead in Mental Health and Wellbeing for the Lifestyle Medicine and Prevention module for MBBS at Imperial. Lindsay's background is in psychology (BA, MSc) and forensic psychology (MSc). During her PhD, titled: Insomnia in a prison population: a mixed methods study, she studied the prevalence and associated factors of insomnia including depression, suicidality and anxiety in a large cohort of male and female prisoners at The University of Manchester. She subsequently designed and tested a novel treatment pathway for insomnia for prisoners in a high secure prison in England after winning a Health Foundation Innovating for Improvement Award. She has over 15 years research experience that spans across patient safety, public health, psychology and forensic mental health."

Bio: Suzanne has a PhD in Art History and Theory from the University of Essex, awarded in 2016. Her research interests centre around aesthetics and identity, with particular focus on dress and representation. She is currently a Senior Lecturer at the University of Suffolk, teaching research methods at all levels.

Bio: Post-doctoral research fellow working on an Erasmus+ funded project (ENABLES) exploring the use of arts-based embodied approaches to leadership development. Keen interest in creative methods - especially collage - & well-being. Previous research explored what it means to be struggling as a teacher.

Bio: "Jonathan is Professor of Sociology at Nord University, Norway, Visiting Professor at Aston University, UK. and a Docent at the Sociology Department, Helsinki University, Finland. Before joining Nord in January 2021, he was a Professor of Sociology and Public Policy, Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Executive Dean of the School of Languages and Social Sciences at Aston University. Previously he was a Professorial Fellow in the Institute of Government and Public Management in Warwick Business School and led the University of Warwick MPA. Jonathan established and, as Chief Executive, led the National NHS Centre for Involvement from 2006-2009 funded by the UK Department of Health. Jonathan’s main research interests relate to public participation and lay experience in policy making and service development particularly in relation to health and environmental policy. He supported the development of Public Health England’s public involvement strategy, and chaired the Public Health England Equality Forum. He helped develop and deliver a patient and public involvement strategy for the National Cancer Registration and Analysis Service and is building metrics to measure the impact of patient and public involvement in research for the clinical research networks within the National Institute for Health Research. Jonathan has more than 100 publications including three co-authored books has received funding from the ESRC, the Finnish Academy and a range of other public sources. He is involved in a number of international and national research and development projects that focus particularly on the evidence base relating to the impact of patient and public involvement."

Bio: Amy is a Lecturer in Social and Cultural Geography. She is interested in i) age, ageing and the life-course ii) place, place-making and memory and iii) non-representational theories and affect. She uses a range of creative, participatory and ethnographic methods.

Bio: Sarah Marie Hall is Reader in Human Geography at the University of Manchester, and a member of the Morgan Centre for Research into Everyday Lives. Her research interests revolve around everyday life in times of economic change, social reproduction, families and relationships, and feminist methods and praxis. In February 2021 she begins a four year UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship on the subject of austerity and altered lifecourses across Europe.

Bio: Jen recently joined the Health and Social Care Workforce Research Unit at King's College to study social care responses to self-neglect and hoarding amongst older people. Prior to this she held a ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship and PhD studentship at Cardiff University, where she studied a voluntary decluttering service for older people in South Wales, and the use of self-storage by individuals and families in the UK respectively. Jen's overarching interest is the services which support people with their possessions at home, and uses material methods in order to understand broader issues of family, home, identity, mobility, and life transitions.

Bio: Legal researcher with a PhD in law on human trafficking. Julia has a firm grasp of legal concepts and theories with an ability to operationalise them in an applied manner. Her main expertise is in human trafficking, criminal law, human rights, human security and victimology. At Trilateral Research she leads the Socio-Tech Insights Group, which tackles social challenges with interdisciplinary expertise and cutting-edge data intelligence services.

Bio: "Gwilym leads the Trilateral Research training offering which ranges from bespoke behaviour change programmes to instructing client teams on our state of the art AI solutions. His background was in corporate consulting for clients including JPMorgan, Credit Suisse and Pfizer. He then moved his focus to training, first as a teacher and then holding trainer positions in the second and third sector, most recently at Save the Children. Gwilym brings his research skills from his legal career. He has previously designed and led behaviour change programmes for clients including the NHS and the Department of Health, and teaches public speaking. He holds a BSc in Physics and was admitted to the Bar in 2006."

Bio: "Todd Hartman is Professor of Quantitative Social Science in the Department of Social Statistics at the University of Manchester. His research explores the psychological underpinnings of public opinion and behaviour using cutting-edge research methods and statistical techniques. His work has been published in prestigious peer-reviewed academic journals such as Nature Communications, Nature: Scientific Reports, Psychological Medicine, Big Data & Society, British Journal of Political Science, The Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Social Psychological and Personality Science, Political Psychology, Political Communication, and The Geographical Journal. Professor Hartman has been working with an interdisciplinary team to study the impact of COVID-19 on the public. This project secured early funding from the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and has collected nationally representative panel data in multiple countries (e.g., UK, Ireland, Spain, and Italy) from multiple survey waves of respondents beginning when the first UK Lockdown was announced (on 23 March 2020). This unique collaboration is only one of two social science research teams to receive ESRC funding to collect new longitudinal survey data since the start of the pandemic to study the implications of COVID-19 on adults living in the UK (e.g., see this funding announcement). While this project has been immensely challenging, given the speed with which things have changed locally, nationally, and internationally, it has also been a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity (hopefully!) to study a global health crisis which has wrought about such societal upheaval."

Bio: I joined the University of Manchester as a Lecturer in October 2019. Before that, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the Social Networks Lab at ETH Zürich between 2016-2019. I got my Sociology DPhil from Oxford in 2016, and earlier my MA in Sociology and Economics from the Corvinus University of Budapest (Hungary) in 2010. Throughout these career stages, I have been involved in exciting research projects linking sociology, social psychology, education research, statistics, and quantiative social network analysis.

Bio: Vaclav Brezina is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Linguistics and English Language and a member of the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science, Lancaster University. His research interests are in the areas of applied linguistics, corpus design and methodology, and statistics. He is the author of Statistics in Corpus Linguistics (CUP, 2018) and a co-author of the New General Service List (Applied Linguistics, 2015). He also designed a number of different tools for corpus analysis such as #LancsBox, BNClab, LancsLex and Lancaster Stats Tools online.

Bio: Vanessa May is Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Morgan Centre for Research into Everyday Lives at the University of Manchester. She is Co-Editor of the journal Sociology. Her research interests include the self, belonging, temporality, ageing, family relationships and qualitative methods including biographical methods, narrative analysis and creative methods. Vanessa has published in a number of journals including Sociology, Sociological Review, Time & Society and British Journal of Sociology. She is the author of Connecting Self to Society: Belonging in a Changing World (Palgrave Macmillan) and co-editor of Sociology of Personal Life (2nd edition, Macmillan).

Bio: Sarah Marie Hall is Reader in Human Geography at the University of Manchester, and a member of the Morgan Centre for Research into Everyday Lives. Her research interests revolve around everyday life in times of economic change, social reproduction, families and relationships, and feminist methods and praxis. In February 2021 she begins a four year UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship on the subject of austerity and altered lifecourses across Europe.

Bio: Amy is a Lecturer in Social and Cultural Geography. She is interested in i) age, ageing and the life-course ii) place, place-making and memory and iii) non-representational theories and affect. She uses a range of creative, participatory and ethnographic methods.

Bio: Jen recently joined the Health and Social Care Workforce Research Unit at King's College to study social care responses to self-neglect and hoarding amongst older people. Prior to this she held a ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship and PhD studentship at Cardiff University, where she studied a voluntary decluttering service for older people in South Wales, and the use of self-storage by individuals and families in the UK respectively. Jen's overarching interest is the services which support people with their possessions at home, and uses material methods in order to understand broader issues of family, home, identity, mobility, and life transitions.

Bio: Laura Fenton is Research Associate at the University of Manchester. She works part time on the UKRI funded Austerity and Altered Lifecourses project with Dr Sarah Marie Hall and colleagues. Laura is also contributing to the Wellcome Trust funded Youth Drinking in Decline project at the University of Sheffield. Both roles develop research experience Laura gained through her PhD on three generations of British women's changing relationships with alcohol across the lifecourse. Laura's research interests include creative biographical methods, gender, youth and the lifecourse.

Bio: Melanie Lovatt is a senior lecturer in sociology at the University of Stirling. Her research interests include ageing, time, and relationships. She is currently leading the ESRC-funded project https://reimaginingthefutureinolderage.stir.ac.uk/ which uses creative methods to explore the relationship between older age and future time. In previous work she has used ethnographic approaches - with a focus on material culture - to explore everyday experiences in an older people's residential home.

Bio: "Robert Meckin is a presidential fellow in the School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester and works closely with the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM). He is interested in emerging technosciences, interdisciplinarity and research infrastructures. He has spent recent years collaborating with and working alongside scientists practicing a design-led approach to biotechnology, and exploring how publics anticipate the potential of new biotechnological capabilities by using the chemical menthol as a way into discussing everyday technological understandings. Publications include explorations of scientific practices in increasingly automated, digitalised laboratories, and the affordances of sensory methods in engaging publics. At NCRM he has been focused on interdisciplinary research methods and has been examining the nascent areas of investigative methods and computational social science methods with Mark Elliot (University of Manchester) and Michael Mair (University of Liverpool), and exploring changing research practices in Covid-19 with Melanie Nind and Andy Coverdale (both at the University of Southampton)."

Bio: Andy Coverdale is a Research Fellow in Southampton Education School at the university of Southampton and member of the Centre for Research in Inclusion. He is currently working with the National Centre for Research Methods on their project looking at social research in the context of Covid-19 alongside research into how digital accessibility is taught and learned in Higher Education and the workplace. Andy has many years’ experience of working with, supporting, and teaching people with learning disabilities, and recently completed work on the ‘Self-build Social Care‘ research project, using inclusive and participatory methods to work collaboratively with people with learning disabilities and their allies. Andy has previously conducted research in the educational use of digital media and technology through his work with iRes at Falmouth University and the Visual Learning Lab at the University of Nottingham. His PhD examined the role of social and participatory media in doctoral education.

Bio: Melanie Nind is Professor of Education at the University of Southampton and a co-director of NCRM, leading on pedagogic research (https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/research/pedagogy.php) and methodological responses to Covid-19 (https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/research/socscicovid19/). Melanie guest-edited the 2015 special issue of International Journal of Social Research Methodology on the teaching and learning of social research methods, she is editor of the Bloomsbury Research Methods for Education book series and author of Inclusive Research in the NCRM Bloomsbury Research Methods series.

Bio: "I currently hold a position of Presidential Fellow at the department of criminology and the Mitchell Centre for Social Network Analysis at the University of Manchester. I also collaborate with the department of sociology, Faculty of Arts at Charles University and with the Centre for Modelling of Biological and Social Processes. Besides that, I am a co-founder of Czech Network for Social Network Analysis, through which we regularly organize workshops and conferences. My research focuses mainly on social network analysis (SNA), most prominently statistical models for network data, and on analytical sociology and criminology. I am interested in the application of SNA, mainly to criminal networks, but also to political, organizational, health-related, or historical networks. I find the study of structure and dynamics of human networks to be intriguing and crucial for our understanding of social reality. Besides network analysis and sociology (and science in general), I enjoy reading science fiction & fantasy books, lifting heavy weights, listening to heavy music, taking long walks, and playing various card games."

Bio: I am an Associate Professor in Quantitative Criminology with a background in Social Statistics. Most of my research has focused on the analysis of unwarranted disparities in criminal justice decisions, for what I have collaborated with the Crown Prosecution Service, the Sentencing Council for England and Wales, and the Parole Board. More recently I have been working on the problem of measurement error in police statistics, where I have been exploring its prevalence, impact, and strategies to adjust for it.

Bio: Alison has worked for the University of Cambridge for over twenty years, specialising in research facilitation, knowledge exchange and postgraduate training. Currently, Alison is the Doctoral Training Manager for the Cambridge ESRC DTP and School of the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Bio: Siobhan's current research doctoral focuses on the professional learning of secondary History teachers in England, where she uses collaborative and dialogic modes of inquiry drawn from sociocultural psychology. She has also worked on research into professional learning in other public sector contexts including healthcare and government. Before coming into full time research she was a History teacher and curriculum leader for ten years, and remains a senior assessor with a leading awarding body. She has extensive experience in close-to-practice research: prior to her PhD she undertook a professional masters related to her assessment work, and has previously carried out, led and published on practitioner inquiries undertaken while working as a teacher. She co-facilitates the Cambridge Network for Participatory and Collaborative Research Methods, which is supported by the Cambridge ESRC DTP and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Bio: Emily is a second-year, part-time PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge in the Faculty of Education. Her research seeks to workshop a teacher-led intervention to support wellbeing using performance research, and is funded by the ESRC. Emily is also the SENDCo and teacher of Classics at a school in south London, teaching students aged 4-18. Emily's research seeks to promote inclusion through collaborating with stakeholders to develop a free, evidence-based intervention to support students facing long waiting lists to receive mental health support.

Bio: "Trish Greenhalgh is Professor of Primary Care Health Sciences and Fellow of Green Templeton College at the University of Oxford. She studied Medical, Social and Political Sciences at Cambridge and Clinical Medicine at Oxford before training first as a diabetologist and later as an academic general practitioner. She has a doctorate in diabetes care and an MBA in Higher Education Management. She leads a programme of research at the interface between the social sciences and medicine, working across primary and secondary care. Her work seeks to celebrate and retain the traditional and the humanistic aspects of medicine and healthcare while also embracing the exceptional opportunities of contemporary science and technology to improve health outcomes and relieve suffering. Three particular interests are the health needs and illness narratives of minority and disadvantaged groups, the introduction of technology-based innovations in healthcare, and the complex links (philosophical and empirical) between research, policy and practice. She has brought this interdisciplinary perspective to bear on the research response to the Covid-19 pandemic, looking at diverse themes including clinical assessment of the deteriorating patient by phone and video, the science and anthropology of face coverings, and policy decision-making in conditions of uncertainty. Trish is the author of over 400 peer-reviewed publications and 16 textbooks. She was awarded the OBE for Services to Medicine by Her Majesty the Queen in 2001 and made a Fellow of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences in 2014. She is also a Fellow of the UK Royal College of Physicians, Royal College of General Practitioners, Faculty of Clinical Informatics and Faculty of Public Health."

Bio: "Adam Smith was born in the north, a long time ago. He wanted to write books, but ended up working in the NHS, and at the Department of Health. He is now Programme Director in the Office of the NIHR National Director for Dementia Research (which probably sounds more important than it is) at University College London. He has led a number of initiatives to improve dementia research (including creating Dementia Researcher, Join Dementia Research & ENRICH), as well as pursuing his own research interests. He also write blogs, hosts podcasts and is passionate about improving the lives of people living with dementia and supporting early career researchers. In his spare time, he grows vegetables, builds Lego & spends most of his time drinking too much coffee and squeezing technology into his house."