Gender and Social Research

Description:

This course will provide students with a nuanced understanding of gender and power in social research, which will help them to develop questions and analyses that support a more rigorous engagement with social justice issues.

This course examines some of the gendered thinking that has impacted on social research in the social sciences. It critiques a male bias in the planning and carrying out of research. The course considers how to develop research questions and carry out the research process in ways that address questions of gender and wider social formations of power. Key issues explored are: developing research questions; ethics; analysis; voice and representation. There will be lectures and interactive sessions. At the end of the course, participants will have a good understanding of how and why gender is significant to social research, ethics and epistemology.

Reading to be completed in advance of the course:

 Crowhurst, I. (2013) The fallacy of the instrumental gate? Contextualising the process of gaining access through gatekeepers. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 16(6).

 Ryan-Flood, R. & Gill, R. (Eds.) (2010) Secrecy and Silence in the Research Process: Feminist Reflections. London: Routledge.

Cost:

£125 for external academics and £175 for commercial delegates

Website and registration:

https://shortcoursesgateway.essex.ac.uk/Guests/GuestCourse.aspx?CourseRef=SOC:GSR&dates=

Region:

East of England

Keywords:

Data Collection, This course examines some of the gendered thinking that has impacted on social research in the social sciences. It critiques a male bias in the planning and carrying out of research. The course considers how to develop research questions and carry out the

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