5th ESRC Research Methods Festival

The 5th ESRC Research Methods Festival, organised by the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM), takes place on 2-5 July 2012 at St Catherine's College Oxford. For information about the programme and the fees, please see the ESRC Research Methods Festival website.

The Festival themes

• Interface between social and natural sciences
• methodological innovations
• mixed and multimodal methods
• career and skills development
• interventions and evaluations.

Keaynote speakers

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

We expect the Festival to be as popular as before, with over 800 delegates over the four days. If you want to get a flavour of what to expect, please take a look at the photos from the 4th ESRC Research Methods Festival or introductory 'What is?' audio & PPT presentations from the last Festival.