The winners of the 2010 BERA/SAGE Practitioner Research Awards were announced yesterday at the annual British Educational Research Association (BERA) conference in Warwick. Dr Karen Graham, Director of Active Childcare Ltd, based in Wrexham, won the 16+ award for her project improving vocational education in childcare and health and social care settings. The Schools, early […]
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Continue ReadingI’m posting this on behalf of Nick Lee, who is this year’s Joseph Lister Award winner at the British Science Festival, which takes place in September. Nick is running a mass participation event, which I thought might be of interest to Methodspace members: Scientists from Aston University in Birmingham are launching a new study of […]
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Making the Case for the Social Sciences, a report by the Academy of Social Sciences, sponsored by the Economic and Social Research Council, was launched Wednesday 10 February 2010 at Sixty One Whitehall, London. Speakers at the launch were Adrian Alsop, Director for Research, Economic and Social Research Council; Professor Cary Cooper CBE AcSS, Chair […]
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Continue ReadingLast week I was one of some 190+ attendees at the Informing Public Policy conference: a two day event organized by NatCen and the LSE, and sponsored by SAGE. The conference looked back at the role of social research over the last 100 years, and importantly what impact it has had in contributing to social […]
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Continue Reading“[O]ver-theorization is an ever present danger given that many social science disciplines, I believe, live in fear of being discovered, like the fabled emperor, without any clothes…” Silverman, D. (2001) Interpreting Qualitative Data (2nd edition), London: SAGE p. x.
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Continue ReadingDaivd Silverman has kindly allowed me to re-post a blog entry he wrote for SAGE last year. Why Interview? David Silverman – Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK Instead of looking, listening and reading, the majority of contemporary qualitative researchers prefer to select a small group of individuals to interview or to place in focus […]
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Continue ReadingMethodspace is a community site, but we’re lucky to have on board four very talented PhD students, each bringing a very different approach to methods and methodology to the network. Sarah, Alex, Berkay and Daniel will be regular posters in this community, and will be regularly engaging with you. We’re delighted to have them on […]
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