Hello everyone,
We are pleased to bring you the preliminary programme for the 2024 Methods Fair. We say preliminary as the information may change, with more detail being provided the closer we get to the Fair, but we hope to provide you with some of the basics you need to get a sense of the day and to register (and you will be contacted with the final programme).
The aim of the day is to provide the space for researchers to get together and exchange ideas. These conversations can provide the starting point for support, collaborations and much more.
When you register you will be asked to register for parts of the day. This is to help us with catering and room size. If you know you will not be staying for lunch, please let us know.
On the day, registration begins at 9.30am in a leisurely fashion with tea/coffee and pastries, so please make sure you get here (3rd floor Hive area AMBS building) on time to grab some breakfast!
We are looking forward to seeing you there!
Prof Emma Banister, Director of methods@manchester
The Day at a Glance
All sessions (aside from the DVO tour) are on the third floor of AMBS Building*, Booth Street West, Manchester M1 6PB (entrance opposite Hyatt Regency Hotel).
*Please note if you are not staff/PGR at University of Manchester you should make yourself known to reception staff on entering the building.
- 9:30 to 10:00 – Registration with Coffees & Pastries, Hive, third floor, AMBS building
- 10:00 to 10:20 - Welcome, 3.006, AMBS
- 10:25 to 12:00 – Lightning Talk Streams Stream 1: 3.006, Stream 2: 3.009
- 12:00 to 13:30 - Posters and Buffet Lunch, Hive
- 13:30 to 15:00 - Workshops (for rooms see details below)
- 15:00 to 15:30 - Break with Teas/Coffees/Cake, Hive
- 15:30 to 16:30 - Workshops (see details below)
Detailed Programme
Welcome to the Methods Fair
10.00-10.20am, 3.006, AMBS
Professor Emma Banister, Director of methods@manchester, will welcome you to the fair and provide a brief overview of the day and methods@manchester.
Lightning Talks
Lightning talk presenters will have just 5 mins to present their work, this will allow time for questions and discussion. The talks are arranged into three sessions during two streams. You are welcome to move between streams if there are particular talks you wish to watch but please make sure you stay for the duration your paper session if you are presenting!
Please note this is a draft schedule. We may need to change presentation slots/streams. If you are presenting a Lightning Talk please ensure you are available for the full morning session (10.20-12) thank you.
Stream One: room 3.006
Session 1 - Positionality and Ethics (10.25-11)
- "You're on mute": methodological and ethical issues arising from remote qualitative practitioner interviews, Jane Horton - University of Liverpool
- Being Ethical in Researching Trauma in the Refugee Context: Is That Real? Lora Agbaso - Cardiff Metropolitan University
- Positionally in an oral history of scuba diving, Catherine Smith - University of Manchester
- Adapting methodologies: The benefits of online methods for mental health and wellbeing research, Charlotte Hoyland - University of Manchester
Session 2 - Participatory Methods (11-11.30)
- Hobby Historians: Working with Volunteers as a Research Method, Susie Johns - Keele University
- Using a co-produced board game as a dissemination and data gathering method, Karen Leneh Buckle - University of Manchester
- Participatory Group Observation: Enhancing Research Rigour and Circumventing the ‘Single Story’ Pitfall, Anifat Ibrahim - University of Manchester
- Employing Participatory Artistic Methods to Explore Sense of Belonging Among Migrant Children in Urban Villages, Haoyue Guo - University of Manchester
Session 3 - Creative Qualitative Approaches (11.30-12)
- Using Creative Research Methods to Elicit Working-Class Women's Experience of the Transition into Higher Education, Alison Alvarez Nee - London South Bank University
- Observations to Knowledge: Understanding the cultural significance of cannabidiol in the United Kingdom, Joe Price - University of Lancaster
- Qualitative diaries and neurodiversity: Advancing accessible research methods for neurodivergent samples (and researchers) Mya Kirkwood - University of Liverpool
- Narratives of Resilience: Methodological Explorations in India's Conflict Zones, Bulbul Prakash - University of Manchester
Steam Two: room 3.009
Session 1 - Modelling Data (10.30-11)
- Leaders’ Narcissism, Leisure, and Team Autonomy: The Dual Effect of Leader Proactivity on Team Well-Being through Team Proactive Motivational Pathways, Galih Sakitri - University of Manchester
- How Do International Institutions Affect Our Analysis of Childcare Time-Use Data!? The ILO, Wendy Olsen - University of Manchester
- What is potential outcome framework? Shungi Zhang - University of Manchester
- Local Governments’ Efficiency in Indonesia: Evidence from Stochastic Frontier Analysis, Arfan Winasis - University of Manchester
Session 2 - Secondary Sources and Datasets (11-11.30)
- The role of government policies in the digital transformation of manufacturing SMEs: A regional level study of China, Wanyu Zhang - University of Manchester
- How institutions work: conversation analysis as a method for analysing how institutions communicate, Matthew Butler - University of York
- Handling stakeholders’ Cognitive and Metacognitive Interaction Behaviour in Social Media as a Novel Unstructured Data Source: Contribution of Machine Learning, Homa Molavi - University of Manchester
Session 3 - Digital Methods (11.30-12)
- A new-age solution - use of 3D Social Virtual Reality (SVR) platforms in research, Vitalia Kinakh - University of Manchester
- A Fair Framework for Responsibility and Accountability in Data-Driven and AI Systems, Shi Yun Ng - Manchester Metropolitan University
- Online Mental Health Communities and Self-Harm: Examining Self-Harm in Online Borderline Personality Disorder Communities Using a Computational Linguistic, Charlotte Entwistle - Lancaster University
- How to approach political and social in-game identities of players without direct discussions of the concepts with respondents Timur Slavgorodskii-Kazanets - University of Salford
Poster Presentation and Lunch
12noon - 1.30pm: Hive, third floor
During this extended vegan buffet-style lunch, you will have the opportunity to mill around viewing our poster session. Take the time to interact with fellow researchers and ask questions, this is an important opportunity for you to network. If you have a poster at the fair please ensure you spend at least half an hour by your poster so you are available to chat to other attendees.
- Writing as a Means of Activism: A Study of Saudi Women's Writing as a Tool for Empowerment, Hind Aldossary - University of Manchester
- The Western Media Representation of Saudi Women, Alanoud Alqasem - University of Manchester
- (Re)Remembering Qatar: Narratives of Cultural Memory Through the Intellectual Landscape (1960s-1990s), Kaltham Al Suwaidi - University of Manchester
- Using text chat for qualitative research, Karen Leneh Buckle - University of Manchester
- Adapting Methods for Participant Pleasure: Focus Groups, TikTok Data, and Researcher Positionality, Ava Burcham - University of Huddersfield
- African Youth Activism at the Crossroads: Research Co-production to Express the Possible, Daniela Cocco Beltrame - University of Manchester
- Framing Identities: Negotiating Anonymity and Representation in Photovoice Studies, Megan Crossley - Lancaster University
- Ecosystem Traits Shape Local People's Perception of Ecosystem Degradation and Restoration in Socio-ecological Systems, Huxuan Dai - University of Liverpool
- Care System and Violence against Women: Evidence from Bogotá, Colombia, Natalia Galvis Arias - University of Manchester
- Uncovering the British Sewage Scandal and Regulatory Failure through the Power of Quantitative Data Analysis, Eleanor Godwin - University of Liverpool
- Uncovering Adult Family Violence through 'messy methodologies': Risk Assessment and Justice from the Perspectives of Police Officers, Practitioners, and Victim-survivors, Lily Graham - University of Central Lancashire
- Abstraction: An Embodied methodology for studying embodied cognition, Jen Hayes - Lancaster University/London Metropolitan University
- Towards Sustainable Livelihoods: Assessing Indigenous Land Rights and Forest Restoration Policies in Mexico through Multidimensional Analysis, Mariana Hernandez-Montilla - University of Manchester
- Benefits and Challenges of Participatory Research in Higher Education, Helen Hewertson - University of Central Lancashire
- Textile Sociology - Textile Art in Sociological Research, Katarzyna Niziołek & Urszula Abłażewicz - University of Białystok, Poland
- The extrastriate symmetry response is robust to alcohol intoxication, Elena Karakashevska - University of Liverpool
- Integrating longitudinal socioeconomic survey and forest cover data: Assessing the impact of social forestry and marine protected areas on mangrove conservation and poverty alleviation in Indonesian villages, Sandy Nofyanza - University of Manchester
- Using Time-Use Diary Data: Hints & Tips, Wendy Olsen - University of Manchester
- Combining qualitative and quantitative approaches to analyse historical newspaper coverage of the first Black footballers to represent the England men’s national team, Lily Pearson - University of Manchester
- Topological Data Analysis Ball Mapper for Data Visualisation and more..., Simon Rudkin, University of Manchester
- Examining Coordination Capacity of the Health Sector in Crisis Response: A case from COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis in Bangladesh, GM Sharfaraz - University of Manchester
- Social Network Analysis and Visualising Women in Late Bronze Age Diplomatic Correspondence: The Amarna Letters Pilot Study, Kelee Siat - University of Manchester
- ‘Participants’, not ‘subjects’: Using participatory and collaborative methods to promote ethical autism research, Ellen Taylor-Brown - University of Cambridge
- The Dos and Don’ts of Co-production, Miriam Tenquist - University of Manchester
- - Women-Led Startups: Ukrainian case studies together with UK experience, Iryna Tytarchuk - University of Manchester
- “The white oil”: The Role of ideas in the Governance of Lithium in Latin America, Esteban Valle Riestra - University of Manchester
- Queer(ing) Narratives of Compulsory Psychiatric Treatment using a Methods Fusion, Keiran Wilson - Birkbeck College, University of London
- Comparing Teachers' Epistemic Frames and Their Roles in Technology-Mediated Task-Based Language Teaching: A Cross-Cultural Study in China and England, Han Yang - Keele University
- Use of compositional covariates in linear regression: problems and solutions, Tianchang Zhao - University of Manchester
Workshops
Session 1: 1.30-3pm
Please see a range of workshops that you can attend. Where possible we will record presentations as we realise that some of you may be disappointed if there are two workshops on at the same time that you would like to attend. We will provide more details about some of these workshops closer to the Fair itself. When you register to attend it would be useful if you could provide an indication of the workshop(s) you would most like to attend (unfortunately you cannot attend two workshops in the same session).
Workshop session 1 is 1.5 hours long and is followed by a break with teas/coffees and cake, followed by the last 1 hour workshop session.
Workshop 1 (room 3.006): Ethics workshop: getting your research through ethical review with Prof Gary Potter, Lancaster University
Workshop 2 (room 3.009): Contingency and/in Ethnography with Dr. Arzhia Habibi, University of Oxford and Dr. Aizuddin Mohamed Anuar, University of Keele
This workshop is intended for researchers interested in ethnography, particularly considerations of undertaking this immersive mode of research contingent upon contemporary conditions of precarity, uncertainty as well as the intersecting commitments across the personal and professional realms.
Workshop 3 (room 3.014): Some of the truth is already out there: using archival sources and grey literature in organisational research with Dr Stephen Mustchin, Work and Equalities Institute
Dr Mustchin will introduce you to the range of secondary sources he has used in his work focused on the political economy and sociology of work including archives, historical newspapers, local government, union and employer documentation, freedom of information requests
Workshop 4 (room 3.013): Empathy Machines: Using theatre and film in the training of compassionate and reflective health professionals with Pete Carruthers, Artistic Director of Tree Fish Productions, PhD by portfolio student at UCLAN
Workshop 5: Experience the Data Visualisation Observatory with Dr Qudamah Quboa and Tiantian Xian (Tina) - please note this session is one-hour only and runs 2-3pm (it is important that you sign up to this when registering for the Fair)
Are you working with complex models and multidimensional data? Perhaps you want to immerse a target group of users in a synthetic controlled environment to observe their behaviour? Or perhaps you just fancy coming along to have a look at this fantastic facility.
Please note the DVO tour is pre-sign up only which you will need to do at the Methods Fair registration desk on the day. The tour will take place in the observatory which is situated at the top of the main AMBS staircase (2nd floor) on the left-hand side, with the entrance opposite room 2.091 (it's the door with the intercom fitted). If you have registered please either head straight there or meet as a group arriving 5 mins before the tour and a member of the Fair team will take you down - no food or drink allowed in the observatory.
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Sessions 2 - 3:30 - 4:30pm
This final workshop session follows the break and is one-hour only.
Workshop 6 (3.006): Getting your foot on the funding ladder with Dr Stuart Shields, Methods North West Director;
Stuart will be joined by:
- Prof Gary Potter, (Lancaster Methods NW lead)
- Prof Emma Banister (UoM Methods NW lead).
- Hannah Smith (PhD candiate, Keele University) and recipient of Collaboration Innovation Grant (CIG) for "First-Person narratives and Social and Economic History"
- Pete Carruthers (PhD candidate, UCLan) and recipient of a Collaboration Innovation Grant (CIG) for "The Social Life of Creative Methods" This event takes place on 11th June: booking and further info.
Increasingly academic researchers are expected to demonstrate funding success. Methods North West has schemes specifically designed to encourage researchers within NWSSDTP institutions to come together and apply for funding to deliver sessions and work together on projects and methodologies. Join Stuart and Methods NW researchers to discuss these opportunities as well as a general discussion about the challenges and opportunities around applying for funding, particularly at an early stage in your career.
Workshop 7: Experience the Data Visualisation Observatory Tour with Dr Qudamah Quboa and Tiantian Xian (Tina)
Please note this is a repeat of the tour in workshop session 1 - numbers are limited in these two sessions (see room/ pre-sign up details above).