Getting Your Foot on the Funding Ladder - Opportunities for Methods North West - Room 3.009
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.
Dr. Stuart Shields is Reader in International Political Economy for The University of Manchester's School of Social Sciences. Stuart also serves as Deputy Associate Dean for Postgraduate Research and Director of Methods North West.
'Draw your Research' Group - Room 3.013
This interactive workshop invites researchers to explore drawing and illustration as a creative tool for understanding, analysing, and communicating their work. No art skills needed, just your ideas, your data, and a willingness to experiment. In the first half of the workshop, we will discuss how drawing can help you familiarise yourself with your findings, reveal patterns, explore meanings, and share your work with wider audiences. We will look at examples of how drawings have been used in previous research and what we can learn from other disciplines and practices such as fine art and graphic design. The second half will give you space and support to engage with your own research through drawing or in other creative, expressive and embodied ways. This may be around how you visualise theories or your own research questions, ways that you can display your data, or how you might communicate your findings and recommendations to both academic and non-academic audiences. This workshop is suitable for researchers at any level who are curious about drawing-based data collection, analysis, or dissemination. If you can, please come with research questions, concepts, or findings in mind to work with.
Mark Shtanov, University of Manchester and Zoe Cox, Manchester Metropolitan University
The Ethics of Multi-Lingual Research: who is (re)presenting whom in which languages? - Room 3.006
A cross-language interview is multi-faceted. Equally multi-faceted are the questions of ethics interweaving all cross-language research projects happening at any one time. These questions include: who makes the decisions of what is - and what is not - ethical practice in interviews happening across different languages? How does a researcher’s own positionality impact on how the voices of others are presented at different stages in a project? What could be perceived as extractive when interviewing in different settings? This workshop will focus on the diverse ethical implications of multi-lingual work, including carrying out interviews and translation, in the planning, carrying out and writing-up stages of a research project within diverse inter-disciplinary settings.
Facilitators: Dylan Bradbury (Manchester) Daniel Baldin Machado (Manchester) Putri Kristimanta (Manchester) Bulbul Prakash (Manchester) Guest speaker: Rebecca Tipton Centre for Translation & Intercultural Studies, MLC (Manchester) Academic Support Lead: Ruth Abou Rached Arabic & Middle Eastern Studies, MLC (Manchester)
Ethics workshop: getting your research through ethical review - Room 3.008
Ethical review is an important - and, usually, compulsory - part of a PhD research project. But the process can be daunting! This workshop aims to demystify the ethics review process by introducing you to the core components of both substantive and procedural research ethics. By the end of the workshop you should understand why ethical review is important and what ethical research means in the context of the social sciences - and be prepared for submitting your own applications for ethical approval. Gary Potter is Professor of Critical Criminology at Lancaster University. He has served on ethics committees at four universities and is currently Chair of the ethics committee for the Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Lancaster.
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