About us

With support from the ESRC’s North West Social Science DTP, ‘Methods North West’ is a regional hub for research methods innovation, celebrating the collective strength, depth and breadth of methodological expertise across the participating Universities of Manchester, Liverpool, Lancaster, Lancashire and Keele.

MethodsNW brings together social science researchers at all levels, providing a network for collaborations between academics and postgraduate research students across all five institutions. We hope to facilitate the development of new communities of practice around research methods.

Opportunities for PGRs

Our partner institutions provide high quality training to their PGR students. Methods North West aims to add value by:

• Creating opportunities for PGRs to access the research methods expertise of world-leading researchers across partner institutions.
• Enabling access to advanced and specialist training otherwise not available in any one institution
• Developing a programme of events throughout the year, aimed primarily at postgraduate research students. These events are styled and targeted to provide something a little different to the standards methods training.

Methods North West is currently directed by Dr Stuart Shields from the University of Manchester.