Methods Northwest Seminar Series
MethodsNW convene a highly popular series of short online postgraduate Methods Sessions on methodological innovations in the social sciences. The series started during the Covid-19 pandemic but has since evolved to become a platform for researchers across the partner universities (and beyond) to discuss innovations in the use of research methods in the social sciences in general. The series now attracts participants from the UK beyond the north west as well as a growing global reach. Apart from PGRs and other researchers, the series also attracts non-academic audiences (civil servants, civil society, private sector). Contributions are welcome on new innovative methods, new ways of using existing methods or revisiting some of the traditional social science methods.
Call for Session Presenters 2023/24 Academic Year
During the academic year 2023-24 MethodsNW welcomes contributions or offers of a seminar on social science methods including (but not exclusively) qualitative, quantitative, digital/computational, investigative, creative/arts and interdisciplinary methods, mixed methods, adapting methods to the challenges of research after COVID-19 and sessions on writing methods for publication. Methods sessions with a thematic focus (for example sustainability, inequality, gender, decolonisation etc) are also welcome. We encourage sessions dealing with novel or new methodological developments in all of the NWSSDTP’s disciplinary areas.
We realise that potential presenters remain time constrained and have designed the sessions in ways which minimise the work those presenting have to do in advance. The sessions run on Thursday afternoons from 2pm-3pm and can be presentations with a traditional Q&A or have a more conversational or interactive character. In the past contributors have asked those attending to read or watch something in advance. All sessions will be promoted by the NWSSDTP and the methods initiatives in the partner
Universities as well as by MethodsNW and other external bodies where relevant.
If you would like to offer a MethodsNW Seminar Session and are based at any of the partner institutions, please discuss with the Methods Lead at your institution. The key contacts are listed below. They would normally be the person to chair your session. NWSSDTP will arrange the Eventbrite registration and share a zoom link with you and all participants.
Institutional Contacts
Keele University: Links@Keele: links@keele.ac.uk
University of Lancaster: Gary Potter, Methods@Lancaster G.potter2@lancaster.ac.uk
University of Liverpool: Michael Mair, Engage@Liverpool Michael.Mair@liverpool.ac.uk
University of Manchester: Emma Banister Methods@Manchester Emma.Banister@manchester.ac.uk
University of Central Lancashire: Methods@UCLan Ecooper2@uclan.ac.uk
If you are not based at any of the partner institutions listed above, please contact stuart.shields@manchester.ac.uk with your proposal so an appropriate chair for your session can be arranged.