Events
Lunchtime Seminar Sessions (12-1pm, Thursdays)
Our lunchtime sessions are a fantastic way to share fresh perspectives on a range of topics. Our sessions take place between 12pm and 1pm on Thursdays during University term time.
If you’d be interested in hosting a lunchtime session, please see our 2025-26 Call for Contributions.
They are designed for researchers adopting social science and humanities research methods & approaches, and attract an engaged audience to provide you the forum to share and discuss the latest research techniques and methodologies.
Upcoming Sessions
PGR Social Media Methods Network
Thursday 27 November
12 – 1pm, online
Speakers: Nadine Shanahan (Liverpool), Holly Dean (Lancaster), Allysa Czerwinsky (Manchester)
This Methods North West lunchtime session will bring together social media methods researchers and analysts of digital culture, to build a network for PGR Social Media Methods.
Nadine, Holly and Allysa will discuss their own research, which examines Instagram, TikTok and forums. We’d love to hear about your work too, so come prepared to have a chat about your work and how you’re getting on.
Writing and Researching Differently through Fictocriticism
Thursday 4 December
12 – 1pm, online
Speaker: Dr Mark Gatto (Northumbria University)
In this Methods North West Lunchtime Seminar, Mark Gatto will be exploring gender, work & care through dystopian fictocriticism to challenge patriarchal norms and inspire inclusive change.
In recent years, more scholarship has turned to embodied writing, embracing messiness and blurring lines between empirical and personal data. This session will provide one such personal narrative of undertaking and pursuing a form of research/writing that aspires to a critical and boundary blurring writing, grounded in masculinities theory and empirical data, while also developing a style that aligns with fictions that move and inspire us.
Using Mixed Methods in Logistics and Supply Chain Management Research: Current State and Future Directions
Thursday 4 December
12 – 1pm, online
Speaker: Dr Witold Bahr (Keele University)
In this Methods North West Lunchtime Seminar, Witold will present a review of mixed methods research across ten years in LSCM to determine their usage, identify benefits and inhibitors, and provide suggestions for LSCM researchers to realise the benefits from using mixed methods.
Dr. Witold Bahr is a Lecturer in Operations Management at Keele Business School. His current research focuses on exploring new and disruptive technologies for supply chains, sustainability, and addressing the gap between theory and practice.
Upcoming Events
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