Held online, Tuesday 21/04/26 10.30am – 12:00pm
PH-data-analysis_-2Eliane Bastos, Lecturer and PhD researcher in Education at the University of Bath
Hannah Hogarth, Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Northampton
Charlotte Hankin, PhD researcher at the University of Bath
Karen Barr, Senior Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University
Carol Taylor, Professor of Higher Education and Gender at the University of Bath
“Entanglement makes all the categories of humanist qualitative research problematic.” (Lather and St. Pierre, 2013)
How does our analysis shift when we stop asking ‘What does this data show?’ and instead ask ‘Who and what is this data entangled with, and how can we stay accountable to those relations?’
This webinar invites pondering of the joys and challenges that emerge with data analysis when social researchers embrace their entangled inseparability from the world being researched. We explore what becomes possible when we analyse data as an experiment in relations rather than attempting to represent a universal reality. By considering the posthuman ontological turn and its implications for social sciences research, we, a group of posthumanist, feminist materialist, post-qualitative educational researchers, share some of the processes and techniques that we employed as we grappled with the process of meaning making in our research projects. Through matter, waters, bodies, silences, we consider what our more-than-human data might say, if it could speak, and how such voices might re-shape the ways we engage with the worlds around us, when we listen more expansively.
By showcasing examples of ‘how did we do it’, this webinar is suitable for researchers at any career stage, including ECRs, who are either working with posthuman data analysis, or are curious about practices that challenge conventional ways of doing social sciences research. In addition, the webinar will provide an interactive opportunity for participants to engage in posthuman data analysis through practical examples. Anonymised data examples will be provided, or participants are welcome to bring their own.
The above webinar was inspired by this paper.