This two-day course provides a practical and accessible introduction to Bayesian statistics for applied research in any field. Students will benefit from a combination of lectures and discussion to explore fundamental concepts unlocking the potential to design bespoke statistical analyses based on your data and hypotheses as well as practical exercises to gain hands-on experience […]
Educational researchers are often encouraged to reflect on their ‘philosophical positioning’, i.e. the ontological, epistemological and axiological (ethical) assumptions that underpin their research design. Meanwhile, in recent years in anglophone educational research departments, using philosophy as a ‘method’ in its own right, as opposed to a tool supporting empirical research, has tended to go out […]
Making Sense of Messy Legal Data: Analysing Climate Litigation in Latin America and the Caribbean Cristian Heredia Ligorria, PhD researcher in Socio-legal Studies at UWE Bristol My doctoral research investigates rights-based climate litigation (RBCL) in Latin America and the Caribbean applying a socio-legal methodology and from a decolonial perspective. Chapter 3 of my thesis is […]
Using multi-dimensional experience sampling via smartphones to map thought-emotion interactions in daily life Anqi Lei, PhD researcher at the University of Plymouth Patterns of on-going thought have crucial implications for emotional health. In the present study, we used multi-dimensional experience sampling (MDES) via smartphones to examine how daily-life thought patterns relate to concurrent affective states […]
Reflexive Thematic Analysis on researcher’s position as an “in-betweener” Claire Hadfield, Senior Lecturer and PhD researcher in Education at Plymouth Marjon University Reflecting on my journey using Reflexive Thematic Analysis (RTA) in a qualitative longitudinal study of early career secondary teachers’ professional identities, I draw on my position as an “in-betweener”—moving from school teaching into […]
Understanding home deathcare through narrative. Sam Hooker, SWDTP-funded PhD researcher in Social Policy at the University of Bath My PhD project used a narrative methodology to capture people’s experiences caring for the dead at home. Two interviews were conducted with participants. The first consisted of asking them to tell me their experience, while the second was […]
Visual mapping of process data Prof. Peter Turnbull, Professor of Management at the University of Bristol In several studies we have used visual mapping to depict changes over time and the (inter)action of the key players that we focus on in our research. We draw on the work of Anne Langley and others on “process […]
Our funded student Zia Saylor kicks off a new series of seminars at the Bristol Digital Futures Institute. Digital twins have received significant hype in the energy industry for their potential to create real-time models of energy systems that can be used to balance supply and demand within the energy grid. Even as the actualisation […]
An interview is a precious opportunity to make a positive, memorable impression and advance a researcher’s career. Thorough preparation is vital, and that means working on style as well as content. The way candidates conduct themselves, present ideas and respond to questions has a powerful influence on the way they are perceived. Even an academic […]
“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 […]