Register hereRandom effects models are applied in a range of social science domains (e.g. education, health and economics). Across disciplines, however, they are often used for different purposes, with different specifications, or even with different terminologies. These differences may well reflect genuine complexities and ambiguities that are associated with their implementation. This two-day course will […]
The Centre for Qualitative Research is running a series of South West Doctoral Training Partnership (SWDTP)-Funded Bespoke Qualitative Training Workshops. View an overview of all workshops in this series. This workshop is part of the main training package. The main training package focuses on from planning to product: the process of conducting qualitative research. This […]
Link to the event here Join us as we bring together PGRs and supervisors across institutions and disciplines, to explore the identities of a doctoral student. How is your doctoral journey going? Are you surviving, are you thriving, have you got your sight set on the end-point or are you enjoying the wandering? Or […]
Link to the event here September 2021 marks the first in a series of twentieth anniversaries associated with what became known as the Global War on Terror. Though the UK and US have only just withdrawn military forces from Afghanistan, bringing to a close, for some, this ‘longest war’, conflicts in new regions are ongoing, […]
Link to register.“What are the best ways to tell young people with depression about treatment options and their effectiveness to help them feel more in control and to manage their difficulties?” The SWDTP is delighted to be co-funding a series of three workshops including talks by clinicians and researchers in the field, focus group […]
Link to the event hereSPIN is delighted to host the book launch for Professor William Walters’ new book State Secrecy and Security: Refiguring the Covert Imaginary. In the book, William Walters calls for secrecy to be given a more central place in critical security studies and elevated to become a core concept when theorising power […]
This workshop will introduce Institutional Ethnography (IE), an interdisciplinary feminist approach to social research that focuses on how texts and language organise our everyday lives. IE is not just a methodology, but a comprehensive feminist ontology of how the social world works which advocates using a form of standpoint to explore from specific perspectives. IE […]
Using the Understanding Society study for longitudinal research on individuals and households in the UK About this event Alexey Bessudnov (Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Exeter) will share top tips on getting started with Understanding Society in your PhD/MReS research. Funded by ESRC, Understanding Society is the largest longitudinal study of its kind. It provides crucial […]
Adam Sisman, author of John Le Carre: The Biography talks about the book and writing and researching elusive subjects About this event This month, we are delighted to welcome guest author and researcher, Adam Sisman to discuss researching, interviewing and writing about the elusive David John Moore Cornwell (aka the globally successful spy fiction author […]
The first online session in the SWDTP Feminist Perspectives webinar series 2022. About this event Gendered inequality, exploitation and violence takes both new and old forms in contemporary times. Three researchers and activists talk about the feminist theories that they draw on in their research. Sian Norris will talk the insights that socialist feminism brings […]