Project Researchers' Workshop

Hot buffet lunch

Welcome and plan of meeting: Angela Dale

Brief introductions
Facilitator: Katrina Roen

This will provide an opportunity for people to identify themselves, in terms of their disciplinary background and what they are currently working on. The project information packs will be pre-circulated to provide details of all the projects. They will be updated to include all researchers.

Plenary session:

Professor Mike Kenward, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Missing data: is this an issue only for quantitative researchers?

General discussion:

Fiona Devine, ESRC Council Member, University of Manchester
Carol Smart, CAVA, University of Leeds

The role of qualitative evidence in social research: how far can we generalise?

Panel discussion: Building your career

Carol Smart, CAVA, University of Leeds

Thinking strategically about your career; working on fixed-term contracts

Fiona Devine, ESRC Council Member, University of Manchester

ESRC-funded research opportunities

Vivienne Avery, Office for National Statistics

Working in government: opportunities and challenges

10 - 15 minute introduction from each speaker, followed by discussion and questions

Drinks and informal discussion with speakers

Leave for dinner at Cocotoo's, where a table has been booked for 19.15

Cocotoo's, 57 Whitworth Street West, Manchester 1

Improving survey measurement of income and employment

Emanuela Sala and Annette Jackle, University of Essex

Benchmarking good practice in qualitative management research

Anna Buehring, University of Sheffield

Locale, neighbourhoods and household income growth: Longitudinal evidence from Britain.
Anne Bolster, University of Bristol

An evaluation of electronic search strategies designed to identify qualitative research using bibliographic databases,

Rachel Shaw, University of Leicester

A missing level analysis of British voting behaviour
Rebecca Sarker, University of Bristol

Social networks and social capital,

Gindo Tampubolon, University of Manchester

Modelling partnership and childbearing event histories, Constantinos Kallis, Institute of Education

Meaningful messiness: some reflections on the practice and process of "doing research",

Mary Dickinson, University of Surrey

1. Teamwork and communication, Katrina Roen, Lancaster
2. Informed consent and ethics, Vikki Charles, Southampton, Adam Sales, Leeds
   

Feedback from morning sessions

Future plans

The Methods Festival, 1 - 3 July 2004

Publications from the Programme

Exchanges between researchers

Any other business