Families & relationships (2)
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Date: Tuesday 18th July
Venue: Arumugam Building, 1st floor
Time: 2.00-5.30
Title: Researching Families and Relationships - Session 2: Ways of Researching
Organiser: Jennifer Mason, Real life Methods NCRM Node University of Manchester
Aims of session: This session is the second of two which will raise awareness of methodological issues in researching families and relationships. Following on from the morning session where concepts and ways of seeing were discussed, this session will focus on practical strategies and methods that researchers have used in studying family and relationships. Once again, the session will include contributions from different methodological and disciplinary perspectives. The first part of the session will focus on researching children, and the second on researching time and change in family life and relationships.
Format: Presentations, discussion and debate
Level/Prerequisites: No prior knowledge required. Participants would benefit from attending both the morning and afternoon sessions.
Session Programme
Chair: Dr. Barbara Maughan, Reader in Developmental Psychopathology, MRC Social, Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry
| 2.00 - 3.30 | Researching Children |
| 2.00 - 2.20 | Within families: family-wide and child-specific influences on children’s socio-emotional development Jennifer Jenkins, University of Toronto; Jon Rasbash, University of Bristol and Thomas O'Connor, University of Rochester |
| 2.20 - 2.40 | Researching Children's Kinship Jennifer Mason and Becky Tipper, University of Manchester |
| 2.40 - 3.00 | Using New Technologies as Research Tools: lessons from working with children Gill Valentine, University of Leeds and Deborah Sporton, University of Sheffield |
| 3.00 - 3.30 |
Discussion |
| 3.30 - 4.00 |
Coffee/tea |
| 4.00 - 5.30 |
Researching Time
and Change |
| 4.00 - 4.20 | Changing experiences of family life: understanding social change through the lens of the British Birth Cohort Studies Jane Elliott, Institute of Education |
| 4.20 - 4.40 |
Young Lives: Change and Context Bren Neale, and Sarah Irwin, University of Leeds |
| 4.40 - 5.00 | The Family and Social Change Revisited Nickie Charles, University of Warwick |
| 5.00 - 5.30 | Discussion |
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