Families & relationships (1)
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Date: Tuesday 18 July
Venue: JCR Theatre
Time: 9.15 - 12.45
Title: Researching Families and Relationships - Session 1: Ways of Seeing
Organiser: Jennifer Mason, Real life Methods NCRM Node, University of Manchester
Aims of session: This session is the first of two which will raise awareness of methodological issues in researching families and relationships. It will bring together a panel of speakers who have different methodological, theoretical and disciplinary persuasions. The session will explore how different ways of seeing and conceptualising families and relationships lead to distinctive methodological possibilities as well as challenges. It will open up dialogue between the approaches to assess the creative potential of thinking beyond conventional disciplinary or methodological boundaries.
Format: Presentations, discussion and debate.
Level/Prerequisites: No prior knowledge required, though participants would benefit from attending both the morning and afternoon sessions.
Session Programme
Chair: Jennifer Mason, University of Manchester
| 9.20-9.40 | Pushing the Limits of Surveys: Measuring Subjective Interpretations Jacqueline Scott, University of Cambridge |
| 9.40-10.00 | From Family to Personal Life: Another Cultural Turn in Sociology? Carol Smart, Co-Director, University of Manchester |
| 10.00-10.45 | Discussion |
| 10.45-11.15 | Coffee/tea |
| 11.20-11.40 | Exploring Communication about Genetic Risk with British Pakistani Families Alison
Shaw, University of Oxford |
| 11.40-12.00 | Families we choose: new possibilities and old problems. Brian Heaphy, University of Manchester |
| 12.00-12.20 | Discussion |
| 12.20-12.45 | Panel Discussion (with Jacqueline Scott, Carol Smart, Alison Shaw, Brian Heaphy) |
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