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You're invited to the Social Research Association's annual conference, “Changing Social Research: Evolution or Revolution?”
Will big data, web surveys, mobile research , neuroscience, social media research, and related digital methods change the ground-rules of social research? Are established practices becoming obsolete, or will they assimilate these new technologies and methods?
It's on 8 December at the British Library in London. The plenary speakers are:
• David Rhind, Deputy Chair of the UK Statistics Authority and Sharon Witherspoon, Director of the Nuffield Foundation – The impact of big data on social research
• Paul Atkinson, Distinguished Research Professor at Cardiff University – ‘Small data, big ideas’: new developments in qualitative research methods
• Patrick Sturgis, Professor of Research Methodology at Southampton University, Director of the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods – How survey research adapts to socio-technological change
• Kandy Woodfield, Director of Learning at NatCen Social Research – Challenges and opportunities of digital social research
Plus 16 workshop presentations from practicing researchers representing many sectors and methods, on themes that include:
• Innovation
• Methodological challenges
• Maintaining quality
• Making an impact
• Evaluation
• Research ethics
In summary:
Date: 8 December 2014, all day
Venue: British Library, London
Fee: £160 (reductions for SRA members)
Discount: 10% Early bird discount for bookings before October
Lunch & refreshments included, plus a wine reception afterwards.
Registration on the SRA website: http://the-sra.org.uk/event-registration/?ee=180
The SRA annual conference is the only UK forum to bring together social researchers from all sectors and disciplines to share knowledge and ideas, to debate our most pressing professional issues, and, of course, to meet and talk. Every social researcher who wants to keep abreast of what is happening in our profession should be there.
Best regards
Social Research Association
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