The 2nd International Mixed Methods International Research Association (MMIRA) conference will take place August 3-5th 2016 at Durham University, U.K.
This conference will provide an outstanding opportunity for attendees to examine the role of mixed methods in applied social research. We seek to address the complexity of questions and critical concerns through a form of social inquiry that stresses the importance of … a practice of social and historical explanation, sensitive to structure but aware of contingency is not yet at hand. We must build it as we go along by reconstructing the available tools of social science and social theory. It absence denies us a credible account of how transformation happens (Roberto Unger Democracy Realized London Verso 1998 24).
The theme of this conference is to center mixing methods research approaches as one of the key ways in which we can in Unger’s words, ‘reconstruct the available tools of social science’ and the focus on social transformation puts social science back where it should be – front and centre in relation to public debate, engagement and the driving of social change. Further details are available at:
https://www.dur.ac.uk/sass/events/events/
A call for both papers and stream suggestions will be issued shortly.
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