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Intermediate level, hands-on, course to learn creative approaches to doing qualitative research. Led by a team of tutors from the Morgan Centre, Sociology, University of Manchester.
The various stages of research will be covered, from data collection and analysis through to writing with qualitative data. We begin by introducing what we mean by doing qualitative research creatively, before moving on to consider 'Facet methodology', an inventive orientation to researching the multidimensionality of everyday lives, which puts the researcher’s creativity and imagination at the heart of methodological practice.
The course also explores some of the key practical and ethical issues in using creative methods. Participants will be given a practical and hands-on introduction to a range of creative qualitative methods, including visual methods and ‘material methods’. The course will also cover key principles in qualitative data analysis, and how these can be put into practice.
Finally, we discuss practical and intellectual strategies for writing with qualitative data, and consider how it is possible to theorise, or write conceptually, with such data. The course includes several practical workshop exercises involving creating and analysing qualitative data, where participants will have the opportunity to work with their own data.
It also incorporates a special Morgan Centre tenth anniversary event on Wednesday 6 July, at which members of the Morgan Centre will showcase their latest methodological innovations alongside a talk by a long standing friend of the Morgan Centre, Professor Les Back from Goldsmiths, University of London. This event will include a session at the end of the day exclusively for summer school participants.
Tutors: Jennifer Mason, Sue Heath, Sophie Woodward, Helen Holmes, Brian Heaphy and guest tutor Les Back.
Full programme of sessions and how to book:
http://methods.manchester.ac.uk/events/summer-school-2016/courses/qualitative-researching/
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