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> Dear All, > > This is the first announcement for the AHE 2nd Post-Graduate Training Workshop. Please send this announcement to all post-graduate students you know of and to anybody else. Post- graduate students from outside the UK are welcome and encouraged to attend. > Fred Lee > > Association for Heterodox Economics > 2nd Post-Graduate Training Workshop > "> Getting From Hypotheses to Conclusions: > Advanced Methods for Pluralist and Interdisciplinary Economics Research> "> > 2000 > The workshop is to be held December 9th, 9 am to Dec. 11th 2 pm and will be held at: > Chancellors Conference Centre > University of Manchester -- subsidised for eligible PhD students in years 2-4! > For those eligible, subsidy includes B&B&Evening Meals&Travel > Each person still has to pay 25 pounds though. > Invited speakers include Vicki Chick, Steve Fleetwood and others as well as two international speakers > Steve Fleetwood has confirmed that he will speak on > '> How (not) to do causal explanation in labour markets> '> , with reference to recently published work of his in Review of Social Economy and other work. > Workshop facilitators include Wendy Olsen and are likely to also include other active members of AHE in the UK/Ireland. > A Workshop handbook consisting of papers by all the presenters and more will be given - last year it ran to two volumes. > The workshop will have discussion, Q&A, seminar, and practical components including: > * specialist applications of advanced statistical skills, notably linking-up a statistics package with interview transcript data; > * specialist applications of advanced qualitative skills, notably grounded theory and discourse analysis; > * developing the capacity for originality as well as social worth and policy relevance in economic research, which will in turn have knock-on effects on pedagogy and on the ability to apply the learning that takes place during the PhD. > * encouraging researchers to work within a context of methodological and theoretical triangulation > Social theorists, realists, feminists, marxists, post-keynesians, empirical researchers, and all others who consider themselves under the umbrella of heterodoxy are welcome to the workshop. For a list of 650 people who have signed up to a statement favouring heterodoxy over orthodoxy, please see the website of the Post-Autistic Economics Review. > Specifically: > http://www.btinternet.com/~pae_news/Camproposal.htm > Contact Maria-Luisa Mendez: > [log in to unmask] for details or click here > <http://www.ccsr.ac.uk/staff/wkolsen/workshopDetails.htm> (provisional programme and details). > If you decide to register please see aheregister.htm <http://www.ccsr.ac.uk/staff/wkolsen/aheregister.htm> > You must send your registration form by post to the following address: > AHE c/o Maria-Luisa Mendez > The Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research > Faculty of Social Sciences and Law > The University of Manchester > Dover Street Building > Manchester M13 9PL > (staff are also welcome but without so much subsidy > - the approximate cost will be 135 pounds B&B plus 25 pounds fee = total 160 pounds and your travel costs) > > > > <<aheworkshop.htm>> > > <<ahewk1.htm>> > > <<regform.htm>>