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Dear all Home Space? Methods Workshop: Objects and images Venue: The Open University, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA Library Seminar Rooms 1 and 2 Friday 16 May 2014, 10am-4pm We would like to invite you to our next event in the ESRC seminar series ‘Home Space?: Public and private in new welfare settings’. With a focus on methodologies and methods, this will be a workshop with interactive and participatory sessions. It is open to all but we would particularly like to encourage postgraduates and early career researchers to attend and share their experiences of research in this area; travel bursaries are available to support this. This workshop will explore innovative methods and methodological resources for examining the domestic, institutional and semi-institutional spaces that have been the subject of this seminar series. The day will explore, in particular, the status of objects and images throughout the research process, to capture the emotions, intimacies and attachments at stake. There will be short presentations alongside group work and discussion sessions. Confirmed speakers include: Professor Sheila Peace (The Open University, Melanie Lovatt (University of Sheffield), Carey Newson (Queen Mary, University of London); Dr Alison Clark (The Open University). The day will explore the following questions: 1. What research methods can capture shifting rationalities and subjectivities in sites of welfare and care, both in domestic contexts and different areas of public service delivery? 2. How can innovative methods involving visuality, materiality and embodiment help researchers and practitioners understand experiences in such spaces, including those of users at different stages of the life course? 3. What material objects and visual images might be highlighted, produced or co-produced during a research process, and what is their status within an overall analysis? 4. How might methods employed in domestic settings be used in service delivery settings and vice versa? Travel bursaries will be available, especially for postgraduate and early career researchers. Please indicate if you would like to be considered for one of these Dr Eleanor Jupp Research Fellow - Health and Social Care The Open University Milton Keynes MK7 6AA http://hsc-people.open.ac.uk/e.jupp -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302).