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Moving Beyond the Linear Model:
The Role of Mixed Methods Research in an Age of Complexity ---
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CONFERENCE: Moving Beyond the Linear Model: The Role of Mixed Methods Research in an Age of Complexity
Wednesday, 3 August 2016 to Saturday, 6 August 2016
Details
The 2nd International Mixed Methods International Research Association (MMIRA) conference will take place August 3rd-5th 2016 at Durham University, UK. This conference will provide an outstanding opportunity for attendees to examine the role of mixed methods
in applied social research. We seek to address questions and critical concerns through a form of social inquiry that stresses the importance of understanding the complexity of the social world and addresses the issues identified by Unger when he noted that:
… 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. Its 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 mixed 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 putting social science back where
it should be – front and center in relation to public debate, engagement and the driving of social change.
After requests we have extended the deadline for Abstract Submissions to 31st March 2016.
We are also inviting submissions for panels where the panel organizer will suggest a theme and a set of presenters. Normally panels will include 3 or 4 participants.
We are proposing that a selection of papers from the conference which relate to the theme of the methodological future of mixed methods will form the basis of a special issue of
The Journal of Mixed Methods Research. Papers relating to the use of mixed methods in Sports related research will also be presented as the basis of either a themed section or a special issue of
The International Journal of Sport Policy. David Byrne is interested in developing a proposal for an edited book in the new Routledge Series on Complexity and the Social Sciences which will address the question:
How do we research the Complex Social? And papers addressing this theme will be considered as the basis for contributions to this collection.
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