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Dear All The following may be of interest to list members, with apologies for cross-postings. Louise Advanced Training Course: Researching with Children and Young People in Diverse Socio-spatial Contexts 24th/25th September 2015 Loughborough University is offering a series of two-day advanced training courses, funded by the ESRC. These are aimed at doctoral students and early career researchers seeking to develop their methodological expertise. The courses are small-scale and interactive, providing intensive, advanced research training, and an opportunity for a small group to work with a team of leading academics in the field. This course will consider the methodological and ethical issues of researching with hard-to-reach groups, such as those with disabilities, and also relationally with young people in their families in international contexts, in both the Global North and Global South. Theoretical, epistemological and ethical considerations will be discussed and debated. Much of the course will be dedicated to practical workshops exploring techniques and issues, including video ethnographies, ‘participatory methods’; researching past childhoods and past children’s voices, and techniques to engage with the emotions of children and young people. The course aims to disseminate experience and best practice gained through research conducted by the Geographies of Children, Youth and Families Research Group at Loughborough University. Much of the insight comes from working young people who are often excluded (such as disabled young people, those from the global South and the past), leading to consideration of wider methodological insights with resonance to anyone conducting research with young people. Five free places are available to external candidates, supported by ESRC-funded bursaries, covering the cost of travel, subsistence, overnight stay and course fees. The course will be run by Dr Louise Holt; and taught by Dr Matej Blazek; Prof Sophie Bowlby; Dr James Esson; Professor Kate Gough; Professor Sarah Holloway; Dr Louise Holt; Dr Sarah Mills; Dr Helena Pimlott-Wilson; and, Professor Darren Smith. To apply, please complete the application form on the website: http://www.lboro.ac.uk/services/graduateschool/events-research/esrc-advanced-training/ Please address any queries to: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Closing date for applications: 12th July 2015 Dr Louise Holt Senior Lecturer Department of Geography Loughborough University LE11 3TU 01509222 747 http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/geography/staff/academic/holt-l.html