Events Calendar

​In this session, Mark Spearing, Peter Staniczenko and David Steynor will explain the importance of the University of Southampton's submission to the Research Excellence Framework (REF 2021), including what was involved, how we will leverage the 100+ impact case studies that were produced, and how some £50 million annual REF income is allocated to Schools. 

The third CHEP Festival of Learning and Teaching will take place on Thursday 16 September 2021.  

An online Festival is being planned in view of ongoing uncertainty around the pandemic, but some in-person sessions will be added if circumstances allow. 

CHEP will put out a formal call for contributions in June, but if you have any ideas for engaging sessions, particularly ones that will encourage participation from those who do not normally attend such events, we would love to hear from you now.  

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To celebrate the relaunch of the NCRM research method book series with the publication of “Embodied Inquiry: Research Methods”, Sophie Woodward is holding an ‘In conversation event’ with the authors Jennifer Leigh and Nicole Brown.

Jennifer and Nicole’s book explores what an embodied approach brings to a research project, and which kinds of considerations need to be taken into account to research in this way. The book has been praised as a “welcome addition to the research methods literature” that is “grounded in interdisciplinary theorizing and bursting with practical wisdom”, and as such “a practical guide for both students and scholars interested in engaging in an embodied research process”.

In this event, Sophie, Jennifer and Nicole will discuss, among other things, what Embodied Inquiry is, what the benefits and challenges of this mode of research are, and what an Embodied Inquiry might look like in practice.

Register and find out more: https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=11517

This workshop will introduce Institutional Ethnography (IE), an interdisciplinary feminist approach to social research that focuses on how texts and language organise our everyday lives.

IE is not just a methodology, but a comprehensive feminist ontology of how the social world works which advocates using a form of standpoint to explore from specific perspectives. IE research ‘takes sides’, often researching as, with, and/or for, marginalised groups who are often made invisible by, or excluded from, organisations and institutions. The focus on texts – conceptualised as replicable materials objects that carry messages – allows IE researchers to ethnographically explore the organising power of language and institutions, made material in institutional texts which act as bridges between different people and places.

The overall aim of the workshop is to provide attendees with a comprehensive overview of institutional ethnography as an approach and the opportunity to translate their own research ideas and projects into an IE research proposal or small piece of text-focused analysis. This hands on workshop is suitable for students, academics, and anyone else interested in feminist methodologies, text and discourse analysis, and institutional or organisational ethnographies.

No prior training in, or knowledge of, IE is required.

Register and find out more: https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=11387

The fact that correlation does not equate to causation is so well known that it has become a popular saying in itself. Yet the way that quantitative analysis is discussed in much popular and political discourse, as well as interpreted by many social scientists, fails to take issues surrounding causality fully into account. This may be because randomized control experiments, widely understood as the most defensible method of establishing causality, are frequently impossible or unethical to conduct in social science settings.

Analysts thus have to work with observational data, which often miss information crucial for making causal interpretations of statistical associations. However, under some circumstances and subject to specific assumptions, one can interpret estimated associations as casual with substantially higher confidence.

This course deals with methods that can be used under such circumstances and subject to the specific assumptions. The course offers practical skills in implementing these methods and the theoretical skills needed to understand and discuss evidence from them.

Register and find out more: https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=11554

This four day course (running from 10am - 4pm each day) will focus on the conceptual understanding of multilevel modelling and its relevance for robust analysis of evidence from randomised controlled trials, with case studies from educational trials. It will focus on ‘meaning’ and application of multilevel models instead of computations.

The course will run for four days, with the first day focusing on the transition from linear regression models to multilevel models. Practical examples with simple exercises will be used to motivate the need for a more robust approach than t-tests or linear regressions in educational trials. The different sources of variability will be discussed as well as their implications on effect size.

The course will primarily be taught in R, but we would also be able to support individual exercises in SAS and STATA. This is an intermediate course that requires good understanding of linear regression model as a prerequisite.

Register and find out more: https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=11285