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Translating the value of Qualitative Longitudinal Research Across Disciplines. Prof. Bren Neale and Dr. Jonas Masdonati

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Neale in Conversation Event SSP March 20Prof. Bren Neale (Leeds) and Dr. Jonas Masdonati (Lausanne, and FLaG Visiting Fellow) will present and be ‘In Conversation’ about the value of Qualitative Longitudinal research methodology for capturing and interrogating social processes as they unfold over time. They will also consider why researchers may encounter disciplinary resistance to...

Vocational pathways, inequalities and the meanings of (decent) work: a mini symposium

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We are delighted to invite you to a symposium with 3 complementary presentations from Jonas, Kim and Karen. Each will present for 20-25 minutes followed by a cross-cutting discussion and Q and A. This is scheduled as part of the SSP Wednesday research seminar series. Note that the talks themselves commence at the earlier time...

Maintaining Gendered Practice. Dr. Bonita Carroll

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Join here ABSTRACT Carroll’s research documents the lived experience of women working as tradespersons in large industrial plants associated with the mining industry in Western Australia, the largest state of the Australian Commonwealth. The epicentre of the project was a remote town located 1500 km north of the state capital, Perth. The study, based on...

Book Launch: Hughes and Tarrant on Men, Families, and Poverty

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We are excited to invite you to an online book launch      join here Dr Kahryn Hughes, University of Leeds, and Professor Anna Tarrant, University of Lincoln  will be discussing their new book: "Men, Families, and Poverty: Tracing the Intergenerational Trajectories of Place-Based Hardship" This book develops a new sociology of the intergenerational and longitudinal dynamics...

Work in Progress workshop Fri 28th April

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Alex Chelegeer:  Writing a PhD thesis on an ethnic minority cohort I would like to share how I wrote my thesis, the methodology choice and ways of arranging literature and data. I would also like to provide detailed discussions on one of my empirical chapters regarding the education of ethnic minorities. I intend to present...

New: Work in Progress Workshops

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We plan to run regular work in progress workshops from Fri 31st March (with Thomas Adnan-Smith and Ellie Craig); and again, from 21st April (with Kahryn Hughes and Daniel Edmiston). We look forward to seeing you at these informal and supportive Friday get-togethers. Details of these, and subsequent workshops, will be posted soon.

Timescapes 10 Festival

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Timescapes 10 Festival Registrations are now open for the Timescapes 10 Festival, a major celebration of advances in qualitative longitudinal methods through a mixture of international symposia, panel sessions, video provocations, sandpits, and demonstrator events. Please go to: https://go.soton.ac.uk/eqi to register. Jointly run through the Timescapes Archive and the National Centre for Research Methods, the Timescapes 10 Festival celebrates ten years since the conclusion of the...

FLaG Work in Progress workshop 17th June 11 - 12

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For this session, Ian Sullivan (School of Sociology/Earth & Environment/Geography, Leeds) and Kaori Katada (Visiting Researcher from Hosei University, Tokyo) will present their work. Across different contexts, both presentations will engage with issues surrounding austerity and neoliberal systems: How can communities transform energy use towards zero-carbon through social and political action? – Ian Sullivan Using a community resilience framework my...

Rescheduled: 'Inequalities: Social connections in early adulthood and class formation' Prof Jane Gray:15th June

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Gray inequalities presentation for FLaG FLaG Workshop. All welcome. This workshop presents some ongoing work linking retrospective social network schedules and panel survey data to narrative life stories in the Life Histories and Social Change database (LHSC).  LHSC includes 98 life story interviews conducted between 2005 and 2008 with three cohorts of Irish people (born...

'Theorizing family change with the concept of generations' Prof. Jane Gray

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FLaG Seminar: All welcome “Generation” has enjoyed renewed interest both in sociology and in public discourse on contemporary social change.  The definition and application of the concept of generation has been controversial in scholarly circles, including in the field of family sociology, and this presentation reviews some of those debates.  I will argue, however, that...