Events Archive: 2008 - 2011
- Date
- 1 April 2008 - 1 March 2011
Negotiating educational inclusion with travelling families - challenging academics, policy makers and providers
Date: 17 March 2011, 1 - 2 pm
Location: Beech Grove House seminar Room
A nudge or a fudge? The role of health visitors in addressing inequalities in health
Date: 04 March 2011, 1-2pm
Location: Beech Grove House seminar room
Dr Nick Emmel, School of Sociology & Social Policy, University of Leeds
'Here, now and then': grandparenting, time and social exclusion
Date: 17 February 2011, 1-2pm
Location: Beech Grove House seminar room
Dr Kahryn Hughes, School of Sociology & Social Policy, University of Leeds
Choice and Change: A Qualitative Longitudinal Study
Timescapes Seminar Series 2010 - 2011
Date: 10 February 2011, 1-4.30 pm
Caroline Glendinning, Professor of Social Policy, University of York with colleagues
The educational strategies of the black middle classes
Date: 16 December 2010, 1-2pm
Location: Beech Grove House seminar room
Prof. Carol Vincent, Institute of Education, University of London
Do institutions matter? Comparing inequalities in the governance of the EU
Date: 02 December 2010, 1-2pm
Location: Beech Grove House seminar room
Dr Charles Dannreuther, School of Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds
This seminar has been postponed to a later date t.b.c.
Living through Challenges in Changing Places: Blending Household and Neighbourhood Narratives
Timescapes Seminar Series 2010 - 2011
Date: 25 November 2010, 1-2 pm
Location: Beech Grove House Seminar Room, University of Leeds
Presenter: Professor Ian Cole, Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research, Sheffield Hallam University
Students' experiences of school science in the context of national curriculum reform
Date: 11 November 2010, 1-2pm
Location: Beech Grove House seminar room
Dr Jim Ryder and Dr Indira Banner, School of Education, University of Leeds
Theorising inequalities in participation in UK higher education
understanding Bourdieu and other men who shouldn't have made it to 'elite' universitites
Date: 28 October 2010, 1-2pm
Location: Beech Grove House seminar room
Dr Mandy Winterton, School of Sociology & Social Policy, University of Leeds
Are rich, less bright kids overtaking poor, bright kids? A closer look at the evidence from a statistical perspective
Date: 21 October 2010 | 1-2pm | Seminar
Location: Beech Grove House seminar room
Dr Yu-Kang Tu and Professor Mark Gilthorpe, Centre for Epidemiology & Biostatistics, University of Leeds
Thinking about inequality
Date: 15 October 2010, 1-2pm
Location: Beech Grove House Seminar Room, University of Leeds
Dr Wendy Bottero, School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester
Making sense of life history data: the shifting ground of interpretation
Date: 14 October 2010, 1 - 2 pm
Location: Beech Grove House Seminar Room
Molly Andrews, Co-director, Centre for Narrative Research, University of East London
Storying qualtitative longitudinal research: sequence, voice and motif
Date: 01 July 2010, 1 - 2 pm
Location: Beech Grove House Seminar Room
Sheila Henderson, Independent Research & Consultancy, Visiting Fellow London South Bank University
Rachel Thomson, Professor of Social Research, The Open University
Janet Holland, Professor of Social Research, London South Bank University
Seeing things differently? The promise of qualitative longitudinal research on the third sector
Date: 17 June 2010, 1 - 2 pm
Location: Beech Grove House Seminar Room
Rob Macmillan, Research Fellow, Third Sector Research Centre, University of Birmingham
Critical connections: the relational politics and practice of building practitioner and academic networks in researching advantage
Date: 05 May 2010
Location: Beech Grove House Seminar room
Dr Shona Hunter, School of Sociology & Social Policy, University of Leeds
Claire Dempster, NHS and Birkbeck College
A sideways look at gender and sibling relationships over time
Date: 15 April 2010 , 1 - 2 pm
Location: Beech Grove House Seminar Room
Ros Edwards, Professor in Social Policy, London South Bank University
Bridging the gap between research-policy-practice
Date: 24 March 2010, 1 - 2 pm
Location: Beech Grove House seminar room
Dr Sharon Elley, School of Sociology & Social Policy, University of Leeds
From Analysis to Insight
Date: 19 March 2010, 09:40h - 12:50h
Location: Room 11.20, Social Studies Building
Working with students as co-researchers to address marginalisation
Date: 10 March 2010, 1 - 2 pm
Location: Beech Grove House seminar room
Dr Kiki Messiou, Centre for Educational Studies, University of Hull
Worklife inequalities: Developing research tools to access and measure quality of life
Date: 15 July 2009, 12 - 1 pm
Location: Beech Grove House Seminar Room
Andy Brown, David Spencer. Quality of working life; shortcomings of measures of subjective orientations as guides to well being at work
Myles Gould. Multi-level modelling of job satisfaction.
Educational inequalities: thinking across levels of analysis to improve understanding of social processes and policy interventions
Date: 08 July 2009, 12 - 1 pm
Location: Beech Grove House Seminar Room
Jim Donnelly, Indira Banner, Matt Homer. Differential attainment in the school science curriculum
Sonali Shah. Disabled children’s experiences and educational policies: Life histories, social policy and links between private and public
Health inequalities: How researching contexts may challenge general causal models
Date: 01 July 2009, 12 - 1 pm
Location: Beech Grove House Seminar Room
Kim Edwards. Obesogenic environments in Leeds: the importance of micro level analysis for explanation and health interventions
Nick Emmel. Iconography and investigating inequalities and inequities in health
Researching inequalities and theorising the contexts of (qualitative) data generation
Date: 24 June 2009 , 12 - 1 pm
Location: Beech Grove House Seminar Room
Mike Baynham, Jean Conteh, James Simpson Linguistic ethnography, the research interview and other interactional exchanges
Sharon Elley Harnessing and understanding emotions in the research process
Equality of what? A review of methodological issues raised by the different ways of conceptualising equality
Date: 10 June 2009, 1 - 2 pm
Location: Beech Grove House Seminar Room
Jean Gardiner, Leeds University Business School
Researching with the hard-to-reach and the hard-to-keep
Date: 12 March 2009, 4 - 5 pm
Dr Nick Emmel & Dr Lou Hemmerman, School of Sociology & Social Policy, University of Leeds
Population Ageing in Central and Eastern Europe
Date: 04 March 2009, 4 - 5 pm
Dr Andreas Hoff, Senior Research Fellow, The Oxford Institute of Ageing
The ethics of research with children: experiences from a study of children growing up in poverty in Peru, India, Vietnam and Ethiopia
Date: 04 February 2009
Dr Virginia Morrow, Reader in Childhood Studies, Institute of Education, University of London
Dr Laura Camfield, Child Research Coordinator, Department of International Development, University of Oxford
The world we have made? Change, continuity and individualisation
Date: 04 February 2009, 4 - 5 pm
Professor Simon Duncan, Professor of Comparative Social Policy, University of Bradford
Times of our lives: problem internet gambling, time and the family
Date: 15 January 2009
Dr Kahryn Hughes, School of Sociology & Social Policy, University of Leeds
Professor Gill Valentine, School of Geography, University of Leeds
Chalk and cheese? Bringing together different sources of evidence in research
Date: 15 December 2008
An informal workshop event including presentations from those who are planning their research projects, those who are analysing data and a retrospective on completed research. Presentations by:
Paul Atkinson (PhD student, Department of History)
Katy Wright (PhD student, Department of Sociology & Social Policy)
Maddy Abbas (MA student, Department of Sociology & Social Policy)
Researching the contexts of family life
Date: 06 November 2008
Sarah Irwin and Sharon Elley, School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds - Parenting, subjectivities and social class
Kylie Sait, Macquarie University, Sydney - Parenting, diversity and support networks
Researching families: mixed methods approaches
Date: 23 April 2008
Dr Jacqui Gabb, The Open University and University of Leeds
Bad laws make hard cases: Using longitudinal qualitative research to explore policy issues around lone-parent employment
Location: Social Sciences Building Room 11.20
Jane Millar, Professor of Social Policy, University of Bath
Tess Ridge, Senior Lecturer in Social Policy, University of Bath