Dr Sharon Elley, Liz Hurley and Dr Kim Allen, School of Sociology and Social Policy (L-YCR, FLaG) and Educational Engagement About the conference The UK government’s focus on Higher Education reform has recently been laid out in the White Paper: ‘Success as a Knowledge Economy: Teaching Excellence, Social Mobility and Student Choice’ (BIS, May 16th,...
The Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness (FSHI) have funded a one-day symposium that will explore diversity and well-being in the unfolding of men’s lives. The symposium is a collaboration between the University of Leeds, Edinburgh Napier University, University of Warwick and Glasgow Caledonian University. One of the key aims of this event...
Katarzyna (Kasia) Bolsewicz (University of Queensland) There is an increasing shift towards the biomedical in the prevention, treatment and care in HIV and a normalisation of HIV as a chronic illness. The normalisation of HIV is predicated on biomedical treatment messages being acted upon by people living with HIV, often abstracted from the specifities and...
Simon Williams, Research Assistant Professor, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA. This seminar will discuss some of the benefits and challenges facing large-scale qualitative longitudinal qualitative research (QLR), drawing on my experience of two ongoing research projects - the National Longitudinal Study of Young Life Scientists and the Academy for Future Science Faculty. In these projects, we...
Dr. Kirsi Pauliina Kallio Space and Political Agency Research Group (SPARG), University of Tampere RELATE Centre of Excellence, Academy of Finland Abstract How to study experiential political geographies? This is the methodological challenge that I have undertaken in my current research. It splits into two dilemmas: How to find out about other people’s ways of...
One Day Conference The notion of ‘feckless’ young men who are assumed to be disinterested in ’being there’ or, worse, regarded as a potential risk to their children, continues to hold sway, particular in popular media and some political discoursed. However emerging research evidence counters such viewpoints and demonstrates that young fathers do care about...
Dr Sally Brown Centre for Medical Humanities at Durham University Teenage pregnancy and parenthood have been viewed as overwhelmingly negative, often seen as a feature of deprived communities which needs to be 'solved' by technical and educational means. There has been a shift in seeing teenage pregnancy as a moral problem, due to the unmarried...
About the conference This one day conference will be a tribute to Professor Bren Neale at the point of her retirement, and a celebration of her contributions to research, policy and practice relating to childhood, life course studies, family and welfare, qualitative longitudinal research, and data archiving and re-use. In the morning we offer presentations...
About the Workshop Download the full Workshop Programme (PDF) Workshop aims Qualitative longitudinal research presents particular complexities and challenges relating to its design, to managing fieldwork and associated ethics, and to effective data analysis. This workshop explores some of these challenges and offers conceptually informed practical strategies for addressing issues arising throughout QL research from...
This half-day event is hosted by Dr Sharon Elley, FLaG, Dr Sally Hines, CIGS, and Care-Connect in the School of Sociology and Social Policy. The event brings together leading academics, researchers and practitioners working to challenge ‘laddism’, sexual violence, gender and class inequalities in higher education and via education. The day explores a number of...