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Timescapes 10 Festival

Date
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Date
Tuesday 6 - Friday 16 September, 2022
Location
Online

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 original Timescapes Programme of research .

Confirmed keynote speakers include:

  • Barbara Adam, Professor of Sociology, University of Cardiff
  • Bren Neale, Professor of Life Course and Family Research, University of Leeds
  • Mike Savage, Professor of Sociology, London School of Economics
  • Rosalind Edwards, Professor of Sociology, University of Southampton
  • Mr Masud Khokhar, University Librarian and Keeper of the Brotherton Collection, University of Leeds

Through a mixture of international symposia, panel sessions, video provocations, sandpits, and demonstrator events, this online only festival showcases a decade of international advances in these methodological fields:

  • Qualitative Longitudinal research
  • Qualitative Secondary Analysis
  • Qualitative archiving
  • Decolonising Archives
  • Qualitative data in panel surveys
  • Auto/biographical methods
  • Big Qual
  • Mixed Methods
  • Ethics
  • Data Integrity and Data Management
  • Time and temporality, temporal methodologies.

For a nominal fee of £10, delegates can access the entire range of events taking place across the two weeks of the Festival. These include sessions with archives such as UKDA, Mass Observations and the Timescapes Archive, as well as presentations and training delivered by key international and interdisciplinary scholars.

There are three NCRM research methods training courses running across the two weeks. Spaces are limited and booking is required. The fee for each course is £10.:

13th - 15th September: NCRM Training: Working with large amounts of qualitative data:an introduction to the Breadth-and-Depth Methods, Professor Rosalind Edwards, Dr Emma Davidson, Dr Susie Weller, and Professor Lynn Jamieson

14th September: Introducing the Irish Qualitative Data Archive, Professor Jane Gray and Dr Aileen O'Carroll

15th September: Introducing Qualitative Longitudinal Research: From Design to Analysis (online) Professor Bren Neale

There is an additional Short Course, run as part of the Festival, by Dr Kahryn Hughes and Professor Anna Tarrant, which is accessible under the £10 Festival fee.

Please find the full programme here
 
Below is a programme overview

WEEK 1

  • Tuesday 6th September
    • AM Decolonising Archives, Decolonising Archives? Some Thoughts and Some Questions. Chair Etienne Joseph
    • AM Temporal Methodologies. Chaired by Professor Karen Henwood, with presentations from Fiona Shirani, Laura Fenton and Michelle Bastion
    • PM - Qualitative Longitudinal Research using Quantitative Panel Surveys, Chaired by JD Carpentieri, with presentations from Jane Elliott, University of Exeter (UK birth cohort studies), Chris Jeppeson, University of Cambridge (UK birth cohort studies), Deb Loxton, University of Newcastle, Australia (Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health), University of Oxford (Young Lives), JD Carpentieri, UCL (UK birth cohort studies)
  • Wednesday 7th September
    • AM - Professor Ann Oakley in conversation with Professors Graham Crow and John Goodwin, plus the launch of an exclusive interview with Ann about her life’s work and legacy
    • PM - Getting Personal with Research Data, an open access training workshop, Dr Kahryn Hughes and Professor Anna Tarrant
  • Thursday 8th September
    • AM: UKDA Data Dive workshop with Dr Maureen Haaker and Anca Vlad. ‘Reaching vulnerable populations through secondary analysis’
    • PM: Researching Social Security and Welfare Conditionality in Tough Times, Chair: Professor Sharon Wright, with presentations from Lisa Scullion, David Young and Phil Martin, and Kate Summers
  • Friday 9th September
    • AM - Rachel Thomson and Liam Berriman, Exploring Everyday Childhoods
    • The Mass Observations Archive, Fiona Courage and Kirsty Pattrick
    • The Dialect and Heritage Project, University of Leeds, Dr Fiona Douglas

WEEK 2

  • Monday 12th September
    • Exploring Causal Complexity through Qualitative Longitudinal Research, Chaired by Professor Bren Neale
      • From Complex Causality to Complex Understanding: Background, Emergence, and Flow in addressing Organizational and Policy Problem, Hari Tsouka
      • Unfolding Fluid Realities: Thoughts on Capturing Time, Lasse Gerrits and Sofia Pagliarin
      • Understanding the Process of Self-Management when Living with Advanced Cancer: A Multi-Perspective Longitudinal Qualitative Approach, Lynn Calman
      • Implications of Relational Causality on Research with Vulnerable Populations, Tanja Dall and Sophie Danneris
      • The Contribution of Qualitative Longitudinal Research to Understanding Homelessness, Emma Davidson
      • Panel Session, Anna Tarrant
  • Tuesday 13th September
    • AM - Qualitative longitudinal research on families and transitions, Chaired by Professor Susanne Vogl
      • Interviewing (lone parents) through time: opportunities and challenges of qualitative longitudinal research,
      • Núria Sanchez Mira, Université de Lausanne
      • Researching the Pandemic: Challenges for Qualitative Longitudinal Family Research, Ulrike Zartler, University of Vienna
      • Everyday Life in Transition - Methodological Explorations from a Qualitative Panel Study on the Transition from Work to Retirement, Anna Wanka, Goethe-University Frankfurt
      • Voices of transitions: Researching adolescents’ pathways to the future with qualitative longitudinal grounded theory analysis, Susanne Vogl, University of Stuttgart; Raphaela Kogler, University of Vienna
  • Wednesday 14th September
    • AM - Intergenerational Poverty, chaired by Professor Julia Brannen
      • The time frames of young people living in precarious conditions, Professor Julia Brannen
      • Pathways to the intergenerational transmission of poverty and low-income: the impact of family change in historical and life-course context, Professor Jane Gray
      • Complicating the dynamics of linked lives: Family complexity and intergenerational trauma for men in low-income families. Professor Kevin Roy, University of Maryland
      • 'Recovering' accounts of men's inter- and multi-generational family participation through  hardship over time, Dr Kahryn Hughes and Professor Anna Tarrant
    • PM - Fathers and Longitudinal research, Chaired by Professor Anna Tarrant, University of Lincoln
      • Using longitudinal data to explore how fathers’ involvement affects children’s educational outcomes, Helen Norman
      • When does qualitative longitudinal research end, Tina Miller
      • Esther Dermott,
      • Georgia Phillip, 
  • Thursday 15th September
    • AM Histories of Reusing and Sharing Qualitative Data: Qualitative Secondary Analysis and International Qualitative Secondary Analysis, Chair Dr Kahryn Hughes
      • Pseudonyms unpacked – an animated abstract, Dr Janet Heaton
      • Data Reuse Across International Contexts: Possibilities and Challenges, Dr Kahryn Hughes, Professor Vibeke Asmussen Frank, Dr Maria Herold, Dr Esben Houborg
  • Friday 16th September
    • AM Round Table Panel Session: The Future of Qualitative Archives, with representatives from Mass Observations Archive, the UK Data Archive, the Timescapes Archive, and the Irish Qualitative Data Archive, as well as interdisciplinary speakers from the Festival