Tuesday 31 August - 17.30-19.00
Plenary Session 1- Maplethorpe Hall
Chair: Evelyn Ruppert, CRESC, The Open University
The Double Social Life of Method
John Law, CRESC , The Open Univesity
“Knowledge-weaving”: Befriending Transdisciplinarity under the Urgencies of Global Academic Restructuring
Katie King, University of Maryland
Tuesday 31 August - 19.00-20.00
Book Launch and Drink’s Reception- Mordan Hall
Oxford Univeristy Press invites all conference delegates to the launch of Mike Savage's latest book entitled Identities and Social Change in Britain since 1940- The Politics of Method. The reception is sponsored by CRESC.
Wednesday 1 September - 09.30-10.30
Plenary Session 2-Maplethorpe Hall
Chair: John, Law, CRESC- The Open University
Thinking Genealogically: The Political Life of Methods
Engin Isin, The Open University
Discussant: Mike savage, CRESC, University of Manchester
Wednesday 1 September- 10.30-11.00
Tea and Coffee Break- served in the foyer area of the Maplethorpe Building and Mordan Hall
Wednesday 1 September - 11.00-12.30
Session 101: Histories of Social Science Methods
Chair: Francis Dodsworth, CRESC, The Open Univesity
101-a: The Device: What Kinds of Device Have Come to Play an Important Historical Role, and Which Have Failed? Ian Shaw, University of York
101-b: From community studies to Community Studies: How a Methodological Innovation Redefined the Social World of Post-war Britain, Robyn Rowe, London School of Economics and Politics
101-c: ‘Here I stand, I can do no other’: Consumer Research Methods and their Religious Ontologies, 1900–1 950, Stefan Schwarzkopf, Copenhagen Business School
Session 201: Provoking Realism: Social Scientific Methods of Pedagogy and Research for the Creation of Contained Realities I
Organisers: Javier Lezaun, University of Oxford, Fabian Muniesa, École des Mines, Paris & Signe Vikkelsø, Copenhagen Business School
Chair: Evelyn Ruppert, CRESC, The Open University
201-a: Elements of Performativity in the Pedagogy of Business, Fabian Muniesa, École des Mines, Paris
201-b: Draw Network!? On the Power of Sociograms, Katja Mayer, University of Vienna
Session 301:Metaphors We Social Scientists Live By- Wordsworth Room
Organiser: Charles Turner, University of Warwick
Chair: Karel Williams
301-a: Network as Metaphor, Mark Erickson, University of Brighton
301-b: Networks, Structures, Systems and Patterns: Resisting the Lure of Spatial Metaphorics, Paul Stenner, University of Brighton
301-c: Absolute and Relative Metaphors in the Human Sciences, Charles Turner, University of Warwick
Session 401:The Act of Seeing and the Figure of the Researcher- MGA lecture Room
Chair: Gillian Rose, The Open University
401-a: Photographer as Researcher: Notes from Experience, Liz Hingley, University College London
401-b: Researcher as Director: Research in the Visual Frame, Marta Rabikowska, University of East London
401-c: Researcher as ‘The Seen’ and Implications for Methodology, Ariadne Van de Ven & Sanna Nissinen, The Open University
Session 501:Digital Social Research- Dobbs Room 2
Organiser: Annamaria Carusi, University of Oxford
Chair: Emma Uprichard, University of York
501-a: Digital Data, Styles of Science, and Types of Collaborative Research Organization, Eric Meyer & Ralph Schroeder, University of Oxford
501-b: Infraphysics of Assembling Digital Visual Media, Timothy Webmoor, University of Oxford
501-c: Modelling and Simulation in Biology and Social Science, Annamaria Carusi, University of Oxford
Session 601:Transforming the Measure of Culture- Hamlin Room 1
Chair: Simone Scherger, CRESC, University of Manchester
601-a: Measuring cultural value: a view from DCMS, Dave O'Brien, AHRC/ESRC fellow at the Department for Culture Media and Sport?
601-b: Accounting for Cultural Participation. Missing Cases, Hidden Values, Andrew Miles, ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change
601-c: What Counts as Data? Capturing and Accounting for Affect and Non-linguistic Elements in a Qualitative Research Project, Lois Tonkin, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
601-d: Emotions and Participant Observation in the Hospital, Grete Brorholt, University of Aarhus
Session 701: Design as Methods? Materiality and Material Processes- Hamlin Room 2
Organiser: Sophie Woodward, University of Manchester
Chair: Shinobu Majima, Gakushuin University/CRESC, University of Manchester
701-a: Tracing Relationships between People and Things: Musicians, Makers and Their Instruments, Tom Fisher, Nottingham Trent University
701-b: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Denim: Textile Technology, Colour Chemistry and Object Based Life Narratives, Sophie Woodward, University of Manchester
701-c: ‘Researching through Doing’: A Phenomenological Approach to Shoe Design, Naomi Braithwaite, Nottingham Trent University
Wednesday 1 September- 12.30-13.30
Lunch: Packed lunches will be handed out in the Dining Hall situated in the main building. You can either enjoy your lunch in the dining room area, Mordan Hall, or outside on the lawn if the weather is nice.
May we remind you to take the oportunity during the lunch-break to visit the publishers and the Exhibition in the Mordan Hall.
Wednesday 1 September - 13.30-15.00
Session 102:Designs, Desires and Devices: Audience Research at the BBC World Service (1936-2010)
Panel (I): Histroical Perspectives- Maplethorpe Seminar Room
Organisers: Alban Webb & Marie Gillespie, CRESC, The Open University
Chair: Marie Gillespie, CRESC, The Open University
102-a: Designs and devices in the early history of audience research at the BBC World Service, Graham Mytton, Audience Research Training and Consultancy
102-b: Audience Research in Extremis: Cold War Broadcasting to the USSR
, Gene Parta
102-c: A Leap of Imagination: BBC Audience Research over the Iron Curtain, Alban Webb, CRESC, The Open University
102-d: How Many and why? Measuring the BBC World Service Global Audience, Colin Wilding, BBC World Service
Session 202:Provoking Realism: Social Scientific Methods of Pedagogy and Research for the Creation of Contained Realities (II)-Maplethorpe Hall
Organisers: Javier Lezaun, University of Oxford, Fabian Muniesa, École des Mines, Paris & Signe Vikkelsø, Copenhagen Business School
Chair: Karel williams, CRESC, University of Manchester
202-a: Organizational Reality Devices: On the Generative Capacity of Bion’s Experience Group, Signe Vikkelsø, Copenhagen Business School
202-b: Observations on the Display of Entrepreneurship, Javier Lezaun, University of Oxford
202-c: Enacting Contained National Realities and Converging Societies, Tereza Stöckelová, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Session 302: Social Scientists as Designers- Wordsworth Room
Chair: Charles Turner, University of Warwick
302-a: Composing with Evanescent Notes: Practicing Sociology in Industrial Projects, Céline Verchere, CEA Grenoble & Emmanuel Anjembe, University of Grenoble
302-b: Social Science, Participation and Governance of Human Tissue and Embryology Research, John Gillott, The Open University
Session 402: Seeing Affectively: Embodiment, Affect and Photographic Methodologies- Hamlin Room 1
Organiser: Katherine Johnson, University of Brighton
Chair: Peter Redman, The Open University
402-a: Embodying Feeling: Exploring Emotion and Spatiality through Women’s Photographs of Everyday Pleasure, Lilianna Del Busso, University of Brighton
402-b: Making Memories, Managing Affect: Photographs as a Resource for Narrating the Embodied Journeys of Women Undergoing Chemotherapy, Hannah Frith, University of Brighton
402-c: Witnessing, Wit(h)nessing and Social Activism: Some Theoretical Reflections on the Transformative Possibilities of Participatory Visual Methodologies, Katherine Johnson, University of Brighton
Session 502: Data Mining and Digitization- Dobbs Room 2
Chair: Jennifer reid, University Amsterdam
502-a: Software, Software Everywhere! The Dark Side of Data Digitization, Emma Uprichard, University of York
502-b: Alternative Public Understandings of Flu Pandemics: Looking for Data in Less Obvious Places, Farida Vis, Loughborough University
502-c: Data Mining and Spatial Analysis: Enhancing our Social, Spatial and Temporal Understanding of Cities via Mining Geo-Located Data, Andrew Hudson-Smith, Fabian Neuhaus, Richard Milton & Steven Gray, University College London
Session 602: Transforming Interventions- MGA Lecture Room
Chair: Sophie Woodward, University of Manchester
602-a:The Science of the Syringe, Nicole Vitellone, University of Liverpool
602-b: Designing New Emergency Provision Scenarios: An Incubation, Michael Guggenheim, University of Zurich
602-c: Interventionist Research as a Network: Collective Production of Roles and Interventions, Nina Boulus, IT University of Copenhagen
Wednesday 1 September- 15.00-15.30
Tea/Coffee Break seved in the foyer area of the Maplethorpe Building and Mordan Hall
Wednesday 1 September - 15.30-17.00
Session 103:Seeing through the Numbers: Survey Research from a Historical Perspective- Wordsworth Room
Organiser: Shinobu Majima, Gakushuin University/CRESC, University of Manchester
Chair: Andrew Miles, ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change
Session 203:Provoking Realism: Social Scientific Methods of Pedagogy and Research for the Creation of Contained Realities (III)- Maplethorpe Hall
Organisers: Javier Lezaun, University of Oxford, Fabian Muniesa, École des Mines, Paris & Signe Vikkelsø, Copenhagen Business School
Chair: Paul du Gay, Copenhagen Business School
203-a: Convoking the Consumer In Person: The Focus Group Effect, Catherine Grandclement, EDF
203-b: People as Scientific Instruments, Maarten Derksen, University of Groningen
203-c: Experimental Huts: Building Rooms for Parasitological Exchange, Ann Kelly, London School Hygiene Tropical Medicine
Session 303 – Designs, Desires and Devices: Audience Research at the BBC World Service (1936- 2010)
Panel (II): Digital Dynamics- Maplethorpe Seminar Room
Organisers: Alban Webb & Marie Gillespie, CRESC, The Open University
Chair: Alban Webb, CRESC, The Open University
303-a: Known Unknowns: Working with Uncertainty in the Digital World, Jeremy Nye
303-b: Real-time’ social networking and shifting socialites: tracking media and mobilities across UK-Arabic public spheres, Marie Gillespie, CRESC, The Open University, Mina al Lami (LSE) and Latefa Guemar (University of Swansea)
303-c: Digital China: Deliberation, Discourse Analysis and its Implications, Hugh Mackay, Jingrong Tong and Matilda Andersoon, The Open University
303-d: Real-Time Social Media Monitoring: Automated Mass Observation? Ben O'Loughlin & Lawrence Ampofo, Royal Holloway, University of London
Session 403: Photo-elicitation and Socio-cultural Change: Developing Photo-based Method in ‘Capturing’ Migrants’ Lives- Hamlin Room 1
Organiser: Isabel Dyck, Queen Mary, University of London
Chair: Vron Ware, CRESC, The Open University
403-a: The Photo-elicitation Photograph: Constructing a Point of View, Gilian Rose, The Open University
403-b: Across Horizons: Dialogic Modes of Research with Young Adult Migrants, Les Back & Shamser Sinha, Goldsmiths, University of London
403-c: Ethics, Power and Representation in Photo-elicitation Interviews, Illiana Ortega-alcazar, Queen Mary, University of London
Session 503: New Data Identities- Dobbs Room 2
Chair: Simon Parker, University of York
503-a: E-government, the Proliferation of Digital Data and the Constitution of Social Segmentation, Paul Henman, University of Queensland
503-b: Whose performance? Government transactional databases and the politics of measurement, Evelyn Ruppert, CRESC, The Open University
503-c: Data as Gift: Exploring the Device Capabilities of Research Ethic Frameworks in the Social Sciences, Ana Gross, Goldsmiths, University of London
Session 603:Methodological Innovation in the Social Sciences: An Overview and Some Case Studies- MGA Lecture Room
Organiser: Graham Crow, University of Southampton
Chair: Graham Crow
603-a: Innovations in Social Science Research Methods, Maria Xenitidou & Nigel Gilbert, University of Surrey
603-b: New Technologies and New Methods: The Case of the Qualitative Software and Access Grid Adoption Curves in Social Research Methods, Nigel Goodwin Fielding, University of Surrey
603-c: What’s New in Qualitative Methods? Reflections on a Journal Search, Graham Crow, University of Southampton
Wednesday 1 September- 17.00-17.30
Tea and Coffee Break served in the foyer area of the Maplethorpe Building and Mordan Hall
Wednesday 1 September - 17.30-19.00
Plenary Session 3- Maplethorpe Hall
Chair: selina Todd, University of Oxford
Un-stilling Past Voices: Case Files, Dramatisation and the Story of Poverty
Mark Peel, University of Liverpool
The paper will feature the performance of two dramatisations, Miss Cutler and the Case of the Reincarnated Horse and Mister O'Neill and the Seductive Client, with Rob Lee and Jill Hughes from Manchester's MaD Theatre Company
Wednesday 1 September- 21.00-22.30
Film Screening- kitchen Stories- Wordsworth Room
Kitchen Stories (Salmer fra Kjøkkenet, Norway, 2003)) is a film by Brent Hamer. Swedish efficiency researchers come to Norway for a study of Norwegian men, to optimize their use of their kitchen. A fantastic ‘methods’ film!
Thursday 2 September - 09.00-10.30
Plenary Session 4- Maplethorpe Hall
Chair: Niamh Moore, CRESC, University of Manchester
Policy from the Side of the Messy: Feminist (Post)Critical Policy Analysis and the Democratization of Knowledge
Patricia Lather, Ohio State University
Devising the Social
Celia Lury, Goldsmiths, University of London
Thursday 2 September- 10.30-11.00
Tea and Coffee Break served in the foyer of the Maplethorpe Building and Mordan Hall
Thursday 2 September - 11.00-12.30
Session 104:Mass Observation and the Third Age: Social, Literary and Critical Research- Maplethorpe Seminar Room
Organiser: Nick Hubble, Brunel University
Chair: Mike Savage, CRESC, University of Manchester
104-a:New Identities and Social Research: The Legacy of Charles Madge and Michael Young, Nick Hubble, Brunel University
104-b: Female Recollections of Ageing: The Interaction between Fiction and Lived Experience, Emma Filtness, Brunel University
104-c: Everyday Life, Social Narratives and Self-Reflection: Methodological Underpinnings of the FCMAP Project 2008-2010, Philip Tew, Brunel University
Session 204:Indicators and Audits- Wordsworth Room
Chair: Evelyn Ruppert- CRESC, The Open University
204-a: A Measure for Human Dignity and Health: The Development of Quantitative Indicators to Monitor the Implementation of the Right to Health, David Reubi, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
204-b: The Social Life of Indicators: Measuring Criminal Justice in South Africa, Johanna Mugler,Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
204-c: Planning Futures and Discounting Outcomes: An Analysis of Safety and Quality Improvement Methodologies within the NHS, Trenholme Junghans, University of St Andrews
Session 304: Sequencing Methods in the Social Sciences- Hamlin Room 1
Chair: Jeanette Østergaard, The Danish National Centre for Social Research
304-a: The Success Story of Sequence Analysis. A Fruitful Methodological Progress or Merely a Catchy Tool? Christian Brzinsky-Fay, Social Science Research Centre, Berlin
304-b: From States to Trajectories to life Courses? What Sequence Analysis can discover and what it covers up, Mike Savage & Simone Scherger, CRESC, University of Manchester
Discussant: Andrew Abbott, University of Chicago (TBC)
Session 404: Art as an Investigative Method- Dobbs Room 2
Organiser: Jill Gibbon, The Open University
Chair: Brian Rusted, University of Calgary
404-a: Drawing Your Way into Understanding: (Re)seeing Medical Objects, Lucy Lyons, University of Copenhagen
404-b: What Might We Discover by Drawing the Spaces between Us? Angela Rogers, University of Brighton
404-c: Seduction Captured, Laura Gonzalez, Sheffield Hallam University/ Glasgow School of Art
404-d: Tracings: Drawing as Research in Sport and Exercise Science, Hannah Gravestock, University of the Arts London
Session 504: The Rise of the Internet- MGA Lecture Room
Chair: Hugh Mackay, The Open University
504-a: Made to Measure: Measuring the Internet and Its Social Impact, Scott Ewing, Institute for Social Research/Swinburne University of Technology
504-b: Privacy On-Line: Something Must Be Done/ Must Something Be Done? Alison Adam, University of Salford
504-c: Repressive Relationality: Towards a Critical Political Economy of Contemporary Information and Communication Technology Networks, Andrew Iliadis, Ryerson University/York University
Session 604: Whose Knowledge? Research Collaborations and the Politics of Knowledge Production- Hamlin Room 2
Organiser: Natasha Mauthner, University of Aberdeen
Chair; Patti Lather, Ohio State University
604-a: Is Bigger Science Better Science, or Just Science Fiction? Natasha Mauthner, University of Aberdeen
604-b: Alternative Traditions and Counterpractices: The Techniques of Collective and Reflexive Feminist Scholarship, Rachel Thomson, The Open University
604-c: Keeping Out of the Frame: Research Collaborations with Indigenous Media-makers, Nancy Wachowich, University of Aberdeen
Session 704: Transformative Artefacts- Maplethorpe Hall
Chair: Nicole Vitellone, University of Liverpool
704-a: 'Now You See It, Now You Don't': What Kind of Visualization is an Installation? Britt Hatzius, Les Back & Nina Wakeford, Goldsmiths, University of London
704-b: Pillow Research: Multiple Diagnoses and Hidden Talents, Bernd Kraeftner, Isabel Warner, Judith Kroell, XPERIMENT! / Shared Inc.
Thursday 2 September- 12.30-13.30
Lunch – Packed lunches will be handed out in the Dining Hall situated in the main building. You can either enjoy your lunch in the dining room area, Mordan Hall, or outside on the lawn if the weather if nice.
May we remind you to take the opportunity during the lunch-break to visit the publishers and the Exhibition in the Mordan Hall?
Thursday 2 September - 13.30-15.00
Session 105:The Archive In Question- Maplethorpe Seminar Room
Chair: Rachel Thomson, The open University
105-a:
The Sociologisation of the Archive , Till Geiger, Niamh Moore & Mike Savage, CRESC, University of Manchester
105-b: What’s in the Archive? Unintended Methodological Entailments of Archiving Data, Libby Bishop, University of Essex
105-c: Data Sharing in the Digital Age: On the Science, Ethics and Politics of Open Access to Research Data, Natasha Mauthner, University of Aberdeen
Session 205:The State and Numbers- Wordsworth Room
Organiser: Monika Krause, University of Kent
Chair: Evelyn Ruppert, CRESC, The Open University
205-a: Accounting for Terrorism: Chronologies, Commensuration, and Unintended Consequences, Lisa Stampnitzky, Oxford University
205-b: Accounting for State Intervention: The Genealogy of the Logframe, Monika Krause, University of Kent
205-c: Measuring the Value of Values: Alternative Metrics of National Economic Performance, Will Davies, Oxford University
Session 305: Taste as Object and Method- Maplethorpe Hall
Organiser: Annemarie Mol, University of Amsterdam
Chair: John Law, CRESC, The Open University
305-a: Taste in the Taste Laboratory, Anna M Mann, University of Amsterdam
305-b: Talking Taste, Sally Wiggins, University of Strathclyde
305-c: Tasting as a Method, Annemarie Mol, University of Amsterdam
Session 405: Representations in Visual Research: Content in Context-Reflexivity in Question-Dobbs Room 2
Organiser: Nela Milic, Goldsmiths, University of London
Chair: Adriane van de Ven
405-a: Drag Performances and Its Shifting Positions, Panapakidis Konstantinos, Goldsmiths, University of London
405-b: Reflexive Participant, Reflexive Practitioner, Sireita Mullings, Goldsmiths, University of London
405-c: Researcher between Reflexivity and Positionality, Nela Milic, Goldsmiths, University of London
Session 505: Digitizing ‘Words of Power’- Hamlin Room 1
Organiser: Smiljana Antonijevic, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
Chair: Jennifer Reid, University of Amsterdam
505-: Digitizing ‘Words of Power’: The E-research Perspective, Anne Beaulieu & Smiljana Antonijevic, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
505-b: Digitizing ‘Words of Power’: The Humanities Perspective, Jacqueline Borsje, University of Amsterdam
505-c: Digitizing ‘Words of Power’: The Computational Perspective, Matthijs Brouwer, Meertens Institute, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
Session 605:Transforming Research-MGA Lecture Theatre
Chair: Penny Harvey
605-a: On Edge: Tools for an Anthropology of Precarity, Madeleine Reeves, CRESC, University of Manchester
605-b: Constructing the Social: Transforming Research Methods into Reflexive Practice and a Praxis of Empowerment, Jeffrey Stevenson Murer, University of St Andrews
605-c: ‘Seat of your pants’: Towards a Reflexive Theoretical Model of Fieldwork Relations in Ethnographic Studies on Young People, Shane Blackman, Canterbury Christ Church University
Thursday 2 September-15.00-15.30
Tea/Coffee Break served in the foyer area of the Maplethorpe Building and Mordan Hall
Thursday 2 September - 15.30-17.00
Session 106:Transforming Finance-Maplethorpe Hall
Chair: Donald McKenzie, University of Edinburgh
106-a: Rule of Experts? Technocratic Elites and Agendas of Governance for Finance before and after the Crisis, Julie Froud, Mick Moran, Adriana Nilsson & Karel Williams, CRESC, University of Manchester
106-b:Good, Average Men: Statistics, Anti-Statistics and the Promotion of Life Assurance, Liz McFall, CRESC, The Open University
106-c: Equitable Payment, Measured Responsibility, and Bureaucratic Hierarchy: Back to the Future with Elliott Jacques? Paul du Gay, Copenhagen Business School
Session 206:Devices of Governance- Wordsworth Room
Chair: Engin Isin, The Open University
206-a: The Political Life of Methods in the IIASA: The International Construction of Scientific Governance during the Cold War, Egle Rindzeviciute, University of Gothenburg
206-b: The Use of “Tax Compliance Research” in Governance: Where, How and with Which Consequences? Karen Boll, IT University of Copenhagen
206-c: The Administrative Life of Kinship Charts: State Visual Practices in Post-socialist Housing Restitution Trials in Romania, Liviu Chelcea, University of Bucharest
Session 306: Lyrical Sociology- Maplethorpe Seminar Room
Chair: Celia Lury, Goldsmiths, University of London
306-a: 'Any-instant-whatever’: Analysing The Wire (Series 4) through a Deleuzian Conceptual and Visual Lens, Carol Taylor, Sheffield Hallam University
306-b:"The Wire" as Social Science-Fiction?, Roger Burrows and Simon Parker, University of York
Discussant: Andrew Abbott, University of Chicago (TBC)
Session 406:Wathcing, Drawing, Imaging-Hamlin Room 1
Chair: Andrew Hill, CRESC, The Open University
406-a: Watching TV: Frame-analysis of Ones Everyday Practice, Victor Vakhshtayn, Higher School of Economics Moscow
406-b: Drawing in the Twenty-first Century? Mikko Ijäs, Aalto University
406-c: Photography in a Minor Tradition: Afterimages of Steel, Dan Swanton, University of Edniburgh
Session 506: Authenticity, Authority and the Virtual Museum: the Challenge of Digital Data- Dobbs Room 2
Organiser: Chiel van den Akker, Free University of Amsterdam
Chair: Susan Legêne, Free University of Amsterdam
506-a: Presence through Absence: Towards a Tactile Perspective on Digital Museums, Martijn Stevens, Radboud University Nijmegen
506-b: Networked Knowledge and Epistemic Authority in the Development of Virtual Museums: Who is Entitled to Know? Sarah de Rijcke, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and Anne Beaulieu, Virtual Knowledge Studio
506-c: Authenticity and Trust in a Cultural Heritage Wiki Platform, Johan Oomen, Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
506-d: On Future Origin, Chiel van den Akker, Free University of Amsterdam
Session 606: Transforming Research Sites-MGA Lecture Room
Chair: katie King, University of Maryland
606-a: Music, Desire, and the Transnational Politics of Chineseness: A Case Study of Diana Zhu, Yiu Fai Chow, University of Amsterdam
606-b: Methods and Boundaries: On the Method Assemblage of Cultural Primatology and its Relationship to ‘Social’ Science Methods, Richie Nimmo, University of Manchester
Discussant: John Law, CRESC, The Open University
Thursday 2 September - 17.15-18.00 – Mordan Hall
Patrick Brindle, from Sage Publications, will be in conversation with Mike Savage about 'A publishers view on the social life of methods'. The sage stand will be open afterwards and there will be some refreshments.
Thursday 2 September – 19.30- 23.00 – St Hugh’s Bar
The conference party will be held in the St Hugh’s bar. It includes a food buffet which will be served in the restaurant and music will be provided by DJ Coops. There will be an open bar.
Martin Cooper has been DJing in bars and nightclubs for nearly 20 years, playing a wide range of rhythm-based music; he currently helps to run a successful 60s soul night, and brings soul music to various bars around the North West. For this evening will be playing - mainly off records - a funky selection of African and Latin music, along with some Soul and Rhythm & Blues, from the 50s, 60s and 70s. This should provide a lively and interesting atmosphere for the evening, good for both conversation and dancing, and the chance to enjoy a good drink amongst good company.
Please note that admission is by ticket only. If you have not pre-booked a ticket you can still buy one at the Registration Desk. The price inclusive of food is £25.
Friday 3 September - 09.00-10.30
Session 107: Market Devices-Wordsworth Room
Chair: Shinobu Majima, Gakushuin University/CRESC, University of Manchester
107-a: The Magazine for Black South Africans: Meta-commodity as Marketing Device Sonja Narunsky-Laden, University of Johannesburg
107-b: Market Research Devices and the Assembling of Lower Middle Class Identities in Chile, Tomas Ariztia, Universidad Diego Portales
107-c: Towards a relational approach to brands and branding: the case study of no-brand brand, Muji, Nobumi Kobayashi, The Open University
107-d: Consumer Taste and Supply Control: Shopping and Spending in the Early 1950s, Shinobu Majima, Gakushuin University/CRESC, University of Manchester
Session 207:The Act of Seeing and History- Dobbs Room 2
Chair: Andrew HIll, CRESC, The Open University
207-a:‘In Clio’s Eyes: the Field of the Cloth of Gold, history and the act of seeing', Andrew Hill, CRESC, The Open University
207-b: Mobilizing Performance as Visual Method: The Kyle Project, Brian Rusted, University of Calgary
Session 307: Youth, Physical Culture, and Visual Methods-Hamlin Room 1
Organiser: Laura Azzarito, Loughborough University
Discussant: Maggie O’neill, Durham University
307-a: Through the Eyes of the Experts: Children's Evaluation of Using Disposable Cameras as a Data Collection Method to Record What and Where They Play, Carol Barron, Dublin City University
307-b: Geographies of Girls' Bodies, Laura Azzarito and Joanne Hill, Loughborough University
307-c: Exploring Youths' Physical Culture through Digital Photography, Laura Azzarito and Jennifer Sterling, Loughborough University
Session 407: A New Politics of Description?- MGA Lecture Room
Chair: Mike Savage, CRESC, University of Manchester
407-a: Visualizing the Mass Collaboration of Wikipedia by Adopting Digital By-product Data, Zeyi He, University of York
407-b: Studying Social Norms: Comparing methods in Sociology and Psychology with Agent-based Social Simulations (ABSS), Corinna Elsenbroich & Maria Xenitidou, University of Surrey
407-c: The Role of Social and Human Science Methods and New Digital Technology in Socio- economic Ecological Analysis: An Example of Interdisciplinary Research between Social Anthropology Practices GIS and Value Mapping in Val di Ledro, (Italian Alps), Cristina Orsatti, University of Manchester/Centre for Innovation, Italy & R Scolozzi
Session 507: Transforming Participation-Maplethope Seminar Room
Chair: Penny Harvey, CRESC, University of Manchester
507-a: Instrumental Ethnography and Intervention Helen Verran, University of Melbourne & Brit Ross Winthereik, IT- University of Copenhagen
507-b: Mobilizing the Social: Participatory Methods in International Development and Tanzania, Maia Green, University of Manchester
507-c: Sustainable Living Experiments in/as Participatory Social Science, Noortje Marres, Oxford Said Business School
Friday 3 September – 10.30-11.00
Tea/Coffee Break served in the foyer area of the Maplethorpe Building and Mordan Hall.
Friday 3 September - 11.00-12.30
Session 108: Interview Devices- Dobbs Room 2
Chair: Laure Azzarito, Loughborough University
108-a: The Life and Trials of the Criminological Interview: Talking to Persistent Young Offenders as They (and the Study) Grow Older, Emily Gray, Keele University
108-b: The Narratives Behind the Numbers: Young people Answering Survey Questions about Alcohol and Drugs, Jeanette Østergaard, The Danish National Centre for Social Research
108-c: Reaching the Parts Other Methods Cannot Reach? A Reflexive Critique of the Use of Focus Groups to Research on Youth, Risk and Social Position, David Merryweather, Liverpool Hope University
Session 208: Visuality and the Social life of Methods- Hamlin Room 1
Chair: Vron Ware, CRESC, The Open University
208-a: What's in a Name?' An Historical and Cultural Journey into the Categorisation of CF/ME, Sharon Gallagher, University of East London
208-b: Overcoming the Challenges of Digital Video Data: Cross-disciplinary Methods for YouTube, Farida Vis, Loughborough University & Mike Thelwall, University of Wolverhampton
208-c: I Spy with my Little Eye … Interpreting Visualizations, Caroline Roth-Ebner, University of Klagenfurt
Session 308: "This is not Research": The Collateral Effects of Real Social Science- Maplethorpe Seminar Room
Organiser: Gillian Evans, CRESC, University of Manchester
Chair: Madeline Reeves, CRESC, University of Manchester
308-a: Material Methods: the relational effects of an ethnography of social change, Gillian Evans, CRESC, University of Manchester
308-b: How I Came to Have Thirteen God-children, Why I Did Not Swap a Deer-skin Vest for a Ski-jacket and Some of What I Learnt Along the Way, Penny Harvey, CRESC, University of Manchester
308-c: “Plane Crazy”: The Great Anthropological Swindle, Damian O'Doherty, University of Manchester
Session 408: Preconceptions and Misconceptions: Ethnographic Challenges to Methodology in Material Culture Research- Wordsworth Room
Organiser: Ian Ewart, University of Oxford
Chair: Kath Woodward
408-a: Challenging Adult Society: Methodological Concerns in the Ethnography of Children, Abby Loebenberg, University of Oxford
408-b: Confronting Durable Stereotypes in the Jungles of Borneo, Ian Ewart, University of Oxford
408-c: Music Archiving, and the Fluidity of Social Science Methods in Academic Commercial and Consumer Worlds, Andrew Bowsher, University of Oxford
Friday 3 September - 12.30-13.30
Lunch – Packed lunches will be handed out in the Dining Hall situated in the main building. You can either enjoy your lunch in the dining room area, Mordan Hall, or outside on the lawn if the weather if nice.
May we remind you to take the opportunity during the lunch-break to visit the publishers and the Exhibition in the Mordan Hall?
Friday 3 September - 13.30-15.30
Plenary Session 5- Maplethorpe Hall
Chair: Mike Savage, CRESC, University of Manchester
Theory after Cumulation: New Criteria for Knowledge
Andrew Abbott, University of Chicago
Models, Markets, and Crises
Donald McKenzie, University of Edinburgh
Friday 3 September - 15.30-15.45
Followed by Closing Session
Abstracts of all papers
All the paper abstracts and abstracts for pre-organised sessions are listed in chronological order in the following documents which are available to download as a Word file.
Paper abstracts
Pre-arranged sessions abstracts
Abstracts and Biographies Plenary Speakers
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