The Institute for Access Studies is hosting a series of seminars
Problematising Methodology in Access Research
funded by ESRC, supported by the SRHE and the Learning and Teaching Support Network for Sociology, Anthropology and Politics.
The aim of the series was to develop a more rigorous, reflexive and theoretically progressive body of research into widening participation, drawing on expertise from related disciplines. The six seminars focused on different methodological approaches, how they have been used in other fields, what issues they raise, and how they can be fostered in access research.
Attendance was by invitation
only but outcomes of seminars and subsequent discussions are posted here.
Click onto each seminar to get more information.
Seminar
1 'Ethnography', July 8th 2002
Professor Valerie Hey and Dr Maria Tamboukou
Seminar 2 'Discourse', January 15th 2003
Elizabeth Atkinson, University of Sunderland
Steph Lawler, University of Durham
Seminar 3 'Life History', May 5th 2004
Mary Stuart, Pro Vice-Chancellor, University of Sussex
Pat Sikes, Sheffield University
Seminar 4 'Reaching into the Community: engaging with diversity' 14th June 2004
Dr
Kirstan Hawkins, Centre for Development Studies,
University of Wales, Swansea
Dr
Alan France, Department of Sociological Studies,
University of Sheffield (to
be finally agreed)
Polly
Wright, Director of Hearth,
an organisation working in the area of health
and social care
Jonathan Hughes, Open University
Darren Newbury, University of Central England 'Introduction to the Journal of
Visual Studies and the International Visual Sociology Association: new resources
for research on widening participation and lifelong learning?'
Jon Prosser, University of Leeds, 'Applied Visual Ethnography: looking at school
space'
Ian Kaplan, Manchester University, 'Seeing through different eyes:
photovoice methodologies and participatory research'
Seminar
6 'International Methodologies and Researching Widening Participation and Lifelong
Learning'
Dr Chris Atkin is a lecturer in posts school education at
the University of Nottingham, specialising in the policy and practice of post
school education in rural contexts.
Dr Keith Holmes is a Resident Fellow at UNESCO's International Institute for Education Planning in Paris
Professor Michael Crossley is Professor of Comparative and International Education and Director of the Research Centre for International and Comparative Studies at the University of Bristol Graduate School of Education.
Dr
Liz Thomas is Senior Adviser for Widening Participation at the HE Academy.
For more information about the series contact the IEPR on
iepr@staffs.ac.uk or 01782 295731
