Research Student Seminars: Autumn Term, 2007
Please Note that documents relating to the seminars will be attached to the Calendar of events on this site
THURSDAYS 10 00 - 12 30 pm
All full-time research students are expected to attend these Thursday morning seminars on research methodology. As well as introducing key methodological debates, the seminars provide a forum for students to share and discuss their own research experiences with a wider group. Part-time research students and MA students are also welcome to come along. Summaries and papers from these seminars are circulated by email to all students (at UEA email address) and are available on the Research Student Workspace (http://research.edu.uea.ac.uk/). If you have any queries about these seminars, please contact: Paola Iannone (p.iannone@uea.ac.uk, Tel 591007, Room EDU 1.46)
Thursday October 11th Room Arts 2.15. (Nigel Norris and Paola Iannone).
Thursday October 18th, Room EDU 0.15. Presentation of the School of Education and Lifelong Learning and the Research Groups. Dominik Lukes: a "hands on" introduction to Research Student Virtual Workspace - please bring a laptop if you have one.
After this session we will have a welcome lunch for new FT PhD students in the CARE open area.
Thursday October 25th, Room EDU 01.16. Esther Priyadharshini: A discussion on the politics and ethics of an 'undisclosed' piece of research.
Thursday November 1s, Room Arts 2.15. Yann Lebeau: Does context matter? Social and institutional mediations in the formation of university students' subject identities.
Thursday November 8th, Room Arts 2.15. Nigel Norris: Validity and generalisation.
Thursday November 15th, Room EDU 01.21. Elena Nardi: Narrative approaches to qualitative data analysis: using re-storying to construct a dialogic representation of interview data.
Thursday November 22nd, Room EDU 0.15. Dominik Lukes: Discourse Analysis:
What researchers in education should consider before analyzing discourse.
Thursday November 29th, Room EDU 0.15. Kathleen Lane: Ins and Outs of Validating Interview Data .
Thursday December 6th, Room EDU 01.21. Lyndon Martin: Ethics in Educational Research.
Thursday December 13th, 10-11.30 am, Room Arts 2.86. Evaluation of the Autumn Semester Seminars, feedback and discussion.
