Realities (REAL LIfe methods for researching relationaliTIES)

Lead Research Organisation: University of Manchester
Department Name: Social Sciences

Abstract

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Title Facet Methodology 
Description Facet methodology is a new orientation to qualitatively-driven mixed methods social research. It deploys the idea of the research problem as a gemstone, with methodological-substantive facets designed to create flashes of insight. 
Type Of Material Improvements to research infrastructure 
Year Produced 2011 
Provided To Others? Yes  
Impact The approach has been disseminated in publications, keynote addresses, online and through training and masterclasses. It has been taken up by numerous PhD students and researchers, and has been written into research funding bids by other researchers. 
URL http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/morgancentre/our-research/real-life-methodologies/facet-m...
 
Description At Home They Feel Like Tourists - Imagining home in a settler nation state (Video - Muir) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Video Presentation - Stewart Muir - Researching Home Methods in Dialogue

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Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2010
 
Description Belonging as relationality: capturing everyday belonging (May/Muir) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Discussion afterwards
BSA Conference 2011

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Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2011
URL http://content.yudu.com/Library/A1ri7h/BSAAnnualConference2/resources/index.htm?referrerUrl=http%3A%...
 
Description Belonging as relationality: capturing everyday belongings (May/Muir) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact May/Muir presentation at Proximities Conference 2011

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Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2011
 
Description Belonging: a link between self and society (May) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact BSA Annual Conference, April 2010, University of Glasgow

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Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2010
 
Description Bringing Up Britain (Smart) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Interview of Carol Smart by Mariella Frostrup for the Bringing up Britain programme

Difficult to assess the impact
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2010
 
Description Capturing everyday belongings (May/Muir) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Vital Signs 2 Presentation 2010

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Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2010
 
Description Children's experiences of kinship 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Mason, J. at 4th Congress of the European Society on Family Relations (ESFR) - Keynote Paper 2008

Excellent feedback
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2008
URL https://www.jyu.fi/en/congress/esfr2008/scientific_program
 
Description Christmas Traditions (Mason, radio interview BBC Radio 4 Thinking Allowed) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Successful media interview. Sparked some online discussion and feedback in the next edition of the radio show

as above
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Coming to our senses? (Mason/Davies) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact 1st International Visual Methods Conference, September 2009, University of Leeds

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Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2009
 
Description Creative Approaches to Public Engagement in Qualitative Research (Video - Davies) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Video - Katherine Davies

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Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2010
 
Description Creative Interviewing (Mason) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Qualitative Research Summer School, June 2009, Dublin

Excellent Feedback
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2009
 
Description Creative Tensions? Reflections on mixing methods in a qualitatively-driven way (Mason) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact 5th International Mixed Methods Conference, July 2009, Harrogate

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Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2009
 
Description Critical Moments: Young couples transitioning into civil partnerships (Heaphy/Einarsdottir/Smart) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact XVII ISA World Congress of Sociology Conference, July 2010, Gothenburg

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Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2010
 
Description Developments in conjugal life (Heaphy) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact EU funded Family Platform Conference, May 2010, University of Lisbon

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Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2010
 
Description Era Memory Workshop - introduction and practice (Davies/Heaphy/Mason/Smart) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Memory Methods training workshop, June 2009, UOM

Excellent Feedback
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2009
 
Description Ethics in team work panel discussion (Smart/Mason/Heaphy/May) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Real Life Ethics Training Workshop, February 2009, UOM

Excellent feedback
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2009
 
Description Exploring the Fan/Music Relationship with Memory Work and Music Elicitation (Allet) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Presentation at Vital Signs 2 2010

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Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2010
 
Description Exploring the Fan/Music Relationship with Memory Work and Music Elicitation (Video - Allett) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Video Presentation - Nicola Allett - Vital Signs Conference

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Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2010
 
Description Exploring the School Self (Davies) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Youth 2010: Identities, Transitions, Cultures, July 2010, University of Surrey

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Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2010
 
Description Facet Methodology (Video) (Mason) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Video produced for Morgan Centre website on Facet Methodology

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Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2011
 
Description Facet Methodology Capacity Building Seminar (Mason) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Capacity Building Seminar held at ICOSS, University of Sheffield. It inspired others to use Facet Methodology for their own research

as above
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2012
 
Description Facet Methodology Masterclass (Mason) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact The masterclass, held at CRFR International Conference, inspired many of the participants to go on and use Facet Methodology in their own work

as above
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Facet methodology : a creative research orientation (Mason) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Presented at workshop on Late-life creativity: identity and discipline

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Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2012
URL http://www.latelifecreativity.org/workshops/
 
Description Facet methodology as a new orientation to research : beyond mixed methods? (Mason) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Presentation by Jennifer Mason at the ICOSS Capacity Building Seminar

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Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2012
 
Description Familiar f[r]ictions : living and narrating differences in family background (Mason/Muir) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Mason, Jennifer and Muir, Stewart (2008) Familiar f[r]ictions? Living and narrating differences in family background. In: British Sociological Association Annual Conference, 28-30 March 2008, University of Warwick. (Unpublished)


Good discussion
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2008
 
Description Families, Secrets and Memories (Smart) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact XVII ISA World Congress of Sociology, July 2010, Gothenburg

Generated a lot of interest
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2010
 
Description Families, law and policy : shaping the future (Smart) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Network on Family Regulation and Society agenda-setting workshop, March 2010

Impact on decision makers
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2010
 
Description Families, secrets and memories (Smart) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact An interview with Carol Smart on family secrets for BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed

This generated a lot of interest
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2011
 
Description Family secrets interview (Smart) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Interview with Carol Smart for BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour

This generated so much interest that another hour long programme/phone-in was commissioned by Woman's Hour
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2012
 
Description Family secrets phone-in (Smart) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Interview with Carol Smart for BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour, Special hour long programme

I have continued to receive requests for information on this subject
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2012
 
Description Focusing on visuals (Prosser) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Analysing Real Life Mixed Methods Data training workshop, June 2008, Nottingham Trent University

Excellent feedback
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2008
 
Description Generations beyond Families: Inter/Generational Dynamics in Personal Life (Mason/Muir) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact XVII ISA World Congress of Sociology, July 2010, Gothenburg

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Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2010
 
Description Getting the story right: Lesbian love and troublesome sperm donors (Video - Nordqvist) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Video Presentation - Petra Nordqvist - Vital Signs Conference

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Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2010
 
Description Getting your message across: Events for different audiences 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact NCRM Research Methods Festival, July 2010, St Catherine's College Cambridge

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Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2010
 
Description History of marriage (Smart) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Interview on Woman's Hour, BBC Radio 4

This is hard to assess
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2012
 
Description How to research people's relationship with music (Allett) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Using Unusual Data training workshop, November 2009, UOM

Excellent Feedback
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2009
 
Description Interactions that Matter: Researching Critical Relationships (Davies/Heaphy) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact BSA Conference, April 2010, University of Glasgow

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Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2010
 
Description Interactions that matter: Researching Critical Associations (Davies/Heaphy/Mason/Smart) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact NCRM Research Methods Festival, July 2010, St Catherine's College, Cambridge

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Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2010
 
Description Interdisciplinary Dialogues Series (Mason) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Interdisciplinary dialogues, sparking transformative thinking and new collaborations

as above
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2008,2009,2010,2011,2012,2013,2014
 
Description Interviewing couples: together and apart (Einarsdottir/Heaphy/Smart) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Turning Personal Conference, September 2009, UOM

Excellent Feedback
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2009
 
Description Is Dropping a Friend Harder than Dumping a Partner (Video - Smart) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Video - Carol Smart

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Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2010
 
Description Is belonging the missing link in social theory? (May) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Turning Personal Conference, September 2009, UOM

Excellent Feedback
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2009
 
Description It's all Homer's fault: practices, moralities and emotion in young people's sibling relationships (Davies) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Davies presentation at BSA 2011

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Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2011
 
Description Jean-ologies: material culture approaches to understanding relationships through people's clothing (Video - Woodward) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Video - Sophie Woodward

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2010
 
Description Knowing the in/tangible (Mason) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Vital Signs 2

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Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2010
 
Description Lesbian and gay lives across the generations? (Heaphy) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Broadening Horizons Conference, University of Newcastle

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Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2010
 
Description Making a Convincing Argument with Qualitative Data (Mason) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact 9th International Interdisciplinary Conference, Advances in Qualitative Methods, October 2008, Alberta

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Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2008
 
Description Metaphor and Researching Emotions (Cameron) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Methods in Dialogue: Researching Emotions, February 2009, UOM

Excellent Feedback
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2009
 
Description Methodologies and transdisciplinary working : drawing on the experience of the realities research node (Mason) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Presented at ESRC Social Science Stem Cell Initiative Transdisciplinary Workshop: Working Across Boundaries (Mason)

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Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2008
 
Description Methods in Dialogue Series (Mason) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact A series of methodological interdisciplinary dialogues, sparking methodological debate, and inspiring participants to try out new methods and approaches.

as above
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2008,2009,2010,2011,2012,2013,2014
 
Description Mixed methods research and analysis (Mason) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact A workshop given to PhD students in the University of Jyvasklya, Finland, to disseminate and train them in cutting edge mixed methods approaches.

As above, and reports from students whose work was influenced by the new approaches.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2010
 
Description Odd couples, student drinking 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Brian Heaphy interviewed about intersectional friendships on BBC Radio 4's 'Thinking Allowed'

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Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2012
 
Description On the outside looking in - Experiences of (not) belonging (May) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact May presentation at Proximities Conference 2011

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Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2011
 
Description Presentation/participation: Symposium on participatory archives and young people, Durban, SA, 17-19 March 2010 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Talk and participation in symposium informed audience of ways of thinking about and undertaking participatory research on young people's sexualities and relationships.

Participants sought further information on narrative approaches to participatory work with young people about their relationships and sexualities, and an international network sought to include my ideas in an international research application.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2010
 
Description Qualitative Data Analysis (Mason - 3 specially commissioned training workshops) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Specially commissioned training for non-academic researchers in Office for Public Management, London, on qualitative data generation, analysis, and qualitative methods for research managers. Training helped the participants improve their practice and try out new methods and approaches.

as above
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2010
 
Description Qualitative Methods (Mason - Workshop Series) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact A series of workshops for Greater Manchester Council for Voluntary Organisations to disseminate expertise and train practitioners and professionals in qualitative research methods.

Research collaboration and CASE studentship with GMCVO
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Qualitative research and creative approaches to public engagement (Video - Davies) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Video - Katherine Davies

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Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2010
 
Description Qualitative research impact beyond academia (Smart) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact This talk was given at the agenda setting workshop on family, regulation and society, 15-16 March 2010.

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Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2010
 
Description Qualitatively-driven Mixed Methods: the Challenge of Researching Family Resemblances (Mason) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact School for Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2008
 
Description Quantitative approaches to researching ethnicity and difference: how can we trouble and interrogate the categories we are stuck with? (Video-Nazroo) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Video by James Nazroo

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2011
 
Description Real Life Methods and Policy (Mason) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Department of Social Policy seminar, December 2009, University of Bath

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Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2009
 
Description Real life methods and policy (Mason) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Presented at Department of Social Policy seminar (Jennifer Mason), December 2009, University of Bath

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Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2009
 
Description Reflexive sociology and theories of late modernity? (Heaphy) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Dept. of Sociology, Anthropology and Applied Social Sciences seminar series, October 2008, University of Glasgow

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2008
 
Description Relatedness and belonging: new methods (Mason, keynote) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Keynote at international congress of the European Society on FAmily RElations, Lillehammer, Norway, 26-29 September 2012.

Stimulated new thinking and influenced research agendas.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2012
 
Description Relating to Bart Simpson: interactions with and about fictional characters (Davies) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Vital Signs 2 Presentation

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2010
 
Description Relationality and the Rise of Socio-cultural Theories of Family Life (Smart) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact ESA Interim Meeting, August 2008, University of Helsinki

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2008
 
Description Research Methods in Practice: The Qualitative-Quantitative Divide Revisited (Greiffenhagen/Sharrock/Mair) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Vital Signs 2 Presentation 2010

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2010
 
Description Researching 'Critical' Chosen Relationships 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact XVII ISA World Congress of Sociology, July 2010, Gothenburg

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2010
 
Description Researching Critical Chosen Relationships (Heaphy/Davies) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Vital Signs 2

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2010
 
Description Researching Critical Relationships (Davies/Heaphy) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact NCRM Research Methods Festival, July 2010, St Catherine's College, Cambridge

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2010
 
Description Researching Critical chosen relationships (Heaphy/Davies) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact XVII ISA World Congress of Sociology July 2010 Gothenburg

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2010
 
Description Researching Family Resemblance (Mason) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact One Plus One Seminar, October 2009, One Plus One, London

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2009
 
Description Researching Generations (May/Muir) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact NCRM Research Methods Festival, July 2010, St Catherine's College, Cambridge

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2010
 
Description Researching Transitions (Heath, S.) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Discussion

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2010
URL http://www.ncrm.ac.uk/TandE/RMF2010/RMF2010_programme_booklet.pdf
 
Description Sensations, atmospheres and resemblances: tuning in differently to families and relationships (Mason, Keynote) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Keynote encouraging audience to think differently and transformatively about families and relationships.

Has inspired new thinking in participants and influenced research agendas.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Sexual intersubjectivities : reflexivity, embodiment and power (Heaphy) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Paper at Queer Methodologies Seminar Series (Brian Heaphy)

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2008
 
Description Siblings and the School Self (Davies) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Turning Personal, September 2009, UOM

Excellent feedback
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2009
 
Description Siblingship, Transmission and Processes of 'Being' and 'Becoming': how young people make sense of who they are and who they might become (Davies) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Davies at Proximities Conference 2011

N/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2011
 
Description Speaking of Tradition (Mason) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Turning Personal, September 2009, UOM

Excellent Feedback
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2009
 
Description Speaking of tradition (Mason/ Muir) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Mason, Jennifer and Muir, Stewart (2009) Speaking of Tradition. In: Turning Personal , 15-16 September 2009, University of Manchester.

Excellent feedback
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2009
 
Description Stories that matter: Young people's representations of their sexualities and relationships (Heaphy) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Digital Futures Symposium: Participatory Archives in the Age of AIDS, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa (hosted by Center for Visual Methodologies for Social Change, McGill University)

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Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2010
 
Description The Allure of Restraint: Doing Emotionless Sociology (Smart) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Methods in Dialogue: Researching Emotions, February 2009, UOM

Excellent Feedback
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2009
 
Description The Art of Generalisation (Mason) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact NCRM Annual Centre Meeting, University of Surrey

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2009
 
Description The Emotional Challenges of Writing (Video - Smart) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Carol Smart - Video

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2010
 
Description The Grass is Sometimes Greener: in praise of methodological crossovers and hybrids (Mason) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact NCRM Autumn School 2009

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2009
 
Description The Life of Hattersley: Memory, relationality and affection for place (Davies) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Interdisciplinary Dialogue: Auras of Place, 2010, UOM

Excellent feedback, good discussion
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2010
 
Description The Nature of Evidence (Mason) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Informing Public Policy: New Agendas for Social Research,

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2009
 
Description The Personal and the Social in Turbulent Times (Heaphy) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Heaphy presentation at ESA 2011

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2011
 
Description The Politics of Family Secrets (Smart) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact ESRC Genetics Networks Conference, University of Edinburgh

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2009
 
Description The data-theory conundrum: Writing Across Boundaries (Mason - RDA capacity building workshop, Durham) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact A hands-on writing workshop for postgraduate students as part of the RDA Writing Across Boundaries Workshop, Durham University. Feedback suggested students were inspired and used the new methods in their work.

as above
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2008,2009
 
Description The materiality and sensuality of clothing: researching and representing the non-verbal and textual (Video - Woodward) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Video Presentation - Sophie Woodward - Vital Signs Conference

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2010
 
Description The regulation and ritual of kinship : family resemblances (Davies) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Undergraduate students
Results and Impact Guest lecture/workshop on 3rd year Sociology course, University of Salford (Katherine Davies)

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2009
 
Description The ups and downs of friendship (Smart) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Interview of Carol Smart for BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed

It is hard to assess the impact of a radio interview
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2010
 
Description Thematic Content Analysis (Mason) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Analysing Real Life Mixed Methods Data, June 2008, Nottingham Trent University

Excellent Feedback
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2008
 
Description Thinking about closeness from a distance: quantitative approaches to social distance (Video - Bottero) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Video - Wendy Bottero

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2010
 
Description Those Pesky Kids: Ways of researching intergenerational tensions (Mason/May/Muir/Nazroo) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Presentation: Methodological Tensions? New ways of thinking about mixed methods April 2011

Excellent feedback
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2011
 
Description Understanding cause without the story: Strengths and limitations of quantitative longitudinal research when studying ageing (Nazroo) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Methods in Dialogue: Researching Ageing, October 2009, UOM

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2009
 
Description Using Qualitative, Sensory and Experimental Methods to Research Family Resemblances (Mason/Davies) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact XVII ISA World Congress of Sociology, July 2010, Gothenburg

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2010
 
Description Using a case study approach to analyse data (Video - May) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Video - Vanessa May

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2010
 
Description Using music elicitation and memory work to research people's relationship with music (Allett) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact NCRM Research Methods Festival, July 2010, St Catherine's College, Cambridge

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2010
 
Description Using survey data to research family relationships (Dale) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact NCRM Research Methods Festival, July 2010, St Catherine's College, Cambridge

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2010
 
Description Vital Explanations? The art of generalising from qualitative research (Mason) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact 9th International Advances in Qualitative Methods Conference, October 2008, Banff

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2008
 
Description Ways of Knowing: crossing species boundaries (Video - Smart) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Video Presentation - Carol Smart - Vital Signs Conference

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2010
 
Description What do you do when you want to use detailed/personal life histories? (May) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Presented at Real Life Ethics training workshop (Vanessa May) February 2009

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2009
 
Description What is creative interviewing? (Video - Mason) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Video by Jennifer Mason

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2010
 
Description What is narrative analysis? (May) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Talk given as part of the methods@manchester what is...? seminar series.

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2012
 
Description What to do when you want to use detailed/personal life histories? (May) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Real Life Ethics Training Workshop, February 2009, UOM

Excellent Feedback
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2009
 
Description Who do you think they were? Family histories and placing people in the past - investigating absences (Video - Bottero) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Video Presentation - Wendy Bottero - Vital Signs Conference

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2010
 
Description Writing is part of the process (Mason) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact Presented at Institute for Social Research

Section not completed
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2011
URL http://eprints.ncrm.ac.uk/2005/
 
Description Writing with Qualitative Data (Mason) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Writing Methods Training Workshop, March 2010, UOM

Excellent feedback
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2010
 
Description Writing with Qualitative and Mixed Data (Mason) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact NCRM Research Methods Festival, July 2010, St Catherine's College, Cambridge

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2010
 
Description Writing with Quantitative Data (Nazroo) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Writing Methods Training Workshop, March 2010, UOM

Excellent Feedback
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2010
 
Description Writing with Quantitative and Mixed Methods Data (Nazroo) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact NCRM Research Methods Festival, July 2010, St Catherine's College, Cambridge

n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2010
 
Description Writing with mixed data - challenges and strategies (Mason/Nazroo) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Writing Methods Training Workshop, March 2010, UOM

Excellent Feedback
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2010
 
Description Writing with qualitative data workshop (Mason) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Workshop at the Methods Festival, Oxford, on writing with qualitative and creative data. Hands on involvement from particpants.

As above, and reports from participants of using the new methods proposed
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2010