Department of Sociology to host conference on social science methodology
Our College of Social Science will be hosting a major international conference on social science methodology later this year.
The will be held from 11 - 16 September 2016. The conference will be for 500 delegates and will take place on the main University campus.
The , ranked 8th out of 88 institutions in the Guardian University Guide 2014, will be the lead department for the RC33 conference. Sociology at Leicester has a strong methodological stream with Professor John Goodwin, Professor Jason Hughes and Professor Henrietta O’Connor being at the forefront of debates relating to the use of innovative and non-standard research methodologies. This includes re-use/restudies/repurposing (Goodwin and O’Connor); paradata and marginalia (Goodwin and O’Connor); epistolary forms and biographical methods (Hughes and Goodwin) and Internet research methods (O’Connor and Hughes). The methodology strand also includes agent-based modelling (Dr Chattoe-Brown); conversational analysis (Professor Hutchby); and strengths in relation to quantitative sociology (Dr White and Dr Bartram) and qualitative/ethnographic research. Research is a major component of the Department’s work.
The International Sociological Associaton () was established in 1973, to develop professional contacts between sociologists interested in logic and methodology in sociology; to encourage the worldwide exchange of research findings and theoretical developments; and to promote international meetings and research collaboration in the field of logic and methodology in sociology. They hold their International Conference on Social Science Methodology every four years.