Working with digital narratives
Location
University of Edinburgh
Chrystal Macmillan Building, 6th floor staff room 15 A George Square Edinburgh EH8 9LD United KingdomDescription
The Scottish Graduate School of Social Science welcomes postgraduate research students to the following advanced training event:
Working with digital narratives
4 July 2014
University of Edinburgh
Social researchers are increasingly interested in collecting and analysing online materials, both as a means of studying contemporary phenomena, and in order to understand more about online social worlds themselves. Narrative research is proving a fruitful method to explore both the advantages and the problems of such research. In this day workshop, the NOVELLA (Narratives of Everyday Lives and Linked Approaches) Research Methods Node provide guidance on how such work can be conducted, including opportunities for practical work with examples of online data and for discussion of ethical considerations.
10.00 - 1015 Introduction
10.15 - 11.00 Session 1
11.15 - 11.30 Coffee break
11.30 - 12-15 Session 2
12.15 - 12.45 Lunch
12.45- 13.45 Session 3
13.45- 14.45 Session 4
14.45- 15.00 Coffee break
15.00 - 15.30 Concluding remarks
Further Information
For any enquiries about the event please contact SGSSS in the first instance (SGSSS Events Team)
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The Scottish Graduate School of Social Science is the UK's largest facilitator of funding, training and support for doctoral students in social science. By combining the expertise of sixteen universities across Scotland, the school facilitates world-class PhD research. The school is funded jointly by the Economic and Social Research Council and the Scottish Funding Council.
SGSSS is a highly attractive environment for doctoral research. Not only do our partner universities offer an excellent research environment, we also offer comprehensive and world-class research training in a number of discipline-specific and interdisciplinary pathways. In addition, the school manages a programme of advanced training courses and an annual summer school which together offers our students further opportunities to develop their research, knowledge exchange and transferable professional skills.
At the heart of the SGSSS is the Doctoral Training Partnership (formerly the Doctoral Training Centre) in Scotland. The SGSSS was established in 2011 and is the biggest of 14 Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC) accredited DTPs in the United Kingdom. The bid for renewed funding has been successful and from 1 October 2017 the SGSSS will be one of the ESRC's 14 Doctoral Training Partnerships (DTP).