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A USN Social Research Methods Workshop
12-1pm, 31 January 2025
Room 780, IOE,UCL, 20 Bedford Way
We will start with an overview of research using data archives and open-source methods and a short presentation on observational research and conversation analysis. Attendees are asked to submit any questions they have about this topic as part of their registration. We will then workshop methodological approaches in small groups.
- This is a small group session – only 30 places are available
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About the workshop leads
Benjamin Abrams
Benjamin Abrams is Lecturer in Sociology in the Department of Education, Practice and Society, IOE, UCL. His research focuses on exploratory macro-causal comparisons and case studies, designed to generate new, durable theoretical insights. His approach fuses these macro-level techniques with in-depth investigative within-case methods, with a specialism in the analysis of ethnographic interviews and archival sources. Further details
Fiona Stevenson
Fiona Stevenson is Professor of Medical Sociology in a medical sociologist with expertise in a range of qualitative approaches, including conversation analysis. She has published extensively using sociological theory to inform applied research. Her research spans a range of clinical areas and is encompassed by the following themes:
- the construction of decision making about medical care
- the impact of complex interventions, technology and treatment adherence on communication between health care professionals and patients
- Implementation of research into practice
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