Research Training Event 4 – Generating evidence

Room 1.07, Library, University of Edinburgh,

30 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9LJ

This fourth research training event aims to:

• Provide skills for data generation
• Discuss existing data generation plans and selected methods
• Help practitioners think through their position in the research and the values they bring to the research process

 

9:30-10:00	Arrival and Coffee
10:00-10:30	Values and Positions in Research – Alison Petch (Director, IRISS)
10:30-11:30	Doing focus groups – Emma King (Research Fellow, University of Edinburgh)
11:30-11:45	Coffee break
11:45-12:15	Round robin updates – methods
12:15-12:30	Mentor chat/Library time
12:30-13:30	Lunch
13:30-14:00	Doing a literature review – Stuart Muirhead
14:00-15:00	Thinking quantitatively – Jan Eichhorn (Chancellor’s Fellow in Social Policy , University of Edinburgh)
15:00-16:00	Doing interviews – Catherine-Rose Stocks-Rankin (Associate in Contribution Analysis, IRISS)
16:15-16:30	Summary and Close