Potential topics for Spring into Methods 2021

We welcome proposals on the following topics where we have identified particular demand. However, we also welcome proposals in an open category for new ideas if you can build a convincing case that demonstrates need and demand.

For 2021, these topics are:

• Building research methods on principles of equality, diversity and inclusion
• Adapting methods for research during a pandemic
• Rethinking ethics for research during a pandemic
• Decolonising Methods
• Methods and Climate Crisis
• Creating and using open research data
• Feminist research methods
• Mining administrative data
• Exploring secondary analysis of multimodal or qualitative datasets
• Posthumanist or more-than-human research
• Survey design and analysis
• Relating your research to the Sustainable Development Goals
• Rethinking ‘vulnerability’ in participatory research
• + open category

We will accept applications for events that have been held in previous years. Please indicate this on the application and provide evidence of the event’s success, describing any updates you are planning as a result of the previous feedback.

We welcome interdisciplinary teams, but we will also accept applications from single disciplinary areas if it can be demonstrated that the proposed event meets the needs of doctoral researchers across the arts, humanities and social sciences.

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