The International Conference Mixed Methods Research in Education is a joint conference of the German Sociologial Association´s (DGS) Section Education (Bildung & Erziehung), DGS Working Group Mixed Methods (Sections Methods of Empirical / Qualitative Social Research) and DGS Working Group Science & Higher Education Research. It will take place on 16 and 17 November at the Leibniz University Hannover. The in-person conference will start at 13h00 CET on Thursday 16th of November 2023 and last until 13h30 on Friday 17th of November. A current version of the conference programme is provided here. Attendance if free of charge, but conference registration is necessary and open until October 10th the latest. For more information, click here.
The purpose of this workshop is to survey how narrative data can be inductively analyzed through different methods from the canon of qualitative inquiry heuristics. Three approaches to the analysis of interview, social media, and survey data will be demonstrated, and participants will explore each of these methods with authentic data sets. The first method is coding and categorizing; the second is thematic analysis; and the third is the development of assertions and propositions. Additional workshop topics include constructing diagrams and matrices, analytic memos, and analytic writing. The workhop is organised by National Southern University, Florida, USA and you can find more information here.
The Academy for Sociology (Akademie für Soziologie) has set up a working group on “Methodology of the Social Sciences” to discuss the methodological foundations of theory building and empirical research. The kick-off workshop will take place on September 6th and 7th, 2023 at JGU Mainz and will deal with theory building and theory testing in analytical-empirical sociology. Basic methodological principles and current challenges will be discussed. In addition to other specialist lectures, there are two roundtables on the relevance of replicative research for the testing and further development of theories and on teaching analytical-empirical sociological theory and social science methodology in the course. You can find more information here.
Dr. Susanne Friese is an expert in qualitative research methods and regularly publishes articles, books, and gives workshops. On her website she has published a short article about coding with Atlas.ti, including a few very helpful YouTube tutorials.
Methodspace is organising a new monthly webinar series about "How to do Research and Get Published". These webinars can be attended live, but they are also recorded and recorded and afterwards posted online. The first webinar will take place on 20 September and will be about Ethics and Research Integrity. You can find more information about the webinar series here.
The DGS section "Sociology of the Body and Sport is organising this meeting on 9 - 10.11.23 at Univerität Siegen. Physical perceptions, practices and actions are increasingly mediated by technologies and digital media and (co-)produced by them in a special way. It often becomes clear that the marginalization of already marginalized groups of people is not only strengthened by the production and handling of new digital technologies, but these groups of people tend to continuously - and sometimes in a new way - based on their physicality, be excluded, stigmatized and discriminated. "Diverse corporeality(s)" should serve in this context at the autumn conference as a common, broad heuristic for body-sociological perspectives that examine the digital and technically induced construction of physical differences and diversity in connection with historical and newly emerging social inequalities, vulnerabilities and exclusion mechanisms. You can find more information about this meeting here.