Events

Introduction to Qualitative Data Analysis

Wednesday 3 November 2010

A one-day course on analysing qualitative data at the Department of Sociology, University of Surrey.

Departmental Seminar 4 November 2010

Thursday 4 November 2010

2.00 pm to 3.00 pm
Professor Warren Thorngate

Professor Warren Thorngate of Carleton University and Visiting International Fellow at the Department of Sociology will give a seminar today from 2-3 pm in Room 04 AD 00.  The title of the seminar is Inference is not evidence:  An Old (and easy) way of testing theory-data fit.

Departmental Seminar Series Autumn 2010

Thursday 4 November 2010

2.00 pm to 3.00 pm

The Department of Sociology holds a number of seminars throughout the Autumn and Spring terms.  View the forthcoming seminars being held in Autumn 2010.

MAXqda Introductory Workshop

Wednesday 10 November 2010

MAXqda Version 10, developed by Verbi Software, Marburg. is a CAQDAS package suited to the management and analysis of qualitative data, that is text and multimedia data/information.  This one day event focuses on ways to organise both data and the project itself within MAXqda.

Department of Sociology Seminar

Thursday 11 November 2010

2 pm to 3 pm
Murray Lee, University of Sydney

Murray Lee of the University of Sydney will be presenting this week's seminar 'Policing confidence:  directing police public relations in Australia.

NVivo 8 Introductory hands-on workshop

Wednesday 17 November 2010

NVivo 8, developed by QSR, Doncaster, Australia is a CAQDAS package which now integrates the handling of textual data with multimedia forms of information/data. The workshop is structured to provide step by step support for the some of the tools in NVivo.

Research Management

Thursday 18 November 2010

FREE CAQDAS Users' Seminar

Friday 19 November 2010

10.30 am to 15.30

This event on Friday 19th November 2010 from 10.30 am to 15.30 pm will comprise presentations and discussion and lunch will be provided.

'Suicide: Sociological autopsy and repertoires of action'

Thursday 25 November 2010

2 pm to 3 pm
Ben Fincham, University of Sussex

As part of the Department of Sociology seminar series Ben Fincham of the University of Sussex will present the seminar on 'Suicide:  Sociological autopsy and repertoires of action'

Introduction to Qualitative Interviewing

Tuesday 30 November 2010

This course provides an introduction to the theory and practice of qualitative interviewing in both academic and applied social research, including the evaluation of services.

'Managing ethics?  Critiquing regimes of ethical control'

Thursday 9 December 2010

2 pm to 3 pm
Rebecca Boden, University of Cardiff

As part of the Department of Sociology seminar series, Rebecca Boden of the University of Cardiff will give a seminar entitled 'Managing ethics?  Critiquing regimes of ethical control'

'Gendering 'soft' policing:  The fluidity and fragilities of occupational cultures'

Thursday 16 December 2010

2 pm to 3 pm
Dan McCarthy, University of Surrey

As part of the Department of Sociology seminar series Dan McCarthy of the University of Surrey will give a seminar entitled 'Gendering 'soft' policing:  The fluidity and fragilities of occupational cultures'

QUIC Conference 4-5 May 2011

Wednesday 4 May 2011

The QUIC Results conference 2011 takes place from the 4th - 5th May at the University of Surrey

Please view the conference page for further details

SEMINAR: 'Power, Equity, and Gender Ideology: Understanding Partnership Dynamics by Integrating Three Diverse Bodies of Literature'

Tuesday 7 February 2012

15.00 to 17.00
Ted Greenstein, North Carolina State University

SEMINAR: 'Exploring and Supporting Mobile Media Sharing: From rural South African villages to a homeless outreach in London'

Wednesday 8 February 2012

16.00 to 17.30
Kristen Eglinton - DWRC, University of Surrey

SEMINAR: 'Mutants of the 67th parallel north’: Deformity, mutation and the transformation of everyday life

Wednesday 22 February 2012

16.00 to 17.30
Hilary Pilkington - University of Warwick

SEMINAR: 'The Digital and the Human'

Wednesday 14 March 2012

16.00 to 17.30
Daniel Miller – UCL

SEMINAR: 'Unemployed and Isolated? A comparative analysis of the social participation gap of the unemployment across Europe'

Wednesday 28 March 2012

16.00 to 17.30
Vanessa Gash – University of Manchester

Due to unforseen circumstances, our seminar speaker this week, Vanessa Gash of Manchester, has had to cancel her visit to the department.  There will therefore be no seminar this Wednesday 28th at 4pm.

SEMINAR: 'The Problem of Parent Abuse: Current Understandings in Research, Policy and Practice'

Wednesday 2 May 2012

15.30 to 17.00
Amanda Holt – Portsmouth University

SEMINAR: 'The Co-Construction of Meaning in Focus Groups'

Thursday 10 May 2012

16.00 to 17.30
Professor David Morgan, Portland State University

SEMINAR: 'Transforming technologies: selective reproduction and stem cell science.'

Wednesday 16 May 2012

16.00 to 17.30
Clare Williams – Brunel University