Events
Narrating Policy: Exploring Narrative in Policy and Policy Analysis
This one day symposium on Monday 16th January 2017 aims to act as an important catalyst to develop new interdisciplinary work and collaboration around the relationship between narrative and policy.
Prof Ray Pawson, an 'exaugural' lecture Evidence-based medicine & evidence-based policy: the world’s most perfectly developed method & the 79-pound weakling?
Ray Pawson will attempt a methodological comparison of evidence-based medicine (EBM) and evidence-based policy (EBP).
Dr Ana Manzano: The craft of interviewing in realist evaluation
Interviews are the most widely used method of data collection in social sciences. Benney and Hughes’ (1956) famous quote ‘sociology has become the science of the interview’ is more relevant than ever.
Dr Clarissa Smith – Talking about pornography in everyday life: what can be learned from talking to audiences?
Despite the heat of debates about pornography - its meanings and impacts - we still know very little about the quotidian consumption of porn.
Dr Rosemary Hill – The political potential of numbers: data visualisation in the abortion debate
Data visualisation has been argued to have the power to ‘change the world’, implicitly for the better, but when it comes to abortion, both sides make moral claims to ‘good’.
Hizer Mir – Steph Curry's Game Winning Shot: An Investigation of the Religious/Secular Divide
Basing itself on "the shot heard around the world", this seminar will be an investigation of the religious/secular divide.
- One day event
- Reoccuring events