Semester 2 Schedule for RTC Talking Methods Seminars
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Location: CMB Practice Suite 1.12 and Online (live-stream)
Time: 1-2pm
January 23rd – Dr Marisa de Andrade: Public Health, Humanities and Magical Realism: Thinking Creatively and Relationally about Research Methods
This session will consider how to apply methodologies to include crucial forms of creative and relational data about people’s lived experiences that cannot be accessed through the biomedical approach to generating and using evidence.
February 6th – Dr Liliana Arias, Dr Emma Davidson, Dr Lisa Howard, Prof Lynn Jamieson: Planning for family and intimacy in challenging times
Companionship and family planning among young people in Finland, Portugal, and Scotland.
March 5th – Dr Allison Hui: Situating decolonial strategies and methodological discontents within processes of social change
This presentation will consider theoretically how such stasis is situated within wider social scientific and public communities. That is – by thinking more carefully about how methodological lineages have changed in the past, I question how we can make them different in the future. I argue that what we need now is not rich concepts for tracing and distinguishing past traditions, but a means of seeing our collective methodological practice as part of a trajectory of change.
2nd April – Mally Stelmaszyk: Social Research in Politically Precarious and Turbulent Contexts
In this presentation, I discuss conducting social research, in particular ethnographic practice, in geopolitically vulnerable and rapidly evolving spaces, including racial and military conflict. In the discussion, I draw on my experiences of doing long-term fieldwork with shamans in Tuva in Siberia between 2014 and 2015 after the annexation of Crimea. I further touch on my work with Nanai shamans in the context of the war in Ukraine and the pandemic, and conclude by my most recent experiences of conducting research about Polish healers, called Whisperers, on the border with Belarus.