Towards a Typology for Research Methods Pedagogy Seminar
- Time:
- 12:00 - 13:00
- Date:
- 2 January 2017
- Venue:
- Southampton Education School Building 32, Room 2097
For more information regarding this seminar, please email Torhild Hearn at T.Hearn@soton.ac.uk .
Event details
The National Centre for Research Methods workpackage on the Pedagogy of Methodological Learning is a 3-year study funded by ESRC to promote pedagogical development for advanced social science research methods. Efforts to build research capacity have so far lacked much pedagogic research and debate. Therefore little is understood about how to respond to the distinctive pedagogical challenges of methods teaching and learning. This seminar focuses on one key study aim – to create a typology of pedagogical approaches for methods teaching. An early working version of the typology is shared for discussion. This is generated from data from interviews with an international panel of expert methods teachers, followed up in focus groups with UK methods teachers and from video stimulated recall and reflection with methods teachers and learners. We welcome discussion of the potential usefulness of the emergent typology before testing it further in a series of case studies.
Speaker information
Dr Sarah Lewthwaite ,Research Fellow within Southampton Education School at the University of Southampton. Sarah Lewthwaite is a Research Fellow at the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods at the University of Southampton. Her research expertise and interests centre on the intersections between critical theory, accessibility, new technologies and student experience in higher education. In her current role these are focussed on the learning and teaching of advanced research methods. She maintains a keen interest in inclusion, disability and social media research.
Professor Melanie Nind ,Professor in Education at the University of Southampton, Faculty Director of Graduate School for the Faculty of Social, Human and Mathematical Sciences and Director of the Centre for Research in Inclusion in the Southampton Education School. Melanie is one of the co-directors of the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods where she leads research on the pedagogy of research methods learning. She is co-editor of the International Journal of Research and Method in Education and on the international advisory or editorial boards for the British Journal of Learning Disabilities, European Journal of Special Needs Education and Disability and Society. Her recent research projects have focused on pedagogy and innovation in research methods and on quality in inclusive research.