1. Tuesday 9 September 20141NEMODE Professional Development Workshop, BAM Conference, Belfast Digital Methods as Mainstream Methodology? Helene Snee, Manchester Metropolitan University

2. Tuesday 9 September 2014NEMODE Professional Development Workshop, BAM Conference, Belfast 2 Network aims Inspire use of relevant, effective, innovative digital methods Identify future training needs Foster networks for sharing of expertise Provide networking and dissemination opportunities through series of events

3. Tuesday 9 September 2014NEMODE Professional Development Workshop, BAM Conference, Belfast 3 Key issues Supporting innovation, collaborative and interdisciplinary work (especially early career researchers) Importance of critical reflection on digital tools and methods –Defining digital methods, defining the mainstream –Context, populations, participants –“Big data” (thick data? wide data?)

4. Tuesday 9 September 2014NEMODE Professional Development Workshop, BAM Conference, Belfast 4 Key issues Challenges of access to data and data handling Overcoming barriers to dissemination Ensuring ethical research

5. Tuesday 9 September 2014NEMODE Professional Development Workshop, BAM Conference, Belfast 5 Case studies Sentiment analysis of Twitter Virtual notebooks for transdisciplinary research Understanding the cultural logic of young people’s everyday practices Using digital and traditional methods to access hidden populations Consequences of using personal Facebook profile as a research tool Digital tools for reflecting on practice-based research Collaborative and democratic opportunities of the semantic web

6. Tuesday 9 September 2014NEMODE Professional Development Workshop, BAM Conference, Belfast 6 Looking to the future Significance of the digital –Digital methods crucial opportunity for social sciences Productive to disseminate in ‘mainstream’ conference streams, journals Barriers to publication Potential for innovation by interdisciplinary collaboration –Funding mechanisms to support

7. Tuesday 9 September 2014NEMODE Professional Development Workshop, BAM Conference, Belfast 7 Looking to the future Institutionalisation ongoing but not complete –Peer review –Ethical standards Critical engagement with distinctions: –Mainstream / marginal –Digital / conventional

8. Tuesday 9 September 2014NEMODE Professional Development Workshop, BAM Conference, Belfast 8 Final thoughts Interdisciplinarity – both within and beyond the social sciences Spaces for discussion and debate important, especially for PhD and early career researchers in dialogue with established scholars Questions of epistemology and ethics of ongoing concern Website: http://digitalmethodsnmi.wordpress.com/http://digitalmethodsnmi.wordpress.com/ Discussion paper: http://eprints.ncrm.ac.uk/3156/http://eprints.ncrm.ac.uk/3156/