engage@liverpool engaging with ideas, innovation and people www.liverpool.ac.uk/engage engage@liverpool.ac.uk @livuniengage http://www.youtube.com/user/engageatliverpool Dr Michael Mair mdmair@liv.ac.uk

engage@liverpool Overview Running since Spring 2011 90+ events featuring 100s of speakers from 20+ departments across the 3 faculties 11 doctoral research clinics open to students across the North West involving cross-disciplinary panels of Liverpool academics Master classes, cross-institutional workshops, day-schools, symposia and conferences for students and academics regionally, nationally and internationally Mailing list of postgraduate and academic researchers internally and externally (see www.liverpool.ac.uk/engage for more details) Support for various research networks in the UoL (and beyond) Growing archive of talks and events with dedicated webpages providing access to various resources (slides, documents, readings, audio and 40+ video recordings) engage@liverpool YouTube channel: 12,000+ views and growing

engage@liverpool Core activities Research and methods talks, e.g. the ‘Legacies’ series Workshops, master classes, research day schools, etc. Doctoral research clinics One-off events inc. symposia, conferences and more Short courses and methods training Designed to: highlight/provide access to methodological expertise within the UoL Promote research activity of all kinds and at all levels Foster interdisciplinary dialogue, collaboration and innovation internally and externally

engage@liverpool Core activities Brings together different strands of the UoL’s contribution to regional, national and international research networks Provides next generation of researchers with access to latest developments in different fields of research Operates in parallel with/supports wider doctoral training partnerships and the Liverpool Doctoral College

engage@liverpool Background: broad changes in research landscape Doctoral Training Networks and Centres for Doctoral Training (e.g. ESRC/AHRC/EPSRC/NIHR) More emphasis on methods/training/expertise: NCRM/RDF Formation of Methods North West Complementarity/distinctiveness not replication Reflected in ethos of Liverpool Doctoral College

engage@liverpool Why engage@liverpool? Reflects three distinctive strands in the research tradition of the University of Liverpool Engagement with the major moral, political and philosophical ideas and questions of the day Engagement with, and contribution to, methodological and intellectual innovation Engagement with people through research – locally, regionally, nationally and internationally engage@liverpool’s broad mission to promote these three aspects of research within and across disciplines

engage@liverpool Not a narrow methods focus, emphasis on Understanding/contributing to wider social, cultural, economic and political processes and practices Innovation, capacity building and potential for collaboration/cross-fertilisation of ideas and approaches Creating/sustaining unique local, national and international relationships

engage@liverpool Explicit acknowledgment of historic connections with/legacy of figures like: Dr William Henry Duncan, James Newlands, Eleanor Rathbone, Charles Booth, Olaf Stapledon, Joseph Rotblat, and many others Not simply activists, campaigners and reformers Also respected social scientists, arts and humanities scholars and scientific/medical researchers Capacity to perform one role linked to the other

engage@liverpool Connects into other strands of research via a distinctive approach to methods and methodology Not just about social relevance of research (‘impact’, ‘knowledge exchange’) All transformative thinkers and researchers: innovators in fields of knowledge as well as in social, cultural and political life

engage@liverpool Doctor Duncan/James Newlands: pioneers in field of social medicine and public health Charles Booth: pioneer in ethnographic and spatial studies of poverty and demography Eleanor Rathbone: pioneer in field of policy studies Olaf Stapledon/Joseph Rotblat: pioneering peace campaigners, internationalists, futurologists engage@liverpool takes up contemporary expressions of tradition of intellectual leadership and innovation

engage@liverpool Demonstrated in past events, e.g. European Institute for Gender Equality presentation on the Gender Equality Index Master classes/workshops on digital research, investigating the workplace, psychohistory in interdisciplinary contexts, participatory inquiry, health impact assessment, and more Day schools on researching corporate power structures Talks on improving tuberculosis diagnostics, crowdsourced data, studying the powerful, the influence of literature on science, writing biography, archaeological contributions to understandings of the state, and more All reflections on contemporary ‘matters of concern’ at intersections between fields of research All talks available via engage@liverpool’s YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/engageatliverpool or website: www.liv.ac.uk/engage

engage@liverpool Traces through to joint activity with Methods North West Annual problem-focused doctoral research clinics Workshops on visualisation, ‘live data’, research with children, transformative social science, the problem of scale across disciplines Soon to include methods labs and ‘collaboratories’

engage@liverpool Continued in this year’s programme … Short courses Critical Discourse Analysis Ethnographic Studies of Science and Technology Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis Focus Groups Interviewing Narrative Interviewing Participatory Action Research Using Foucault’s Methods Using Visual Methods Working with Nvivo via CSD

engage@liverpool Long courses Sociology: Understanding Society Using Quantitative Methods (12 weeks) Psychology: Practical Research Skills (12 weeks)/Advanced Statistics and Methods (12 weeks) Geography: Social Survey Analysis (with R)/Spatial Analysis (12 weeks)/Researching Space, Power and Culture (12 weeks)

engage@liverpool Workshops/symposia/day schools Performing History Writing and Narratology Text Encoding Prosopography/Network Analysis in History Methodological Approaches to Political Economy Bayesian Approaches Across the Disciplines Material Cultures/Materialities Critical Grounded Theory

engage@liverpool Talks and other events A Very Capitalist Condition: A History and Politics of Disability, with Roddy Slorach, Thursday 10th November 2016, 5pm-7pm More to be announced as confirmed

engage@liverpool Additions to the programme Always seeking ideas, proposals and requests from the PGR community on what else we can do Also happy to discuss how to access funding through regional and national research networks Feel free to get in touch!

engage@liverpool engage@liverpool provides access to research and research training which actively and critically engages with ideas, innovation and people For more information, go to www.liv.ac.uk/engage or contact engage@liv.ac.uk

engage@liverpool Useful links www.methodsnorthwest.ac.uk http://www.artsmethodsnorthwest.ac.uk/ http://www.methods.manchester.ac.uk/ http://www.artsmethods.manchester.ac.uk/ http://www.methods.lancaster.ac.uk/