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FREE SRA Scotland Evening Seminar

Laria — Mon, 27 Jun 2016 16:45:00 +0000

The Scottish Schools Adolescent Lifestyle and Substance Use Survey (SALSUS): Making better use of existing data sources

Speaker: Carolyn Black, Associate Director, Ipsos MORI

Monday, 27 June 2016

Arrival: 5.45pm

Seminar: 6pm – 6.45pm

The Melting Pot, Rose Street, Edinburgh, EH2 2PR

For more information and to book you place, please see here.

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Call for workshop presentations SRA Conference 2014 ‘Changing social research: Evolution or revolution?’

Laria — Mon, 07 Jul 2014 10:59:21 +0000

The SRA are looking for engaging workshop presentations which will address the broad theme of the conference, ideally with a focus on one of the following areas:

Methodological challenges
Innovation
Maintaining quality
Research ethics
Making an impact
Evaluation
Funding and commissioning issues.

Presentations are for workshop sessions of 20 minutes (followed by a 10 minute Q&A). One presenter will receive a discount on the delegate fee.

The conference will be held at the British Library in London on 8th December 2014. The deadline for submissions is 18th August 2014.

For more details:

Visit the SRA website or
Download the Guidelines (PDF)

Photo credit: British Library by Steve Cadman

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Social Media in Social Research conference

Laria — Mon, 14 Apr 2014 15:17:07 +0000

We’re pleased to announce that the SRA Social Media in Social Research conference on Friday 16 May is now open for registration. It will be at the British Library conference centre in central London.

See event details and register

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Social Media in Social Research

Laria — Fri, 16 May 2014 09:00:00 +0000

It’s our fourth conference on this topic. The presentations this year are:

Uninformed consent and social media research

Dan Nunan, Henley Business School

Using social network analysis for social media in social research

Dhiraj Murthy, Goldsmiths, University of London

The Collaborative Online Social Media ObServatory: a progress report

Rob Procter, University of Warwick

The ESRC’s social media agenda

Samantha McGregor, ESRC

A social media case study – Facebook and Scottish independence

Preriit Souda and Alastair Graham, TNS BMRB

The social media challenge within the Food Standards Agency

Dr Joanna Disson and James Baker, FSA

Analysing digital activism: The use of multi-layered digital ethnography in the social sciences

Suay Ozkula, University of Kent

With questions after each presentation, and a Panel discussion to follow, delegates will have plenty of opportunity to raise and debate the issues.

The delegate rate is £75 for SRA members, £105 for non-members. Lunch and refreshments are provided.

More information, a flyer and online booking can be found on the SRA website

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