Seminar 3: Qualitative Complexity?

In this third seminar of this series, we will explore the strengths of qualitative approaches to understand complex social systems. We will also discuss the notion of ‘metaphor’ and the ways in which this is embedded within complexity approaches more generally.

Please see full agenda here, links to talks below, and photos here.

DR JOHN SMITH [spacer height=”2px”](Department of Education and Community Studies, University of Greenwich)[spacer height=”2px”]Title: Why Qualitative Complexity? and more detailed Notes on the talk.[spacer height=”1px”]Read Prof. David Byrne’s review of Smith and Jenks’ (2006) Qualitative Complexity book here[spacer height=”27px”]DR NOORTJE MARRES [spacer height=”2px”](Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London; Director, Centre for the Study of Invention and Social Process)[spacer height=”2px”][spacer height=”2px”]Title:  Are we researching society or technology? Qualifying the ambiguous objects of digital social research[spacer height=”27px”]DR NICK EMMEL  [spacer height=”2px”](Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds)[spacer height=”2px”]Title: I’m not Dancing; I’m Zigzagging[spacer height=”27px”]DR PIP BEVAN [spacer height=”2px”](Sociology, Independent Researcher)[spacer height=”3px”]Title: Change and continuity in rural Ethiopia 1994 (and before) to 2013 (and beyond): a longitudinal study of twenty communities using complexity methods[spacer height=”27px”]