Kahryn Hughes - Qualitative Secondary Analysis

Kahryn Hughesis an Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Leeds, and Director of the Timescapes Archive. She has received ESRC funding for several of their flagship methodological programmes, including under the Research Methods Programme and Timescapes. Her research over the past 15 years has primarily aimed at methods innovation and development. Her current research interests relate to three overlapping areas: the sociology of health, sociological theory and research methodology. More specifically, she is interested in addiction, poverty, time and process.Anna Tarrantis Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Lincoln and a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow. Since 2014, she has been researching mens care responsibilities in low income families. Her work has been supported by funded studies including Men, Poverty and Lifetimes of Care (funded by the Leverhulme Trust Early Career fellowship scheme) and Responding to Young Fathers (funded by the Leeds Institute of Social Sciences Impact Acceleration Account). From January 2020, she will commence a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship to conduct a qualitative longitudinal and participatory study about the lives and support needs of young fathers.

Joanna Bornatis Professor Emerita of Oral History at the Open University. While her undergraduate and postgraduate degrees were in sociology she has had a career-long interest in oral history and continues in retirement to be a trustee of the Oral History Society and an editor of the UK journal Oral History. She has researched and written on the re-use of archived interviews, publishing the results in a number of articles and collections where she maintains an interdisciplinary perspective.Graham Crowis Professor of Sociology and Methodology in the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh, where he has worked since 2013. He previously worked at the University of Southampton. He has taught and published in the fields of community sociology, family sociology, comparative sociology, sociological theory and research methods. He has a particular interest in unusual combinations of methods, and is using contrasting methods to research end-of-career transitions. His latest books are Revisiting Divisions of Labour (co-edited with Jaimie Ellis, Manchester University Press, 2017) and What are Community Studies? (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018).Emma Davidsonis a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow in Sociology at the University of Edinburgh, and co-director of interdisciplinary consortium, the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships. She has expertise in qualitative research, specifically participatory research, collaborative ethnography and computerised qualitative data analysis. Emmas work has largely focused on understanding the lived experiences of inequality in the UK, with research interests spanning diverse topics including literacy in the early years; youth justice; young peoples experiences of care; complex multiple needs homelessness; public libraries and other third spaces; and the enactment of civil society. Her ongoing Leverhulme research (https://anewpage.org/) is an exploration of the everyday social world of the public library and the challenges of austerity.Rosalind Edwardsis Professor of Sociology and a co-director of the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods at the University of Southampton, and a co-editor of the International Journal of Social Research Methodology. Rosalinds areas of interest encompass family lives and policies, and qualitative and mixed research methods. Currently she is collaborating with colleagues on methodological projects investigating indigenous and non-indigenous research partnerships (www.indigenous.ncrm.ac.uk), and the secondary analysis of large volumes of qualitative longitudinal data.Ruth Geraghtyis a Project Specialist in the Centre for Effective Services, with expertise in research data management, evidence curation and open data. Ruth previously worked as Data Curator for the Childrens Research Network Prevention and Early Intervention (CRNINI-PEI) Research Initiative, supporting community organisations to archive and re-use their evaluation data. Prior to joining CES in 2016, Ruth worked as a social researcher in the university sector and is co-author of the sociological textbook