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Mixing Methods (SPS-WS-WA-MIX-24)

SPS-WS-WA-MIX-24

Purpose

This workshop offers an introduction to mixed methods frameworks in the social sciences. After reviewing the established literature (e.g. explanatory/ exploratory sequential designs), a large part of the course will be dedicated to the questions: when does mixing methods result in added value? How do we make qualitative and quantitative evidence speak to each other? And in what ways should we think of writing up and publishing mixed methods designs?
The course will draw on current examples from the fields of sociology, political science, and public policy to animate this discussion, taking more recent methodological trends on board (e.g. causal inference or ethnography in MM frameworks) and aiming to create a hands-on understanding of the plural ways in which, and ends to which, mixed methods are currently being employed in the social sciences.
Participants are invited to bring a real or hypothetical research question and to sketch out a mixed methods design during several brief workshop sessions embedded in the course. As a part of this, advice will be offered to researchers who use MM research in their thesis.

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