The University of Manchester

In this blog the Methods for Change team reflect on two interactive sessions on spatial, qualitative, and mixed methods convened as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science 2022.

The Methods for Change (M4C) team delivered a session organised by Dr Temidayo Eseonu on Innovate UK funding, in particular, Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs) that link businesses, academics, and inspiring graduates and post-graduates.

Join the Methods for Change Team two interactive events on a diversity of social science methods for understanding and addressing 21st century challenges!

Sharing insights and examples that inspire social science commercialisation.

A detailed Final report by the Methods for Change project team.

Six students from the Universities of Glasgow and Manchester were placed into intrapreneurship-based placements within companies for 8 weeks, to test working models of intrapreneurship. This is what they found…

Sharing ‘good practice’ learnings from the ABaCuSS pilot programme.

This report provides detailed explanations and findings of Manchester’s pilot.

Discover how Ludic Labs is supporting the production of educational games generated by social science research.

Exploring collaboration between universities, academincs and law firms.

An investigation into activities between social science academics and the creative industries in the Northwest of England to highlight a plethora of activity in this area.

Here we join Heather Miles, University of Manchester, reflecting On the Creative Methods Zoo question “If your research method were an animal, what would it be?”

In this guest blog post Lauren White, an ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Sheffield, shares her reflections and methodological musings from the Creative Methods Zoo.

In this article, six postgraduate researchers profiled in the gallery reflect on their experiences of collaborating with Methods for Change creatives to communicate their methods in thought-provoking ways.

This ‘how to’ guide outlines the Biographical Mapping research method used by Penny Tinkler and Laura Fenton from the University of Manchester. The image was created in collaboration with More Than Minutes.

Exploring A Comprehensive Qualitative Approach to Evaluation Method, with the Methods for Change project.

Exploring the Walk-along Interviews Method, with the Methods for Change project.

Exploring the Participatory Film Making Method, with the Methods for Change project.

Exploring the A Place-based Case Study Approach Method, with the Methods for Change project.

Exploring the importance and opportunities for social science methods to create change.