Methods masterclass for postgraduate students and early career researchers

In this workshop for PhD, graduate students and early-career researchers, we explore different approaches to creative research methods and practices. These methods — such as ethnography, creative practice research and research creation — can be transferred to different topics. 

• Distinguished Professor Larissa Hjorth (RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia) will invite us to consider creative practice ethnography and how arts-based methods can participants to tap into tacit emotions and feelings.
• Professor Kim Sawchuk (Concordia University, Montreal, Canada) will explore how policy contributions and interventions can shape the public agenda via knowledge circulation.
• Professor Mireia Fernández-Ardèvol (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona) will discuss the need for critical assessments of data, databases and their derived results to avoid producing and reproducing biases.

Time	Session	Presenters
9am-9:30am	Arrival & welcome	Professor Mireia Fernández-Ardèvol Distinguished Professor Larissa Hjorth Professor Kim Sawchuk
9:30am-11:30am	Creative Interventions and Methods	Distinguished Professor Larissa Hjorth
11:30am-12pm	Coffee break	N/A
12pm-2pm	Policy interventions - shaping the public agenda	Professor Kim Sawchuk
2pm-3pm	Lunch	N/A
3pm-5pm	Methodological reflections	Professor Mireia Fernández-Ardèvol

This event is co-hosted by RMIT Europe and the Open University of Catalonia in Barcelona as part of the AiD (SSHRC Aging in Data) project and the Ageing in and through Data Discovery project (Australian Research Council, DP230103075).

Questions about the event can be directed to Dr Caitlin McGrane (caitlin.mcgrane[at]rmit.edu.au).