Messing with Methods- HDR Workshop

Messing with Methods is a postgraduate workshop co-organised by the Discipline of Anthropology at the University of Sydney and the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University. The workshop aims to encourage dialogue and debate on the diversity of ways in which social scientists understand, use, and write about research methods in the contemporary world. Panel themes include methodologies in the context of new materialisms and more-than-human care, digital and visual research, eating as a method, and vulnerability in fieldwork. This workshop opens conversations surrounding ethics, positionality, reflexivity, and power, as these shape our relations with, and accountabilities to, our situated fields and field interlocutors and to our disciplines. There are no fees. 

Conveners: Associate Professor Malini Sur and Dr Sophie Chao.

Panelists: 

• Michael Edwards, University of Sydney
  
• Randi Irwin, University of Newcastle
  
• Denis Byrne, Western Sydney University
  
• Daniel Tranter-Santoso, Macquarie University
  
• Heather Horst, Western Sydney University
  
• Caroline Schuster, Australian National University
  
• Catherine Smith, Independent Scholar
  
• Sophie Chao, University of Sydney
  
• Ute Eickelkamp, Ruhr University, Germany
  
• Malini Sur, Western Sydney University