How can researchers enhance the relevance of research outputs for practitioners? Delegates at conferences and workshops have sometimes observed to me that they see a gap between research and practice.

Bricoleur and confectioner were only a few metaphors that came up at the BERA PG Symposium in Glasgow. The autumn symposium was one of the three symposia that BERA offered

How do people – research students in particular – make sense of large amounts of qualitative data? In my experience of supervising, this is a real issue for many students.

As usual I went to the annual Social Policy Association Conference, this time held at the University of Sheffield. I always get a lot out of this conference, one of

A few weeks ago, these eight words were enough to catapult me straight into full-on panic mode… When I say panic mode, I am of course exaggerating a little. However,

In Monday’s edition of the Guardian newspaper, John Harris wrote an article entitled ‘No mainstream party truly understands conservatism’. Harris was at pains to illustrate how British Tory voters were