Advanced Poverty Research Methods Course 2019
The Poverty Research Methods course held in Bristol, UK from the 15-19 July 2019 provided a thorough technical and practical introduction to poverty research methods; the knowledge and skills required to use cutting edge methodologies, both quantitative and qualitative with a particular emphasis on multidimensional poverty in the UK and Internationally.
The course was funded by the South West Doctoral Training Partnership, the Wales Doctoral Training Partnership and GW4 and was aimed at PhD students and academic staff interested in poverty relevant research.
The presentations are available to download via the hyperlinks in the programme below. Course materials, including reading lists, key references and biographies of tutors are available to download as pdfs and ppts from our international site here. Please attribute copyright when referencing these presentations. Please do not publish on other websites.
Programme
Monday 15th: Poverty Theory – Victoria Rooms G12
12:30 Registration and Tea/Coffee in the Theatre Bar
13:00 Welcome and Introduction
Professor David Gordon
13:30 A Brief History of the Idea of Poverty
Professor David Gordon
14:30 Relative Deprivation Theory
Professor David Gordon
15:30 Tea/Coffee in the Theatre Bar
16:00 Poverty as Capability Deprivation
Dr Rod Hick
17:30 Close
Tuesday 16th: Qualitative Poverty Research Methods – Victoria Rooms G12
9:30 Qualitative methods in consensual poverty research
Dr Eldin Fahmy
10:30 Focus group methods in question development
Dr Eldin Fahmy
11:30 Tea/Coffee in the Theatre Bar
12:00 Practical exercise: Understanding poverty definitions
Dr Eldin Fahmy & Acomo Oloya
13:00 Lunch in the Theatre Bar
14:00 Cognitive methods in question testing
Dr Eldin Fahmy
15:30 Tea/Coffee in the Theatre Bar
16:00 Practical exercise: Doing cognitive interviews
Dr Eldin Fahmy & Dr Acomo Oloya
17:30 Close
Wednesday 17th: Integrating Methods – Victoria Rooms G12
9:30 Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)
Dr Mary Zhang
10:30 Dialogical Analysis
Dr Rana Jawad
11:30 Tea/Coffee in the Theatre Bar
12:00 Qualitative Impact Assessment Protocol (QuIP)
Prof James Copestake
13:00 Lunch in the Theatre Bar
14:00 Effective Dissemination
Joanna Mack
15:30 Tea/Coffee in the Theatre Bar
16:00 Education Inequality from Children’s Perspective
Dr Tigist Grieve
16:50 Measuring Consensual Deprivation
Dr Marco Pomati
17:30 Close
Thursday 18th: Quantitative Methods – G.01, 43 Woodland Road (The two practical sessions will be in the Geography Building 1.3N Haggett PC Lab)
9:30 The Validity of Deprivation Indicators (concepts)
Dr Hector Najera
10:30 Practical: Validity Analyses
Dr Hector Najera
11:30 Tea/Coffee in the Reception Room
12:00 The Reliability of Deprivation Indicators (concepts)
Dr Hector Najera
13:00 Lunch in the Reception Room
14:00 Practical: Reliability Analyses
Dr Hector Najera
15:30 Tea/Coffee in the Reception Room
16:00 Finding the Multidimensional Poverty Line
Dr Marco Pomati
17:30 Close
Friday 19th: Issues in Poverty Research – G.01, 43 Woodland Road
9:30 Small Area Poverty Estimates
Dr Hector Najera
10:30 Mapping Poverty
Dr Hector Najera
11:30 Tea/Coffee in the Reception Room
12:00 Measuring Child Poverty
Dr Shailen Nandy
13:00 Lunch in the Reception Room
14:00 Multidimensional Poverty in Uganda
Vincent Ssennono
15:00 Longitudinal Poverty Research Methods
Dr Alba Lanau
16:00 Tea/Coffee in the Reception Room
16:30 Conclusion
Prof David Gordon