Researching Childhood will introduce you to a range of current social research about childhood and with children in global contexts. The module enables...

Researching Childhood will introduce you to a range of current social research about childhood and with children in global contexts. The module enables participants to critically reflect on the relationship between theory and research methodology as a basis for the appraisal of the politics and ethics of childhood research. Analysing contemporary methodological developments and debates in childhood research (e.g. creative and participatory methods; ‘voice’; power relations; ethics in research with children) will lay the foundations for participants to design and conduct their own research, both as part of this module and in their dissertations. The course covers the following: introduction to research and paradigms of childhood research; ethical issues; differing methods used in research with children and on aspects of childhood, with a particular focus on qualitative methods, including interviewing, observation, visual and creative methods, documentary, historical and policy-related research and research with children and young people in majority world countries. Each session involves input from an experienced researcher, followed by active learning, group exercises.

This module is an introduction to the ways history has been and can be written, examining some of the main issues, trends and controversies in the writing of...

This module is an introduction to the ways history has been and can be written, examining some of the main issues, trends and controversies in the writing of history in the twentieth century, especially in the context of central and eastern Europe. Its aim is to encourage you to approach the writing of history critically, by assessing the many varieties of history and by analysing the intellectual and other presuppositions of the historians.

The course introduces students to Comparative Economics, discussing the origin of the field and its specificities: i.e. regarding economic systems as complex...