All Main Speaker sessions take place in the Wolfson Theatre on the ground floor.

Tea, Coffee, Lunch and Exhibitor stands are in the Osler & Long Room on the first floor.

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9.00 - 9.30

Registration (Tea/coffee/pastries)

9.30 - 9.35

Welcome

Tina Haux (CEO, SRA)

9.35 - 10.20

Power to the People: Reclaiming research as social intervention

Dr Danny Sriskandarajah (CEO - New Economics Foundation)

Chair: Victoria Harkness (The Social Agency)

10.20 - 11.05

New Practices – New Challenges? Ethics in social research

Reema Patel (Founder and Director, Elgon Social Research), and Dr Holly Taylor-Dunn (Freelance Consultant)

Chair: Lydia Marshall (Oxford MeasurEd)

11.10 - 11.25

Tea/coffee/exhibition

11.30 – 12.30

Breakouts AM

12.30 - 1.20

Lunch/exhibition

1.25 - 2.10

Panel: What makes a good funding application?

Beccy Shipman (ESRC UKRI) and Alex Beer (Nuffield Foundation)

Chair: Ed Dunn (Chair, SRA)

2.15 - 2.45

Special Sessions

Option 1: Teaching research methods in a changing social research landscape

Dr Nicole Brown (Social Research & Practice and Education Ltd., and UCL), Melanie Nind (NCRM), Debbie Collins (NatCen) and Tina Haux (SRA)

Option 2: Inclusive research

Sarah Frankenburg (Verian), Naomi Boal, Breandan Ward and Christine Hemphill (Open Inclusion) 

Option 3 (sponsor session): AI-Moderated Interviews in Social Research: Evidence from three independent studies

Matteo Cera and Manuel Cecere (Glaut)

2.45 – 3.10


Tea/coffee/exhibition

3.10 - 4.10

Breakouts PM

4.15 - 5.00

Message in a Bottle: Creating safer spaces for marginalised voices in research and policy-making

Professor Jason Arday (University of Cambridge)

Chair: Lee Chan (Vice-Chair, SRA)

5.00 - 6.00

Drinks reception