26 April 2017 | 18.30 | Room 022, ISCAP
ABSTRACT
During the session we will discuss a variety of issues connected to case study research in social sciences. We will move from definitions of case study research through issues concerning designing your study, collecting the data, and analytical tools to my research experiences and writing case study report. The session will finish with presentation of a few case study examples and discussion.
Plan of the session
1. What is a case study? Case study as a research method. Characteristic features. Types of case study.
2. Preparing a good case study research. Research design, case study protocol, case selection.
3. Data collection: techniques, sources, triangulation.
4. Fieldwork and research ethics.
5. Analysis, interpretation, reporting.
6. Criticism and defence.
7. Examples
Bionote
Sylwia Męcfal has been a research and teaching assistant at the Department of Social Research Methods and Techniques, Faculty of Economics and Sociology, University of Lodz in Poland for 8,5 years now. Her research interests include media and politics, local journalism and methodology of social science – quantitative and qualitative social research methods, ethics of social research, and issues in investigating sensitive phenomena.
In her PhD thesis (to be defended shortly) ‘Local press in their societal context – interest groups, key actors, problems of functioning – case studies of local weeklies in the łódzkie voivodeship’ the author uses the case study method to investigate significant social issues connected with the formal and informal relationships between media, politics and business at the local level and their consequences for local communities.
Contact: sylwia.mecfal@wp.pl
Websites:
https://ludzie.uni.lodz.pl/index.php/Sylwia_Mecfal
https://unilodz.academia.edu/SylwiaMecfal
https://pl.linkedin.com/in/sylwia-m%C4%99cfal-a1145a38
http://www.eksoc.uni.lodz.pl/is/mecfal.html