This is the presentation that I gave today at the Global Events Congress IV, in Leeds. It is a case study of the event experience and sustainability, based on the application of micro-ethnographic methods. The primary research was carried out by my colleague, Rebekah Sitz. The full paper from this study is published in the conference proceedings.
Ethnographic methods in events research January 17, 2010
A colleague and I have had a paper accepted for the ‘Global Events Congress IV: Events and Festivals Research: The State of the Art’ event, to be held in Leeds from 14-16 July 2010.
Our paper looks at how the application of methods from ethnography can contribute to events management research. Bekah carried out participant observation, photographic and auto-photographic research during the Bonnaroo festival in Tennessee in the US. You can read our abstract here
Methodspace April 30, 2009
I have just found a website called Methodspace which claims to be ” the home of the Research Methods community from across the world”, a browse through is very interesting, if you’re into research methods like me….
The site is published by Sage and so I’m sure it will have a pro-sage text bias lurking in there somewhere, but the content appears to be mainly user-generated, with lots of forums and commentary. If you are carrying out a research project then you should be able to use this site to get feedback on your research design and discuss research issues with like-minded individuals.
The reports of the conference at the LSE last month on social science research and public policy are up on the site, you can view them by clicking here.
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