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Liverpool Summer School

2025-07-16T07:35:54Z

MichaelMair: Created page with "{{Announcement |Announcement Type=Other |Full title=Liverpool Ethnomethodology Summer School |Short title=Summer School |Short summary=Registration open for an ethnomethodolog..."

{{Announcement
|Announcement Type=Other
|Full title=Liverpool Ethnomethodology Summer School
|Short title=Summer School
|Short summary=Registration open for an ethnomethodology-focused summer school in Liverpool
|Announcement text=We are pleased to announce an Ethnomethodology Summer School taking place Monday 11th to Friday 15th August 2025 in and around the University of Liverpool campus. The Summer School is open to masters students, postgraduate researchers and others new to the field seeking to engage in a hands-on way with ethnomethodology as an approach to social research. It will be led by Prof. Michael Mair and Dr. Phillip Brooker (with collaboration from other ethnomethodology practitioners), and thematised on ethnomethodology’s capacity for ludic/playful exploratory ways into phenomena of interest.

We have no resource to fund places (meaning participants would need to make their own travel and accommodation arrangements for the duration), but the Summer School for free to applicants currently undertaking masters or PhD studies in a social-sciences-relevant field (broadly conceived) who are looking to learn more about the foundations of ethnomethodology and how they are being applied in contemporary domains. While places are restricted to 8 attendees, we would be delighted to hear from prospective participants with a short (circa 200 words) account of their research interests and how the Summer School would benefit their studies and work – please send an email with these details to Phil Brooker (p.d.brooker@liverpool.ac.uk) and Michael Mair (mdmair@liverpool.ac.uk) if you wish to apply. Please also include any details of circumstances that we can help support successful applicants with upon their arrival to Liverpool (e.g. mobility and transport needs). The deadline for applications is Friday 1st August.
|Year=2025
|Categories (tags)=Uncategorized;
|From date=2025/08/11
|To date=2025/08/15
|Address=Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology, University of Liverpool
|Location=53.40168, -2.96453
}}

An introduction to Membership Categorisation Analysis 29-30 Nov 2023

2023-09-05T05:05:33Z

MichaelMair:

{{Announcement
|Announcement Type=Training, Workshop
|Full title=An introduction to Membership Categorisation Analysis 29-30 Nov 2023 - Hybrid
|Short title=IntroMCANov2023
|Short summary=An entry-level Membership Categorisation Analysis (MCA) training workshop organised by @LivUni will be presented by @Dr_Robin_Smith and hosted by @NCRMUK on the 29-30th November 2023. Attendees can join online or in-person.
|Announcement text=
• Title: An introduction to Membership Categorisation Analysis

• Date: 29/11/2023 - 30/11/2023

• Organised by: University of Liverpool

• Presenter: Dr Robin James Smith

• Level: Entry (no or almost no prior knowledge)

• Contact: Dr Billie-Gina Thomason, engage@liverpool.ac.uk

• Venue: Online or in-person at Cardiff University School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, Glamorgan Building, King Edward VII Cardiff, CF10 3WT

• Description: The central concern of Membership Categorisation Analysis (MCA) is the description of the array of categorisation practices observable in members’ “naturally-organised activities”. This workshop is focused on exploring and understanding what Harvey Sacks called the “member’s machinery” and how that foundation was later developed into a concern with the analysis of “culture-in-action”. Sacks’ early analyses considered how relevant categories are ‘used’ not only to categorise individuals as ‘representative’ members of a given category but, in a broader sense, to both produce and recognise the orderly character that scenes and activities observably have. In this sense, MCA is not a formal method of inquiry as such but forms a live ‘resource’ for members in the accomplishment of reasoning, sense-making, and social organisation. For members, such practices are employed in a range of everyday practices both in forms of talk and conversation (e.g. in telling a story about some event), but also in mobility practices (such as forming a queue or ‘flow file’ in public space) or accomplishing visual order (for example, of producing and viewing memes). For analysts, an attentiveness to categorisation practices provides a powerful means of accessing people’s “improvised cultural practices” (Hester and Francis, 2017) which provide the very grounds upon which the sense of the world is built. This introduction to and exploration of this ‘categorial landscape’ will be led by an expert in the field. It will be structured over the course of two-days and will include a plenary talk on the evening of the first day. The workshop will provide a summary of Sacks’ early work by working through some classic examples in order to familiarise participants with the aspects of ‘membership categorisation devices’ that form the cornerstone of MCA. We will also move on to consider further examples which demonstrate the contribution of MCA in addressing the centrality of categorisation practices in a range of activities and settings. Following introductory remarks and orientations, the workshop will be practical in nature and the majority of the second day of the workshop will take the form of data sessions where participants will be encouraged to contribute their own materials. Participants attending the course will leave well prepared to begin or continue their own studies in membership categorisation analysis.

• Further information can be found here: https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=13139.
|Year=2023
|Web link=https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=13139
|Categories (tags)=Uncategorized;
|From date=2023/11/29
|To date=2023/11/30
|Address=CF10 3WT
|Location=51.48583, -3.18171
}}
Registration is on a first come, first served basis so please do reserve your place early.

An introduction to Membership Categorisation Analysis 29-30 Nov 2023

2023-09-05T05:03:02Z

MichaelMair: Created page with "{{Announcement |Announcement Type=Training, Workshop |Full title=An introduction to Membership Categorisation Analysis 29-30 Nov 2023 - Hybrid |Short title=IntroMCANov2023 |Sh..."

{{Announcement
|Announcement Type=Training, Workshop
|Full title=An introduction to Membership Categorisation Analysis 29-30 Nov 2023 - Hybrid
|Short title=IntroMCANov2023
|Short summary=An entry-level Membership Categorisation Analysis (MCA) training workshop organised by @LivUni will be presented by @Dr_Robin_Smith and hosted by @NCRMUK on the 29-30th November 2023. Attendees can join online or in-person.
|Announcement text=Title: An introduction to Membership Categorisation Analysis
Date: 29/11/2023 - 30/11/2023
Organised by: University of Liverpool
Presenter: Dr Robin James Smith
Level: Entry (no or almost no prior knowledge)
Contact: Dr Billie-Gina Thomason, engage@liverpool.ac.uk
Venue: Online or in-person at Cardiff University School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, Glamorgan Building, King Edward VII Cardiff, CF10 3WT
Description: The central concern of Membership Categorisation Analysis (MCA) is the description of the array of categorisation practices observable in members’ “naturally-organised activities”. This workshop is focused on exploring and understanding what Harvey Sacks called the “member’s machinery” and how that foundation was later developed into a concern with the analysis of “culture-in-action”. Sacks’ early analyses considered how relevant categories are ‘used’ not only to categorise individuals as ‘representative’ members of a given category but, in a broader sense, to both produce and recognise the orderly character that scenes and activities observably have. In this sense, MCA is not a formal method of inquiry as such but forms a live ‘resource’ for members in the accomplishment of reasoning, sense-making, and social organisation. For members, such practices are employed in a range of everyday practices both in forms of talk and conversation (e.g. in telling a story about some event), but also in mobility practices (such as forming a queue or ‘flow file’ in public space) or accomplishing visual order (for example, of producing and viewing memes). For analysts, an attentiveness to categorisation practices provides a powerful means of accessing people’s “improvised cultural practices” (Hester and Francis, 2017) which provide the very grounds upon which the sense of the world is built. This introduction to and exploration of this ‘categorial landscape’ will be led by an expert in the field. It will be structured over the course of two-days and will include a plenary talk on the evening of the first day. The workshop will provide a summary of Sacks’ early work by working through some classic examples in order to familiarise participants with the aspects of ‘membership categorisation devices’ that form the cornerstone of MCA. We will also move on to consider further examples which demonstrate the contribution of MCA in addressing the centrality of categorisation practices in a range of activities and settings. Following introductory remarks and orientations, the workshop will be practical in nature and the majority of the second day of the workshop will take the form of data sessions where participants will be encouraged to contribute their own materials. Participants attending the course will leave well prepared to begin or continue their own studies in membership categorisation analysis.
Further information can be found here: https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=13139.
|Year=2023
|Web link=https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=13139
|Categories (tags)=Uncategorized;
|From date=2023/11/29
|To date=2023/11/30
|Address=CF10 3WT
|Location=51.48583, -3.18171
}}
Registration is on a first come, first served basis so please do reserve your place early.

An introduction to Membership Categorisation Analysis 25-26 May 2023

2023-09-05T04:54:57Z

MichaelMair:

{{Announcement
|Announcement Type=Training
|Full title=An introduction to Membership Categorisation Analysis 29-30 November 2023 - Hybrid
|Short title=IntroMCANov2023
|Short summary=An entry-level Membership Categorisation Analysis (MCA) training workshop organised by @LivUni will be presented by @Dr_Robin_Smith and hosted by @NCRMUK on the 29-30th November 2023. Attendees can join online or in-person.
|Announcement text=* Title: An introduction to Membership Categorisation Analysis
* Date: 29/11/2023 - 30/11/2023
* Organised by: University of Liverpool
* Presenter: Dr Robin James Smith
* Level: Entry (no or almost no prior knowledge)
* Contact: Dr Billie-Gina Thomason engage@liverpool.ac.uk
* Venue: Online or in-person at Cardiff University  School of Social Sciences  Cardiff University  Glamorgan Building  King Edward VII  Cardiff  CF10 3WT
* Description: The central concern of Membership Categorisation Analysis (MCA) is the description of the array of categorisation practices observable in members’ “naturally-organised activities”. This workshop is focused on exploring and understanding what Harvey Sacks called the “member’s machinery” and how that foundation was later developed into a concern with the analysis of “culture-in-action”. Sacks’ early analyses considered how relevant categories are ‘used’ not only to categorise individuals as ‘representative’ members of a given category but, in a broader sense, to both produce and recognise the orderly character that scenes and activities observably have. In this sense, MCA is not a formal method of inquiry as such but forms a live ‘resource’ for members in the accomplishment of reasoning, sense-making, and social organisation. For members, such practices are employed in a range of everyday practices both in forms of talk and conversation (e.g. in telling a story about some event), but also in mobility practices (such as forming a queue or ‘flow file’ in public space) or accomplishing visual order (for example, of producing and viewing memes). For analysts, an attentiveness to categorisation practices provides a powerful means of accessing people’s “improvised cultural practices” (Hester and Francis, 2017) which provide the very grounds upon which the sense of the world is built. This introduction to and exploration of this ‘categorial landscape’ will be led by an expert in the field. It will be structured over the course of two-days and will include a plenary talk on the evening of the first day. The workshop will provide a summary of Sacks’ early work by working through some classic examples in order to familiarise participants with the aspects of ‘membership categorisation devices’ that form the cornerstone of MCA. We will also move on to consider further examples which demonstrate the contribution of MCA in addressing the centrality of categorisation practices in a range of activities and settings. Following introductory remarks and orientations, the workshop will be practical in nature and the majority of the second day of the workshop will take the form of data sessions where participants will be encouraged to contribute their own materials. Participants attending the course will leave well prepared to begin or continue their own studies in membership categorisation analysis.
* Further information can be found here: https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=13139.
|Year=2023
|Web link=https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=13139
|Categories (tags)=Uncategorized;
|From date=2023/11/29
|To date=2023/11/30
|Address=Cardiff University  School of Social Sciences  Cardiff University  Glamorgan Building  King Edward VII  Cardiff  CF10 3WT
|Location=51.48596, -3.18143
}}
Registration is on a first come, first served basis so please do reserve your place early.

13th EMCA Doctoral Networking Meeting 2023

2023-03-14T05:36:16Z

MichaelMair:

{{Announcement
|Announcement Type=Other
|Full title=13th EMCA Doctoral Network Meeting 2023
|Short title=EMCA DN
|Short summary=13th EMCA Doctoral Network Meeting 5/6 June in Liverpool. Registration closes 31st March: https://emcadoctoralnetwork.wordpress.com/about/meetings/
|Announcement text=The 13th EMCA Doctoral Network Meeting will take place in the University of Liverpool over the 5th and 6th June 2023 with keynotes from Morana Alač and Phillip Brooker. This is an in-person event for doctoral students who are pursuing research in the allied fields of Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis. In special circumstances, however, we will open spaces to a small number of applicants to participate online, for example, doctoral students on fieldwork/based in universities outside the UK or those with accessibility issues. Registration closes on the 31st March. Further information and the registration forms can be found here: https://emcadoctoralnetwork.wordpress.com/about/meetings/.
|Year=2023
|Web link=https://emcadoctoralnetwork.wordpress.com/about/meetings/
|Categories (tags)=Uncategorized; EMCA
|From date=2023/06/05
|To date=2023/06/06
|Address=Liverpool L69 7ZR
|Location=53.40166, -2.96453
|Submission deadline=2023/03/31
}}

13th EMCA Doctoral Networking Meeting 2023

2023-03-05T09:19:37Z

MichaelMair: Created page with "{{Announcement |Announcement Type=Other |Full title=13th EMCA Doctoral Network Meeting 2023 |Short title=EMCA DN |Short summary=13th EMCA Doctoral Network Meeting on 5/6 June..."

{{Announcement
|Announcement Type=Other
|Full title=13th EMCA Doctoral Network Meeting 2023
|Short title=EMCA DN
|Short summary=13th EMCA Doctoral Network Meeting on 5/6 June in Liverpool: https://emcadoctoralnetwork.wordpress.com/about/meetings/
|Announcement text=The 13th EMCA Doctoral Network Meeting will take place in the University of Liverpool over the 5th and 6th June 2023 with keynotes from Morana Alač and Phillip Brooker. This is an in-person event for doctoral students who are pursuing research in the allied fields of Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis. In special circumstances, however, we will open spaces to a small number of applicants to participate online, for example, doctoral students on fieldwork/based in universities outside the UK or those with accessibility issues. Registration closes on the 31st March. Further information and the registration forms can be found here: https://emcadoctoralnetwork.wordpress.com/about/meetings/.
|Year=2023
|Web link=https://emcadoctoralnetwork.wordpress.com/about/meetings/
|Categories (tags)=Uncategorized; EMCA
|From date=2023/06/05
|To date=2023/06/06
|Address=Liverpool L69 7ZR
|Location=53.40166, -2.96453
}}