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Migration and Transformations: PhD Research Methods Summer

School, 3- 7 September 2018, Warsaw

The Migration and Transformations: PhD Research Methods Summer School will take

place from the 3rd – 7th September 2018 in Warsaw and will bring together young scholars and

more established academics working on migration research through a week of lectures and

masterclasses. The Summer School is organised by the Migration Research Group at the

University of Sheffield, the Centre of Migration Research and the Centre for Research on

Prejudice at the University of Warsaw, and the Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews.

The Summer School is part of the ‘Modern Poland’ project, which is a collaboration between leading scholars from the Migration Research Group at the University of Sheffield and the Centre of Migration Research at the University of Warsaw. This project is funded by the Noble Foundation’s Programme on Modern Poland. It runs from October 2017 to September 2019.

The Summer School is also supported by Interdisciplinary Doctoral School of SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities.

Information for Students:

Research Summary: In the introductory Summer School session on Monday 3rd September, all students will give a 3 minute presentation summarising their research. You need to email a written copy of your research summary to Laura Foley laura.foley@sheffield.ac.uk by 24th August 2018.

Readings: In advance of the Summer School all students are required to do the readings for each session. The readings can be found beneath each course description on pages 3-6.

Maps: Please see pages 7-8 for a map of the Summer School locations. Accommodation: UK Participants will be staying at Hotel Premiere Classe, Towarowa 2,

00-811 Warszawa, Poland.

Emergency Contact Information:

Laura Foley +44 784 291 7577 laura.foley@sheffield.ac.uk Anita Brzozowska +48 692 833 736 brzozowskaa@is.uw.edu.pl

For queries about this programme, please contact Laura Foley: laura.foley@sheffield.ac.uk

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Summer School Programme:

Day 1: Monday 3rd September

(Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Anielewicza 6, 00-157 Warszawa, Poland - enter via the

administrative entrance on Anielewicza Street)

9.30 – 12pm Morning Session:

Introduction and orientation.

Students have been asked to prepare a short (3 minutes) introduction to their thesis.

12pm: Lunch at Besamin Restaurant located in Polin Museum http://restauracjabesamim.pl/en/

2 – 4pm: Guided tour of Polin Museum and discussion by Museum staff.

Evening: Free

Day 2: Tuesday 4th September

(Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Anielewicza 6, 00-157 Warszawa, Poland)

10 – 11.30am: Lecture by Dr. Mariusz Jastrząb and Ms. Justyna Koszarska-Szulc

On the topic of March 1968 and the museum exhibition followed by discussion

12pm: Lunch at Besamin Restaurant located in Polin Museum http://restauracjabesamim.pl/en/

2 - 4pm: Master Class – ‘Qualitative Data Analysis and Coding’

4 - 5pm: Break

5 - 7pm: Walking Tour to commemorate March 1968 – coordinated by Museum colleagues.

7pm: Dinner in Przystawki Restaurant, Stawki 3, 00-199 Warszawa, Poland

Day 3: Wednesday 5th September

(SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Chodakowska 19/31, 03-815 Warszawa, Poland)

10am – 12pm: Master Class – ‘Survey Design’

12 – 1pm: Lunch

1 – 3pm: Master Class – ‘Infographics and Data Visualisation’

3.00 – 3.30pm: Break

3.30 – 5pm: Master Class – ‘Modelling and Forecasting of Demographic/ Migratory Phenomena’

5pm: Short talk (with old photos) about old Warsaw, followed by brief tour of the pre-war factory building of

the university.

6pm Dinner at nearby restaurant

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8 pm: Visit to the Neon Museum at Soho Factory (5 minute walk from the university)

Day 4: Thursday 6th September

(CMR, Pastuera Street 7, Wólka Kosowska, Laszczki)

9am – 3pm Ethnographic field trip to Wólka with Dr Michał P. Garapich and Ms. Ewa Grabowska

12pm: Lunch in Wólka (please bring your own money in cash)

3.30 – 5.30pm Master Class – ‘Multi-sited Ethnography’

Evening: Free

Day 5: Friday 7th September

(CMR, Pastuera Street 7, Wólka Kosowska, Laszczki)

9.30 – 12pm Morning Session:

Wrap up session

12pm: Lunch

Afternoon: Summer School Ends. Students can travel home

Description of Master Classes:

Qualitative Data Coding and Analysis – Professor Louise Ryan, University of Sheffield and Anita Brzozowska, Center of Migration Research, University of Warsaw

While there is increasing emphasis on the use of computer technology in data analysis, it remains important for students to know how to code data manually and to understand the analytical process ‘from the bottom-up’. In this session, we will work from the pre-circulated interview transcript. Following a short lecture on the ‘Art of Coding’, students will then be asked to work in small groups to code the transcript according to a range of different approaches including a priori and emerging themes, as well as a whole narrative approach. We will then come back together to discuss and share observations and draw up a coding frame, which could be used to design NVIVO nodes (child nodes etc.) or ATLAS.ti codes and sub-codes. The main aims of this masterclass are: (1) To provide PhD students with hands-on experience of coding interview transcripts; (2) To equip them in practical skills of developing a coding frame; (3) To generate group discussion about the challenges and opportunities of moving from paper to computer-assisted data coding. Reading List: In preparation we ask you to read one or two articles from the list below:

Some selected references for analysing qualitative data – including several specific references on migration

research

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Berger, Roni. "Now I see it, now I don’t: Researcher’s position and reflexivity in qualitative research." Qualitative

research15.2 (2015): 219-234.

Bertaux, Daniel, and Paul Thompson. Pathways to social class: A qualitative approach to social mobility. Routledge,

2017.

Botterill, Katherine (2015). "We Don't See Things as They Are, We See Things as We Are": Questioning the

"Outsider" in Polish Migration Research [33 paragraphs]. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative

Social Research, 16(2), Art. 4,

De Fina, A. 2011. ‘Researcher and informant roles in narrative interactions’, Language in Society 40: 27-38,

doi:10.1017/S0047404510000862

Dowling, Robyn, Kate Lloyd, and Sandie Suchet-Pearson. "Qualitative methods 1: Enriching the

interview." Progress in human geography 40.5 (2016): 679-686.

Erel, Umut (2007). Constructing Meaningful Lives: Biographical Methods in Research on Migrant Women,

Sociological Research Online, 12(4).

Gray, B. 2013. ‘Generation emigration: the politics of transnational social reproduction in 21st century Ireland’,

Irish Studies Review 21(1): 20–36, doi: 10.1080/09670882.2012.759707.

Iosifides, Theodoros. Qualitative methods in migration studies: A critical realist perspective. Routledge, 2016.

Leung, Maggi W.H. (2015). "Talk to Her, She is also Chinese": A Reflection on the Spatial-Temporal Reach of Co-

Ethnicity in Migration Research [31 paragraphs]. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social

Research, 16(2), Art. 13,

Lisiak, Agata A. (2015). Fieldwork and Fashion: Gendered and Classed Performances in Research Sites [33

paragraphs]. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 16(2), Art. 14,

Mason, J. 2004. ‘Personal Narratives, relational selves: residential histories in the living and telling’, The

Sociological Review 52(2):162-179, 10.1111/j.1467-954X.2004.00463.x

Male, Trevor. "Analysing qualitative data." Doing research in education: Theory and practice (2016): 177-191.

McKie, Linda, and Louise Ryan, eds. An end to the crisis of empirical sociology?: trends and challenges in social

research. Routledge, 2015.

Moriarty, Elaine (2005). Telling Identity Stories: The Routinisation of Racialisation of Irishness. Sociological

Research Online, 10(3): 1-17.

Moroşanu, Laura (2015). Researching Coethnic Migrants: Privileges and Puzzles of "Insiderness" [46

paragraphs]. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 16(2), Art. 18,

Nowicka, Magdalena, and Louise Ryan. "Beyond Insiders and Outsiders in Migration Research: Rejecting A Priori

Commonalities. Introduction to the FQS Thematic Section on" Researcher, Migrant, Woman: Methodological

Implications of Multiple Positionalities in Migration Studies"." Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung/Forum: Qualitative Social Research. Vol. 16. No. 2. 2015.

Pietkiewicz, Igor, and Jonathan A. Smith. "A practical guide to using interpretative phenomenological analysis in

qualitative research psychology." Psychological Journal 20.1 (2014): 7-14.

Plummer, K. 1995. Telling Sexual Stories: Power, Change, and Social Worlds. London: Routledge.

Rainbird, S. 2012. ‘Distrust and collaboration: exploring identity negotiation among asylum seekers in East Anglia,

Britain’, Journal of Intercultural Studies 33(2): 139-156, 10.1080/07256868.2012.648324

Richards, Lyn. Handling qualitative data: A practical guide. Sage, 2014.

Ryan, Louise. "Navigating the emotional terrain of families “here” and “there”: women, migration and the management of emotions." Journal of Intercultural Studies 29.3 (2008): 299-313.

Ryan, Louise, Eleonore Kofman, and Pauline Aaron. "Insiders and outsiders: working with peer researchers in

researching Muslim communities." International Journal of Social Research Methodology 14.1 (2011): 49-60.

Ryan, Louise, Jon Mulholland, and Agnes Agoston. "Talking ties: Reflecting on network visualisation and

qualitative interviewing." Sociological Research Online 19.2 (2014): 1-12.

Ryan, Louise. "‘It's Different Now’: A Narrative Analysis of Recent Irish Migrants Making Sense of Migration and

Comparing Themselves with Previous Waves of Migrants." Irish Journal of Sociology 23.2 (2015): 114-132.

Ryan, Louise. "" Inside" and" Outside" of What or Where? Researching Migration Through Multi-Positionalities." Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung/Forum: Qualitative Social Research. Vol. 16. No. 2. 2015.

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Survey Design: Questionnaires as a Measurement Tool – Professor Michał Bilewicz, University of

Warsaw and Dr Aneta Piekut, University of Sheffield.

Surveys on prejudice are commonly used by government and scientists to understand inter-ethnic relations in

societies. But do they catch-up with how people express their attitudes? For example, it might be challenging to ask

about prejudices in societies where forms of expression of prejudice might be changing or evolve into more indirect

forms (due to growing awareness). As a consequence, a survey designer might fail in adequately measuring prejudice.

This session will give a hands-on practice on how to design survey questions, so they capture what is intended to be

measured. This session will discuss dos and don’ts of a questionnaire design, including questionnaire structure,

pollster effects, various measurement scales and their reliability, techniques of lowering social desirability bias.

Reading List:

Alexander, E. C. (2017). Don’t Know or Won’t Say? Exploring How Colorblind Norms Shape Item Nonresponse in Social Surveys. Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, doi: 2332649217705145.

Winiewski, M., & Bilewicz, M. (2013). Are surveys and opinion polls always a valid tool to assess antisemitism? Methodological considerations. In. A. Kovacs & M. Miller (eds.) Jewish studies at the Central European University.

Budapest: Central European University.

Additionally, if you would like to improve your data interpretation skills in advance of the Summer School, you

can enrol in Sheffield Methods Institute open online course on "Making sense of data", vol. 3 (the latest edition):

https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/media-data/3 Week 2 of the course is on survey sample design

specifically.

Infographics and Data Visualisation – Dr Paula Pustułka, SWPS University of Social Sciences and

Humanities and Professor Izabela Grabowska, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities and

Center of Migration Research

This predominantly hands-on class is broadly dedicated to the so-called “visual turn” (Harper 1988, 2012, Pauwels,

2000) in social sciences, as well as a practical aspect of using visualizations to improve research outputs. We will look

at how the visual components can be incorporated to the different stages of the research process – from integrated visual methodologies, to the more practical and focused topics of using illustrations as analytical tools and for data

representations. The main focus of the master class is clearly on skills and capabilities of working with data and

transforming research messages into visualizations. Therefore students will learn about up-to-date guidelines on data visualizations (Kirk 2016) and will create their own visuals with different software and online tools (e.g. MS Office Excel and PowerPoint, Tableau, PowerBi, Canva).

The masterclass has three general aims:

(1) To equip PhD candidates with basic theoretical knowledge pertaining to visual social research and its corresponding methods (a broad view on visual research);

(2) To develop a broad understanding of working with data visualizations in the research (with special focus on migration) context (selection of visuals, different types of charts, issues around interactivity, annotation and general design flow);

(3) To provide participants with practical skills regarding designing data visualizations and infographics that can be used in their research practice (especially migration studies), as well as for the purpose of dissemination and sharing findings with broader academic and general audiences.

Reading List:

This is a creative class and there will be no readings to do in advance.

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Modelling and Forecasting of Demographic/ Migratory Phenomena – Professor Paweł Kaczmarczyk and Dr Marta Anacka, Center of Migration Research, University of Warsaw

The last financial crisis in 2008 undermined general trust in any kind of forecasts. The common truth that the future is uncertain became evident again. Does it imply that predicting future social and economic phenomena became worthless? What is specific about population projection that make them difficult to produce and at the same time easy to misunderstand? Is there any way to cope with uncertainty of demographic processes? How can we apply demographic theory and methodology to make reliable population projection? Against this background the objectives of this class are: (1) To gain understanding of challenges of demographic and migration forecasting; (2) To get knowledge on basic forecasting methods and their potential, their advantages, and drawbacks; (3) To get the ability to assess quality of different demographic forecasts and projections (including underlying

methodologies and outcomes); (4) To understand the source of uncertainty in population projections and forecasts; (5) To understand challenges in communicating demographic/migratory forecasting results.

Reading List:

Abel G.J., N. Sandel (2014). Quantifying Global International Migration Flows. Science, 343(6178), 1520-1522 (28

Mar 2014).

Buettner T., R. Muenz (2016). Comparative Analysis of International Migration in Population Projections. KNOMAD Working Paper 10.

Keyfitz, N. (1981). The Limits of Population Forecasting. Population and Development Review, 7(4), 579-593. doi:10.2307/1972799

Lutz W., W. Sanderson, S. Scherbov (1997). Doubling of world population unlikely. Nature, 387, 803-805 (19 June 1997).

‘Multi-sited Ethnography’ – Dr Michał P. Garapich, Center of Migration Research, University of Warsaw and Professor Izabela Grabowska SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities and Center of Migration Research

In order to accomplish the multi-optic one can go for multisited research with multisited ethnographic components (Marcus 1995). Our suggestion of “multisitedness” is combined with the transnational approach (cf. Mazzucato 2008). Amelina (2010: 8) claims that the multisited technique of data collection widens the social science methodology “by considering complex transnational linkages.” We also follow Mazzucato (2008) who says that different lines of actions of individuals, families, communities, diasporas and organisations can be especially highlighted by the study of social practices in different locations. In Amelina’s approach the main aims of transnational multisited research are to analyse social trajectories of transnational flows of people, ideas and objects as a consequence of actors’ dealings with “meetings other cultures” (she called it “cultural interferences”).

The main aims of this masterclass are:

(1) To equip PhD students with the methodological knowledge on translational multi-sited ethnography; (2) To illustrate the research practice with the concrete examples of selected studies, e.g. social remittances between

UK and Poland; (3) To present pros and cons of multi-sided ethnography in social sciences.

Reading List:

Handbook Multi-sited Ethnography: Theory, Praxis and Locality in Contemporary Research. Please read

both the Introduction by Mark-Anthony Falzon and Chapter 12 by Valentina Mazzucato: ‘Bridging Boundaries

with a Transnational Research Approach: A Simultaneous Matched Sample Methodology’.

Izabela Grabowska & Michal P. Garapich (2016): Social remittances and intra-EU mobility: non-financial transfers between U.K. and Poland, in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. Available at: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369183X.2016.1170592

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Wednesday Evening: Walk in Praga district of Warsaw – led by Professor Izabela

Grabowska Through the centuries, Warsaw's right-bank – the area called Praga – was an independent town, and it became formally attached to Warsaw only in the late 18th century. For years it was a secondary part of the city that survived the devastation of war, with three different religions (Catholicism, Orthodoxy and Judaism) peacefully co-existing. Today it is a fascinating district, overflowing with artistic studios, galleries, alternative theatres and underground clubs. Thanks to this infusion of cool culture, many of the surviving post-industrial buildings have been turned into cultural centres, cinemas, galleries and pubs. But it is also in Praga that we can find many streets which were undamaged during World War II, and so there are some beautiful pre-war lamp-posts, sidewalks and apartment blocks (http://warsawtour.pl/en/warsaw-for-everyone/praga-district-2993.html).

This evening we are going to visit: (1) local Museum of Praga District; (2) Soho factory with Neon (Communist Neon) Museum and old part the porcelain factory and (3) end up either at Soho factory restaurant or Praska Beach pending on the weather conditions.

Map of Summer School Locations:

To view the locations of the map using Google Maps, click here.

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