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Research Methods for Gender and Politics

S05
Niels Spierings
Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
Daniel Conway
The Open University


Abstract

This section offers a forum for proposing, discussing, and appraising various methodological issues, tools, techniques, and sources in research about gender and politics. The section is intended to engage these questions in a wide sense, encouraging the submission of abstracts that address issues related to all phases of research, including formulating research questions, concept formation, data collection, data analysis, and dissemination. The panels as a whole aim to take stock of current developments, continue existing debates, and open up spaces for possible new issues in the study of feminism, gender, sexuality, and politics. At the same time, we hope to go beyond criticism by presenting solutions, alternatives and tangible guidelines. We particularly encourage paper, panel and roundtable submissions that focus on the following: Methodological innovations in the social sciences and their implications for research in the field of politics and gender – for example, new quantitative and qualitative methods, new tools, mixed methods, and interdisciplinary research; Methodological concerns, problems, practices and solutions in the analysis of key themes of feminist and gender research (intersectionality, private/public, identities, the body, sexuality, research on vulnerable groups, etc.); Specific methodological challenges arising in large-scale comparative research in the field of politics and gender (such as that promoted by EU funding) and how they can be dealt with; Debates over issues such as reflexivity, the ontological positioning of the researcher, research in gendered institutional environments (the military, parliaments, bureaucracies etc.), the necessity and possibility of queer research; Issues related to the research process, data analysis, and dissemination, such as the ‘impact’ of research output, secrecy and silence in the research process, and power relations in the field, etc.
Code Title Details
P003 Challenges and Possibilities of Intersectionality-Informed Mixed Methods Research View Panel Details
P074 Roundtable on Methods for Researching Gendered Institutions: Where Are We Now? Where Next? View Panel Details
P075 Roundtable: Where is Feminist Political Science Going? by RC19 View Panel Details
P081 New Techniques to Study Gender Policies and Polities View Panel Details
P083 Research(er) Subjectivities: Hierarchies, Ethics and Reflexivity in Qualitative and Quantitative Research View Panel Details
P089 The ‘Gender Gap’ in Statistical and Survey Research View Panel Details