HoRNet

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HoRNet
Household Research Network
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HoRNet an introduction

• Aim to develop household research at NU by
  facilitating collaboration, developing ideas and
  skills
• Inclusive
• household researchers (broadly defined)
• multi-disciplinary
• staff and PGR students
• How
• energising, engaging, fun
• seminars, workshops, other events .

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HoRNet the name
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Programme for today

• Why a network on household
• Household research collaborations
• QA
• Speed networking
• Planning for HoRNets future
• Drinks and canapes
• End 530pm

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Newcastle has a long tradition of household
families research

• CGWS, NCFS, CRE, IHS
• HSRG, SSP, CSC, Culture Lab
• not an exhaustive list!
• Hot topics synergies
• housing, child social care,
• transport, education
• (decision-making),
• health (obesity ageing),
• Inequalities, interdependencies

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• working class studies how and where the
  processes of neoliberalisation and globalisation
  are lived, negotiated and transgressed by working
  class people
• learning from the rest livelihoods and diverse
  economies international contrasts and
  commonalities
• PhD research intersections in households and
  communities

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Secondary data challenges

• Increasing in availability and detail
• More sophisticated (e.g. cohort studies)
• Richer data (qualitative quantitative)

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Methodological challenges

• Individuals in Households Families
• Life-course perspectives (Longitudinal)
• Mixed methods (e.g. Geo-ethnography)

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Household collaborations
In Miniature
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Micro (conversation) analysis and family law

• Outcomes research on court interventions to
  support cross-household relationships
  post-divorce (socio-legal)
• Micro analysis of negotiation processes
  (linguistics)
• CA study of how, concretely, outcomes are achieved

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Households and Polish migrants

• Households and the migration decision/context
  the transnationalisation of the PL
  household/family
• The diverse PL household in the UK family
  (re)unification, shared households and new PL-UK
  families
• PL migrants and the UK household personal
  services and the Polish plumber and the
  challenges of integration

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Understanding school choice as a function of
household resource inequality

• Combines biography with spatial analysis
• Constraints to choice housing markets,
  household structure, transport, time-space, local
  cultures of parenting

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HoRNet
Household Research Network
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Speed Networking

• 5 minutes per pairing (not per person!)
• Odd numbers on the outside
• Odd numbers move one step clockwise, even numbers
  stay put
• Try to find a H/H research connection
  theoretical, methodological, empirical

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HoRNet planned and possible events

• Census workshop
• Conceptualising households
• Marianna Pavlovskaya seminar
• Interdisciplinary perspectives on families

• Funding for H/H research workshop
• Polish H/H
• Conversation analysis
• Major lecture
• Participatory research ..

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