Migration, Belonging and Family History
Migration, Belonging and Family History
Thursday, 10 July 2025: 13:00-14:45
Location: SJES024 (Faculty of Legal, Economic, and Social Sciences (JES))
RC38 Biography and Society (host committee) RC05 Racism, Nationalism, Indigeneity and Ethnicity
Language: English
Applied or intervention-oriented social research begins with baseline studies to initially identify, define, and characterize daily challenges encountered by institutions, groups, communities, or individuals. Subsequently, it aims to devise suitable data-driven interventions. In the last decades, applied social research that adopts qualitative biographical methods has been incorporated into large multidisciplinary research projects with the most diverse interests, both by private companies and public funds. In "policy research,", for example, there is increasing interest in studies that involve understanding public policy as a social phenomenon and a tool for state intervention, with different levels of civil society involvement in its planning and implementation. Nonetheless, biographical methods in policymaking have gained prominence in recent decades, revealing the varied needs, strategies, and knowledge resources in individuals' daily lives, particularly in their interactions with institutions. Other disciplines have also adopted applied social research methodologies, including studies on civil society mobilization and research conducted for public and private organizations that center on human resources and organizational management. In the field of industrial and labour sociology, applied social research has influenced managerial practices and safety protocols. Research-action, along with various qualitative methodologies typically associated with it, plays a central role in these endeavours. Under this light, this session is open to papers that focus on the use of biographical methods in applied research and baseline research with practical orientation within the following areas: research design (e.g. definition of research problem, methods, triangulation, action plan); ethical challenges; research praxis; implementation of interventions; impact assessment; data dissemination strategies.
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