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methods@manchester is a Faculty of Humanities initiative promoting The University of Manchester's expertise in research methods and interdisciplinarity.
💡 Meet our workshop lead Dr Simon Rudkin
Simon is a member of the UoM's Cathie Marsh Institute for Social Research (CMI) & @socialstats.bsky.social
🪧 He has pioneered application of Ball Mapper in social sciences, focusing on the info which is held within data & using that info for societal benefit
(1/2) Topological Data Analysis Ball Mapper for the Social Sciences
🗓️ Tuesday 18 Nov ⏰ 10-4pm 📍 AMBS
This workshop introduces the Topological Data Analysis Ball Mapper algorithm as a model free tool for visualising data.
See the full details 🔗
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Topological Data Analysis Ball Mapper for the Social Sciences
See the story
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November 11, 2025 at 11:40 AM
TODAY 📢 PRE-SESSION: Topological Data Analysis Ball Mapper for the Social Sciences
🗓️ Monday 10 Nov ⏰ 4-5pm 🌐 Online
This pre-workshop session introduces Topological Data Analysis Ball Mapper, a model free tool for visualising data.
#DataAnalysis #ResearchMethods #DataVisualisation
November 10, 2025 at 11:30 AM
⏰ Registration for this fantastic event closes tomorrow at 12 noon ⏰
Don't miss out on MethodsLab: Listening to the non-speaking experience this Friday.
It's just 🚨3 DAYS 🚨 until MethodsLab: Listening to the non-speaking experience
With workshops from @talkingmats.bsky.social & Digital Stories & talks from @heasutherland.com, Verity Ward, Jill Bradshaw & Freddie Jones.
🗓️ Friday 7 Nov ⏰ 11-4:30pm 📍 AMBS
Book now 🏃 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1683441712...
November 5, 2025 at 2:19 PM
It's just 🚨3 DAYS 🚨 until MethodsLab: Listening to the non-speaking experience
With workshops from @talkingmats.bsky.social & Digital Stories & talks from @heasutherland.com, Verity Ward, Jill Bradshaw & Freddie Jones.
🗓️ Friday 7 Nov ⏰ 11-4:30pm 📍 AMBS
Book now 🏃 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1683441712...
November 4, 2025 at 11:26 AM
📢 Speaker announcement - Freddie Jones
"Finding Voices Beyond Words: The landscape of Non-speaking research methods"
Freddie is a PGR at UoM researching the experiences of non-speaking neurodivergent young people via creative and material methods. This event would not be happening without Freddie!
MethodsLab: Listening to the non-speaking experience
🗓️ Friday 7 Nov ⏰ 11-4:30pm 📍 AMBS
Bringing together academics, practitioners, parents, autistic young adults ♾️ to create ethical methods for including non-speaking neurodiverse people in research
Sign up now 🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1683441712...
MethodsLab: Listening to the non-speaking experience
A full-day event bringing together academics, parents, educational practitioners and non-speaking neurodiverse young people.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 3, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Our friends at @methodsnorthwest.bsky.social are now on BlueSky! MNW promotes methods research at Manchester, and our sister Institutes at Keele, Lancaster, Lancashire, Liverpool. Follow them for updates across the region.
Methods North West highlights the depth and breadth of the North West’s methodological expertise in the social sciences. We work closely with methods@Lancaster, engage@Liverpool, @methodsmcr.bsky.social, links@Keele and methods@Lancashire.
See our event 👉 www.methodsnorthwest.ac.uk/home/activit...
November 3, 2025 at 11:27 AM
📣 New Video: Visualising Multivariate Data with Topological Data Analysis Ball Mapper

In this seminar Dr Simon Rudkin introduces Topological Data Analysis Ball Mapper, a method to visualise multivariate data without losing information.

Watch now 🔗 youtu.be/Zl24vEufLFw?...
Visualising Multivariate Data with Topological Data Analysis Ball Mapper - Dr Simon Rudkin
YouTube video by methodsMcr
youtu.be
October 30, 2025 at 4:06 PM
📢 Speaker announcement - Dr Holly Sutherland
AuDHD researcher and postdoctoral research associate at the University of Cambridge, Holly has worked with a range of qualitative and quantitative methods to explore the #neurodiverse experience.
We're excited to have Holly at MethodsLab on 7 Nov!
I'm going to be at this fantastic event on doing qualitative research with non-speaking neurodivergent people. I'll be talking about ethnography as an inclusive methodology when working with autistic adults with high support needs. Would love to see you there!

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/methodslab...
MethodsLab: Listening to the non-speaking experience
A full-day event bringing together academics, parents, educational practitioners and non-speaking neurodiverse young people.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 29, 2025 at 9:24 AM
📢 Speaker announcement - Dr Jill Bradshaw
Jill's session is titled "Talking Mats in research and practice"
Consultant Speech & Language Therapist; RCSLT National Clinical Adviser for Learning Disabilities; Jill founded the @talkingmats.bsky.social Research Network
Book your free space now 👇👇
MethodsLab: Listening to the non-speaking experience
🗓️ Friday 7 Nov ⏰ 11-4:30pm 📍 AMBS
Bringing together academics, practitioners, parents, autistic young adults ♾️ to create ethical methods for including non-speaking neurodiverse people in research
Sign up now 🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1683441712...
MethodsLab: Listening to the non-speaking experience
A full-day event bringing together academics, parents, educational practitioners and non-speaking neurodiverse young people.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 28, 2025 at 9:30 AM
📢 Speaker announcement - Dr Verity Ward
Lecturer at Leeds Beckett University and founding member of the Digital Stories research approach, Verity's talk is titled: Creating space for #neurodivergent young people's voices using Digital Stories

We are so excited to have Verity join us on 7 November!
MethodsLab: Listening to the non-speaking experience
🗓️ Friday 7 Nov ⏰ 11-4:30pm 📍 AMBS
Bringing together academics, practitioners, parents, autistic young adults ♾️ to create ethical methods for including non-speaking neurodiverse people in research
Sign up now 🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1683441712...
MethodsLab: Listening to the non-speaking experience
A full-day event bringing together academics, parents, educational practitioners and non-speaking neurodiverse young people.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 24, 2025 at 8:21 AM
(1/2) Topological Data Analysis Ball Mapper for the Social Sciences
🗓️ Tuesday 18 Nov ⏰ 10-4pm 📍 AMBS
This workshop introduces the Topological Data Analysis Ball Mapper algorithm as a model free tool for visualising data.
See the full details 🔗
new.express.adobe.com/webpage/5Gf2...
Topological Data Analysis Ball Mapper for the Social Sciences
See the story
new.express.adobe.com
October 22, 2025 at 12:45 PM
MethodsLab: Listening to the non-speaking experience
🗓️ Friday 7 Nov ⏰ 11-4:30pm 📍 AMBS
Bringing together academics, practitioners, parents, autistic young adults ♾️ to create ethical methods for including non-speaking neurodiverse people in research
Sign up now 🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1683441712...
MethodsLab: Listening to the non-speaking experience
A full-day event bringing together academics, parents, educational practitioners and non-speaking neurodiverse young people.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 17, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Today I'm learning about Topological Data Analysis Ball Mapper!
This is a great way to visualise data with multivariate data without losing vital information. Dr Simon Rudkin is running us through the background, how the algorithm works, and why this method improves data visualisation.
October 9, 2025 at 11:52 AM
You've got ⏰ 30 MINUTES ⏰ to sign up for the first Methods North West Lunchtime Seminar of the year
Visualising Multivariate Data with Topological Data Analysis Ball Mapper
📅 TODAY 🕛 12-1pm 🌐 online
Sign up now 🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/visualisin...
#DataVisualisation #Methods #DataAnalysis
Visualising Multivariate Data with Topological Data Analysis Ball Mapper
A Methods North West Lunchtime Session
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October 9, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Methods Talk Episode 6: Designing research using a strength-based approach with Dr Amir Raki (University of Liverpool), Dr Ilma Nur Chowdhury (University of Manchester) and Prof. Judy Zolkiewski (University of Manchester)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3TW...
Methods Talk - Episode 6: Designing research using a strength-based approach
YouTube video by methodsMcr
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October 7, 2025 at 11:35 AM
📢 It's just TWO DAYS until our first Methods North West lunchtime seminar of the academic year.
Topological Data Analysis Ball Mapper can create an abstract two-dimensional visualisation of multivariate data without loss of info.
📅 Thur 9 Oct 🕛 12-1pm
Sign up 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/visualisin...
Visualising Multivariate Data with Topological Data Analysis Ball Mapper
A Methods North West Lunchtime Session
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 7, 2025 at 8:55 AM
📢 NEXT WEEK: Visualising Multivariate Data with Topological Data Analysis Ball Mapper
📅 Thursday 9 October 🕛 12-1pm 🌐 online
Visualise data without losing multi-dimensional information with Dr Simon Rudkin. Sign up now 👇
#DataVisualisation #Methods #DataAnalysis #OnlineSeminar #MethodsNW
September 30, 2025 at 11:32 AM
📢New methods@manchester blog 📢
Lydia Donohue's new blog on her "Stitching at the End of the World" workshop is out! Lydia talks about rethinking privacy through textile practice, #KillYouriPhone and the role of 'smart textiles' in shaping life. Read it now 👇
www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/s...
Stitching at the End of the World: Rethinking Privacy Through Textile Practice at Manchester Museum
Written by Lydia Donohue with photographs by Tom Longstaff.On the top floor of Manchester Museum, participants gathered for “Stitching at the End of the World,” a workshop that paired hands-on textile...
www.manchester.ac.uk
September 26, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Today I'm learning about Creative AI Methods!
We've just finished a walkthrough of critical prompting/synthetic images. Lots of interesting info on how AI can imagine and synthesis + what information AI takes from us.
Thank you to Sam Hind for running this very popular session.
#ai #researchmethods
September 17, 2025 at 2:12 PM
What a fantastic day! Thank you to everyone at Stitching at the End of the World for a great day of discussions, reflection and of course sewing. Big shout out to Lydia Donohue for running this event and showing us how to #KillYourPhone
September 12, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Today I'm Stitching at the End of the World
We are sewing phone pouches using EMS fabric and discussing cybersecurity, personal privacy, surveillance, and the future of 'smart textiles'. Lydia Donohue is hosting this workshop. Inspired by the art project #KillYourPhone, funded by Methods North West.
September 12, 2025 at 10:43 AM
1/2 Have you signed up to our newsletter in the last 6 months?
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September 5, 2025 at 11:31 AM
1/2 Creative AI Methods
🗓️ Wednesday 17 September ⏰ 1-5pm 📍NLG.1 Samuel Alexander Building, Manchester
It's just 2 weeks until our Creative AI Methods staff training session!
See the full details and sign up (UoM staff members only) 👉 new.express.adobe.com/webpage/G7yn...
Creative AI Sept 2025
A story told with Adobe Express
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September 3, 2025 at 1:41 PM
🗓️ Friday 12 September ⏰ 10-4pm 📍 Manchester Museum
A one-day workshop to carry out a collaborative stitching programme. Inspired by the art project #KillYourPhone, participants will sew phone pouches using EMS fabric that shields devices from electromagnetic signals. 1/2
Stitching at the End of the World
A one-day workshop to carry out a collaborative stitching programme.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
August 21, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Visualising Multivariate Data with Topological Data Analysis Ball Mapper
📅 Thur 9 October 🕛 12-1pm 🌐 online
Visualise data without losing multi-dimensional information. Dr Simon Rudkin will explore the method, and explain why we need to focus on #DataVisualisation
#DataAnalysis #OnlineSeminar
August 20, 2025 at 9:11 AM