{"id":37,"date":"2015-10-30T10:49:23","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T10:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/educationandsociety\/?p=37"},"modified":"2016-01-19T13:12:26","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T13:12:26","slug":"from-data-to-analysis-to-argument-how-to-make-theory-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/educationandsociety\/2015\/10\/30\/from-data-to-analysis-to-argument-how-to-make-theory-work\/","title":{"rendered":"From data, to analysis, to argument: how to make theory work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Meeting on 29 October 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In our meeting in October we discussed about how to link theoretical resources to the analysis of field data. This idea emerged from collective discussions with some Phd students working in education policy topics in the School, who are currently faced with mountains of data and a range of theoretical tools to choose from.<\/p>\n<p>We had a lively debate among experienced scholars and Phd students reporting on how they&#8217;re facing these issues in their own work &#8211; lot&#8217;s of interesting suggestions!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meeting on 29 October 2015 In our meeting in October we discussed about how to link theoretical resources to the analysis of field data. This idea emerged from collective discussions with some Phd students working in education policy topics in the School, who are currently faced with mountains of data and a range of theoretical&nbsp; &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/educationandsociety\/2015\/10\/30\/from-data-to-analysis-to-argument-how-to-make-theory-work\/\">&#8230;Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/educationandsociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/educationandsociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/educationandsociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/educationandsociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/educationandsociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/educationandsociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/educationandsociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/40"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/educationandsociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/educationandsociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/educationandsociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}