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Complexity and Method in the Social Sciences – Qualitative Complexity?

I just registered for this superb looking seminar at Warwick on November 9th. There’s a very limited number of places still available. These are the speakers:

DR JOHN SMITH

(Department of Education and Community Studies, University of Greenwich)

Title: Why Qualitative Complexity?

DR NOORTJE MARRES

(Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London; Director, Centre for the Study of Invention and Social Process)

Title:  Are we researching society or technology? Qualifying the ambiguous objects of digital social research

DR NICK EMMEL 

(Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds)

Title: I’m not Dancing; I’m Zigzagging

DR PIP BEVAN

(Sociology, Independent Researcher)

Title: Change and continuity in rural Ethiopia 1994 (and before) to 2013 (and beyond): a longitudinal study of twenty communities using complexity methods