Research in ILAS embraces an interdisciplinary commitment to address critical gaps in scientific evidence across the six focus areas. Tackling scholarly questions, and key challenges in policy and practice, we actively contribute to international knowledge on marginalised groups and life-course related topics.
ILAS embodies a diverse set of methodological expertise, harnessing qualitative, quantitative, mixed method and applied skill sets from across its constituent partners. Examples of specific methods include life-course narrative techniques, econometric and multi-level modelling of longitudinal data, discourse and document analysis, mixed-method evaluation studies, and behavioural and observational analysis.
In addition, many of our projects prioritise the voices of marginalised people and communities, identifying new ways of including these individuals as co-producers of knowledge. This includes adapted participatory methods, Public and Patient Involvement (PPI) approaches, research training and reference panels. An essential part of such projects is also to explore the ethical and methodological issues concerning such approaches.
Together, and reflecting the development of collaborative activities across the Institute, these methodologies allow us to address research questions with a unique comprehensiveness. They also provide the Institute with the means to generate crucial and applicable insights.
