How that applies to user research - well a great advanced research day would give me new perspectives on people, behaviour, situations, relationships. Our ability to research the world around us is bounded by our understanding of it, so I’d love a day that expands my understanding of the world and even better - gives me the tools to argue why my clients and colleagues should care about this understanding. This seems like it’s an expansion of your understanding people as people section.

As for methods - I think you’re right, a one day advanced course isn’t the place to cover methods because to cover advanced topics in any method probably requires a good few hours that would exclude and bore the non-practitioners in the audience.

One other thing you mentioned in the course is secondary research - ie reading other research related to the project. I’d love some pointers on how to do this effectively, from researching, analysing, synthesising, and then applying to the problem at hand.