Are you going to Critical Realist conference next week in Turin? Sadly I won't be able to make it but I found going to the CR conferences really valuable especially in the end process of writing and reviewing my PhD draft. 😊
Sorry for the late reply - you've missed the 2017 conference but there is always the 2018 Critical Realism conference in Norway. It is a gathering of researchers who use the philosophical framework of Critical Realism as advocated by several academics. The late Roy Bhaskar being a prominent exponent of critical realism. Just google him.