The 7th ESRC Research Methods Festival (RMF) is a great opportunity for everyone interested in understanding the numerous, tangled and ever-changing ways of looking at the world from social science perspectives. Every two years the National Centre for Research Methods… Read More ›
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international journal of social research methodology: ask the editors @ijsrm! december 1st at 11am
In my capacity as social media associate editor of the International Journal of Social Research Methodology, I’m arranging an ask the editors session on Twitter. It will take place on Tuesday 1st December, 11.00—12.00. We’ll definitely have Ros Edwards and Christina Hughes…. Read More ›
The International Journal of Social Research Methodology Seminar Competition
The Board of the International Journal of Social Research Methodology (IJSRM) is pleased to announce the launch of our new Seminar Competition. Our aim is to support the development of critical and innovative approaches to on-going and emerging methodological debates across a… Read More ›
Videocasts from the 2014 Research Methods Festival
More great resources from the National Centre for Research Methods: a whole series of videocasts from the 2014 Research Methods Festival. Challenges of coverage, Sampling and participation in mixed mode surveys by Professor Peter Lynn Democratisation in theory and (one… Read More ›
CfP: Beyond the Master’s Tools: Post- and Decolonial Approaches to Research Methodology and Methods in the Social Sciences
Call for Papers Beyond the Master’s Tools: Post- and Decolonial Approaches to Research Methodology and Methods in the Social Sciences University of Kassel, 14-15 January 2016 The contention that “the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house” (Lorde) translates… Read More ›
methods@manchester Summer School
Interesting in gathering and analysing twitter data? The Manchester Methods summer school is fast approaching and runs from 6th-10th July 2015 at The University of Manchester. Booking is essential to secure a place on the summer school courses. The school… Read More ›
Young Voices: The Active Engagement of Young People, Methods Workshop
Young Voices: The Active Engagement of Young People, Methods Workshop The Manchester Centre for Youth Studies invites you to a FREE methods-based workshop, 10am-3.30pm Thursday 25th June. This event is open to academics, practitioners, and local youth organisations. You’re also… Read More ›
Podcasts from the @IJSRM
The International Journal for Social Research Methodology has a new podcast page: http://www.tandfonline.com/page/tsrm-media
The Research Companion
by Petra Boynton 10 years ago I published a book called ‘The Research Companion’. It was based on talks and teaching I’d been doing with social scientists and healthcare staff that were supposed to be about the ‘how to’s’ of… Read More ›
The Social Life of Methods
The Social Life of Methods is an interesting programme of research undertaken by Evelyn Ruppert, Mike Savage and John Law. This is orientated towards what the authors term the ‘methodological complex’: a dominant way of understanding method, tangled up in a particular… Read More ›
Book Review: Experiments in Knowing – Gender and Method in the Social Sciences by Ann Oakley
by Gwen Redmond An interest in the methodological debate between qualitative and quantitative research methods, as well as an inclination to read methodological approaches with a feminist perspective, drew me to reading Ann Oakley’s Experiments in Knowing. Published in 2000,… Read More ›
Guides to innovative and creative research methods
Toolkit 18: Using diaries in research with people with dementia Ruth Bartlett (University of Southampton) December 2011 Toolkit 17: using participatory visual methods Naomi Richards (University of Sheffield) November 2011 Toolkit 16: Using self interviews Nicola Allett, Emily Keightley and… Read More ›
Lots of podcasts on methods and methodology
The National Centre for Research Methods has a fantastic selection of podcasts on their website. Here are some of the ones we thought looked most interesting: Using Social Media in Research The potential of crowdsourcing for research and funding in academia… Read More ›
Five Recommendations for Social Scientists in responding to big data
This is our 2000th post! I recently came across this post by Helen Margetts on the LSE Impact Blog from a few months ago. It’s worth reading the post in full but what really caught my imagination were the five recommendations she… Read More ›
Some reflections on #BritSoc14 by @ptubaro
I was back last week from the annual conference of British Sociological Association (BSA) in Leeds, and as usual, I try to put down my impressions as long as they’re still fresh in my mind. I wasn’t very quick, though, and the… Read More ›
Upcoming event: Symposium on Web Surveys of the General Population (5 June 2014)
The National Centre for Research Methods (www.ncrm.ac.uk) is organising an interesting symposium on Web Surveys of the General Population, an increasingly relevant question in the time of big data. “As ever greater numbers of face-to-face services move to the web… Read More ›
Review of ‘What is Qualitative Interviewing?’ by Rosalind Edwards and Janet Holland by Sadia Habib
Social science students interested in qualitative research methods, and in particular the philosophy of qualitative interviews should have a read of an accessible and new text which can be a helpful stepping stone for those embarking on social research journeys…. Read More ›
Rethinking the craft of social research
“It is still the case that most social scientists view the research encounter as an interface between an observer and the observed, producing either quantitative or qualitative data. Equally, the dissemination of research findings are confined to conventional paper forms… Read More ›
No one wants to know how… science is made
Two days ago, a postdoctoral researcher in neuroscience who tweets as dr leigh, started a new hashtag: #overlyhonestscience. The result? A mountain of somewhat tongue-in-cheek confessions by researchers whose methodology didn’t work out quite as planned. Read a selection here… and… Read More ›
Warning: statistical inaccuracies in Microsoft Excel 2007
Thanks to mathematician-friends and social networking sites, today I encountered this 2008 article by McCullough and Heiser on the statistical inaccuracies of Microsoft’s package Excel. What is so striking about the article is not merely the angry tone in which… Read More ›
Tips for writing good survey questions
In quantitative empirical research, what makes a survey good? Well, not perfect, but optimally good – that is, its questions ask exactly what we want them to ask, and the response rate is as high as possible? There are no… Read More ›
Of Methods and Methodologies in Literary Studies and Humanities
One of the most important decisions in a research life is the choice of methodology. While this may be a straightforward choice in most other disciplines, to declare a fixed ‘methodology’ in the field of humanities is an exercise in… Read More ›
Evolutionary psychology: are we still haunted by the spectre of eugenics?
You can invariably trust the Idle Ethnographer to come up with a refreshing pre-Christmas read. So, it is the beginning of the XXI century? So, we’ve had the Holocaust in Europe, the Apartheid in South Africa, and racial segregation in… Read More ›