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New cognitive content added to CLOSER’s cross-study data guide

A new interactive overview of the within- and between-study coverage of cognitive constructs across five British birth cohorts has been added to CLOSER’s cognitive measures …

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Call opens for presentations at Social Research Association’s annual conference

The Social Research Association is inviting workshop proposals for its annual conference, which will be held online on 22 November. Organisers are looking for presentations that share …

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Praise for NCRM course on how to write a PhD methodology chapter

Rosie Harrison, a PhD student at Lancaster University, has written a blog post about how an NCRM online course helped her to write her PhD methodology …

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Contribute to the 2021 Research Methods e-Festival

NCRM and methods@manchester are inviting researchers, trainers and other speakers to submit session proposals for the 2021 Research Methods e-Festival. The five-day event will take place …

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A practical guide to developing research objects when undertaking reproducible statistically orientated social science research during COVID-19

The unprecedented nature of the COVID-19 global pandemic has had extremely disruptive effects on contemporary social life. The empirical findings that flow from social science inquiries …

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Vacancy: Research Officer in Latent Network Modelling

The Department of Methodology at the London School of Economics and Political Science is looking to recruit a Research Officer (PhD desired but not required) …

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10th GESIS Summer School in Survey Methodology 2021 – Registration is open

The  GESIS Summer School 2021 will take place from 28 July - 20 August. In its 10th anniversary year, it will again (as in the first …

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MethodSpace: Posts, Resources and Webinars on the Research Journey

From the initial questions through dissemination of findings, each month in 2021 SAGE MethodSpace is focusing on one research stage. For each stage, experienced researchers …