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Applications are invited for a full-time PhD studentship on 'Virtual learning of advanced research methods' to begin in October 2015. We are currently seeking applications for a …
New paper 'Review of the Typology of Research Methods within the Social Sciences' by Rebekah Luff, Dorothy Byatt and David Martin is now published in NCRM report series. The …
As the principal funding agency for UK social science research, ESRC requires that the research they support is designed and conducted in accordance with recognised best …
This article by Martyn Chamberlain also appears in the MethodsNews Autumn 2014 issue. The International Benchmarking Review of Sociology (Parker et al. 2010) highlighted how in terms of both content …
Earlier this year the IT as a Utility Network offered an opportunity for Dorothy Byatt, Librarian at the University of Southampton, to be embedded in an …
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In 2014 the most downloaded NCRM paper was Introduction to visualising spatial data in R by Robin Lovelace and James Chesire, from the Talisman node of …
Bloomsbury publishing has announced a new Bloomsbury Research Methods for Education series, which will be edited by the NCRM Co-Director Professor Melanie Nind. This new series provides …