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A new toolkit that considers the role of telephone interviewing in qualitative research is available on the NCRM website. The Telephone Methods Toolkit explores the advantages …
Five guides on administrative data research methods are now available on the NCRM website. The publications cover data quality, legal issues, public engagement, confidentiality of statistical …
Two researchers from the University of Liverpool have proposed a novel approach for analysing qualitative diary data. Dr Laura Radcliffe and Dr Leighann Spencer, who led NCRM’s …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …