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Methods News aims to cover methodological developments in the social sciences and beyond, across all disciplines and sectors. Our articles include news stories from NCRM and its partners, plus updates and features from external organisations and individuals.
The Townsend archive provides open access to a range of original documents underlying the 1967/69 Poverty in the UK survey led by Peter Townsend. This survey …
The pedagogy of methodological learning project (NCRM) is celebrating the first anniversary of our Methods Diary Circle. Ten methods learners from qualitative, quantitative and digital domains …
The NCRM training bursaries (for up to £500) enable staff in the UK social science community engaged in research, teaching research methods or supervising research …
The 2016 Autumn School took place at the University of Manchester between 31 August and 2 September 2016. This Autumn School was designed to cover the …
Concern has been growing in the past decade about published scientific claims that other laboratories can’t successfully replicate. Some of these studies are pretty silly – …
To find out more about our training courses and events and to register please visit www.ncrm.ac.uk/training. New courses are continuously organised and added to the database. …
Inspired by Guillemin and Gillam’s1 now classic article on reflexivity that introduced the seminal distinction between procedural ethics and ethics in practice, Tolich’s2 edited volume Qualitative …
Knowing ‘what works’ in educational contexts, as in any of the social sciences, has always been problematic both in theory and in practice. The central idea …