Pedagogy network publications

Members of the NCRM Pedagogy Network produce evidence-led pedagogic resources, training and publications. A selection of outputs are available to browse below. This page will be updated as further publications become available.

Handbook of Teaching and Learning Social Research Methods

The work of pedagogy network members is available to read in one place, in the Handbook of Teaching and Learning Social Research Methods (edited by Professor Nind, published by Edward Elgar).

Intended to be of practical use to anyone engaged in research methods education, the handbook considers the challenge of teaching and learning social research methods and includes a mix of close-to-practice and wider research on the topic in three parts:

1. Teaching and learning research methods in the classroom
2. Teaching and learning research methods online
3. Teaching and learning research methods in the field and other contexts

Read more about the Handbook of Teaching and Learning Social Research Methods

Systematic review of pedagogic research

As part of NCRM's pedagogic research, Professor Melanie Nind and Angeliki Katramadou conducted a systematic review of pedagogic literature published between 2014 and 2020. The review shows that there is a growing pedagogical culture in research methods education within UK universities. It found that that there has been a recent increase in the volume of published papers on how research methods are taught and learnt, particularly qualitative methods. Read the findings.

Papers

Teaching methods: pedagogical challenges in moving beyond traditionally separate quantitative and qualitative classrooms

Ferrie, J. and Spreckelsen, T. (2023) Teaching methods: pedagogical challenges in moving beyond traditionally separate quantitative and qualitative classrooms. Open Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2(2), pp. 16-36. (doi: 10.56230/osotl.64). Read this paper.

Editorial: Teaching research methods better? Or research methods for better teaching?

Ferrie, J. , Forrest, C. and Spreckelsen, T. (2023) Editorial: Teaching research methods better? Or research methods for better teaching? Open Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2(2), i-vii. (doi: 10.56230/osotl.71). Read this paper.

‘To be honest, it’s complicated’: training postgraduate students to work with emotions in qualitative research

Ferrie, J. and Greenwood, S. (2023) ‘To be honest, it’s complicated’: training postgraduate students to work with emotions in qualitative research. Teaching in Higher Education, (doi: 10.1080/13562517.2023.2212609). Read this paper.

Courses

Work from the network and NCRM pedagogic research is also underpinning courses for research methods teachers and trainers, for example Teaching Research Methods in the Era of Covid-19.