Investigative Methods: An NCRM Innovation Collection

This Innovation Collection on investigative methods brings together investigators working in different domains, sectors, and on different topics of interest to help capture the breadth, scope and relevance of investigative practices over 10 substantive chapters. Each of the papers presents a different investigative method or set of methods and, through case studies, attempts to demonstrate their value.

Read the full collection or browse the individual chapters below.

Chapters

Investigative Methods: An Editorial Introduction

By Michael Mair, Robert Meckin and Mark Elliot

1. Digital Verification and its Discontents - Investigating Tear Gas Abuse in a Digital Age

By Rebekah Lyndon and Michael Gyan Nyarko

2. Bellingcat’s Yemen Project

By Nick Waters

3. Investigating the Use of Force in Contemporary Conflict: Researching Military Operations with Audio, Video and Transcript Data

By Alexander Holder, Chris Elsey, Martina Kolanoski and Michael Mair

4. Disinformation in Brazil: The 2019 Amazon Fires on Social Media

By Rebekah Lyndon, Victoria Tse, Lena Moore and Mo May-Hobbs

5. Investigating the Far-Right Online: Using Text Data to Understand Online Subcultures

By Lewys Brace

6. The Digital Panopticon: Contemporary Investigative Methods in Historical Research

By Barry Godfrey

7. Petitioning and People Power in Twentieth-Century Britain

By Anna Bocking-Welch, Richard Huzzey, Cristina Leston-Bandeira and Henry Miller

8. Follow the Money: Inside the Black Box of the Corporation

By David Whyte

9. Visual Studies of Police Violence

By Patrick G. Watson, Albert J. Meehan, Michael Lynch, Carmen Nave and Ann-Marie Dennis

10. The Emergence of New Diseases: Hybrid Methodological Approaches and the Case of CKDnt

By Jason Glaser and Ciara Kierans