Narrative Analysis in research on families' habitual practices

Across the social sciences the study of the everyday is recognised as central to the understanding of identities, agency and social life. Yet, all too often, attempts to research the everyday fail to capture the complexity of the mundane because the research methods used entail reductive simplification.

Methods for understanding public opinion about emerging technologies

Historically, science governance has been a policy domain driven almost entirely by 'elites'. Today, public consultation procedures have become an automatic part of the policy-making process with the aim of bringing members of the general public into closer engagement with the technical, social and ethical issues around new and emerging science and technology.

About NCRM

National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) is a network of research groups, each conducting research and training in social science research methods. We have a distributed structure, with the coordinating Hub in the University of Southampton and nodes across UK universities.