Publications

Working Papers

The NCRM working paper series consists of papers from NCRM research projects.

No.	Title	Author(s)
01/06	Dictator Game Giving: Altruism or Artefact?	Nicholas Bardsley
02/06	Anonymity and Confidentiality	Rose Wiles, Graham Crow, Sue Heath & Vikki Charles
03/06	Combining data, enhancing explanation	Sarah Irwin
04/06	Six strategies for mixing methods and linking data in social science research	Jennifer Mason
05/06	Lone motherhoods in context	Vanessa May
06/06	Researching with visual images	Jon Prosser
07/06	Anonymising Research Data	Andrew Clark
08/06	Latent classes for preference data	Brian Francis
09/06	Statistical inference for the mixed Bradley-Terry model	Mohand Feddag
10/06	Participation in crime among children and young adults: Changes over time	Keith Soothill, Elizabeth Ackerley & Brian Francis
01/07	Diversity and Subjectivity within Qualitative Psychology (under submission)	Brendan Gough and Anna Madill
02/07	Changing patterns of offending behaviour among young adults	Keith Soothill, Brian Francis, Elizabeth Ackerley & L. Humphreys
03/07	Changing patterns of offending over 30 years	Keith Soothill
04/07	The Risk of Escalation in Serious Crime for Kidnap Offenders: A Modelling Approach	Jiayi Liu, Brian Francis & Keith Soothill
05/07	Public perceptions of offender dangerousness - Views of young adults in the UK	Joanne Wood & Brian Francis
06/07	Generalized nonlinear models in R: An overview of the gnm package	Heather Turner & David Firth
07/07	How citizens evaluate the therapeutic potential of stem cell research in the context of T1 diabetes	Dr Inna Kotchetkova, Dr Robert Evans & Dr Susanne Langer
08/07	The emotional and analytic impact of working with disturbing secondary data	Dr Ben Fincham, Dr Jonathan Scourfield & Dr Susanne Langer
09/07	Understanding Community: A review of networks, ties and contacts	Andrew Clark
10/07	Methods for the thematic synthesis of qualitative research in systematic reviews	James Thomas & Angela Harden
11/07	Excruciating Elegance: Representing the Embodied Habitus of Capoeira	Dr Sara Delamont & Dr Neil Stephens
12/07	Documents of life and death: Identities beyond the life course in coroners’ suicide files	Dr Susanne Langer, Dr Jonathan Scourfield & Dr Ben Fincham
01/08	The everyday lives of children in care: using a sociological perspective to inform social work practice	Dr Sally Holland, Dr Emma Renold, Dr Nicola Ross & Ms Alex Hillman
02/08	Propensity Score Adjustment for Unmeasured Confounding in Observational Studies	Lawrence C. McCandless, Sylvia Richardson & Nicky G. Best
03/08	Using Bayesian graphical models to model biases in observational studies and to combine multiple datasources: Application to low birth-weight and water disinfection by-products.	Nuoo-Ting (Jassy) Molitor, Chris Jackson, Sylvia Richardson & Nicky Best
04/08	Adjusting for selection bias in retrospective case control studies	S. Geneletti, N. Best & S. Richardson
05/08	Studying place effects on health by synthesising area-level and individual data	Chris Jackson, Sylvia Richardson & Nicky Best
06/08	Assessing Satisfaction: Insights from a multi-methods study	Josephine Green, University of York
07/08	Rights, 'right on' or the right thing to do? A critical exploration of young people's engagement in participative social work research	Dr Sally Holland - Cardiff University, Dr Emma Renold - Cardiff University, Dr Nicola Ross - Cardiff University, Ms Alex Hillman - Cardiff University
08/08	Managing anonymity and confidentiality in social research: the case of visual data in Community research	Graham Crow, Rose Wiles
01/09	Methods for the synthesis of qualitative research: a critical review	Elaine Barnett-Page, James Thomas
02/09	Five Strategies for Practising Interdisciplinarity	Armin Krishnan
03/09	What are Academic Disciplines? Some observations in the Disciplinarity vs. Interdisciplinarity debate	Armin Krishnan
04/09	Coming to our senses? A critical approach to sensory methodology	Jennifer Mason, Katherine Davies
05/09	Beyond the standard interview: The use of graphic elicitation and arts-based methods	Anna Bagnoli
06/09	The Methods Used in Connected Lives: Investigating networks, neighbourhoods and communities	Nick Emmel, Andrew Clark
07/09	Innovation in qualitative research methodology: Annotated bibliography	Helen Pain
01/10	Ethical regulation and visual methods: making visual research impossible or developing good practice?	Rose Wiles, Amanda Coffey, Judy Robinson and Jon Prosser
02/10	Disciplined Writing: On the problem of writing sociologically	Carol Smart

Methods Review Papers

NCRM commissions methods review papers on a range of methodological topics.

No.	Title	Author(s)
001	Informed Consent in Social Research: A Literature Review	Rose Wiles, Sue Heath, Graham Crow & Vikki Charles
002	Imputation Methods for Handling Item-Nonresponse in the Social Sciences: A Methodological Review	Gabriele B. Durrant
003	Children as active researchers: a new research paradigm for the 21st century?	Mary Kellett
004	Event History Analysis Data files for the above paper	Fiona Steele
005	Mixed Methods Research: A Discussion Paper	Julia Brannen
006	Geographically Weighted Regression	Martin Charlton, Stewart Fotheringham, Chris Brunsdon
007	An Overview of Methods for the Analysis of Panel Data	Ann Berrington, Peter WF Smith, Patrick Sturgis
008	Mixing modes of data collection in surveys: A methodological review	Caroline Roberts
009	Approaches to Narrative Research	Corinne Squire
010	Introducing Visual Methods	Jon Prosser and Andrew Loxley
011	Visual Ethics: Ethical Issues in Visual Research	Rose Wiles, Jon Prosser, Anna Bagnoli, Andrew Clark, Katherine Davies, Sally Holland, Emma Renold
012	Conducting qualitative research with people with learning, communication and other disabilities: Methodological challenges	Melanie Nind
013	Partnership Research: A review of approaches and challenges in conducting research in partnership with service users	Dr Jo Frankham
014	Discourse Analysis: varieties and methods	Jason Glynos, David Howarth, Aletta Norval, Ewen Speed
015	Mixed-method approaches to social network analysis	Gemma Edwards

Reports

Title	Author(s)
Evaluating the impact of NCRM Training and Capacity Building Activities	Rose Wiles and Nicholas Bardsley
A Typology of Research Methods within the Social Sciences	Gabriele B. Durrant
ESRC National Centre for Research Methods: Consultation Exercise Report	Gabriele B. Durrant & Iain Lang
Final report from "Mixed Mode Data Collection in Comparative Social Surveys" workshop	Caroline Roberts
Assessment of training needs Final Report 2005	Rose Wiles, Gabriele Durrant, Sofie De Broe, Jackie Powell
Report on a Consultation Exercise to Identify the Research Needs in Research Methods in the UK Social Sciences	Nicholas Bardsley and Rose Wiles
Qualiti (NCRM) Commissioned Inquiry into the risk to well-being of Researchers in Qualitive Research	Bloor, M., Fincham, B., and Sampson, H.
NCRM Reflections on TCB Activity	Rose Wiles
Assessment of the training needs in reseach methods of the professional social research community	Rose Wiles, Nicholas Bardsley and Jackie Powell
A Consultation to Identify the Research Needs in Research Methods in the UK Social Sciences	Nick Bardsley and Rose Wiles
Annotated bibliography: Interdisciplinarity	Glyn Everett
Consultation on research needs in research methods in the UK social sciences	Rose Wiles, Nicholas Bardsley and Jackie Powell

 

 

Toolkits

Title	Author(s)
Participant Produced Video: Giving participants camcorders as a social research methods	Stewart Muir
Participatory Mapping: An innovative sociological method	Nick Emmel
Informed Consent in Visual Research	Katherine Davies
Door Knocking as a Method of Recruiting a Sample	Katherine Davies
After the Ethical Approval Form: Ethical considerations of working in research teams	Hazel Burke
Putting on an exhibition to disseminate your research	Hazel Burke

Presentations from NCRM events, such as conferences, workshops or seminars, can be found on the website for the particular event.