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Call for special issue proposals - International Journal of Social Research Methodology

The International Journal of Social Research Methodology publishes up to two guest-edited Special Issues per volume.  The IJSRM editorial board welcomes proposals for Special Issues for volume 18, to be submitted to the Journal editors by Friday 14^th July 2017 for consideration at the September editorial board meeting.  Proposals should be ...

Creative Methods for Research and Community Engagement - Summer School

You can now register for the Creative Methods for Research and Community Engagement - Summer School - 6 to 8 July 2017, Keele University. Early bird discount on cost: only £230 for all three days, including lunches and refreshments, until 21 April; thereafter £270. Facilitated by NCRM Visiting Fellow Dr ...

Call for papers: Participatory Arts and Social Action Research

The PASAR project is organising an international multidisciplinary conference that looks at how participatory and creative research methods create a space for exploring, sharing and documenting processes of belonging and place-making that is crucial to understanding migration, citizenship and belonging. Please send your 300 word abstracts, panel or workshop ...

NCRM Research Methods Festival 2018 - 3 to 5 July 2018 - save the date!

The 8^th Research Methods Festival will be held 3 – 5 July 2018 at the University of Bath. Save the date and watch the NCRM website for updates!

How to choose a research method

Article by NCRM originally published in the NVivo blog

When working on your research project there are so many things to consider!

You have to think about the plan of the study, the research questions, the data collection, the evaluation, the discussion, the presentation. It can be really quite overwhelming and what ...

Constructing a metric of wellbeing among older people in the UK

Age UK’s Index of Wellbeing in Later Life (’WILL’) provides new and substantive information about what matters most for a good later life. The evidence offers a first step towards helping all of us get closer to achieving it, whoever we are and whatever our circumstances may be.

So, what is it ...

NCRM training and events

Doing Collaborative Research, Amelie Lee and Niamh Moore,
10 - 11 May 2017, Edinburgh

Advances in Diary Method for Qualitative Researchers,
Ruth Bartlett, 11 May 2017, Cardiff

Power Relations and Participatory Research, Tom Wakeford,
16 - 18 May 2017, London

Critical Urban Ethnography: Place, People and Power, Michaela Benson, Suzanne ...

Transformative and inclusive social and educational research

In Spain, we are looking forward to the Third Annual Summer Workshop, in part inspired by the UK ESRC NCRM Research Methods Festivals. The focus is on transformative research. In times of alliances between neo-liberalism and neo-conservatism, research, especially in the social sciences and humanities, is turning towards more instrumental positions. ...

Do we teach enough secondary data analysis?

Research needs good data, whatever form it comes in. For quantitative data, that almost always means using data that has been collected by someone else, usually a government agency or professional social survey organisation. Only they have the resources to keep good sampling frames, develop robust survey instruments and carry out ...

Oral History in the twenty first century

Revising The Voice of the Past¹ for a fourth edition provides an opportunity to review and evaluate where oral history is positioned as an academic and community pursuit now almost forty years since Paul Thompson published the first edition in 1978. At that time he was building on origins in the ...