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Do participatory visual methods give voice? Participatory visual methods are those in which research participants are active in shaping the project as co-producers of visual knowledge. They can be traced back to two main sorts of approaches: use of visual data as stimulus in research (for example photo-elicitation) and visual data as the product of research (e.g. ... Read more... Submitted by Daniel McCulloch, NCRM, Open University on Friday, 6th April 2018

Get what you need from your CAQDAS program with the Five-Level QDA method Since the mid-1980s numerous software packages have been available to facilitate the analysis of qualitative data (see the CAQDAS Networking Project for reviews¹). Many researchers have successfully adopted these technologies but new users often experience challenges. Nick Woolf and I have reflected long and hard on how to teach these packages ... Read more... Submitted by Christina Silver, CAQDAS Networking Project, University of Surrey on Friday, 6th April 2018

It can pay to ask a simple WHAT IS question People look to NCRM to provide answers to all sorts of questions about research methods. These questions may be quite complex, but they do not have to be. Among the more popular of resources from NCRM are materials designed to provide introductions to particular research methods (or methodological issues) to an ... Read more... Submitted by Graham Crow, NCRM, University of Edinburgh on Friday, 6th April 2018

A mapping tool for researching space and place Space and place are increasingly on the research agenda right across the social sciences – creating enormous challenges for researchers – not least given the huge theoretical debate about what constitutes the spatial and its highly elusive nature. For the past year and a half, we have been carrying out research ... Read more... Submitted by Michael Donnelly, Sol Gamsu and Sam Whewall, University of Bath on Friday, 6th April 2018

Comics as a research method Comics can appear in print and digital formats as newspaper cartoon, comic strip, a story of one or more pages within a magazine, comic book, graphic novel, fanzine and webcomic. Comics’ broad range of genres, which span from editorial opinion, graphic essays, autobiography, social realism, pedagogical comics or countercultural, present vast ... Read more... Submitted by Lydia Wysocki and Jorge Catala-Carrasco, Newcastle University on Friday, 6th April 2018

New methods and advanced analytics at the Bank of England There has been a proliferation in the amount of data generated in recent years, from large regulatory datasets available to supervisors to text created via social media. Many of these newer sources of data have properties, such as high dimensionality, which require analytical methods different from the standard econometrics toolkit. Fortunately, ... Read more... Submitted by David Bholat, James Brookes, Chiranjit Chakraborty, Andreas Joseph, Alice Owen, Eryk Walczak, Bank of England on Friday, 6th April 2018

Research Methods Festival 2018 If you are interested in how we can best investigate and understand the world through social research, then the 8th ESRC Research Methods Festival provides a great opportunity for you to explore new and innovative methods, as well as get to grips with key developments in more established ways of ... Read more... Submitted by Rosalind Edwards, NCRM, University of Southampton on Friday, 6th April 2018

Competition call for papers written by early career researchers - International Journal of Social Research Methodology The International Journal of Social Research methodology is pleased to announce the 2018 competition for papers written by early carreer researchers (ECRs) who are either current doctoral students, or in their first three years of post-doctoral employment since the date of their doctoral graduation day. A prize of £500 will be ... Read more... Submitted by Eva Nedbalova on Wednesday, 7th March 2018

Call for Proposals WCQR2018 - 3rd World Conference on Qualitative Research The 3rd World Conference on Qualitative Research, will be held in Lisbon (Portugal), 17th to 19th October 2018. Authors may submit proposals for presentation of papers that meet the goals and themes of the Conference, including original scientific articles addressing revisions to the state of the art research and new perspectives, ... Read more... Submitted by Eva Nedbalova on Friday, 9th February 2018

Job Vacancy - NCRM Communications Manager (Maternity Cover) Location: Highfield Campus Salary: £29,799 to £31,604 Full Time Fixed Term (12 Months) Closing Date: Wednesday 14 February 2018 Interview Date: To be confirmed Reference: 965818F8 Maternity cover - part-time/full-time Applications are invited for the position of Communications Manager to provide Maternity Cover at the National Centre for Research Methods ... Read more... Submitted by Eva Nedbalova on Tuesday, 30th January 2018

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