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The future of online data collection in social surveys Dr Olga Maslovskaya (NCRM senior researcher) is organising an event on The future of online data collection in social surveys. It will take place at the Royal Statistical Society in London on 21st November. Attendance is free and open to all, but pre-registration is required. ... Read more... Submitted by Eva Nedbalova on Wednesday, 30th October 2019

Postcolonial and Indigenous Research New QUEST (Qualitative Expertise at Southampton) seminar on: Postcolonial and Indigenous Research Wednesday 6th November, 14:00 - 15.30 Building 58, Room 1023, Highfield Campus Presentations and speakers: Getting lost and finding your way home: locating practices in an Indigenous research paradigm Ian Calliou, Coventry University Indigenous and non-Indigenous research partnership resources Read more... Submitted by Eva Nedbalova on Friday, 11th October 2019

Call for outline proposals for International Journal of Social Research Methodology: special issues or themed sections The IJSRM editors welcome outline proposals for Special Issues or Themed Sections, to be submitted to the Journal editors by Friday 31st January 2020. Outline proposals should be submitted via email to tsrm-editor@tandf.co.uk. PLEASE NOTE: Submission for special issues or themed sections is a two-stage process. The first is an informal inquiry, which, ... Read more... Submitted by Rosalind Edwards on Friday, 27th September 2019

IJSRM Early Career Researcher Article Prize 2019/20 The International Journal of Social Research Methodology is the leading European journal in social research methods and methodology with a five-year impact factor of 2.099. We are pleased to announce the 2019/20 competition for papers written by early career researchers (ECRs), who are either current doctoral students or in their first three ... Read more... Submitted by Rosalind Edwards on Tuesday, 24th September 2019

New teaching resource: Quantitative methods e-books These quantitative methods e-books and accompanying quizzes are for direct use in teaching students or for self-study at an undergraduate level. They aim to build skills in quantitative methods and statistical software and use the Living Costs and Food Survey, available from the UK Data Service. The e-books have been developed ... Read more... Submitted by Eva Nedbalova on Wednesday, 18th September 2019

The Collaborative Poetics project: developing methodological resources for collaborative arts-based research In 2016, I travelled to Montreal to work with Claudia Mitchell and the Participatory Cultures Lab at McGill University. My visit was funded by NCRM’s International Visitor Exchange Scheme. During my 8-week visit, I worked intensively with a group of young spoken word artists to experiment with different ways in which ... Read more... Submitted by Helen Johnson, University of Brighton on Thursday, 27th June 2019

Learning about culture through physical participation As a Reader of Social Anthropology, my interests include new participatory research methods, language, dance and music. Since culture is embedded in human bodies, ways of doing and interacting, the body and its engagement with culture is central to anthropological research. The oxymoron ‘participant-observation’ reflects both the method we employ and ... Read more... Submitted by Dr Jerome Lewis, University College London on Wednesday, 26th June 2019

Want to make surveys more fun? Maybe ditch the radio buttons Web surveys have become a widely adopted approach for data collection in many fields due to their low costs and efficiency. Nevertheless, due to the high competition for respondents’ time and attention, web survey companies are struggling to recruit web respondents, keep them engaged in online surveys, and ensure adequate data ... Read more... Submitted by Alexandru Cernat, University of Manchester on Wednesday, 26th June 2019

Research challenges for using the UK Web Archive for social science research In July 2018, I undertook an NCRM-funded placement fellowship with the UK Web Archive (UKWA), based at the British Library. The UKWA collects and preserves UK web content with the aim of providing access to these resources to researchers and the public, in perpetuity. Currently amassing millions of UK websites (and ... Read more... Submitted by Jessica Ogden, National Centre for Research Methods on Wednesday, 26th June 2019

Seeing the changes that matter: qualitative longitudinal research focused on recovery and adaptation My colleagues and I worked on the ‘TBI experiences’ study¹ – qualitative longitudinal research (QLR) about recovery and adaptation after traumatic brain injury (TBI). Led by Kathryn McPherson and Alice Theadom, we came to QLR as qualitative researchers who saw a need to capture how recovery and adaptation shifted and changed ... Read more... Submitted by Joanna Fadyl, Auckland University of Technology on Wednesday, 26th June 2019

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