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2017 NCRM Courses and Events

Methodological Considerations in Biosocial Research Using Understanding Society Data, 16 June 2017, Southampton

Time Series Analysis for Political and Social Data, 20 – 21 June 2017, Southampton

Oxford NCRM Summer School: an Introduction to Combining Social ...

Talking to autistic students in transition: collages, card sorts and walking interviews

This ESRC-funded PhD research sought to understand the lived experience of young people with autism as they left special school to join mainstream colleges of further education at the age of 16 or 17. I was concerned to privilege the point of view of the young people with autism and for ...

Missing biomarkers in biosocial data

A number of survey based studies, e.g. Understanding Society, English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, now collect biological samples from the blood, hair, saliva, teeth, nails and urine of their respondents. However, not all survey respondents are willing or able to provide such samples. For example, in wave 2 of the English ...

Researching approaches for education in the digital age: digital tethering and digital métissage

Researching education in the digital age arguably has become both more complex and more exciting in terms of the issues that need to be considered and the range of possibilities available. Today young people, small children and older adults are all using the internet and digital technologies in diverse ways and ...

Complex social survey data designs

Social scientists now have unprecedented access to data. New social science data resources are increasingly becoming available including new forms of ‘found’ data¹, such as administrative data² and various forms of ‘big data’. The richest and most research-valuable data resources available to social science researchers are large scale multipurpose social surveys, ...

New methods for tracking immediate audience reaction to performances

When we attend live performances, one important part of the experience is the ‘collective engagement’¹ with others attending the same performance, and feeling and sensing others’ silent reactions and overt responses. Most of us have experienced the thrill of being amongst a wildly appreciative audience - whether that appreciation is expressed ...

Diary methods: voyages into the interior

'Please write as much as you can about what you do, what you talk about, what you eat and drink, what you buy or sell, what you are working on, the places you visit, the people you meet, the things you read, see and hear around you, how you are feeling ...

What do we know about mixed-device online surveys in the UK?

We now live in a digital age with a high level use of technologies in everyday life. The way surveys are conducted is changing. Adoption of technologies including mobile devices for data collection is becoming more widespread across the world. There is a big move in the direction of online data ...

PhD Studentship Opportunity

PhD Studentship (ESRC South Coast DTP) - Online surveys and mobile device use in a digital age

Location:  Highfield Campus, University of Southampton
Salary:   Annual stipend of £14553 plus payment of programme fees.
Closing Date:   Wednesday 28 June 2017
For more information and to apply: https://jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=878417CC

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 ...