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Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have learned a lot about how the global spread of the virus has impacted people’s lives. Surveys have
Economists (and more broadly social scientists) are increasingly focused on the measurement and causes of inequality in health. Health inequality has many sources, not all of
It has often been said that COVID-19 has made amateur epidemiologists of us all, and perhaps less often, amateur behavioural scientists and economists too. As society has
In many practical situations when it comes to modelling data through a simple linear regression, we may have the scenario where observations are somehow similar, correlated
This week I am just back from teaching a two-week course at the Essex Summer School called Introduction to Multilevel Models. Traditionally a popular annual residential
The most pronounced challenge of doing research during COVID-19 was the watershed switch to the online world. With limited or no training and support, researchers and
Social researchers are adapting, switching and experimenting with methods in the pandemic. We devised a small project to synthesise the emerging evidence about methodological adaptations and
February 16th sees the launch of the Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE) survey: Evidence for Equality National Survey (EVENS) – which will be
In a recent peer-reviewed article Alexandru Cernat and Melanie Revilla explored the effects of switching from face to face surveys to web data
For researchers who decide to use more than one method in a project, the question immediately arises of whether to treat two as sufficient or whether
21 March 2021 is census day in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. There are at least two remarkable aspects to this simple observation – firstly, that
On the 21st and 22nd November at the University of Liverpool in London, NCRM held an innovation forum to explore the embryonic field of “investigative social
Debbie Collins is not only the director of NatCen Learning, she is also working on her doctoral thesis with NCRM (supervised by
As many other organisations, NCRM is now working from home. We had to close our offices, sort out home computers and workspaces and deal not only
We at NCRM are busy tracking Twitter and other online communities for great ideas on how people are managing to switch to teaching and learning
Walking methods have different applications, including in Olympic cities. The ‘Olympic city’ provides sociologists, anthropologists and psychologists alike a fascinating incubator of social organising and ordering.