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New NCRM quick start guide: Planning to teach social research methods online - guiding principles

Debbie Collins (Director of NatCEn Learning and NCRM doctoral researcher) has published a new NCRM quick start guide.  The guide considers aspects of planning to teach …

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New NCRM Independent Advisory Board

We are pleased to announce the appointment of a new Independent Advisory Board (IAB). The IAB will guide NCRM through its new phase which we entered …

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Call for research chapters: Handbook of Teaching and Learning Social Research Methods

Melanie Nind, NCRM co-director and Professor of Education at the University of Southampton is inviting contributions to a forthcoming Handbook of Teaching and Learning Social Research …

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In Conversation with Stitching Together and Sophie Woodward; Material methods 2

The second episode of an NCRM "In Conversation" series focuses upon the emerging field of material methods where Sophie Woodward talks to Amy Twigger Holroyd …

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Workshop: Secondary data and Covid-19 data

Final workshop of our Changing research practice in the context of Covid-19 project will be on 10 December and focus on 'Secondary data and Covid-19 data'. Contact …

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A fully funded PhD studentship - New Forms of Data Collection

A fully funded PhD studentship is available through SCDTP.  Please come to the University of Southampton to do PhD with Dr Olga Maslovskaya and Professor Peter …

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IJSRM call for contributions: adapting conventional research methods for the new normal

With a second wave of the global COVID-19 pandemic now sweeping across the West, it is becoming clear that returning to ‘normal‘ maybe a long way …

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GenPopWeb2 first public event - Within-household selection methods for probability web surveys

GenPopWeb2 network project  is a network of UK-based academic and non-academic partners including government departments, survey organisations, academics and major ESRC investments to share knowledge …