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Our Changing Research Practice: Undertaking social science research in the context of Covid-19 project has published some new resources

The Changing Research Practice project has produced new resources on Alternatives for interviewing, Researching with participant groups with additional challenges and Participatory …

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Material methods: creative methods. In conversation between Sophie Woodward and Natasa Lackovic

We have just published a new episode of the NCRM In Conversation series. This is the first episode that focuses upon the emerging field of …

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Library of methods for remote collection of data from children and families

Dr Bonamy Oliver at UCL is setting up an open source library that provides a place for researchers/practitioners to share freely available and validated methods for …

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The catalogue of mental health measures

Mental health awareness has been steadily increasing in recent years. Estimates of the extent and adverse impacts of mental health problems underline the urgent need for …

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Changing Research Practice: Undertaking social science research in the context of Covid-19

NCRM has been awarded additional ESRC funding for a new research and engagement project. The project, entitled Changing Research Practice: Undertaking social science research in …

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NCRM is part of a new EU 'YouthLife' twinning project to bridge qualitative and quantitative approaches to life course research

The National Centre for Research Methods is pleased to be part of a new three-year European Union Twinning initiative that will support the development …

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Regular visitors will have realised that the NCRM website has been offline - for which we apologise

On 7th July we noticed a website outage and immediately launched an investigation, which found that this was the result of a malicious attack.  Using a …

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Join the NCRM team! We are looking for e-Learning Technologist! Closing date 21 July

Applications are invited for the post of part-time e-Learning Technologist (0.5 FTE) to take forward and implement an exciting new online learning strategy of the National …