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Constructing a metric of wellbeing among older people in the UK

Age UK’s Index of Wellbeing in Later Life (’WILL’) provides new and substantive information about what matters most for a good later life. The evidence offers …

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NCRM training and events

Doing Collaborative Research, Amelie Lee and Niamh Moore, 10 - 11 May 2017, Edinburgh Advances in Diary Method for Qualitative Researchers, Ruth Bartlett, 11 May …

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Transformative and inclusive social and educational research

In Spain, we are looking forward to the Third Annual Summer Workshop, in part inspired by the UK ESRC NCRM Research Methods Festivals. The focus is …

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Do we teach enough secondary data analysis?

Research needs good data, whatever form it comes in. For quantitative data, that almost always means using data that has been collected by someone else, usually …

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Oral History in the twenty first century

Revising The Voice of the Past1 for a fourth edition provides an opportunity to review and evaluate where oral history is positioned as an academic and …

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A poet, a social scientist and a participant walk into a bar

‘In six weeks we write ourselves, with interview, analysis and poetry, story the silence.   It is like sand through a microscope.   Each lived experience,…

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From collections to crowdsourcing at the British Library

A few years ago I wrote an article for the NCRM newsletter describing some of the collections at the British Library (BL) that might be of …

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In a climate of hostility to migrants, can research methods create conviviality?

The concept of ‘conviviality’ has been widely used in research on race and migration. Following Paul Gilroy1, it refers to ‘the processes of cohabitation and interaction …