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The challenge of training future cohorts of quantitative social science researchers to secure the ‘pipeline’ from school/undergraduate study through postgraduate to postdoctoral research, depends not only …
The majority of individuals aged under twenty in the Western world were ‘born digital’ and will not recall a time without access to the Internet. Combined …
As fewer people are responding to surveys than ever before, the linking of administrative records to survey responses is a potentially important tool to obtain new, …
Social scientists may be able to connect different sets of administrative information held about people technically, but should there be any rules about accessing and using …
The International Journal of Research & Method in Education is seeking proposals for guest editors for a special issue of the Journal on the theme of …
NCRM Director Patrick Sturgis was interviewed at the Daily Politics show (see from 32mins 20secs) on Friday 19 June about the General Election 2015 …
The National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) is pleased to invite applications for the first round of its International Visitor Exchange Scheme (IVES). IVES is aimed …
We are pleased to announce that our ESRC PhD studentship has been awarded to Debbie Collins, who will be joining our team, in October 2015, to …