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The NCRM training bursaries (for up to £500) enable staff in the UK social science community engaged in research, teaching research methods or supervising research …
The 2016 Autumn School took place at the University of Manchester between 31 August and 2 September 2016. This Autumn School was designed to cover the …
Concern has been growing in the past decade about published scientific claims that other laboratories can’t successfully replicate. Some of these studies are pretty silly – …
To find out more about our training courses and events and to register please visit www.ncrm.ac.uk/training. New courses are continuously organised and added to the database. …
Inspired by Guillemin and Gillam’s1 now classic article on reflexivity that introduced the seminal distinction between procedural ethics and ethics in practice, Tolich’s2 edited volume Qualitative …
Knowing ‘what works’ in educational contexts, as in any of the social sciences, has always been problematic both in theory and in practice. The central idea …
In February this year the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) hosted a meeting with survey research experts from different countries and backgrounds. The purpose …
Over the last couple of years, NCRM has worked with TNS BMRB to derive a general model of the impact of fieldwork effort on those total …