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The Methods podcast brings you conversations with leading international experts on a wide range of topics related to research methods. The podcast explores methodological innovations, provides practical tips and discusses new challenges and opportunities. The latest series focuses on qualitative lon...
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Laura Bernardi on mixed methods and research questions (NCRM) - Catherine McDonald, Laura Bernardi
In this episode of the Methods podcast, host Catherine McDonald talks to Laura Bernardi, Professor of Demography and Sociology of the Life Course with...
JD Carpentieri on qualitative research and theory (NCRM) - Catherine McDonald, JD Carpentieri
In this episode of the Methods podcast, host Catherine McDonald talks to JD Carpentieri, Associate Professor of Social Science and Policy in the Depar...
Laura Camfield on undertaking cross-national mixed methods research (NCRM) - Catherine McDonald, Laura Camfield
In this episode of the Methods podcast, host Catherine McDonald talks to Laura Camfield, Professor of Development Research and Evaluation in the Schoo...
Dan Woodman on mixed and qualitative longitudinal approaches (NCRM) - Catherine McDonald, Dan Woodman
In this episode of the Methods podcast, host Catherine McDonald talks to Dan Woodman, Associate Professor of Sociology at the School of Social and Pol...
Jane Gray on researching social change over time (NCRM) - Catherine McDonald, Jane Gray
In this episode of the Methods podcast, host Catherine McDonald talk to Jane Gray, Professor of Sociology at the Social Sciences Institute at Maynooth...
Johnny Saldaña on qualitative longitudinal research (NCRM) - Catherine McDonald, Johnny Saldaña
In this episode of the Methods podcast, host Catherine McDonald talks to Johnny Saldaña, Professor Emeritus at Arizona State University’s School of Fi...
Teaching Big Qual: benefits and challenges for students and teachers (NCRM) - Ros Edwards and Sarah Lewthwaite
In a special mini-series of our podcast, we discuss the secondary analysis of large-scale qualitative data as a new research method. Here Ros Edwards...
Making space for Big Qual: new ideas in research methods and teaching (NCRM) - Lynn Jamieson and Sarah Lewthwaite
In a special mini-series of our podcast, we discuss the secondary analysis of large-scale qualitative data as a new research method. Here Lynn Jamieso...
Remember your body: a somatics toolkit for ethnographers (NCRM) - Eline Kieft
A researcher’s physical sensations are widely understood to contribute to their insights into people and culture. Yet there are no adequate courses th...
A short introduction to the Timescapes Archive (NCRM) - Kahryn Hughes
We introduce the TimeScapes Archive, an archive designed to enable the sharing and re-use of datasets that have been generated using qualitative longi...
Transforming lives with storytelling (NCRM) - Joanna Wheeler
Getting participants to tell their stories can be both moving and powerful, but can it transform lives? In this episode of the Methods Podcast, Resea...
Food for thought: using fitness bracelet technology to tackle poor nutrition in low-income countries (NCRM) - Giacomo Zanello
Many of us use fitness watches to get fitter, but could the technology behind these devices help the millions of people across the world who don’t hav...
Mind the gap: why skills are key to data re-use (NCRM) - Richard Welpton
When it comes to making more data from government departments more readily available to researchers, there has for some time been a will, but not alwa...
Using satellites to slash survey costs (NCRM) - Marco Haenssgen and Ern Charoenboon
Carrying out surveys on hard to reach populations in far flung parts of the world can be challenging and expensive. But researchers from the Centre fo...
Diary of a participant: using apps for qualitative research. (NCRM) - Laura Radcliffe and Leighann Spencer
Researchers have been using diaries to capture the experiences and thoughts of their participants for some time, but the advent and growth of new tech...
Changing the world with mixed methods (NCRM) - Donna Mertens
From climate change to water security - there are some problems facing the world that often seem unsolvable. So how can researchers stay positive abou...
Understanding poverty using visual participatory methods: can it work? (NCRM) - Daniel McCulloch
Actively engaging study participants in research to give them a voice is a method that has grown in popularity in recent years. But does this approach...
Digging deep! The archaeological metaphor helping researchers get into Big Qual (NCRM) - Susie Weller
Working across qualitative data sets is a relatively new but nevertheless exciting proposition, but can it be done well and with integrity? In this ep...
Multi-sited ethnography: a researcher’s story (NCRM) - Pauline von Hellermann
Travelling to different locations to undertake ethnographic research undoubtedly provides some interesting and exciting opportunities to extend and de...
Having a family: what can our genes tell us about fertility? (NCRM) - Melinda Mills
Researchers have access to a fantastic array of information about people and their lives. Large scale household and biological surveys have collected...
Using mobile devices to understand spending (NCRM) - Annette Jackle
The development of mobile technology has brought with it some exciting opportunities for those interested in collecting data from households about the...
Telling a longitudinal story (NCRM) - Vernon Gayle
Across the social sciences, there is widespread agreement that quantitative longitudinal research designs offer analysts powerful scientific data reso...
Questions of disclosure: a synthetic answer (NCRM) - David Martin
In a rapidly changing linked data environment, there is much excitement about its potential, but still plenty of concern around the need to understand...
How are we influenced by the information we are exposed to? (NCRM) - Iulia Cioroianu
The media environment, including the way we consume our news has been radically changed by the advent of the Internet. What does this mean for the typ...
Reproducing social science research: give up your code (NCRM) - Vernon Gayle
While there is now an unprecedented amount of large-scale social science data suitable for sociological research, in reality it is impossible to ‘repr...
Introduction to time use diaries (NCRM) - Jonathan Gershuny
How we spend our time has long been of interest to researchers around the world. How we can most accurately capture that information is key and of par...
Using visual diaries to capture the everyday lives of people in mid to later life (NCRM) - Wendy Martin
The use of visual methods in research on ageing has become increasingly popular. Not a great deal of it, however, has looked at people in mid to later...
'Statistics Anxiety' A Fairy Tale For Our Times? (NCRM) - John MacInnes
It is typically assumed that social science students are anxious, confused or intimidated by numbers. However this is far more 'common wisdom' than an...
Visualising social trends in 3D (NCRM) - Jon Minton
Data visualisation has become synonymous with simple infographics in recent years, but for researchers this isn't necessarily a good thing. That's acc...
Researching the oldest old and those living and dying with dementia in care homes (NCRM) - Claire Goodman
There are many uncertainties surrounding end of life care for people with dementia living in care homes. From who is responsible for which aspects of...
Inquiry into the 2015 British general election opinion polls (NCRM) - Patrick Sturgis
The night of the General Election 2015 was a surprising one in more ways than one! A series of opinion polls had led us all to believe that we were in...
Is it possible to use creative methods to research migration and citizenship (NCRM) - Umut Erel
Is it possible to use creative methods such as theatre work shops to research important topics such as migration and citizenship? Are these methods a...
Shared understanding between improvising musicians (NCRM) - Michael Schober
We often assume that great musical partnerships are just that - relationships built on a mutual understanding, intensive practice together, learning h...
Care.data: the challenges of linking health service data (NCRM) - Neil Serougi
Linking data for the benefit of individuals and wider society is an important research area, not just for social scientists, but for us all. One of th...
Data linkage: challenges and opportunities (NCRM) - Peter Elias
The growth of digital information provides social scientists with unprecedented opportunities to access the personal data of people all around the wor...
Teaching and learning social research methods (NCRM) - Melanie Nind, Daniel Kilburn and Rebekah Luff
This is a joint podcast by the NCRM and the International Journal for Social Research Methods (IJSRM). There is little research literature about teach...
Using Skype in qualitative interviews with young people (NCRM) - Susie Weller
The way we communicate in our professional and personal lives has changed dramatically in recent years. We can now Skype our banks, receive texts from...
Surveying UK population's political attitudes – British Election Study (NCRM) - Jane Green
How we vote and why we vote the way we do has become a key part of how we look at politics in the UK. One of the best resources around to help us pick...
Predicting and understanding the 2015 General Election (NCRM) - Professor John Curtice
Declining support for the main parties, allied with the rise of UKIP and the aftermath of the Scottish Independence Referendum mean that the 2015 Gene...
To probe or not to probe (NCRM) - Jouni Kuha
To probe or not to probe respondents' initial answers of "Don't know" is a key question when it comes to tackling the problem of nonresponse in survey...