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Methods

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 practic... Read more

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Understanding poverty using visual participatory methods: can it work? (NCRM) - Daniel McCulloch

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... Read more

6 Mar 2018

10mins

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Mobile research tools for social sciences: Integrating genetic, environmental and behavioural data (NCRM) - Alex Kogan

Mobile research tools for social sciences: Integrating genetic, environmental and behavioural data (NCRM) - Alex Kogan

The NCRM funded project 'Integrating emerging smartphone and genetic initiatives to produce cost-effective, innovative m... Read more

20 Feb 2014

7mins

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Diary of a participant: using apps for qualitative research. (NCRM) - Laura Radcliffe and Leighann Spencer

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... Read more

11 May 2018

17mins

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Reverse engineering Chinese censorship: social media and research (NCRM) - Gary King

Reverse engineering Chinese censorship: social media and research (NCRM) - Gary King

Chinese social media censorship constitutes the largest selective suppression of human communication in history. It is o... Read more

23 May 2014

17mins

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Methodological innovation in digital arts and social sciences (NCRM) - Carey Jewitt

Methodological innovation in digital arts and social sciences (NCRM) - Carey Jewitt

It has become widely accepted that it is both worthwhile and necessary for researchers from different disciplines to wor... Read more

10 Jun 2014

13mins

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Changing the world with mixed methods (NCRM) - Donna Mertens

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 ... Read more

17 Apr 2018

14mins

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Food for thought: using fitness bracelet technology to tackle poor nutrition in low-income countries (NCRM) - Giacomo Zanello

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 ... Read more

6 Aug 2018

11mins

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Communicating chronic pain: Interdisciplinary methods for non-textual data (NCRM) - Dr Jen Tarr

Communicating chronic pain: Interdisciplinary methods for non-textual data (NCRM) - Dr Jen Tarr

Chronic pain affects nearly 10 million Britons and can result in time off work and poor quality of life for many of them... Read more

18 Jun 2014

14mins

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Mind the gap: why skills are key to data re-use (NCRM) - Richard Welpton

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 ... Read more

25 Jun 2018

13mins

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The 'Thing-ness' problem of mixed methods research (NCRM) - Sharlene Hesse-Biber

The 'Thing-ness' problem of mixed methods research (NCRM) - Sharlene Hesse-Biber

Is mixed methods research a turbulent environment and is innovation being stifled by an overly tightly bound concept of ... Read more

13 May 2014

11mins

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Using satellites to slash survey costs (NCRM) - Marco Haenssgen and Ern Charoenboon

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 ... Read more

15 Jun 2018

12mins

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What is inclusive research? (NCRM) - Melanie Nind

What is inclusive research? (NCRM) - Melanie Nind

What is inclusive research? How do we recognize it, understand it, do it, and know when it is done well? It’s a much-tal... Read more

15 Apr 2014

14mins

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Digging deep! The archaeological metaphor helping researchers get into Big Qual (NCRM) - Susie Weller

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 ... Read more

19 Dec 2017

11mins

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Multi-sited ethnography: a researcher’s story (NCRM) - Pauline von Hellermann

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 ... Read more

15 Nov 2017

13mins

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Having a family: what can our genes tell us about fertility? (NCRM) - Melinda Mills

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 biol... Read more

2 Oct 2017

15mins

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Using mobile devices to understand spending (NCRM) - Annette Jackle

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 ... Read more

10 Aug 2017

15mins

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Telling a longitudinal story (NCRM) - Vernon Gayle

Telling a longitudinal story (NCRM) - Vernon Gayle

Across the social sciences, there is widespread agreement that quantitative longitudinal research designs offer analysts... Read more

6 Jun 2017

15mins

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Questions of disclosure: a synthetic answer (NCRM) - David Martin

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... Read more

15 Mar 2017

14mins

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How are we influenced by the information we are exposed to? (NCRM) - Iulia Cioroianu

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. W... Read more

19 Dec 2016

12mins

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Reproducing social science research: give up your code (NCRM) - Vernon Gayle

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 rea... Read more

6 Dec 2016

9mins

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