Funded Projects
By Themes
Research design
• Methodological strategies to recruit and research socially excluded groups
• Informed consent and the research process
Data construction
• The development of methods for complex coding
• Improving survey measurement of income and employment
• Missing data methodology for multi-level models
Multi-media ethnographic methods
• Ethnography for the digital age
• Interactive data collection-reproduction/transmission of environmental knowledge
Longitudinal and pathway analysis
o Methodologies for studying families and family effects
o Multilevel multiprocess models for partnership and childbearing event histories
o Modelling attitude stability and change using repeated measures data
Network Analysis
o Social capital & consumption: promoting social network analysis
Synthesis and evaluation methods
o Evidence-based policy, theory-based synthesis, practice-based reviews
o Narrative synthesis of quantitative and qualitative data in systematic reviews
o How can systematic reviews incorporate qualitative research?
Analysing textual data
o Verbatim quotations in applied social research: theory, practice and impact
o Assessment and development of new methods for the analysis of media content
Integrating multiple methods
o Investigating practice and process in integrating methodologies: a demonstrator
o Integrating quantitative and qualitative research: prospects and limits
Migration and spatial analysis
o A spatio-temporal analysis of the Great Irish Famine
o The isonymic analysis of historical data: Irish migration to Britain, 1851-1901
o The impact of local area influences on individual outcomes
o Multiquantile models for small area estimation
Training and resources: quantitative methods
• The ESRC Oxford Spring School in Quantitative Methods of Social Research
• Royal Economic Society's Easter School in Econometrics
• Training courses, master classes and symposia in microdata methods and practice
• A national training and support service for quantitative social science
• A programme of quantitative methods training
• Internet access to research methods training materials (IFS)
• Practical examples of the analyses of surveys (PEAS)
• Longitudinal data analysis in the social sciences
Training and resources: qualitative methods
• Computer-assisted qualitative data analysis (CAQDAS) networking project
• Benchmarking good practice in qualitative management research
• Online support for QDA and CAQDAS and evaluation of learning needs
Mixed methods and research design
• Exploring online research methods in a virtual training environment
• Partnership research: negotiating user involvement in research design
• Focusing on the case in quantitative and qualitative research
• Training in research with and about children
• Summer Institute in Economic Geography
Alphabetically, by Principal Investigator
