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Methods Briefings

 

1

A spatio-temporal analysis of the Great Irish Famine

Ian Gregory, Paul Ell, Matthew Woollard

2

Informed Consent and the Research process

Rose Wiles, Sue Heath, Graham Crow

3

Evidence-based policy, Theory-based synthesis, Practice-based reviews

Ray Pawson, Annette Boaz

4

Improving survey measurement of income and employment (ISMIE)

Stephen P Jenkins and Peter Lynn, with Annette Jäckle and Emanuela Sala

5

Missing data methodology for multilevel models

Michael G Kenward and James Carpenter

6

How can systematic reviews incorporate qualitative research?

Mary Dixon-Woods, Andrew Booth, David Jones, Tina Miller, Rachel Shaw, Jonathan A Smith, Alex Sutton, Bridget Young

7

Assessment and development of new methods for the analysis of media content

Michael Billig, David Deacon, Peter Golding, Thomas König, Katie MacMillan

8

Ethnography for the digital age

Amanda Coffey, Bella Dicks, Bruce Mason, Emma Renold, Bambo Soyinka and Matthew Williams

9

Multilevel multiprocess models for partnership and childbearing event histories

Fiona Steele, Harvey Goldstein and Heather Joshi

10

Training in research with and about children

Vivienne Cree, John Davies, Lynn Jamieson, Elaine Mowat, Kay Tisdall

11

Integrating quantitative and qualitative research: prospects and limits

Alan Bryman

12

Benchmarking Good Practice In Qualitative Management Research

Cathy Cassell

13

Longitudinal Data Analysis in the Social Sciences

Vernon Gayle

14

The Impact Of Local Areas Influences On Individual Outcomes

Simon Burgess

15

Computer-Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis (CAQDAS) Networking Project
Nigel Fielding

16

Exploring Online Research Methods in a Virtual Training Environment

Clare Madge, Henrietta O'Connor, Jane Wellens, Tristram Hooley, Rob Shaw and Julia Meek

17

Online Support for QDA and CAQDAS and Evaluation of Learning Needs
Graham R Gibbs, Nigel G Fielding, Ann F Lewins, Celia Taylor

18

Verbatim Quotations in Applied Social Research: Theory, Practice and Impact

Anne Corden and Roy Sainsbury

19

Developing Methodological Strategies to recruit and research socially excluded groups

Nick Emmel , Kahryn Hughes , Joanne Greenhalgh , and Adam Sales

20

Partnership Research: Negotiating user involvement in research design

Jo Frankham, Kathy Boxall and Ian Kaplan

21

M-quantile Models for Small Area Estimation

Ray Chambers and Nikos Tzavidis

22

Narrative Synthesis in Systematic Reviews

Jennie Popay, Sally Baldwin, Nicky Britten, Amanda Sowden, Helen Roberts, Mark Petticrew, Lisa Arai, Mark Rodgers, with Katrina Roen and Stephen Duffy

23

Social Capital and Social Networks: Promoting Network Analysis

Mike Savage, Nick Crossley, John Scott, Gindo Tampubolon, Alan Warde

24

The Isonymic Analysis of Historical Data: Irish Migrants in Britain, 1851-1901
Malcolm T Smith, Don MacRaild and Tony Hepburn

25

Focusing on the case in quantitative and qualitative research

David Byrne, Wendy Olsen and Sandra Duggan

26

The Development of Methods for Complex Coding
Peter Elias and Rob Jones

27

Practical Exemplars on the Analysis of Surveys (PEAS)
Gillian Raab, Kathy Buckner and Susan Purdon

28

Modelling Attitude Stability and Change using Repeated Measures Data

Peter WF Smith, Ann M Berrington, Patrick Sturgis,Yongjian Hu

29

Interactive Data Collection-Reproduction/Transmission Of Environmental Knowledge
Michael D Fischer, David Zeitlyn, R F Ellen, Gary J Martin, Rajindra K Puri, Glenn W Bowman, Janet Bagg

30

Practice and Process in Integrating Methodologies (PPIMs)

J. Moran-Ellis, V. D. Alexander, A. Cronin, J. Fielding, H. Thomas

31

Methodologies for Studying Families and Family Effects

Tom O’Connor, Jon Rasbash, Stephen Scott, Barbara Maughan, Judy Dunn

 

Methods Papers

 

1

Constructing a sociodemographic data time-series: computational issues and solutions

Paul Norman

2

Ray Pawson, Trisha Greenhalgh, Gill Harvey, Kieran Walshe

Methodological Notes from RMP Workshops

1

Workshop on behaviour coding

Workshop on sequence analysis

University of Essex, February 2007

   
2

Workshop on exploring social dynamics and trajectories using new development in sequence analysis

3 September 2007.

   
3

Survey research in the 21st century: challenges and opportunities

24 October 2007

   

Online Resources

 

 

Introduction to Social Network Analysis - online materials for social network analysis course

Gindo Tampubolon

 

A Place in History: A Guide to using GIS in Historical Research

Ian Gregory

 

Frame analysis

Thomas Koenig

  Online QDA
Graham R Gibbs, Ann Lewins, Nigel Fielding, Celia Taylor

 

Working Papers

 

1 Assessing the quality of evidence in evidence-based policy: why, how and when?
Ray Pawson
2 Fractal factors? Scale, factor analyses and neighbourhood effects
Ron Johnston, Kelvyn Jones, Simon Burgess, Carol Propper, Rebecca Sarker and Anne Bolster
3

A missing level in the analysis of British voting behaviour: the household as context as shown by analyses of a 1992-1997 longitudinal survey
Ron Johnston, Kelvyn Jones, Rebecca Sarker, Simon Burgess, Carol Propper and Anne Bolster

4 Party support and the neighbourhood effect: spatial polarisation of the British electorate, 1991-2001
Ron Johnston, Kelvyn Jones, Rebecca Sarker, Simon Burgess, Carol Propper and Anne Bolster
5

Party allegiance and core political value change

Patrick Sturgis

6 Local neighbourhood and mental health: evidence from the UK
Carol Propper, Kelvyn Jones, Anne Bolster, Simon Burgess, Ron Johnston and Rebecca Sarker
7

Operationalizing Bourdieu on Capitals: A Discussion on ‘The Construction of the Object’

Elizabeth B. Silva and Rosalind Edwards

8 Comments on Tackling Social Exclusion: Taking stock and looking to the future: a response
Nick Emmel
9 Exploring the Internet as a medium for research: web-based questionnaires and online synchronous interviews
Clare Madge and Henrietta O'Connor
10 The contact and response process in business surveys: lessons from a multimode survey of employers in the UK
P Lynn and E Sala
11 Validation of survey data on income and employment: the ISMIE experience
A Jäckle, E Sala, S P Jenkins and P Lynn
12 The effects of dependent interviewing on responses to questions on income sources
P Lynn, A Jäckle, S P Jenkins and E Sala
13 Linking survey responses and administrative records: what should the matching variable(s) be?
S P Jenkins, P Lynn, A Jäckle and E Sala
14 Dependent interviewing and seam effects in work history data
A Jäckle and P Lynn
15

Political sophistication and issue voting: an intra-individual level analysis

Patrick Sturgis and James Tilley

16

Informed consent and the research process

Rose Wiles, Vikki Charles, Graham Crowe and Sue Heath

17

Recreation, informal social networks and social capital

Alan Warde, Gindo Tambupolon and Mike Savage

18

Integrating estimates and targets within a population projection

Ludi Simpson

19

Measuring change in employment characteristics: the effects of dependent interviewing

Emanuela Sala and Peter Lynn

20

Patterns of consent: evidence from a general household survey

Stephen P. Jenkins, Lorenzo Cappellari, Peter Lynn, Annette Jäckle, Emanuela Sala

21

The impact of interviewing method on measurement error in panel survey measures of benefit receipt: evidence from a validation study

Peter Lynn, Annette Jäckle, Stephen P Jenkins and Emanuela Sala

22

Does dependent interviewing really increase efficiency and reduce respondent burden?

Annette Jäckle

23

Research participants' views on use of verbatim quotations

Anne Corden and Roy Sainsbury

24 The impact of verbal quotations on research users: Qualitative exploration
Anne Corden and Roy Sainsbury
25 Fluxes and constants in the dynamics of friendships
Gindo Tampubolon
26

Multilevel Modelling of Repeated Ordinal Measures: An application to attitudes to divorce

Ann Berrington, Yongjian Hu, Karla Ramírez-Ducoing, Peter Smith

27

Social Structuring of Closest Friendships: A creative assembly?

Gindo Tampubolon

28

Qualitative phase of the formative evaluation of learning training needs in computer assisted qualitative data analysis

Graham R. Gibbs, Celia Taylor, Nigel Fielding, Ann Lewins

29

Using verbatim quotations in reporting qualitative social research: researchers' views

Anne Corden and Roy Sainsbury

30

Ethical Relations: A review of literature on empirical studies of ethical requirements and research participation

Jenny Graham, Jane Lewis, Gerry Nicolaas

The full report from the NatCen study is available on the GSR website - Ethics in Government Social Research

 

Other publications

 

Neighbourhoods, Households and Income Dynamics: a semi-parametric investigation of neighbourhood effects
Anne Bolster, Simon Burgess, Ron Johnston, Kelvyn Jones, Carol Propper and Rebecca Sarker
CMPO Working Paper Series No 04/106
 

An Overview of Methods for the analysis of panel data

Ann Berrington and PeterWF Smith, Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute, University of Southampton

Patrick Sturgis, Department of Sociology, University of Surrey

NCRM Methods Review Papers, NCRM/007

 

Using Verbatim Quotations in Reporting
Qualitative Social Research: The views of research users,

Corden, A. and Sainsbury, R. (2006) Social Policy Research Unit, University of York

ESRC 2187 - December 2006

 

Updated 12/12/2007