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Disciplinary perspectives on archiving qualitative data
Get PDFThis webinar was organised by QUEST (Qualitative Expertise at Southampton) in collaboration with the National Centre for Research Methods and the South Coast Doctoral Training Partnership. It was held on 23 June 2022.
The speakers were: Dr Rachel Ayrton (chair), Carolynn Low, Dr Susie Weller and Professor David Zeitlyn
Participant responses – Decolonial Research Methods webinar series
Get PDFThis video features participant responses to the NCRM webinar series Decolonial Research Methods: Resisting Coloniality in Academic Knowledge Production.
The seven speakers in this video are: Musharrat J. Ahmed-Landeryou, of London South Bank University (UK), Jorge Vega, of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Germany-Mexico), Luqman Muraina, of the University of Cape Town (South Africa), Nuruddin Al Akbar, from Universitas Gadjah Mada (Indonesia), Nirupama Sarathy, an independent facilitator and researcher (India), Dr Randy T. Nobleza, of Marinduque State College (Philippines) and Carl W. Jones, of the Royal College of Art and University of Westminster (UK).
The series comprised six webinars, which took place between October and December 2021
Jane Gray on researching social change over time
Get PDFIn this episode of the Methods podcast, host Catherine McDonald talk to Jane Gray Professor of Sociology at the Social Sciences Institute at Maynooth University in Ireland. Jane is the programme leader for the Irish Qualitative Data Archive and played a key role in the development of the Digital Repository of Ireland and her research looks at families, households and social change.
Jane discusses her passion for looking at how individual lives intersect with macro social change and what patterns can be found within that, the range of different approaches she adopts when it comes to analysis and the importance of knowing your audience when it comes to the writing up of your research.
The Methods podcast is produced by the National Centre for Research Methods as part of the EU Horizon2020 funded YouthLife project, and is looking at how researchers can do better longitudinal research on youth transitions.
For further information on the YouthLife project, visit www.EUqualimix.ncrm.ac.u
The NCRM wayfinder guide to equitable research relations in and after Covid-19
Get PDFThe Covid-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on international research practices. Restrictions on global travel have disrupted planned research projects and encouraged researchers to explore new ways of undertaking research ‘at a distance’, either directly or through collaborations with international partners. A previous Wayfinder Guide on ethical practices during Covid-19 identified how the pandemic has exposed historic and exploitative inequalities within the global research community, as well as providing opportunities to do research differently. This guide draws upon workshop discussions and recent literature to provide pointers and ideas on how experience of the pandemic might be mobilised to establish more equitable research practices
Investigative Methods: An NCRM Innovation Collection
Get PDFThis Innovation Collection on investigative methods brings together investigators working in different domains, sectors, and on different topics of interest to help capture the breadth, scope and relevance of investigative practices over 10 substantive chapters. Each of the papers presents a different investigative method or set of methods and, through case studies, attempts to demonstrate their value.
All the contributions, in different ways and for different purposes, seek to reconstruct acts, events, practices, biographies and/or milieux, to which the researchers in question lack direct access, but which they want to reconstruct via the traces those phenomena leave behind, traces themselves often produced as part of the phenomena under investigation. These include reports of methods used in investigations on:
- The use of force by state actors, including into police violence, military decisions to attack civilians, the provenance of munitions used to attack civilians, and the use and abuse of tear gas;
- Networks of far-right discourse, and its links to criminal attacks and state-leveraged misinformation campaigns;
- Archives to establish the penal biographies of convicts and the historical practices of democratic petitioning;
- Corporate structures and processes that enable tax avoidance and an avoidance of legal responsibilities to workers and the environment.
A working principle of the collection is that investigative methods may be considered, alongside creative, qualitative, quantitative, digital, participatory and mixed methods, a distinct yet complementary style of research
Bellingcat’s Yemen Project
Get PDFIn this contribution, Waters outlines Bellingcat’s use of Open Source Investigations to lift the veil on the abuse of power in the conflict in Yemen. Bellingcat’s Yemen Project aimed not only to unearth evidence of incidents, but also to increase the quantity and quality of verifiable data being recorded in connection with the conflict. Waters delineates how this information was used in an effort to hold UK arms companies to account for the sale of weapons to Saudi Arabia for use in the conflict, as well as in a conceptual legal setting to test the admissibility of this kind of information as evidence in the courts of England and Wales
Approaches to Ethnography
Get PDFThis webinar was organised by QUEST (Qualitative Expertise at Southampton) in collaboration with the National Centre for Research Methods and the South Coast Doctoral Training Partnership. It was held on 26 April 2022.
The speakers were: Professor Ros Edwards (chair), Katie Brailsford, Jesse Shipp and Dr John Boswell
Surveys and Questionnaires – Methods Matter: Series 2, Episode 5
No full textIn expert corner for this episode is Dr Petra Boynton. Dr Boynton is a social psychologist, specialising in international health research from a critical perspective. Over the past 20 years, she has taught, supervised and undertaken research across the social and health sciences. She has also carried out development within university and community settings, as well as writing extensively on academic life, including publishing a book called Being Well in Academia, and being an agony aunt. In researcher ranch is Dr Larissa Bartlett, who is an ISLAND Research Fellow at the Wicking Dementia Research & Education Centre at the University of Tasmania. Dr Bartlett's PhD focussed on the promises and challenges of workplace-delivered mindfulness interventions for employee health and performance. Now Larissa leads the ISLAND Study, a large, 10-year prospective public health cohort study with nested interventions targeting modifiable dementia risk factors at population-level in adults aged 50 and over.
Methods Matter – from Dementia Researcher and the National Centre for Research Methods – is a podcast for people who don't know much about methods, those who do and those who just want to find news and clever ways to use them in their research. In this second series, Clinical Research Fellow Dr Donncha Mullin from the University of Edinburgh brings together leading experts in research methodology, and the dementia researchers that use them, to provide a fun introduction to five qualitive research methods in a safe space where there are no such things as dumb questions. In this season, the podcast covers oral histories and story telling, grounded theory, visual and creative methods, focus groups and surveys and questionnaires
Petitioning and People Power in Twentieth-Century Britain
Get PDFIn their contribution, Bocking-Welch, Huzzey, Leston-Bandeira and Miller set out their historico-political approach to the investigation of petitioning as a practice over a one-hundred-year period. In this context, specific petitions or even public discussion of specific petitions provide trace data for exploring the practices which produced them. Rather than a single, stable set of practices, Bocking-Welch, Huzzey, Leston-Bandeira and Miller show those practices are embedded in, shape and are shaped by wider social, cultural and political contexts. By tracing petitioning outwards to these varied contexts, they expand the notion of the political by expanding our understanding of where politics happens and what is involved
Advanced Bayesian Methods: Gibbs Sampling
No full textIn this video, Dr Gabriel Katz presents two key approaches to Bayesian simulation: the Gibbs sampler and Metropolis Hastings.
He then illustrates how these can be used to break down a complicated problem into a series of issue conditional problems