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Ordinal regression Part 1: Introduction
No full textIn this video, Dr Heini Väisänen introduces the method of ordinal regression and explains when to use it and what kind of variables are needed when used. She talks about ordinal response variables, what is meant by cumulative odds and probabilities, and she also shows an example of ordinal model with one explanative variable to show how the method works
Ethical and legal considerations of web scraping
No full textIn this final video of the series, Dr Diarmuid McDonnell reflects on some of the legal and ethical implications of web scraping. He offers guidance on how to implement it as a research method, summarises what has been covered about web scraping techniques in the training series and talks about next steps
Decolonial Research Methods: Resisting Coloniality in Academic Knowledge Production (Webinar 4)
Get PDFThis is the fourth webinar in a six-part series from NCRM called Decolonial Research Methods: Resisting Coloniality in Academic Knowledge Production.
The speaker is Professor Walter Mignolo of Duke University. His presentation is titled Decolonial Research Methods: A Planetary Conversation Beyond the North Atlantic (the Global East and the Global South).
The webinar took place on 23 November 2021
Qualitative Longitudinal Methods – Methods Matter: Series 1, Episode 3
No full textThis is episode three of the Methods Matter podcast.
In expert corner for this episode is Dr Kahryn Hughes the from University of Leeds. In researcher ranch is Professor Andrew Clark from the University of Salford. Professor Clark has completed research on a wide range of topics, though he is particularly interested in three areas: neighbourhoods and communities; dementia; innovation and creativity in social science research methods
Statistical analysis of agent-based models
No full textIn the video, Dr Jason Hilton and Professor Jakub Bijak introduce the basic concepts related to the design of experiments used to help understand the behaviour of complex computational models, such as agent-based models. They look at the relations between inputs and outputs of models, types of experimental design, and methods of analysing the results of simulation experiments. This video also explores the statistical emulators – or metamodels – and methods for uncertainty and sensitivity analysis
NCRM Text Data Workshop- part 3: Basic text data analysis
No full textIn this third and final part of the series on text data workshops, Dr Lewys Brace looks at how to carry out some basic text data analysis
Decolonial Research Methods: Resisting Coloniality in Academic Knowledge Production (Webinar 3)
Get PDFThis is the third webinar in a six-part series from NCRM called Decolonial Research Methods: Resisting Coloniality in Academic Knowledge Production. The speaker is Professor Raewyn Connell from the University of Sydney. The title of her talk is Decolonising Research: Working Methods. The webinar took place on 9 November 2021
Social Network Analysis – Methods Matter: Series 1, Episode 2
No full textThis is episode two of the Methods Matter podcast.
In expert corner for this episode is Dr David Griffiths from the University of Stirling. His research focuses on social connections and social advantage. And what tool does he rely on to get to the heart of the issues? You guessed it, social network analysis, and social survey methods. In researcher ranch is Dr Anne-Nicole Casey, Qualitative Research Associate from the University of New South Wales within the Dementia Collaborative Research Centre (DCRC) and Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA)
Making research happen - emerging issues in changing research practices for Covid-19 times
No full textThis presentation is part of an NCRM webinar on Emerging Issues in Changing Research Practices for Covid-19 Times, 11 February Online
Presenter: Prof Melanie Nind, University of Southampto
Using secondary data during the pandemic
No full textThis presentation is part of an NCRM webinar on Methods adapted or suited to research in the pandemic, 28 January 2021, Online
Presenter: Dr Robert Meckin, University of Manchester
The full webinar can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EW458y1RE4k&list=PLzv58M2GAfm5DW00KORN5N6kV7vpZ4dhT&index=6
The webinar was based on the NCRM project Changing Research Practice: Undertaking social science research in the context of Covid-19 https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/research/socscicovid19