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Changing the world with mixed methods
No full textFrom climate change to water security - there are some problems facing the world that often seem unsolvable. So how can researchers stay positive about the role they have in tackling these huge challenges and which research methods should they consider using? In this episode of our podcast, Dr Donna Mertens, Professor Emeritus at Gallaudet University in Washington DC, and keynote speaker at the 2018 Research Methods Festival, calls on researchers to stay optimistic about the role they have in beating the world's ‘wicked’ problems and explains why she believes a mixed methods is key to doing research in troubling times
Compensating for non-response in biosocial research | Dr Tina Hannemann
No full textThis video talks about finding good ways to compensate for various missing data patterns we find in biosocial research. This is becoming important since many of British or European or worldwide studies have already included biomarker data, or planning to do so in the very near future
Mitigating practical and ethical issues in sensor-based real-world studies | Dr Ben Bedwell
No full textThis video focuses on the ethical and practical issues encountered during the process of conducting sensor-based studies in real world scenarios, including monitoring energy use, and office work break times
Nurse effects in survey biomarkers | Dr Alexandru Cernat & Joe Sakshaug
No full textThis video reports on findings which hope to understand the processes that lead to missing data specifically from the 'nurse effect', in order for this to be corrected for
What are mixed methods?
No full textMixed methods combine the counterfactual analysis from a RCT with factual analysis using quantitative and qualitative data to analyze the causal chain…
The factual analysis will address such issues as the quality of implementation, targeting, barriers to participation or adoption by intended beneficiaries
Methods used in community studies (part 2 of 3)
No full textProfessor Graham Crow in the second (of three) part of the NCRM online resource on ‘The rationale and research design of community studies’.
This video is part of the online learning resources from the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM). To access all videos and the supporting materials (presentation slides, datasets, recommended reading, links to related publications and resources) visit https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/resources/online/community_studies
Combining Social Science and Molecular Genetic Research
No full textWithin the last decade there has been an explosion of data that includes both social science and molecular genetic data. The UK is a frontrunner in collecting this type of data (e.g. ALSPAC, 1958 Birth Cohort, ELSA, Understanding Society), including recent large samples such as the UK Biobank. This talk provides an overview of recent social science applications in this areas of fertility, education and wellbeing. Key techniques and applications will be covered including using polygenic scores from large-scale GWAS (genome wide association studies) and GREML (genomic-relationship-matrix based restricted maximum likelihood) techniques. The talk will also reflect on the relevance and possibilities of using molecular genetic data for social science research