methods@manchester: research methods in the social sciences

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• Next Events:
  • How to Do Epidemiological Research – Diagnostic Interventions at the Interface between Society, Culture and Disease (16 May)
  • Demographic Forecasting with POPGROUP (17 May)
  • Discourse Analysis Workshop - Language, Hidden Meanings and Power (17 May)
  • What is cultural consensus analysis? (17 May)
  • Mapping Controversies in Architecture - Book Launch (18 May)

• Next Methods Courses:
  • 17 May: Demographic Forecasting with POPGROUP
  • 30 May: Longitudinal Data Analysis
  • 06 Jun: Causal Modelling in STATA
  • 11 Jun: Statistical Methods for Ordered Categorical Data

Methods

	Visual/sound			Mixed-methods
	Survey-related			Experimental methods
	e-science / data management			Collaborative approaches
	Ethnographic methods			Quality assessment
	Qualitative – interviewing/analysis			Epistemology
Methods Summaries
What is ethnography? What is an experiment? What is Using Film in Ethnographic Research? What is Structural Equation Modelling? What is eResearch? What is Social Network Analysis? What is ethnofiction? What is Time Series Analysis? Conducting focus groups What is creative interviewing? Introduction to online resources for the analysis of qualitative data: QUIC and CAQDAS Introduction to online resources for the analysis of qualitative data - part 2: Materials Introduction to online resources for the analysis of qualitative data - part 3: REQUALLO and OnlineQDA What is narrative analysis? Introduction to Impact Approaches and Contexts Consuming Anthropology The post-war university and the social change Vulnerability and sustainability of "impact" Hope, uncertainty and the research proposal What is blog analysis? What is event history analysis? What are bayesian methods? Ethics pages What is blog analysis? Seminar 1 Impact: approaches and contexts Causal modelling vs modelling causes The evaluation of treatment-effect mediation Qualitative Criteria for Causality: Operationalising Sufficient Causality with a Depth Ontology The UK Census: Information Sources and Resources What is formal logic? What is confirmatory factor analysis? What is grounded theory? The Economic and Social Data Service - large scale government datasets What is action research? What is agent-based social simulation? What is Sensitive interviewing? Are national statistics on subjective well-being valid and reliable? Tour of online QDA The impacts of a pledge campaign and the promise of publicity: a randomised controlled trial of charitable donations The UK Census: Information Sources and Resources Do Traditional "Get Out the Vote" Campaign Methods Work in Spain? Designing a Pilot Field Experiment on Non-Partisan Mobilisation of Immigrant and Native Voters The causal effect of schooling on social mobility: findings from a natural experiment Research Ethics and the University's Research Ethics Committee What is Visual Analytics Longitudinal resources for researching ethnicity: Understanding Society and the Millennium Cohort Study What is email interviewing? Narrative Analysis Blog Analysis Do impersonal mobilisation methods work? Natural experiments in innovation: radical adoption of computers and changes to 'physical' and 'social' technologies at Llanwern steelworks, South Wales The reporting of clinical trials and the impact on evidence synthesis The Impact Agenda, Seminar 2: Not in my name, Theatre Veritae What are Risk Scores in the Social Sciences? The Impact Agenda, Seminar 2: Beauty and the Built Environment The Impact Agenda, Seminar 2: 'Take me on your daily journey!' Mapping everyday life in Broughton/Cheetham Hill The Impact Agenda, Seminar 2: Impact, Legacy and Vale: We Play in the North West Factor Analysis Ethnography Health Survey for England - ESDS Government Labour Force Survey - ESDS Government Ethnofiction What is Qualitative Comparative Analysis? Research methods and social responsibility The Impact Agenda, Seminar 2: 'Beauty and Education' Latent Class Analysis British Social Attitudes Survey - ESDS Government An Introduction to Methods@Manchester Introduction to CCSR Quality in Qualitative Research Social Responsibility Seminar: Welcome and introduction When is it important to "make a difference", and when is it important to avoid such intervention? Sound and Social Research: Orality to Aurality Repeat interviews with poor people: lessons from the 'financial diaries' Participatory Methods Research in emergency humanitarian assistance When is it important to "make a difference", and when is it important to avoid such intervention? 2 Value and Evaluation: the ethics and politics of social responsibility Positive versus normative economics and the role of value judgements Interventions What is the relationship between 'ethics in research' and 'research in ethics' Social Responsibility Seminar: Discussion and future plans What is practice as research? Methods Fair: Introduction to Ketso Methods Fair introduction What is a scoping study? Applying Research to Real World Problems Methods Fair Montage The Impact Agenda, Seminar 4: Challenges in determining the impact of research in the biosciences: a funder perspective The Impact Agenda, Seminar 4: Re-use as Impact: Linking the Open and Impact Agendas The Impact Agenda, Seminar 4: Making Science Metrics More Scientific What is Latent Class Analysis? The Impact Agenda, Seminar 4: New Methods and Technologies to Create and Capture Impact What is oral history? What is Item Response Theory? What is Web Content Analysis? Thinking Qualitatively through Time: an Introduction to Qualitative longitudinal research The Timescapes Archive: sharing and re-using QL Data What is ethnography in sociology? What is Latent Structure Analysis? What is SNA using qualitative methods? Multiple-methods and the challenges of researching urban asylum Investigating changing ethnic diversity with a mixture of quantitative secondary data analysis and qualitative interviews Underneath the archive lies the street: researching the history of urban protest What is a Case Study in Accounting and Business Management? What is Fuzzy Set Analysis? What are Citizens' Juries? What is psychoanalytic and psychosocial research methodology? What is Spatial Data? What is Linked Data? What is Narrative Analysis 2? What is a narrative approach to translation? What is multilevel structural equation modelling? What is Generalized Method of Moments? - an introduction to a popular method of statistical estimation in econometrics What are Health Trajectories? What is poverty mapping? Introduction to methods@manchester Census Demographic Statistics and Geodemographic Tools Samples of Anonymised Records ESDS International ESDS Government An Introduction to MIMAS Social Network Analysis Generalised Methods of Moments Qualitative Methods used in the Realities Node Qualitative Comparative Analysis Structural Equation Modelling Multilevel Modelling Ethnomethodology What is ethnomethodology? What is the case study method (as used in Anthropology) What is Quality in Qualitative Research? What is Participatory research: possibilities and challenges? What is Multilevel Modelling? What is Material Culture?