Three speakers introduce their differing methodological approaches to researching ageing, exploring the possibilities and challenges of each. 3-5pm. No fee.
This is a practical, intensive course to improve your creative interviewing skills. Participants will explore a range of techniques and then conduct a short practice interview with another participant. Interviews will be recorded, transcribed and the course leader, Jennifer Mason,
You can now upgrade to MLwiN Beta 2.10 (7) for free if you have an existing licence or are eligible for a free download. If you have already downloaded your MLwiN software (free-qualifiers or purchasers) you can also upgrade for
National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) is offering training bursaries up to £1000 to enable staff in the UK social science community engaged in research, teaching research methods or supervising research to update their skills. Contract researchers working in HEIs
University of SurreyFaculty of Arts and Human SciencesDepartment of SociologyResearch Fellow - (Ref: 6704)Innovations in social science research methods: an international perspectiveSalary: up to £29,138 per annum Applications are invited for a Research Fellow to work with Professor Nigel Gilbert
A new position of Training and Capacity Building Developer, to work as part of the NCRM hub team at the University of Southampton over the next 5 years, has been advertised (with closing date 5th September). Further details available at
The National Centre for Research Methods will be holding its fourth residential training event targeted at early career researchers between November 12th to 14th. The theme this year is on the challenges and opportunities of new sources of data and
The Economic and Social Research Council invites proposals for a Quantitative Research Node within the application strand of the NCeSS research programme. The National Centre for e-Social Science (NCeSS) is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) to
The Research Councils UK (RCUK) has unveiled its 2008 Large Facilities Roadmap, featuring a wide array of major research infrastructures such as light sources, research ships, state of the art laboratories and ... NCRM. See http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/news/080714.htm .
This course is designed to be of interest to researchers in statisticsand biostatistics or those interested in quantitative applications inepidemiology, medicine, biological sciences, social sciences andenvironmental science, plus individuals with a general interest inunderstanding and applying advanced quantitative Bayesianmethods. There
Times Higher Education magazine (10 July 2008) has reported on ethical issues of e-research, which was one of the themes at the recent ESRC Research Methods Festival organised by NCRM. To read the full article please go to Times Higher
Psychological processes in reasoning about statistics in the social sciences: What do students find hard about learning statistics? We are inviting applications for a PhD studentship on this topic, which is open to EU nationals only, due to the nature
The ESRC, with the support of BBSRC and MRC, invites applications for innovative exploratory networks (ENs) in the area of Â'Understanding Individual BehaviourÂ’ (UIB). Many of the major challenges facing UK society depend on improving understanding on why people behave
This intermediate level workshop provides an introduction to multilevel modelling of discrete (categorical and count) data. We assume that participants are familiar with multilevel models for continuous response variables (to the level implied by our Introduction to Multilevel Modelling workshop
New research findings by Professor Harvey Goldstein and George Leckie, based in the Centre for Multilevel Modelling, were broadcast on this Monday's edition of BBC Radio 4's Learning Curve. Harvey Goldstein spoke to presenter Libby Purves about how recent research,
Another in the series of slide presentations on our web site which have been synchronised with voice-overs and subtitles: Covariance and Correlation Matrices. Go to our video presentations page for more details about these and other audio-visual presentations from the
There are two new slide presentations on our web site which have been synchronised with voice-overs and subtitles: 1) Residuals - an Introduction, and 2) Measuring Dependency. Go to our video presentations page for more details about these and other
You can now download the first two Methods Briefings from the Qualiti website. Research Findings from the Demonstrator project, Gendered Suicide, also available Visit the Qualiti website for more.
