“Creative” interviews are a form of interview that is qualitative, flexible, loosely or semi-structured (non-standardised) and involves the construction of data and knowledge through processes that can be seen as ‘creative’ in some way. We have two new resources on this topic: In this clip, Jennifer talks about creative interviewing: what it is; how to […]
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Hello Everyone, Just to let you know that the presentations from the Annual Conference are up on the website now, so those who were unable to attend might find them useful to take notes. http://www.the-sra.org.uk/presentations.htm The recorded presentations from the 4th ESRC Research Methods Festival (5-8 July 2010, St Catherine’s College Oxford) are […]
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Research in education requires a unity to face paradigmatic diversity. According to García Ferrando (1978), from its origins, social science has been a multiparadigmatic science, hence, education, being part of social sciences, it is obvious that the phenomena to analyse have such a complexity, that it would be impossible to grasp and explain them using […]
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Continue ReadingWe’ve now finished two ‘toolkits’ on different aspects of life as a mixed method researcher. The first one, ‘Practical considerations of leading and working on mixed method teams‘ we think of as a bit of a survival guide to working in mixed method projects: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/realities/resources/toolkits/mixed-method-working/ (let me know if you identify with any of the […]
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New working paper on the effect of questionnaire length on data quality in telephone interviews; may be of interest: http://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/publications/working-papers/iser/2010-36
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Major Dedoose Upgrade! We just completed the upgrade to version 1.1.15 after weeks of… well very difficult work. Performance and productivity across the application have been drastically boosted. Read more at http://blog.dedoose.com/?p=33
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I recently published an article on Sage’s Crime, Media and Culture regarding Juana Barraza Samperio, a wrestler known as la Dama del Silencio (the Lady of Silence), who has been declared the first female serial killer in Mexico. In January 2006, Barraza was arrested as the alleged Mataviejitas (the little old lady killer), a serial […]
Categories: Qualitative
Continue ReadingThis new toolkit, by Andrew Clark and Nick Emmel, draws on their experiences using walking interviews in outdoor urban environments, focusing on the practicalities of conducting these interviews and on ways of thinking about the data produced in the method, which we used as part of the Connected Lives project. http://www.manchester.ac.uk/realities/resources/toolkits/walking-interviews/ The Realities toolkit series […]
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The National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) is inviting applications for Networks for Methodological Innovation projects. The aim of this scheme is to enable networks of researchers to meet in order to stimulate debate and develop ideas in relation to methodological innovation. The scheme allows a series of events and related activities to be undertaken […]
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Continue ReadingDear allWe’ve recently collected together some of our online resources that people have told us they find useful either to support research methods taught modules, for postgraduate discussion seminars, or to pass on to PhD students. They are clustered in the areas of qualitative and mixed methods approaches in general with topics including visual methods, […]
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