Methods

Methods

60 episodes

The Methods podcast brings you conversations with leading international experts on a wide range of topics related to research methods. The podcast explores methodological innovations, provides practical tips and discusses new challenges and opportunities. The latest series focuses on qualitative longitudinal and mixed methods research and was recorded as part of the EU-funded YouthLife project. The podcast is produced by the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM), a UK centre that delivers training and resources on research methods, supporting researchers in the social sciences and beyond.

Podcasts

Laura Bernardi on mixed methods and research questions (NCRM) - Catherine McDonald, Laura Bernardi

Published: April 27, 2023, midnight
Duration: 21 minutes 24 seconds

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JD Carpentieri on qualitative research and theory (NCRM) - Catherine McDonald, JD Carpentieri

Published: March 29, 2023, midnight
Duration: 29 minutes 8 seconds

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Dan Woodman on mixed and qualitative longitudinal approaches (NCRM) - Catherine McDonald, Dan Woodman

Published: Jan. 25, 2023, midnight
Duration: 25 minutes 22 seconds

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Jane Gray on researching social change over time (NCRM) - Catherine McDonald, Jane Gray

Published: Nov. 29, 2022, midnight
Duration: 20 minutes 19 seconds

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Johnny Saldaña on qualitative longitudinal research (NCRM) - Catherine McDonald, Johnny Saldaña

Published: Oct. 26, 2022, midnight
Duration: 33 minutes 21 seconds

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Teaching Big Qual: benefits and challenges for students and teachers (NCRM) - Ros Edwards and Sarah Lewthwaite

Published: Dec. 20, 2018, midnight
Duration: 14 minutes 15 seconds

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Remember your body: a somatics toolkit for ethnographers (NCRM) - Eline Kieft

Published: Oct. 11, 2018, midnight
Duration: 13 minutes 50 seconds

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A short introduction to the Timescapes Archive - Kahryn Hughes

Published: Sept. 26, 2018, 4 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 57 seconds

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A short introduction to the Timescapes Archive (NCRM) - Kahryn Hughes

Published: Sept. 26, 2018, midnight
Duration: 5 minutes 57 seconds

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Transforming lives with storytelling - Joanna Wheeler

Published: Aug. 6, 2018, 5 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 21 seconds

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Transforming lives with storytelling (NCRM) - Joanna Wheeler

Published: Aug. 6, 2018, midnight
Duration: 13 minutes 21 seconds

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Mind the gap: why skills are key to data re-use - Richard Welpton

Published: June 25, 2018, 3 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 45 seconds

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Mind the gap: why skills are key to data re-use (NCRM) - Richard Welpton

Published: June 25, 2018, midnight
Duration: 13 minutes 45 seconds

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Using satellites to slash survey costs (NCRM) - Marco Haenssgen and Ern Charoenboon

Published: June 15, 2018, midnight
Duration: 12 minutes 55 seconds

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Using satellites to slash survey costs - Marco Haenssgen and Ern Charoenboon

Published: June 15, 2018, midnight
Duration: 12 minutes 55 seconds

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Diary of a participant: using apps for qualitative research. (NCRM) - Laura Radcliffe and Leighann Spencer

Published: May 11, 2018, midnight
Duration: 17 minutes 47 seconds

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Changing the world with mixed methods - Donna Mertens

Published: April 17, 2018, 2 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 10 seconds

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Changing the world with mixed methods (NCRM) - Donna Mertens

Published: April 17, 2018, midnight
Duration: 14 minutes 10 seconds

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Understanding poverty using visual participatory methods: can it work? (NCRM) - Daniel McCulloch

Published: March 6, 2018, midnight
Duration: 10 minutes 50 seconds

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Digging deep! The archaeological metaphor helping researchers get into Big Qual (NCRM) - Susie Weller

Published: Dec. 19, 2017, midnight
Duration: 11 minutes 19 seconds

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Multi-sited ethnography: a researcher’s story - Pauline von Hellermann

Published: Nov. 15, 2017, 1 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 24 seconds

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Multi-sited ethnography: a researcher’s story (NCRM) - Pauline von Hellermann

Published: Nov. 15, 2017, midnight
Duration: 13 minutes 24 seconds

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Having a family: what can our genes tell us about fertility? (NCRM) - Melinda Mills

Published: Oct. 2, 2017, midnight
Duration: 15 minutes

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Using mobile devices to understand spending - Annette Jackle

Published: Aug. 10, 2017, 10 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 13 seconds

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Using mobile devices to understand spending (NCRM) - Annette Jackle

Published: Aug. 10, 2017, midnight
Duration: 15 minutes 13 seconds

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Telling a longitudinal story - Vernon Gayle

Published: June 6, 2017, 4 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 57 seconds

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Telling a longitudinal story (NCRM) - Vernon Gayle

Published: June 6, 2017, midnight
Duration: 15 minutes 57 seconds

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Questions of disclosure: a synthetic answer (NCRM) - David Martin

Published: March 15, 2017, midnight
Duration: 14 minutes 47 seconds

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Questions of disclosure: a synthetic answer - David Martin

Published: March 15, 2017, midnight
Duration: 14 minutes 47 seconds

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How are we influenced by the information we are exposed to? (NCRM) - Iulia Cioroianu

Published: Dec. 19, 2016, midnight
Duration: 12 minutes 59 seconds

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Reproducing social science research: give up your code (NCRM) - Vernon Gayle

Published: Dec. 6, 2016, midnight
Duration: 9 minutes 17 seconds

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Introduction to time use diaries - Jonathan Gershuny

Published: July 28, 2016, 5 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 39 seconds

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Introduction to time use diaries (NCRM) - Jonathan Gershuny

Published: July 28, 2016, midnight
Duration: 10 minutes 39 seconds

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Using visual diaries to capture the everyday lives of people in mid to later life (NCRM) - Wendy Martin

Published: July 27, 2016, midnight
Duration: 12 minutes 11 seconds

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'Statistics Anxiety' A Fairy Tale For Our Times? - John MacInnes

Published: July 25, 2016, 11 a.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 20 seconds

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'Statistics Anxiety' A Fairy Tale For Our Times? (NCRM) - John MacInnes

Published: July 25, 2016, midnight
Duration: 11 minutes 20 seconds

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Visualising social trends in 3D - Jon Minton

Published: June 21, 2016, 3 a.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 17 seconds

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Visualising social trends in 3D (NCRM) - Jon Minton

Published: June 21, 2016, midnight
Duration: 17 minutes 17 seconds

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Researching the oldest old and those living and dying with dementia in care homes (NCRM) - Claire Goodman

Published: June 3, 2016, midnight
Duration: 14 minutes 32 seconds

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Inquiry into the 2015 British general election opinion polls (NCRM) - Patrick Sturgis

Published: April 18, 2016, midnight
Duration: 9 minutes 45 seconds

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Is it possible to use creative methods to research migration and citizenship (NCRM) - Umut Erel

Published: March 21, 2016, midnight
Duration: 15 minutes 8 seconds

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Shared understanding between improvising musicians (NCRM) - Michael Schober

Published: Dec. 2, 2015, midnight
Duration: 11 minutes 22 seconds

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Data linkage: challenges and opportunities (NCRM) - Peter Elias

Published: July 19, 2015, midnight
Duration: 8 minutes 48 seconds

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Data linkage: challenges and opportunities - Peter Elias

Published: July 19, 2015, midnight
Duration: 8 minutes 48 seconds

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Care.data: the challenges of linking health service data (NCRM) - Neil Serougi

Published: July 19, 2015, midnight
Duration: 6 minutes 5 seconds

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Teaching and learning social research methods (NCRM) - Melanie Nind, Daniel Kilburn and Rebekah Luff

Published: May 26, 2015, midnight
Duration: 11 minutes 11 seconds

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Teaching and learning social research methods - Melanie Nind, Daniel Kilburn and Rebekah Luff

Published: May 26, 2015, midnight
Duration: 11 minutes 11 seconds

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Using Skype in qualitative interviews with young people (NCRM) - Susie Weller

Published: April 28, 2015, midnight
Duration: 12 minutes 54 seconds

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Surveying UK population's political attitudes – British Election Study (NCRM) - Jane Green

Published: March 24, 2015, midnight
Duration: 11 minutes 25 seconds

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Predicting and understanding the 2015 General Election (NCRM) - Professor John Curtice

Published: March 4, 2015, midnight
Duration: 21 minutes 59 seconds

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To probe or not to probe (NCRM) - Jouni Kuha

Published: Jan. 21, 2015, midnight
Duration: 11 minutes 47 seconds

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To probe or not to probe - Jouni Kuha

Published: Jan. 21, 2015, midnight
Duration: 11 minutes 47 seconds

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Face 2 Face: Tracing the real and the mediated in children's cultural worlds (NCRM) - Liam Berriman

Published: Oct. 22, 2014, midnight
Duration: 8 minutes 34 seconds

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Using Social Media in Research - Jamie Bartlett

Published: Sept. 17, 2014, 4 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 28 seconds

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Using Social Media in Research (NCRM) - Jamie Bartlett

Published: Sept. 17, 2014, midnight
Duration: 7 minutes 28 seconds

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Telling the untellable: researching emotionally sensitive and challenging topics (NCRM) - Denise Turner

Published: Aug. 11, 2014, midnight
Duration: 14 minutes 48 seconds

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Paradata in qualitative research - Rosalind Edwards

Published: July 14, 2014, 2 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 11 seconds

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Paradata in qualitative research (NCRM) - Rosalind Edwards

Published: July 14, 2014, midnight
Duration: 14 minutes 11 seconds

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The potential of crowdsourcing for research and funding in academia (NCRM) - Dr Andrew Hudson-Smith

Published: July 4, 2014, midnight
Duration: 14 minutes 17 seconds

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Communicating chronic pain: Interdisciplinary methods for non-textual data (NCRM) - Dr Jen Tarr

Published: June 18, 2014, midnight
Duration: 14 minutes 23 seconds

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Methodological innovation in digital arts and social sciences (NCRM) - Carey Jewitt

Published: June 10, 2014, midnight
Duration: 13 minutes 21 seconds

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Reverse engineering Chinese censorship: social media and research (NCRM) - Gary King

Published: May 23, 2014, midnight
Duration: 17 minutes 11 seconds

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The 'Thing-ness' problem of mixed methods research - Sharlene Hesse-Biber

Published: May 13, 2014, 11 a.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 56 seconds

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The 'Thing-ness' problem of mixed methods research (NCRM) - Sharlene Hesse-Biber

Published: May 13, 2014, midnight
Duration: 11 minutes 56 seconds

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What is inclusive research? - Melanie Nind

Published: April 15, 2014, 10 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 3 seconds

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What is inclusive research? (NCRM) - Melanie Nind

Published: April 15, 2014, midnight
Duration: 14 minutes 3 seconds

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Web surveys for the general population: How, why and when? (NCRM) - Gerry Nicolaas

Published: Jan. 22, 2014, midnight
Duration: 10 minutes 48 seconds

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Narrative imagination and everyday life - Molly Andrews

Published: Nov. 25, 2013, 3 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 25 seconds

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Narrative imagination and everyday life (NCRM) - Molly Andrews

Published: Nov. 25, 2013, midnight
Duration: 14 minutes 25 seconds

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Ethnic diversity, segregation and the social cohesion of neighbourhoods in London (NCRM) - Patrick Sturgis

Published: Oct. 25, 2013, midnight
Duration: 9 minutes 30 seconds

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Simulation of daily patterns of commuting and social activity (NCRM) - David Martin

Published: Aug. 5, 2013, midnight
Duration: 12 minutes 26 seconds

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Biosocial pathways to health - George Ploubidis

Published: July 18, 2013, 10 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 28 seconds

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Biosocial pathways to health (NCRM) - George Ploubidis

Published: July 18, 2013, midnight
Duration: 8 minutes 28 seconds

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How many interviews is enough? - Rosalind Edwards

Published: June 5, 2013, 1 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 59 seconds

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How many interviews is enough? (NCRM) - Rosalind Edwards

Published: June 5, 2013, midnight
Duration: 9 minutes 59 seconds

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Relationship between employment transitions and mental health among British men (NCRM) - Fiona Steele

Published: April 30, 2013, midnight
Duration: 10 minutes 10 seconds

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Big Data challenges for social scientists - Mark Birkin

Published: April 8, 2013, 3 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 33 seconds

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Big Data challenges for social scientists (NCRM) - Mark Birkin

Published: April 8, 2013, midnight
Duration: 10 minutes 33 seconds

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Digital technologies in the operating theatre - Jeff Bezemer

Published: March 8, 2013, noon
Duration: 11 minutes 27 seconds

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Digital technologies in the operating theatre (NCRM) - Jeff Bezemer

Published: March 8, 2013, midnight
Duration: 11 minutes 27 seconds

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Digital Methods - Digital Methods Researchers

Published: Jan. 22, 2013, 1:40 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 2 seconds

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Digital Methods (NCRM) - Digital Methods Researchers

Published: Jan. 22, 2013, midnight
Duration: 11 minutes 2 seconds

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What are Qualitative Research Ethics - Rose Wiles

Published: Nov. 29, 2012, 6:22 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 39 seconds

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What are Qualitative Research Ethics (NCRM) - Rose Wiles

Published: Nov. 29, 2012, midnight
Duration: 12 minutes 39 seconds

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Evaluating and improving small area estimation methods (NCRM) - Adam Whitworth

Published: Nov. 28, 2012, midnight
Duration: 9 minutes 12 seconds

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Blurring the boundaries - Gareth Morrell

Published: Oct. 18, 2012, 3:22 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 47 seconds

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Blurring the boundaries (NCRM) - Gareth Morrell

Published: Oct. 18, 2012, midnight
Duration: 9 minutes 47 seconds

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