Methods Matter - Surveys & Questionnaires
The Methods Matter Podcast - from Dementia Researcher & the National Centre for Research Methods. A podcast for people who don't know much about methods...those who do, and those who just want to find news and clever ways to use them in their research.\n\nIn this second series Clinical Research Fellow, Dr Donncha Mullin from The University of Edinburgh brings together leading experts in research methodology, and the dementia researchers that use them, to provide a fun introduction to five qualitive research methods in a safe space where there are no such things as dumb questions!\n\nEpisode Four \u2013 Surveys and Questionnaires\n\nIn expert corner - Dr Petra Boynton. Petra is a Social Psychologist, specialising in International Health Research from a critical perspective. Over the past 20 years she has taught, supervised, and undertaken research across the social and health sciences and development within university and community settings as well as writing extensively Academic life, including publishing a book called \u2018Being Well in Academia\u2019, and being an Agony Aunt.\n\nIn researcher ranch \u2013 Dr Larissa Bartlett, who is an ISLAND Research Fellow at the Wicking Dementia Research & Education Centre at the University of Tasmania. Larissa\u2019s PhD focussed on the promises and challenges of workplace-delivered mindfulness interventions for employee health and performance. Now Larissa leads the ISLAND Study, a large, 10-year prospective public health cohort study with nested interventions targeting modifiable dementia risk factors at population-level in adults aged 50+.\n\nFurther reading referenced in the show:\n\nSage Video Tutorials - https://methods.sagepub.com/Search/Results \nScribbr Guide - https://www.scribbr.co.uk/research-methods/surveys/ \nNCRM Survey Guidance - https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/search/?q=surveys \nJulie Ponto, Understanding and Evaluating Survey Research - https://bit.ly/3RHZRzp \nBMJ Hands On Guide to Questionnaires - https://www.bmj.com/content/328/7452/1372 \nWrite a Questionnaire, a Little Quick Fix - https://bit.ly/3cSBroj \n\n--\n\nRead more about our guests and listen to more great podcasts at:\nhttps://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk \n\nThe National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) provides a service to learners, trainers and partner organisations in the research methods community - methodological training and resources on core and advanced quantitative, qualitive, digital, creative, visual, mixed and multimodal methods.\n\nhttps://www.ncrm.ac.uk \n\n--\n\nThis podcast is brought to you in association with Alzheimer's Research UK and Alzheimer's Society, who we thank for their ongoing support.