Martyn Hammersley gives an introduction to analytic induction as a social scientific method. Analytic induction claims to specify what is required if we are to archieve reliably sound conclusions about the causes of some type of outcome, and it is aimed at identifying the necessary and jointly sufficient conditions that must be met for the type of outcome concerned to occur.

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What is analytic induction? by Professor Martyn Hammersley

Jane Elliott gives an introduction to cohort studies. She talks about the content and design of the British Birth Cohort studies at the Centre for Longitudinal Studies, the distinction between a cohort study and a panel study, and examples of research using cohort data.

What are cohort studies? by Professor Jane Elliott

Graham Crow gives an introduction to community studies. He talks about the tradition of community studies, definitions, methodological issues and examples of such studies.

What are community studies? by Professor Graham Crow

Stephanie Taylor gives an introduction to discourse analysis. She talks about the definitions of discourse analysis, what kind of data is used and for what purpose.

What is discourse analysis? by Dr Stephanie Taylor

Bansi Malde gives an introduction to electronic data collection methods. She talks specifically about collecting data electronically in developing countries, which is driven by growing demand for evaluation of interventions and policies, lack of suitable existing data and the desire to collect high quality data at low cost.

What are electronic data collection methods? by Ms Bansi Malde

Fiona Steele gives an introduction of event history analysis (EHA). She talks about the applications of EHA, data and methods of analysis. EHA is also known as survival analysis, duration analysis and hazard modelling.

What is event history analysis? by Professor Fiona Steele

Mark Birkin gives an introduction to geosimulation, which aims to improve our understanding of how spatial social systems such as cities work and what their most important features are.

NCRM What is geosimulation? by Professor Mark Birkin

Kelvyn Jones gives an introduction to multilevel modelling. He talks about what sort of problems can be tackled by multilevel models; modelling differences, progress and change; and he also gives some examples.

What is multilevel modelling? by Professor Kelvyn Jones

Carey Jewitt and Jeff Bezemer give an introduction to multimodality, which is an inter-disciplinary approach that understands communication and representation to be more than about language.

What is multimodality? by Professor Carey Jewitt and Dr Jeff Bezemer

Molly Andrews gives an introduction to narrative interviewing. Stories are an important means through which we communicate with one another and with ourselves; one way of eliciting stories is through interviews.

What is narrative interviewing? by Professor Molly Andrews

Tristram Hooley gives an introduction to online research. He talks about the breadth of online research across disciplines, including online interviews, focus groups, surveys, ethnographies and experiments.

What is online research? by Dr Tristram Hooley

Barbara Sianesi gives an introduction to propensity score matching, which is a method/device to make two groups look the same.

What is propensity score matching? by Dr Barbara Sianesi

Rose Wiles gives an introduction to qualitative research ethics. She talks about what is meant by ethics and outlines ethical frameworks for helping the consideration of ethical dilemmas.

What are qualitative research ethics? by Dr Rose Wiles

Mike Brewer gives an introduction to regression discontinuity approach, which is a way of undertaking causal inference, usually of some policy intervention.

What is the regression discontinuity approach? by Professor Mike Brewer

John Scott gives an introduction to social network analysis, which is a general structural and relational method looking at social interaction at micro or macro level.

What is social network analysis? by Professor John Scott

The National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) What is? series from the Research Methods Festival 2012

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NCRM What is? series

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