National Centre for Research Methods
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The National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) delivers training in #ResearchMethods. Visit: www.ncrm.ac.uk
NCRM is a partnership between the University of Southampton and The University of Manchester. It is funded by the ESRC.
NCRM is a partnership between the University of Southampton and The University of Manchester. It is funded by the ESRC.
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Large-scale Data Analysis – Traditional Statistical Modelling, Machine Learning and AI-supported Methods.
NCRM delivers research methods training, produces learning resources, conducts research and supports methodological innovation
www.ncrm.ac.uk
Registration is open for a new spring school on large-scale data analysis.
The NCRM event will cover traditional statistical modelling, machine learning and AI-supported methods.
It comprises four hybrid courses between 2 and 5 March 2026.
Learn more:
The NCRM event will cover traditional statistical modelling, machine learning and AI-supported methods.
It comprises four hybrid courses between 2 and 5 March 2026.
Learn more:
Learn about questionnaire design and different modes of data collection on our online course.
Questionnaire Design for Web, Mobile Web and Mixed-Mode Surveys takes place on 24-26 March 2026.
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Questionnaire Design for Web, Mobile Web and Mixed-Mode Surveys takes place on 24-26 March 2026.
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Training course: Questionnaire Design for Web, Mobile Web and Mixed-Mode Surveys - Online
This online course on questionnaire design, explores question wording issues and the questionnaire as a whole with a focus on web surveys and mobile-friendly web surveys. The course is full of practi
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December 22, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Learn about questionnaire design and different modes of data collection on our online course.
Questionnaire Design for Web, Mobile Web and Mixed-Mode Surveys takes place on 24-26 March 2026.
Find out more and register:
Questionnaire Design for Web, Mobile Web and Mixed-Mode Surveys takes place on 24-26 March 2026.
Find out more and register:
Registration is open for a new spring school on large-scale data analysis.
The NCRM event will cover traditional statistical modelling, machine learning and AI-supported methods.
It comprises four hybrid courses between 2 and 5 March 2026.
Learn more:
The NCRM event will cover traditional statistical modelling, machine learning and AI-supported methods.
It comprises four hybrid courses between 2 and 5 March 2026.
Learn more:
Large-scale Data Analysis – Traditional Statistical Modelling, Machine Learning and AI-supported Methods.
NCRM delivers research methods training, produces learning resources, conducts research and supports methodological innovation
www.ncrm.ac.uk
December 17, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Registration is open for a new spring school on large-scale data analysis.
The NCRM event will cover traditional statistical modelling, machine learning and AI-supported methods.
It comprises four hybrid courses between 2 and 5 March 2026.
Learn more:
The NCRM event will cover traditional statistical modelling, machine learning and AI-supported methods.
It comprises four hybrid courses between 2 and 5 March 2026.
Learn more:
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in this new publication @ncrm.ac.uk, Adrian Millican, Fanni Toth (both SGIA researchers) and Andrew Hamilton, disability rights activist and one of our students in politics & IR, offer insights into teaching statistics to visually impaired students
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Seeing differently: Making R accessible for visually impaired students through collaborative learning design
This is an experiential rather than research case study of pedagogic practice. In this document, we provide
an overview of the resources that were created...
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December 11, 2025 at 3:57 PM
in this new publication @ncrm.ac.uk, Adrian Millican, Fanni Toth (both SGIA researchers) and Andrew Hamilton, disability rights activist and one of our students in politics & IR, offer insights into teaching statistics to visually impaired students
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Some fantastic bite-size videos, making up a training module on #Collaborative & #Participatory #ResearchMethods. All made by a fantastic MSIG team with @ncrm.ac.uk
Watch some or all of the videos! 🙂
Some fantastic bite-size videos, making up a training module on #Collaborative & #Participatory #ResearchMethods. All made by a fantastic MSIG team with @ncrm.ac.uk
Watch some or all of the videos! 🙂
Collaborative and Participatory Methodological Special Interest Group
This page contains seven training modules crated by the NCRM Collaborative and Participatory Methodological Special Interest Group.
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December 1, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Some fantastic bite-size videos, making up a training module on #Collaborative & #Participatory #ResearchMethods. All made by a fantastic MSIG team with @ncrm.ac.uk
Watch some or all of the videos! 🙂
Some fantastic bite-size videos, making up a training module on #Collaborative & #Participatory #ResearchMethods. All made by a fantastic MSIG team with @ncrm.ac.uk
Watch some or all of the videos! 🙂
NCRM has served as a central, cohesive force within the UK’s social science #ResearchMethods ecosystem for the past 20 years, fostering an interconnected community of researchers and training providers.
Find out how we're advancing training practices: www.ncrm.ac.uk/about/impact...
Find out how we're advancing training practices: www.ncrm.ac.uk/about/impact...
December 1, 2025 at 10:30 AM
NCRM has served as a central, cohesive force within the UK’s social science #ResearchMethods ecosystem for the past 20 years, fostering an interconnected community of researchers and training providers.
Find out how we're advancing training practices: www.ncrm.ac.uk/about/impact...
Find out how we're advancing training practices: www.ncrm.ac.uk/about/impact...
Interested in enhancing the quality of qualitative research?
NCRM is running an online course on 11 December 2025 that is perfect for you!
It will cover areas such as rigour, ethics and impact.
Learn more: www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=14497
#QualitativeResearch #ResearchMethods
NCRM is running an online course on 11 December 2025 that is perfect for you!
It will cover areas such as rigour, ethics and impact.
Learn more: www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=14497
#QualitativeResearch #ResearchMethods
Training course: Enhancing quality in Qualitative Research - Online
Quality in qualitative research is a much-debated topic, yet an important one. The aim of this one-day online training course is to introduce participants to quality criteria in qualitative research.
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November 24, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Interested in enhancing the quality of qualitative research?
NCRM is running an online course on 11 December 2025 that is perfect for you!
It will cover areas such as rigour, ethics and impact.
Learn more: www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=14497
#QualitativeResearch #ResearchMethods
NCRM is running an online course on 11 December 2025 that is perfect for you!
It will cover areas such as rigour, ethics and impact.
Learn more: www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=14497
#QualitativeResearch #ResearchMethods
Hear about ways of using large language models in #QualitativeResearch in our new video.
Five speakers discuss the potential of these #AI systems and the key questions facing researchers.
Watch the video: www.ncrm.ac.uk/resources/vi...
Five speakers discuss the potential of these #AI systems and the key questions facing researchers.
Watch the video: www.ncrm.ac.uk/resources/vi...
November 19, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Hear about ways of using large language models in #QualitativeResearch in our new video.
Five speakers discuss the potential of these #AI systems and the key questions facing researchers.
Watch the video: www.ncrm.ac.uk/resources/vi...
Five speakers discuss the potential of these #AI systems and the key questions facing researchers.
Watch the video: www.ncrm.ac.uk/resources/vi...
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THIS Wednesday - registrations still open so be sure to sign up for what looks set to be an engaging and topical session with @ncrm.ac.uk ⤵️
🗓️ Date for your diaries
CPC-CG's Athina Vlachantoni is a speaker at 2025's final @ncrm.ac.uk Data Resources Training Network webinar on 19 Nov:
'Exploring #digital life, #technology change & attitudes to #AI through national #datasets'
Register: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/e7fdca...
CPC-CG's Athina Vlachantoni is a speaker at 2025's final @ncrm.ac.uk Data Resources Training Network webinar on 19 Nov:
'Exploring #digital life, #technology change & attitudes to #AI through national #datasets'
Register: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/e7fdca...
November 17, 2025 at 1:22 PM
THIS Wednesday - registrations still open so be sure to sign up for what looks set to be an engaging and topical session with @ncrm.ac.uk ⤵️
A new series of videos outlines methods for big qual analysis.
The videos, available to access for free on the NCRM website, provide short overviews of four different approaches.
Access the videos: www.ncrm.ac.uk/about/engage...
#ResearchMethods #QualitativeData
The videos, available to access for free on the NCRM website, provide short overviews of four different approaches.
Access the videos: www.ncrm.ac.uk/about/engage...
#ResearchMethods #QualitativeData
November 18, 2025 at 12:01 PM
A new series of videos outlines methods for big qual analysis.
The videos, available to access for free on the NCRM website, provide short overviews of four different approaches.
Access the videos: www.ncrm.ac.uk/about/engage...
#ResearchMethods #QualitativeData
The videos, available to access for free on the NCRM website, provide short overviews of four different approaches.
Access the videos: www.ncrm.ac.uk/about/engage...
#ResearchMethods #QualitativeData
Push the boundaries of ethnographic narratives!
Learn the role of creative approaches in #ethnography in our upcoming online course.
Creative Ethnographies takes place on 24-25 November 2025 and is led by @tereheng.bsky.social.
Register: www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=14517
Learn the role of creative approaches in #ethnography in our upcoming online course.
Creative Ethnographies takes place on 24-25 November 2025 and is led by @tereheng.bsky.social.
Register: www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=14517
Training course: Creative Ethnographies
A key attraction for ethnographic narratives are their ability to draw a reader into a rich, thick description of people, spaces, interactions and objects. Such descriptions bring mundane details to
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November 17, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Push the boundaries of ethnographic narratives!
Learn the role of creative approaches in #ethnography in our upcoming online course.
Creative Ethnographies takes place on 24-25 November 2025 and is led by @tereheng.bsky.social.
Register: www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=14517
Learn the role of creative approaches in #ethnography in our upcoming online course.
Creative Ethnographies takes place on 24-25 November 2025 and is led by @tereheng.bsky.social.
Register: www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=14517
Are you planning to undertake #quantitative research on #education in England?
We're running a course on the National Pupil Database, a resource covering the English school system.
The online course will be held on 2-3 December 2025.
Sign up: www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=14154
We're running a course on the National Pupil Database, a resource covering the English school system.
The online course will be held on 2-3 December 2025.
Sign up: www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=14154
November 14, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Are you planning to undertake #quantitative research on #education in England?
We're running a course on the National Pupil Database, a resource covering the English school system.
The online course will be held on 2-3 December 2025.
Sign up: www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=14154
We're running a course on the National Pupil Database, a resource covering the English school system.
The online course will be held on 2-3 December 2025.
Sign up: www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=14154
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‼️Coming up next week - still time to register to attend: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/e7fdca... @ncrm.ac.uk @bspsuk.bsky.social @elsa-study.bsky.social @britishgerontology.bsky.social @cra-soton.bsky.social
🗓️ Date for your diaries
CPC-CG's Athina Vlachantoni is a speaker at 2025's final @ncrm.ac.uk Data Resources Training Network webinar on 19 Nov:
'Exploring #digital life, #technology change & attitudes to #AI through national #datasets'
Register: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/e7fdca...
CPC-CG's Athina Vlachantoni is a speaker at 2025's final @ncrm.ac.uk Data Resources Training Network webinar on 19 Nov:
'Exploring #digital life, #technology change & attitudes to #AI through national #datasets'
Register: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/e7fdca...
November 12, 2025 at 10:06 AM
‼️Coming up next week - still time to register to attend: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/e7fdca... @ncrm.ac.uk @bspsuk.bsky.social @elsa-study.bsky.social @britishgerontology.bsky.social @cra-soton.bsky.social
Is AI the future of health and social science research?
Join the free debate on Monday, 15 December at @IOE_London where experts will discuss this critical topic.
Book a place: ow.ly/eLI250XpY7e
#ResearchMethods #AI
Join the free debate on Monday, 15 December at @IOE_London where experts will discuss this critical topic.
Book a place: ow.ly/eLI250XpY7e
#ResearchMethods #AI
Is AI the future of health and social science? A debate
Join us for a thought provoking debate on whether AI will revolutionise quantitative health and social science research.
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November 12, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Is AI the future of health and social science research?
Join the free debate on Monday, 15 December at @IOE_London where experts will discuss this critical topic.
Book a place: ow.ly/eLI250XpY7e
#ResearchMethods #AI
Join the free debate on Monday, 15 December at @IOE_London where experts will discuss this critical topic.
Book a place: ow.ly/eLI250XpY7e
#ResearchMethods #AI
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Exploring youth transitions and outcomes through national datasets. Focusing on secondary, quantitative data - including Understanding Society. Join the @ncrm.ac.uk Data Resources Training Network webinar - 11 Nov, 12.00- 13.30. events.teams.microsoft.com/event/e66aa5...
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November 10, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Exploring youth transitions and outcomes through national datasets. Focusing on secondary, quantitative data - including Understanding Society. Join the @ncrm.ac.uk Data Resources Training Network webinar - 11 Nov, 12.00- 13.30. events.teams.microsoft.com/event/e66aa5...
Interested in learning how to use #AI tools to optimise #research processes?
Join our beginner’s workshop on 4 December 2025.
Find out more and register:
Join our beginner’s workshop on 4 December 2025.
Find out more and register:
Training course: How to Use Gen AI: A Beginner’s Workshop for Researchers
This two-hour and 30-minute workshop will explore what Gen AI tools exist that are helpful for researchers and how they can be used to optimise research processes.It is a workshop for Gen AI beginner
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November 7, 2025 at 1:02 PM
NCRM has published a new online resource to provide support and inspiration to #ResearchMethods teachers.
The free resource comprises 18 short publications on a wide range of methods and approaches, all written by other teachers.
Access the resource:
The free resource comprises 18 short publications on a wide range of methods and approaches, all written by other teachers.
Access the resource:
Sparking ‘Aha’ Moments: A Resource for Teaching Research Methods
NCRM delivers research methods training, produces learning resources, conducts research and supports methodological innovation
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November 6, 2025 at 1:30 PM
NCRM has published a new online resource to provide support and inspiration to #ResearchMethods teachers.
The free resource comprises 18 short publications on a wide range of methods and approaches, all written by other teachers.
Access the resource:
The free resource comprises 18 short publications on a wide range of methods and approaches, all written by other teachers.
Access the resource:
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Teaching social research methods? Lots of free to access ideas for generating those lightbulb moments from @ncrm.ac.uk
Sparking ‘Aha’ Moments: A Resource for Teaching Research Methods
NCRM delivers research methods training, produces learning resources, conducts research and supports methodological innovation
www.ncrm.ac.uk
November 1, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Teaching social research methods? Lots of free to access ideas for generating those lightbulb moments from @ncrm.ac.uk
NCRM has supported #ResearchMethods innovation and helped to advance training practices through a range of initiatives.
These include national networks, which enabled members to share knowledge, collaborate and identify priorities.
Read about our impact: buff.ly/RisFFv4
These include national networks, which enabled members to share knowledge, collaborate and identify priorities.
Read about our impact: buff.ly/RisFFv4
November 3, 2025 at 11:01 AM
NCRM has supported #ResearchMethods innovation and helped to advance training practices through a range of initiatives.
These include national networks, which enabled members to share knowledge, collaborate and identify priorities.
Read about our impact: buff.ly/RisFFv4
These include national networks, which enabled members to share knowledge, collaborate and identify priorities.
Read about our impact: buff.ly/RisFFv4
The NCRM short course Political Ethnography will be run online between 21 Nov. and 12 Dec. 2025.
It will teach participants how to conduct #qualitative field research, particularly participant observation and interviewing.
Register: www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=14423
It will teach participants how to conduct #qualitative field research, particularly participant observation and interviewing.
Register: www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=14423
Training course: Political Ethnography - Online
This online course, taught over four mornings, aims to teach participants how to conduct qualitative field research, particularly participant observation and ordinary language interviewing. The cours
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October 28, 2025 at 12:01 PM
The NCRM short course Political Ethnography will be run online between 21 Nov. and 12 Dec. 2025.
It will teach participants how to conduct #qualitative field research, particularly participant observation and interviewing.
Register: www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=14423
It will teach participants how to conduct #qualitative field research, particularly participant observation and interviewing.
Register: www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=14423
Looking for an introduction to #AI and machine learning?
NCRM is running an online short course on 10-11 November 2025.
Learn more: www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=14362
NCRM is running an online short course on 10-11 November 2025.
Learn more: www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=14362
Training course: Introduction to Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence - online
This two-day online introductory course offers an overview of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML), covering key concepts, real-world applications, basic learning algorithms, and et
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October 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Looking for an introduction to #AI and machine learning?
NCRM is running an online short course on 10-11 November 2025.
Learn more: www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=14362
NCRM is running an online short course on 10-11 November 2025.
Learn more: www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=14362
Learn how to conduct open source investigations on NCRM's upcoming short course.
The course will be held online over two days, on 20 and 28 November 2025. It will include considerations of ethics in #OpenSource research.
Sign up:
The course will be held online over two days, on 20 and 28 November 2025. It will include considerations of ethics in #OpenSource research.
Sign up:
Training course: An Introduction to Ethical Open Source Investigation - online
An Introduction to Ethical Open Source Investigation is a two-part methodology course which teaches practical open source skills whilst foregrounding a critical and reflexive approach to open source
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October 23, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Learn how to conduct open source investigations on NCRM's upcoming short course.
The course will be held online over two days, on 20 and 28 November 2025. It will include considerations of ethics in #OpenSource research.
Sign up:
The course will be held online over two days, on 20 and 28 November 2025. It will include considerations of ethics in #OpenSource research.
Sign up:
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Now out, free for everyone, my resources on survival analysis (including Cox regression models) with practicals and solutions. Available at @ncrm.ac.uk #statistics #survivalanalysis #research #methodology www.ncrm.ac.uk/resources/on...
NCRM resource | Advanced Topics in Survival Analysis by Oliver Perra
Survival analysis is a statistical approach used to investigate the occurrence and the timing of events. The specific nature and characteristics of the outcome of interest (whether and when an event
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October 21, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Now out, free for everyone, my resources on survival analysis (including Cox regression models) with practicals and solutions. Available at @ncrm.ac.uk #statistics #survivalanalysis #research #methodology www.ncrm.ac.uk/resources/on...
NCRM is running a one-day course on four #qualitative methods – photo go-alongs, collage, life history interviews and participant packs.
The online course, on 5 November 2025, will be led by @amycbarron.bsky.social.
Read more:
The online course, on 5 November 2025, will be led by @amycbarron.bsky.social.
Read more:
Training course: Four Qualitative Methods for Understanding Diverse Lives
In this one-day online training workshop you will be introduced to four qualitative research methods to better understand diverse lives - Photo Go-Alongs, Collage, Life History Interviews and Partici
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October 16, 2025 at 12:30 PM
NCRM is running a one-day course on four #qualitative methods – photo go-alongs, collage, life history interviews and participant packs.
The online course, on 5 November 2025, will be led by @amycbarron.bsky.social.
Read more:
The online course, on 5 November 2025, will be led by @amycbarron.bsky.social.
Read more:
The NCRM course Participatory Action Research: Equitable Partnerships and Engaged Research takes place on 4-11 November 2025.
Led by @kimozano.bsky.social, the online course includes practical activities and advice clinics.
Register:
Led by @kimozano.bsky.social, the online course includes practical activities and advice clinics.
Register:
Training course: Participatory Action Research (PAR): Equitable Partners and Engaged Research
PAR aims to create a space for researcher and participants to co-produce knowledge and where relevant, action for change. PAR is considered as a research paradigm in itself, that embodies a particula
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October 15, 2025 at 11:30 AM
The NCRM course Participatory Action Research: Equitable Partnerships and Engaged Research takes place on 4-11 November 2025.
Led by @kimozano.bsky.social, the online course includes practical activities and advice clinics.
Register:
Led by @kimozano.bsky.social, the online course includes practical activities and advice clinics.
Register:
A series of free webinars is exploring the use of national datasets for #research on various topics.
The next events in the Data Resources Training Network series will cover:
Youth transitions (11 Nov): ow.ly/CPqN50X94fJ
Digital life (19 Nov): ow.ly/ytmZ50X94fK
The next events in the Data Resources Training Network series will cover:
Youth transitions (11 Nov): ow.ly/CPqN50X94fJ
Digital life (19 Nov): ow.ly/ytmZ50X94fK
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Microsoft Virtual Events Powered by Teams
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October 9, 2025 at 12:30 PM
A series of free webinars is exploring the use of national datasets for #research on various topics.
The next events in the Data Resources Training Network series will cover:
Youth transitions (11 Nov): ow.ly/CPqN50X94fJ
Digital life (19 Nov): ow.ly/ytmZ50X94fK
The next events in the Data Resources Training Network series will cover:
Youth transitions (11 Nov): ow.ly/CPqN50X94fJ
Digital life (19 Nov): ow.ly/ytmZ50X94fK