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The aim of the website is to provide an online training resource for researchers who are interested in using online research methods such as online questionnaires and online interviews. The website is targeted at a wide audience including researchers and postgraduates in the HE sector, and researchers working for other organisations such as those involved with public policy and market research. |
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Authors
People who originated and developed this resource were based in the University of Leicester. The original authors of this resource were Clare Madge (PI) and Jane Wellens (Co-Investigator) based in the University of Leicester and the University of Nottingham respectively . They along with the support team at Leicester worked actively on the resource site until August 2009. The ReStore team will remain intouch with the principal investigator concerning further updates and maintenance of this resource in the future.
Original Project
TRI-ORM (www.geog.le.ac.uk/orm) provided training for researchers in online research methods (ORMs). The project was designed to meet the training needs of researchers at all stages of their careers and with a variety of levels of knowledge of online research. The project was very successful and outperformed all original estimates of the number of researchers to be trained. For more details please see
Quick Summary
TRI-ORM was made up of three strands each of which was targeted at different levels of engagement and experience.
- Face-to-face workshops for researchers with very little knowledge or experience of online research methods.
- An advanced course taught at Masters level and delivered online.
- Enhancement of an existing website providing new resources for learners and further support for tutors as well as establishing a blog and online professional networking site.
Key achievements of the project include:
- Enabling researchers from different stages of the career spectrum, a wide range of disciplinary areas and from within and outside higher education to develop their understanding of ORMs and learn from each other.
- Being delivered on time, on budget and training 232 researchers - 72 (45%) more than outlined in the original bid.
- Developing a successful way to teach research methods online that can be utilised by other teachers and trainers.
- Feedback from participants which indicated that they were using the learning from the online course in their professional practice six months after participating in a workshop.
- Statistics that indicate the sustained and international reach of the web-resources.
- The establishment of a virtual community of ORM practitioners in the UK and beyond. Invitations to the project team to contribute to journal articles, book chapters and sit on the steering group of a national online survey of researchers as a result of their involvement in the project.
Controlled keywords: | self study ;online questionnaire ; resources for learners ; resources for tutors ;TRI-ORM training ;Workshop recordings:questionnaires |
Classification: | Methodology > Data collection methodology > Sampling procedures |
| Data collection > Questioning > Interviewing | |
| Data collection > Questioning > Questionnaires |
Date of Restoration
This web resource has been restored into ReStore repository on 23/12/2010.