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Presentation slides from the 5th ESRC Research Methods Festival online

The presentation slides from the 5th ESRC Research Methods Festival are now online at NCRM website. The presentation slides that are available can be found in the session details in the Festival online programme and include those from the workshop held by the ReStore team on Thursday 5th July: "ReStore workshop: Building more sustainable web resources" aimed at anyone involved in the creation of online research methods resources.

 

 

 

ReStore at the 5th ESRC Research Methods Festival, 2-5 July, Oxford

"ReStore workshop: Building more sustainable web resources" on Thursday 5th July is aimed at anyone involved in the creation of online research methods resources - e.g. as part of an ESRC-funded project or Doctoral Training Centre, which range from research methods training materials through to sophisticated online tutorials. The ReStore project has been developing best practice in this field, addressing issues such as: site design principles, software choices, usage monitoring and intellectual property rights. The ReStore repository is also actively maintaining a range of completed project websites. The workshop session will include an opportunity to discuss attendees' practical challenges with the ReStore

 

 

 

New online databank of International Social Research Methods

To mark the end of an award under the fourth round of the ESRC Researcher Development Initiative, you are invited to attend the launch of an on-line databank of International Social Research Methods Case Studies. The launch takes place on 12th July 2012 at Europe House in London (SW1P 3EU).

The databank is being hosted at the University of Southampton under the auspices of the ReStore project, which is designed to sustain online research methods resources developed under the ESRC RDI for training purposes.

 

 

 

Resource launch: Learning to think like an expert management researcher

This web resource contains online learning resource intended for postgraduate and research students, and also for academics just starting out on a career in the management field. The web resource is designed to support you with developing your critical frame of mind. A constructively critical way of thinking is characteristic of expert researchers, who have gradually built-up their critical thinking capability as a product of their accumulating research experience. Acquiring this capability can be a slow process if it just occurs incidentally: a side-effect of being a student or an academic. But you can accelerate your learning as you go along by consciously developing your ability to think critically and to make informed decisions in your research.

 

 

 

New resource: Inventing Adulthoods - A qualitative longitudinal dataset on young people

Inventing Adulthoods is a qualitative longitudinal study of over 100 young people growing upthrough their teens, twenties and early thirties at the turn of the 21st century.The rich biographical material generated in up to seven interviews with each participant provides a unique window on most aspects of growing up during a period of rapid social change between 1996 - 2006 in England and 1996 - 2010 in Northern Ireland. Participants were drawn from five socially and economically contrasting areas of England and Northern Ireland and this gives important insight into the role played by where young people live in determining the resources they are able to draw on to shape their lives and pathways in post-modern times.

 

 

 

 

Announcing the new UK Data Service

Continuing access to the most valuable collection of social and economic data in the UK has been secured with a £17 million investment over five years for the UK Data Service. Funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the new service is structured to support researchers in academia, business, third sector and all levels of government. The new service, starting on 1 October 2012, will integrate the Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS), the Census Programme, the Secure Data Service and other elements of the data service infrastructure currently provided by the ESRC.

 

 

 

Upcoming resource: International Social Research Methods Training

The website provides a searchable database of International Social Research Methods Case Studies, which are accessible via the list and via the search page. The Case Studies take readers through the stages of planning, designing and implementing international research projects in the social sciences. The site also contains the Framework for International Social Research Methods Case Studies, as well as Information about the submission of Case Studies, and a guide to further reading on international social research methods.

 

This web resource is being launched on 12th July 2012 at the launch event which you are warmly welcome.