Every research project generates data. It’s the material that you gather, create, or interpret to answer your research questions; whether that is numbers, images, recordings, or documents. Good research data management and sharing are essential for making your work accessible, your methods transparent, and your findings easy to use and build upon. Funders, publishers, and universities […]
Issues with using police data to investigate offending: A research perspective Dr Ioana Crivatu, Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham Dr Ruth Spence, Senior Research Fellow at Middlesex University Police data is an important source of information for researchers about investigations, suspects, and victims. However, crime records can be problematic to work with. Here […]
This two-day course provides a practical and accessible introduction to Bayesian statistics for applied research in any field. Students will benefit from a combination of lectures and discussion to explore fundamental concepts unlocking the potential to design bespoke statistical analyses based on your data and hypotheses as well as practical exercises to gain hands-on experience […]
Educational researchers are often encouraged to reflect on their ‘philosophical positioning’, i.e. the ontological, epistemological and axiological (ethical) assumptions that underpin their research design. Meanwhile, in recent years in anglophone educational research departments, using philosophy as a ‘method’ in its own right, as opposed to a tool supporting empirical research, has tended to go out […]
Whether it’s ant colonies, traffic jams, fisheries, predator-prey interactions, segregation patterns in urban areas, or viruses spreading through populations, we are surrounded by complex systems. Those have lots of different parts that interact in non-linear ways, giving rise to patterns that are difficult to predict by looking at individual components in isolation. And when these […]
Years ago, you wrote a data analysis script. Hundreds of lines of R code, all in a single file. It was not beautiful, but it worked, and you got a great paper out of it. But now some new version of one of the datasets you used has come out, and there is also that […]
Making Sense of Messy Legal Data: Analysing Climate Litigation in Latin America and the Caribbean Cristian Heredia Ligorria, PhD researcher in Socio-legal Studies at UWE Bristol My doctoral research investigates rights-based climate litigation (RBCL) in Latin America and the Caribbean applying a socio-legal methodology and from a decolonial perspective. Chapter 3 of my thesis is […]
Date: 3rd – 6th March 2026 (four consecutive mornings) Location: online The National Centre for Research Methods are offering the opportunity to attend this introductory short course for the reduced price of £25 for all participants. Improve the efficiency and reliability of your research. Learn foundational computational skills including automating tasks using the command line […]
Using multi-dimensional experience sampling via smartphones to map thought-emotion interactions in daily life Anqi Lei, PhD researcher at the University of Plymouth Patterns of on-going thought have crucial implications for emotional health. In the present study, we used multi-dimensional experience sampling (MDES) via smartphones to examine how daily-life thought patterns relate to concurrent affective states […]
Reflexive Thematic Analysis on researcher’s position as an “in-betweener” Claire Hadfield, Senior Lecturer and PhD researcher in Education at Plymouth Marjon University Reflecting on my journey using Reflexive Thematic Analysis (RTA) in a qualitative longitudinal study of early career secondary teachers’ professional identities, I draw on my position as an “in-betweener”—moving from school teaching into […]