Methods and research design web links
General research design links
- UniSA provides an online workshop entitled
Methodology in the social sciences and humanities which includes
useful links to methods and methodology web resources.
- Information R is the most comprehensive available web-resource for Research methods. Includes an online journal on information technology research (free to download), a bibliography of information management sites, a world-wide database of IT departments and centres, and much other material of use to anyone doing IT research. The site also includes
Electronic Resources for Information Research Methods, a comprehensive online research methods database currently available. It is a large search engine on research methods compiled by Professor Tom Wilson, formerly of the University of Sheffield. Contains links to a wide variety of major research websites sorted by research style (including action research, qualitative research, case studies).
- Resources for methods in evaluation and social research includes information and resources about surveys, focus groups, sampling interviews and other methods.
- Yenza! Research site is the Research Methods training site of the African National Research Foundation. It has a large amount of material on research methodology, including an annotated bibliography of research methods textbooks.
- Research for a Post-Normal Science – annotated bibliography. In post-normal science, the community responsible for ensuring quality and validity is extended even further to include all stakeholders. These stakeholders are relied upon for quality assurance, but also for extending the knowledge base (in both content and kind) and for problem definition. Check the site for links and discussion of post-normal scientific research.
- Qualpage is the Qualitative Research Page run by Judy Norris at the University of Alberta. There are articles, discussion lists, links, and an online bibliography called the
Qualitative Research Web Ring. If you are interested in Qualitative Research, you can use this site as an entry-portal into the other web-based resources available.
- The 'Research' menu item on the
Bobbi Kerlin site at Queen's University provides a range of
resources pertaining to the theoretical, practical and written aspects
of qualitative research.
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Intute: Social Sciences provides web resources for education and
research for the social sciences, including law, business, hospitality,
sport and tourism. It is produced by an association of the University of
Birmingham, the University of Bristol, the Joint Systems Committee, and
the Institute for Learning and Research Technology.
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The Qualitative
Report, is an online journal dedicated to qualitative research since
1990. It also provides references, web links and journals on qualitative
research.
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This web page
provides links to guides, web sites and online journals for qualitative
researchers in journalism, health care, information systems and social
work. Topics include: general guides, ethnography, interviewing, oral
history, focus groups, qualitative data analysis, and content analysis.
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The School of Library, Archival and Information Studies at the
University of British Columbia has provided a list of resources on focus
groups, the Delphi technique and the Nominal Group technique at
Research methods resources on the WWW.
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The University of Leicester has a very useful page entitled
Exploring online research methods with topics on online
interviewing, surveys, online research ethics and a technical guide on
online surveys.
Discipline Specific
- Sociology central has a diverse range of introductory sociological material on theory and method that is written in a concise and accessible manner.
- Graduate Nursing Research is an online course for students at Indiana State University, written by Mary Bennett, Indiana State University, May, 2000. You don’t need to take the course – just look at the materials in the writing centre and the examples of proposals, consent forms, etc.
- PsychScholar is a collection of Web Resources for ‘Psychological Scholars and Budding Psychological Scholars.’ Contains a huge list of links to online tutorials in psychological methods and a section on Psychological Research Methods.
- Social Research Update is a free online ‘journal’ of sociological research issues published quarterly by the Department of Sociology at the University of Surrey. Each issue contains only one article. There are 35 articles here on different aspects of sociological research.
- Research Methods in the Social Sciences – a selective bibliography. Prepared by C. Moore-Jansen, Social Sciences Librarian, WSU Library
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Elearnspace - a concise and accessible summary of education
theory and methodologies.
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Christopher Humphrey and Bill Lee, 2004,
The real guide to accounting research: a behind the scenes view of
using qualitative research methods – online preview of book
Qualitative methods and positivism/empiricism
Qualitative methods and interpretivism
- The University of Houston's
Research Room provides topics on 'getting organised', 'reading,
re-reading and coding', 'developing analytic patterns and conceptual
schemes' and 'developing and validating analysis'.
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Online QDA: Ann Lewins, Celia Taylor and Graham R Gibbs from
the University of Huddersfield and the University of Sydney provide
topics on 'noticing and coding', 'noticing, collecting and thinking',
'interpreting' and 'organising'.
- Action Research Site
contains topics on action research, links to a refereed journal, and discussion lists. There is also a 14 week course you can take online, or simply browse the readings. The site includes an annotated Bibliography of Action Research Websites.
- The National Science Foundation provides a short overview in the
first part of an article entitled:
'What
is Qualitative Analysis'
- Ian Baptiste, 2001, 'Qualitative
data analysis: Common phases, strategic differences', Forum:
Qualitative Social Research, vol. 2, no. 3, September.
- Burke Johnson, 1994,
Qualitative Data Analysis an Expanded Source Book, editors Miles &
Huberman, SAGE Publications, Thousand Oaks, chapter 12. This chapter
compares and contrasts phenomenology, ethnography, case study and
grounded theory.
- Qualitative Research Methods by C. George Boeree, Shippensburg University.
This downloadable workbook provides an extended discussion of topics
on phenomenological description, structural
analysis, observation and interviewing.
- Sally Thorne, 2000,
'Data analysis
in qualitative research', Evidence-Based Nursing, vol. 3, pp.
68-70. This article provides an overview of the process involved in
qualitative data analysis, with specific references to nursing
research and constant comparative analysis, phenomenology,
ethnography, narrative and discourse analysis.
- Catterall M and Maclaran P 1997,
'Focus Group Data
and Qualitative Analysis Programs: Coding the Moving Picture as Well as
the Snapshots', Sociological Research Online, vol. 2, Issue
1.
- Janice M. Morse and Charlotte Pooler, 2002,
'Analysis of videotaped data: Methodological considerations',
International Journal of Qualitative Methods, issue 4.
- Northern Arizona University, 1999,
'Electronic Textbook - Making Sense of It All: Strategies for Compiling
and Reporting Qualitative Data'.
- Marcia Salner,
'Self-deception in qualitative research: Validity issues',
University of Illinois.
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Southern Alabama University have a page on data coding.
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Catherine Marshall and Grechen Rossman, 2006,
Designing Qualitative Research: Fourth Edition, Sage.
Nvivo
Critical Theory
Deconstruction
Learning Connection would like to acknowledge Carol Davy and the
International Graduate School of Business for their assistance in gathering
resources for this web page.
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