A methodological note on quantitative field research in conflict zones: get your hands dirty
Searching for causality in the wrong places
Sampling hidden populations: lessons learned from a telephone-based study of persons recently diagnosed with HIV (PRDH
Anonymisation and visual images: issues of respect, ‘voice’ and protection
Who benefits? A critical reflection of children and young people’s participation in sensitive research
Methodological challenges in the implementation and evaluation of social welfare policies
What’s in focus? A critical discussion of photography, children and young people
Contested voices? Methodological tensions in creative visual research with children
Evolving creativity in qualitative longitudinal research with children and teenagers
Visualising children’s participation in research: Lego Duplo,rainbows and clouds and moodboards
Giving children a‘voice’: arts-based participatory researchactivities and representation
Developing creative research methods with challenging pupils
The measurement of occupational segregation and its componentdimensions
Ethics or access? Balancing informed consent against theapplication of institutional, economic or emotional pressures inrecruiting respondents for research
Parent and child views on anonymity:‘I’ve got nothing to hide’
Psychoanalytic methods of observation as a research tool forexploring young children’s nursery experience
Producing different analytical narratives, coproducing integratedanalytical narrative: a qualitative study of UK detained mentalhealth patient experience involving service user researchers
Dilemmas in archiving contemporary material: the example of the British Library
Data and archives: The Internet as site and subject
Recent developments in archiving social research
Working with different temporalities: archived life history interviews and diaries
Working with material from the Sheppey archive
Using elderly data theoretically: personal life in 1949/1950 and individualisation theory
Working with archived classic family and community studies: illuminating past and present conventions around acceptable research practice
The politics and ethics of naming: questioning anonymisation in(archival) research
Using archived qualitative data for teaching: practical and ethical considerations
User satisfaction and user experiences with Access Grid as amedium for social science research: a research not
Ensuring retention in longitudinal studies: a practical evaluation of an intensive follow-up protocol and suggested adaptations
Can the quality of social research on ethnicity be improved through the introduction of guidance? Findings from a research commissioning pilot exercise
Negotiating access in ethnographic research with ‘hard to reach’ young people: establishing common ground or a process of methodological grooming?
Grounded Theory Method (GTM) and the Abductive Research Strategy (ARS): a critical analysis of their differences
Research encounters, reflexivity and supervision
Exploring the validity of electronic newspaper databases
Using cognitive interviews to refine translated survey questions : an example from a cross-national crime survey
Reaching the ‘hard to reach’: strategies to recruit black andminority ethnic service users with rare long-term neurological conditions
Analyzing multilevel data with QCA: a straightforward procedure
The self-interview: a new method in social science research
Using natural language processing technology for qualitative data analysis
IVR and web administration in structured interviews utilizing rating scales: exploring the role of motivation as a moderator to mode effects
Continuity and change in a qualitative longitudinal study of fatherhood: relevance without responsibility
Using case-based approaches to analyse large datasets: a comparison of Ragin’s fsQCA and fuzzy cluster analysis
Insiders and outsiders: working with peer researchers in researching Muslim communities
Generating theory, biographical accounts and translation: a study of trauma and resilience
Teaching research methods for doctoral students in education: learning to enquire in the university
Researching death: methodological reflections on the management of critical distance
The place of the literature review in grounded theory research
Overcoming the challenges of researching ‘young offenders’: using assisted questionnaires– a research note
Multi-context engaged learning and ethnographic fieldwork: some notes from the middle of the edge
Reflections on stories and a story/dialogue method in health research
Uses of video in social research: a brief history
Multimodal transcription as academic practice: a social semiotic perspective
Re-constituting social praxis: an ethnomethodological analysis of video data in optometry consultations
Analyzing layering in textual design: a multimodal approach for examining cultural, linguistic, and social migrations in digital video
The politics of performance: methodological challenges of researching children’s experiences of childhood through the lens of participatory video
Using Qualitative Data Analysis Software to analyse students’ computer-mediated interactions: the case of MiGen and Transana
Interrogating video data: systematic quantitative analysis versus micro-ethnographic analysis
Participant information clips: a role for digital video technologies to recruit, inform and debrief research participants and disseminate research findings
Comparing results from different styles of cognitive interviewing: ‘verbal probing’ vs. ‘thinking aloud’
Knocking on doors: recruitment and enrichment in a qualitative interview-based study
Ethical and practical challenges of participant observation in sensitive health research
Mixing methods as a process towards indigenous methodologies
Using peer-interviewing methods to explore place-based disadvantage: dissolving the distance between suits and civilian
The use of email-facilitated interviewing with higher functioning autistic people participating in a grounded theory study
An exploration of factors which may influence how teachers perceive participatory action research tools being employed in schools
Moralism and research ethics: a Machiavellian perspective
Research ethics committees: values and power in higher education
Glocalizing methodology? The encounter between local methodologies
Exploring or exporting? Qualitative methods in times of globalisation
Decolonising ethnography in thefield: an anthropological account
Acknowledging privilege through encounters with difference : Participatory Learning and Action techniques for decolonising methodologies in Southern contexts
Opportunities and challenges in the expansion of cross-national survey research
‘Membership matters’: applying Membership Categorisation Analysis (MCA) to qualitative data using Computer-Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis (CAQDAS) Software
Four layouts and a finding: the effects of changes in the order of the verbal labels and numerical values on Likert-type scales
Comparative multilevel analysis: proposal for a methodology
Accounting for sustainability: combining qualitative and quantitative research in developing ‘indicators’ of sustainability
Remembering research: memory and methodology in thesocial sciences
Researching workplace bullying: the benefits of taking an integrated approach
Cross-community comparability of attitude questions:An application of item response theory
Qualitative bereavement research: incongruity between the perspectives of participants and research ethics board
Mixed methods research in the real world
The rise and relevance of qualitative research
The puzzle of metaphor and voice in arts-based social research
Overcoming fieldwork challenges in urban health research in developing countries: a research note
Doing feminist-demography
Identifying dissonant and complementary data on women through the triangulation of historical sources
Quantitative methods and gender inequalities
Measuring equalities: data and indicators in Britain
Feminist epistemology and the politics of method: surveying same sex domestic violence
Counting woman abuse: a cautionary tale of two surveys
Using QSR-NVivo to facilitate the development of a grounded theory project: an account of a worked example
A preferred approach for the cognitive testing of translated materials: testing the source version as a basis for comparison
A cross-disciplinary examination of the prevalence of mixed methods in educational research: 1995–2005
The curious case of case study: a viewpoint
How do ethics assessments frame results of comparative qualitative research? A theory of technique approach
The Hawthorne Effect in community trials in developing countries
Looking for a Grandview: introducing concepts of robust sampling to policymakers and practitioners engaged in measuring thewell-being of children at the local authority level
Q methodology in social work research
Making use of qualitative tools: towards a fuller understanding of the voluntary sector’s engagement with public service delivery
The social science of biographical life-writing: some methodological and ethical issues
Oh, what a tangled web we weave: experiences of doing ‘multiple perspectives’ research in families
Combining approaches: Looking behind the scenes of integrating multiple types of evidence from controlled behavioural experiments through agent-based modelling
Participative epistemology in social data science: combining ethnography with computational and statistical approaches
Transforming a methodological dilemma into a rewarding research opportunity
‘Oh sorry, I’ve muted you!’: Issues of connection and connectivity in qualitative (longitudinal) research with young fathers and family support professionals
Bystanders and response bias in face-to-face
surveys in Africa
On the importance of the dynamics of humour
and comedy for constructionism and reflexivity in
social science research methodology
Retracing participants in longitudinal studies: Trekking the timescape of fieldwork
A comparison of repeat cross-sectional and longitudinal results from the COMPASS study: design considerations for analysing surveillance data over time
Development and psychometric properties of a new observational coding system for sibling interactions
Mixed Integrative Heuristic Approach in content analysis: a study of the image of China in Africa based on mixed-methods approach
RAT-RS: a reporting standard for improving the documentation of data use in agent-based modelling
Are respondents ready for audio and voice communication channels in online surveys?
GAM on! Six ways to explore social complexity by combining games and agent-based models
Pushing the Boundaries: Adapting research methodology to document the COVID-19 pandemic from a socio-behavioural perspective in a low/ middle level income country: the case of South Africa
The influence of unpublished studies on results of recent meta-analyses: publication bias, the file drawer problem, and implications for the replication crisis
‘I’m being heard right now’: amplifying individual voice through scaffolded focus groups
Sensemaking of causality in agent-based models
Uncovering ethical concerns through reflexivity—ethics in practice in fieldwork
Understanding ‘context’ in realist evaluation and synthesis
A critical realist explanation for the capabilities of people with disabilities in dealing with disasters
Comparing online and in-person surveys: assessing a measure of resilience with Syrian refugee youth
Moving on from trials and errors: a discussion on the use of a forum as an online focus group in qualitative research
The Video Engagement Scale (VES): measurement properties of the full and shortened VES across studies
How to quantify qualitative characteristics of societal differences: a method for systematic comparison of qualitative data (SCQual)
Leadership and the hidden politics of co-produced research: a Q-methodology study
Remote recruiting and video-interviewing older people: a research note on a qualitative case study carried out in the first Covid-19 Red Zone in Europe
Testing the missingness mechanism in longitudinal surveys: a case study using the Health and Retirement Study
Adaptive methodology. Topic, theory, method and data in ongoing conversation
Managing our personal traits in the field: exploring the methodological and analytical benefits of mobilizing field diaries
Safeguarding personal integrity while collecting sensitive data using narrative interviews – a research note
Self-report questionnaires scrutinised: Do eye movements reveal individual differences in cognitive processes while completing a questionnaire?
Gendered power relations in women-to-men interviews on controversial sexual behavior
Local data and upstream reporting as sources of error in the administrative data undercount of Covid 19
Overcoming the challenges of recruiting apartment residents for case study research: a research note
The ResQ approach: theory building across disciplines using realist evaluation science and QCA
Definition and operationalization of resilience in qualitative health literature: a scoping review
Interaction of quantitative and qualitative methodology in mixed methods research: integration and/or combination
Using focus groups for empowerment purposes in qualitative health research and evaluation
Adapting vignettes for internet-based research: eliciting realistic responses to the digital milieu
Did they really say that? An agential realist approach to using computer assisted transcription software in qualitative data analysis
Giving a socially distanced voice to disabled young people: Insights from the Educational Pathways and Work Outcomes longitudinal study
Assessing logistic regression applied to respondent-driven sampling studies: a simulation study with an application to empirical data
Coverage bias: the impact of eligibility constraints on mobile phone-based sampling and data collection
Public & private accounts of help-seeking: The implications of research methods on the presentation of narratives
A multi-group analysis of convenience samples: free, cheap, friendly, and fancy sources
Reverse Coding: a Proposed Alternative Methodology for Identifying Evidentiary Warrants
When cheap talk is not that cheap – interviewing the super-rich about illegal wildlife consumption
Assessing the effect of questionnaire design on unit and item-nonresponse: evidence from an online experiment
Safe and enabling: composing ethically sustainable crafty-activist research on gender and power in young peer cultures
Scoping reviews: the PAGER framework for improving the quality of reporting
Citizen social science and pathways to prosperity: co-designing research and impact in Beirut, Lebanon
Using indigenous kaupapa Māori research methodology with constructivist grounded theory: generating a theoretical explanation of indigenous womens realities
Using the literature to create a scale: an innovative qualitative methodological piece
Does religious morality predict party affiliation better than political ideology? An empirical approach using psycho-social metrics constructed through item response modeling
How to periodize a violent conflict: A proposal using the case of Mexico
Using individually adapted progress indicator in web surveys
Including the voices and opinions of adults living with intellectual disability who are functionally nonverbal in a project directly concerning them – research note on the challenges and successes
Natural Language Processing in Mixed-methods Text Analysis: A Workflow Approach
Where you search determines what you find: the effects of bibliographic databases on systematic reviews
Combining complexity-framed research methods for social research
Intertextual psychoanalytic-intersubjective analysis in qualitative research: ‘can two walk together, except they be agreed?’
Re-contacting participants from the longitudinal Belfast youth development study (BYDS) after a decade using electronic tracing
Surveying singles in Japan: qualitative reflections on quantitative social research during COVID time
‘Define, Explain, Justify, Apply’ (DEJA): An analytic tool for guiding qualitative research sample size
Evaluating the imitation game as a method for comparative research: a replication study using imitation games about religion
Involving people with experience of dementia in analysis of video recorded doctor-patient-carer interactions in care homes
Respondent commitment: applying techniques from face-to-face interviewing to online collection of employment data
Visual vignettes for cross-national research
Text, process, discourse: doing feminist text analysis in institutional ethnography
What’s the measure? An empirical investigation of self-ratings on response scales
Do surveys change behaviour? Insights from digital trace data
Testing key underlying assumptions of respondent-driven sampling within a real-world network of people who inject drugs
Reflexivity through positionality meetings: religion, muslims and ‘non-religious’ researchers
Measuring educational attainment in longitudinal research: challenges and recommendations
The feasibility and challenge of using administrative data: a case study of historical prisoner surveys
Evaluating political parties: criterion validity of open questions with requests for text and voice answers
Assessing general attentiveness to online panel surveys: the use of instructional manipulation checks
Decentering methodological nationalism to survey precarious legal status trajectories
Direct contacts with potential interviewees when carrying out online ethnography on controversial and polarized topics: a loophole in ethics guidelines
Graduate students’ modes of engagement in computer-assisted qualitative data analysis
Measuring subjective social stratification: how does the graphical layout of rating scales affect response distributions, response effort, and criterion validity in web surveys?
Non-participation in epidemiological school-based surveys: using mixed methods to study predictors and modes of justification for (non-)participation at the school level
Participatory theme elicitation: open card sorting for user led qualitative data analysis
Recruiting stigmatised populations and managing negative commentary via social media: a case study of recruiting older LGBTI research participants in Australia
Synergy of systems theory and symbolic interactionism: a passageway for non-Indigenous researchers that facilitates better understanding Indigenous worldviews and knowledges
“Who says what” in multiple choise questions. A comprehensive exploratory analysis protocol
Integrating behavioral and geospatial data on the timeline: towards new dimensions of analysis
Improving mail survey response rates in Japan: empirical tests for envelopes, request letters, questionnaires, and schedules
Researching while queer: a research note about a genderqueer lesbian conducting qualitative research in the southeastern United States
The contribution of theory to an ethnographic case study on interprofessional placements in healthcare education
Measurement errors in geographical labour mobility using data linkage: the Spanish case
Social practice research in practice. Some methodological challenges in applying practicebased approach to the urban research
Anxious women or complacent men? Anxiety of statistics in a sample of UK sociology undergraduates
Post-disciplinary realism
Quantification and realist methodologies
Using computer assisted qualitative data analysis software (CAQDAS; NVivo) to assist in the complex process of realist theory generation, refinement and testing
Selective attrition in longitudinal studies: effective processes for Facebook tracing
Narrative rhythmanalysis: the art and politics of listening to women’s narratives of forced displacement
Systematic social event modeling: a methodology for analyzing body-worn camera footage
Clarifying question meaning in standardized interviews can improve data quality even though wording may change: a review of the evidence
Interaction before and during the survey interview: insights from conversation analysis
The effect of emphasis in telephone survey questions on survey measurement quality
The time it takes to reveal embarrassing information in a mobile phone survey
‘The problem-centred expert interview’. Combining qualitative interviewing approaches for investigating implicit expert knowledge
Item-pair measures of acquiescence: the artificial inflation of socially desirable responding
Podcast ethnography
Assessing the effectiveness of video-based interviewing: a systematic comparison of videoconferencing based dyadic interviews and focus groups
Sources of nonresponse error in the translation process of survey instruments: the impact of language mismatch and on-the-spot translation on the quality of birth date data
Using a survey to initiate and sustain productive group dialogue in focus groups
Surveying migrant populations with respondentdriven sampling. Experiences from surveys of eastwest migration in Euro
The co-productive imagination: a creative, speculative and eventful approach to co-producing research
Interpreting practice: producing practical wisdom from qualitative study of practitioner experience
Mismatching middle options: consequences for attitude measurement in smartphone surveys
Positionality statement on studying male victims of intimate partner abuse in Zimbabwe: a research note
Students’ interactions in online asynchronous discussions in qualitative research methods coursework
Literacy skills predict probability of refusal in follow-up wave: evidence from two longitudinal assessment surveys
Why questions like ‘do networks matter?’ matter to methodology: how Agent-Based Modelling makes it possible to answer them
Is there a right not to be researched? Is there a right to do research? Some questions about informed consent and the principle of autonomy
Silence is not always golden: Reciprocal peer interviews as a method to engage youth in discussion on violence in Honduras
Translation decisions in qualitative research: a systematic framework
Nurse Effects on Non-response in Survey-Based Biomeasures
Social and causal complexity in Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA): strategies to account for emergence
What is ‘sensitive’ about sensitive research? The sensitive researchers’ perspective
Relatively normal? Navigating emergent sensitivity in generating and analysing accounts of ‘normality’
Involving young people with life-limiting conditions in research on sex: the intersections of taboo and vulnerability
Reflecting on asynchronous internet mediated focus groups for researching culturally sensitive issues
‘Working together is like a partnership of entangled knowledge’: exploring the sensitivities of doing participatory data analysis with people with learning disabilities
Difficult data: reflections on making knowledge claims in a turmoil of competing subjectivities, sensibilities and sensitivities
Internalising ‘sensitivity’: vulnerability, reflexivity and death research(ers)
Ethics; vulnerability; reflexivity; sensitive research; death studies
‘Men, we just deal with it differently’: researching sensitive issues with young men
From mixed methods to strategic research design
The online survey as a qualitative research tool
Analysing complexity: developing a modified phenomenological hermeneutical method of data analysis for multiple contexts
The critical interpretive synthesis: an assessment of reporting practices
The demise of the survey? A research note on trends in the use of survey data in the social sciences, 1939 to 2015
Investigating the affective part of subjective wellbeing (SWB) by means of sentiment analysis
Core principles of grounded theory in a systematic review of environmental education for secondary students
Sex and gender demographic questions: improving methodological quality, inclusivity, and ethical administration
The logico-formalist turn in comparative and case study methods: a critical realist critique
Key aspects to consider when conducting synchronous text-based online focus groups – a research note
Roma undercount and the issue of undeclared ethnicity in the 2011 Romanian census
Using open web-based crime data for research: a word of caution – Research note
Thinking through participatory action research with people with late-stage dementia: research note on mistakes, creative methods and partnerships
I say, they say: effects of providing examples in a question about multitasking
Ethics in context: essential flexibility in an international photo-elicitation project with children and young people
Using Visual Art Workshops with Female Survivors of Domestic Violence in Portugal and England: A Comparative Reflection
A visual methods approach for researching children’s perspectives: capturing the dialectic and visual reflexivity in a cross-national study of father-child interactions
Autonomy, spontaneity and creativity in research with children. A study of experience and participation, in central Italy and North West England
Studying similarities and differences in higher education organisations based on their websites – comparative methodological approaches and research potential
Mapping the relational construction of people and places
Confidence and the effectiveness of creative methods in qualitative interviews with adults
Negotiating the ethics of Netnography: developing an ethical approach to an online study of mother perspectives
Language, trust and transformation: exploring theatre as a research method with migrant youth
From data points to people: feminist situated ethics in online big data research
Middle alternatives and measurement validity: a recommendation for survey researchers
Barriers and solutions to participation in familybased education intervention
Digital selves, material bodies, and participant research tools: towards material semiotic video ethnography
What’s my wage again? Comparing survey and administrative data to validate earning measures
The association between interviewer gender and responses to sensitive survey questions in a sample of Haitian women
Comparing ‘deep’ insider knowledge: developing analytical strategies for cross-national qualitative studies
Indigenous research methodology – weaving a research interface
Including ‘advisory networks’ in a participatory study on homelessness in Durban, South Africa: a research note
Digital methods in a post-API environment
Understanding the justifiability scale in international surveys: an exploratory study
Extending the scoping review framework: a guide for interdisciplinary researchers
Calibrating the go-along for the Anthropocene
The work to make an experiment work
Investigating the impact of violations of the “left and top means first” heuristic on response behavior and data quality
Challenges related to the analytical process in realist evaluation and latest developments on the use of NVivo from a realist perspective
Untellable tales and uncertain futures: the unfolding narratives of young adults with cancer
Narrative and ethical (in)action: creating spaces of resistance with refugee-storytellers in the Calais ‘Jungle’ camp
Digital story grammar: a quantitative methodology for narrative analysis
Thinking through cases: articulating variable and narrative logics on a longitudinal analysis of drug use and school drop out
Narrative as social action: a narratological approach to story, discourse and positioning in political storytelling
Back from the future: a narrative approach to study the imagination of personal futures
The value of administrative data for longitudinal social research: a case study investigating income support receipt and relationship separation in Australia
Using social network analysis to complete literature reviews: a new systematic approach for independent researchers to detect and interpret prominent research programs within large collections of relevant literature
Cultivating citizen science for all: ethical considerations for research projects involving diverse and marginalized populations
Reflection note: confessions of a Muslim researcher – considering identity in research
Sex and the census: why surveys should not conflate sex and gender identity
Beyond performative talk: critical observations on the radical critique of reading interview data
Re-approaching interview data through qualitative secondary analysis: interviews with internet gamblers
Reviewing challenges and the future for qualitative interviewing
For the greater good? Ethical reflections on interviewing the ‘rich’ and ‘poor’ in qualitative research
‘Making narrative portraits: a methodological approach to analysing qualitative data’
Why don’t we care more about carelessness? Understanding the causes and consequences of careless participants
Investigation of alternative interface designs for long-list questions–the case of a computerassisted survey in German
Handling missing data in numeric analyses
An extended briefing and debriefing technique to enhance data quality in cross-national/language mixed-method research
(Un)expected exception: validating acquiescent response style factor in the Czech Republic
Methodological challenges of designing a survey to capture young people’s (non-binary) affiliations in relationship to religion, sexuality and gender
Driving complementarity in interdisciplinary research: a reflection
Consent requires a relationship: rethinking group consent and its timing in ethnographic research
It will be very helpful once I understand ATLAS.ti”: Teaching ATLAS.ti using the Five-Level QDA method
Natural experiment methodology for research: a review of how different methods can support realworld research
Investigating call record data using sequence analysis to inform adaptive survey designs
Narrative stability in interview accounts
Reflections on engaging with an advisory network in the context of a ‘sensitive’ research study
The effects of propensity score weighting on attrition biases in attitudinal, behavioral, and socio-demographic variables in a short-term webbased panel survey
Acknowledging and transcending ‘failure’: lifeworld possibilities and system constraints
Critical realism in empirical research: employing techniques from grounded theory methodology
Class matters: interviewing across social class boundaries
Learning effects in coders and their implications for managing content analyses
The impact of respondent attentiveness on reliability and validity
Intimacy, rapport, and exceptional disclosure: a comparison of in-person and mediated interview contexts
The impact of response options ordering on respondents’ answers to rating questions: results of two experiments
Eye-tracking methodology: exploring the processing of question formats in web surveys
The death of informants or when a fieldworker outlives the community studied
Why are mediation effects so small?
Indigenous data, indigenous methodologies and indigenous data sovereignty
Individual interviews or focus groups? Interview format and women’s self-disclosure
Out of the ordinary: research participants’ experiences of sharing the ‘insignificant’
The effect of format and device on the performance and usability of web-based questionnaires
Do we really need confidence intervals in the new statistics?
Pushing back the margins: power, identity and marginalia in survey research with young people
Reflections on the application of the Delphi method: lessons from a case in public transport research
Managing expectations in participatory research involving older people: what’s in it for whom?
Time matters: the potential and pitfalls of using mixed methods approaches in longitudinal program evaluation
An empirical analysis of alleged misunderstandings of coefficient alpha
Metaphors we experiment with in multimodal ethnography
SurveyMotion: what can we learn from sensor data about respondents’ completion and response behavior in mobile web surveys?
The effect of interviewer evaluation of respondents’ attitudes and understanding on future survey participation in a panel study
Case-based methods and agent-based modelling: bridging the divide to leverage their combined strengths
Telephone surveys under different frame constructions—evaluating differences in estimates, precision, and cost
Treatment and reporting of item-level missing data in social science research
How serious is the ‘carelessness’ problem on Mechanical Turk?
Advancing the science of literature reviewing in social research: the focused mapping review and synthesis
Some insights related to social network analysis data collection challenges – a research note
Topic models meet discourse analysis: a quantitative tool for a qualitative approach
Identity boxes: using materials and metaphors to elicit experiences
Female researcher safety: the difficulties of recruiting participants at conventions for people with dwarfism
Can we predict device use? An investigation into mobile device use in surveys
The use of body-mapping in interpretative phenomenological analyses: a methodological discussion
First steps: creating an initial program theory for a realist evaluation of Healthy Start-Départ Santé intervention in childcare centres
Biographical interviews and imagined futures essay writing: users of two methods in conversation
A taxonomy of model assumptions on which P is based and implications for added benefit in the sciences
A non-traditional validation tool: using cultural domain analysis for interpretive phenomenology
Constructing cases and conditions in QCA – lessons from grounded theory
Triangulating perspectives: ontology and epistemology in the analysis of qualitative multiple perspective interviews
The role of questionnaire length and reminders frequency on response rates to a web-based epidemiologic study: a randomised trial
Do required fields in online surveys in the social sciences impair reliability?
“I don’t know”, “I’m not sure”, “I don’t want to answer”: a latent class analysis explaining the informative value of nonresponse options in an online survey on youth health
Ethical challenges of community based participatory research: exploring researchers’ experience
PM effect size estimation for mediation analysis: a cautionary note, alternate strategy, and real data illustration
Exploring relational engagement practices in stroke rehabilitation using the Voice Centred Relational Approach
Learning from linguistics: rethinking multimodal enquiry
Rethinking integration in mixed methods research using data from different eras: lessons from a project about teenage vocational behaviour
Approaching the bench: accessing elites on the judiciary for qualitative interviews
Scale direction effects in agree/disagree and itemspecific questions: a comparison of question formats
Co-production: towards a utopian approach
What influences respondents to behave consistently when asked to consent to health record linkage on repeat occasions?
Incorporating intersectionality into research design: an example using qualitative interviews
Investigating recruitment and completion mode biases in online and door to door electronic surveys
Mode effects in cultural domain analysis: comparing pile sort data collected via internet versus face-to-face interviews
Developing an analytical framework for multiple perspective, qualitative longitudinal interviews (MPQLI)
Mixed methods, materialism and the micropolitics of the research-assemblage
Hidden boundaries and shared meanings: the roles of researcher characteristics and cultural norms in shaping understandings of sexuality in the unstructured interview setting
‘The Tortoise under the couch’: an African woman’s reflections on negotiating insider- outsider positionalities and issues of serendipity on conducting a qualitative research project in Cape Town, South Africa
Ethical ‘mess’ in co-produced research: reflections from a U.K.-based case study
A comparison of simple score and latent class approaches: application to HIV knowledge data in Chinese and multi-country contexts
When near means related: evidence from three web survey experiments on inter-item correlations in grid questions
Walking a tightrope: reflections on police gatekeeping roles in suicide research in Ghana
Social media analytics for YouTube comments: potential and limitations
Ethical uneasiness and the need for open-ended reflexivity: the case of research into older people with a wish to die
What was I thinking? A theoretical framework for analysing panel conditioning in attitudes and (response) behaviour
When the snowball fails to roll and the use of ‘horizontal’ networking in qualitative social research
Measuring the health patterns of the ‘mixed/ multiple’ ethnic group in Britain: data quality problems, reporting issues, and implications for policy
Between trust and distrust in research with participants in conflict context
Analysis of the response structure to a set of questions with large number of scale points: a new combined metric and categorical approach
Teaching mixed methods research: using a socioecological framework as a pedagogical approach for addressing the complexity of the field
Friendships with benefits? Examining the role of friendship in semi-structured interviews within music research
Predicting behaviour: comparing the performance of factual versus attitudinal approaches
Decolonising research in a Sub-Saharan African context: exploring Ubuntu as a foundation for research methodology, ethics and agenda
The influence of interviewer characteristics on support for democracy and political engagement in Sub-Saharan Africa
Comparing the efficacy of electronic-tablet to paper-based surveys for on-site survey administration
Learning from failure: are practitioner researchers the answer when conducting research on sensitive topics with vulnerable children and young people?
Interview schedule development for a Sequential explanatory mixed method design: complementary-alternative medicine (CAM) study among Indonesian psychologists
Aligning theory and methodology in mixed methods research: Before Design Theoretical Placement
Lying in defence of privacy: anthropological and methodological observations
Using the community of inquiry for interviewing children: theory and practice
A population sample registry for public health survey investigations: methods, lessons, and successes
‘Shared intelligibility’ and two reflexive strategies as methods of supporting ‘responsible decisions’ in a hermeneutic phenomenological study
Can a voluntary web survey be useful beyond explorative research?
Ties, sites and irregularities: pitfalls and benefits in using respondent-driven sampling for surveying a homeless population
Sensitive topics in social research involving children
Ethnography and the digital fields of social media
Control variables and causal inference: a question of balance
Research report: a software solution for rapid policy assessment with reimbursed SMS and mobile cash
Testing different rank order question layouts for PC and smartphone respondents
Observational sketching as method
Geo-sampling in developing nations
Reflexivity and ethical research practice while interviewing on sexual topics
Statistical methods for causal analysis in life course research: an illustration of a cross-lagged structural equation model, a latent growth model, and an autoregressive latent trajectories model
The importance of pretesting questionnaires: a field research example of cognitive pretesting the Exercise referral Quality of Life Scale (ER-QLS)
The discourse of QDAS: reporting practices of ATLAS.ti and NVivo users with implications for best practices
Capturing collective processes of analysis in participatory research: An example from a memory work investigation into how gender and sexual identities are experienced
Visual informed consent: informed consent without forms
Using the IAT: how do individuals respond to their results?
Confidentiality, anonymity and power relations in elite interviewing: conducting qualitative policy research in a politicised domain
Exploring methodological innovation in the social sciences: the body in digital environments and the arts
Sequence will tell! Integrating temporality into set-theoretic multi-method research combining comparative process tracing and qualitative comparative analysis
Wild interdisciplinarity: ethnography and computer science
Are there differences in responses to social identity questions in face-to-face versus telephone interviews? Results of an experiment on a longitudinal survey
Normal enough? Tools to aid decision making
Applying critical realism in qualitative research: methodology meets method
Exploring rigour in autoethnographic research
Comprehensively mapping political science methods: an instructors’ survey
Exploring provocation as a research method in the social sciences
Teaching research ethics as active learning: reading Venkatesh and Goffman as curriculum resources
Note on recruitment as an ethical question: lessons from a project on asexuality
Voiceless subjects? Research ethics and persons with profound intellectual disabilities
Accommodating conflicting realities: the messy practice of ethical (self) regulation
Research as relationship: engaging with ethical intent
Presenting and representing others: towards an ethics of engagement
Improving web survey efficiency: the impact of an extra reminder and reminder content on web survey response
Challenges in gaining and re-gaining informed consent among young people on the margins of education
“We are on air now”: the emotionality of videorecording in the institutional setting
Randomisation before consent: avoiding delay to time-critical intervention and ensuring informed consent
Intersectionality and quantitative methods: assessing regression from a feminist perspective
TimeBanking: towards a co-produced solution for power and money issues in inclusive research
A methodology for field-testing concepts through expert practitioner engagement
Epistemological inclusiveness in researching the African American community
Drawing or tabulating ego-centered networks? A mixed-methods comparison of questionnaire vs. visualization-based data collection
Revisiting ethnography by proxy
Is the ‘telling case’ a methodological myth?
Bystanders, noise, and distractions in face-to-face surveys in Africa and Latin America
Recruiting young people to sensitive research: turning the ‘wheels within wheels’
An alternative ethics for research: Levinas and the unheard voices and unseen faces
Participants’ productive disruption of a community photo-elicitation project: improvised methodologies in practice
Examining the differences between the use of wearable cameras and traditional cameras in research – a research note
Remote control: evaluating the potential of virtual desktops as a data collection tool in studies exploring how people use the Internet
Using metaphor and montage to analyse and synthesise diverse qualitative data: exploring the local worlds of ‘early school leavers’
Methods for dealing with multiple outcomes in meta-analysis: a comparison between averaging effect sizes, robust variance estimation and multilevel meta-analysis
Assessing the use of back translation: the shortcomings of back translation as a quality testing method
Producing emotionally sensed knowledge? Reflexivity and emotions in researching responses to death
Getting out of the swamp? Methodological reflections on using qualitative secondary analysis to develop research design
Using internet video calls in qualitative (longitudinal) interviews: some implications for rapport
The state of qualitative research in health and social science literature: a focused mapping review and synthesis
Older people’s perspectives on dignity: the benefits and challenges of a qualitative longitudinal approach to researching experiences of later life
Using Skype to facilitate team-based qualitative research, including the process of data analysis
Assembling life history narratives from quantitative longitudinal panel data: What’s the story for families using social work?
Reverse interviewing: a white adoptive mother engaging with black birth mothers and vice versa
Comparing focus groups and individual interviews: findings from a randomized study
Harnessing paradata and multilevel multiple imputation when analysing survey data: a case study
Development of the Geographical Proportional-tosize Street-Intercept Sampling (GPSIS) method for recruiting urban nightlife-goers in an entire city
Proxy reporting in education surveys: factors influencing accurate reporting in the 2012 Qatar Education Study
From the multi-sited to the in-between: ethnography as a way of delving into migrants’ transnational relationships
A methodology of damage
Using journal articles to measure the level of quantification in national sociologies
Effects of screening questionnaires on response in a two-phase postal survey
Participant recruitment and data collection through Facebook: the role of personality factors
Insider research, validity issues, and the OHS professional: one person’s journey
Method and Measurement in Sociology, fifty years on
Response to Smith and Atkinson
Was Cicourel’s critique in Methods and Measurement in Sociology too radical?
From method and measurement to narrative and number
The Delphi technique: an untapped approach of participatory research
Observational practice in virtual worlds: revisiting and expanding the methodological discussion
Reflections on conducting research on the ‘war on terror’: religious identity, subjectivity and emotions
Presentation matters: how mode effects in item non-response depend on the presentation of response options
Effects of intensive longitudinal data collection on pregnancy and contraceptive use
Single case studies and theory-testing: the knots and dots of the process-tracing method
Changing things for the better: the use of children and young people’s reference groups in social research
Task-based learning approaches for supporting the development of social science researchers’ critical data skills
Using occupational history calendars to capture lengthy and complex working lives: a mixed method approach with older people
What ‘works’ when retracing sample members in a qualitative longitudinal study?
Secondary observer effects: idiosyncratic errors in small-N secondary data analysis
Phenomenography: the development and application of an innovative research design in higher education research
Repositioning the research encounter: exploring power dynamics and positionality in youth research
Variation within households in consent to link survey data to administrative records: evidence from the UK Millennium Cohort Study
Documents as ‘risky’ sources of data: a reflection on social and emotional positioning – a research note
Researcher reflexivity: exploring the impacts of CAQDAS use
ATLAS.ti for conversation and discourse analysis studies
Asking about the future: methodological insights from energy biographies
Exploring the robustness of set theoretic findings from a large n fsQCA: an illustration from the sociology of education
Is the web a promising tool for data collection in developing countries? An analysis of the sample bias of 10 web and face-to-face surveys from Africa, Asia, and South America
What to do instead of significance testing? Calculating the ‘number of counterfactual cases needed to disturb a finding’
Incorporating eye tracking into cognitive interviewing to pretest survey questions
QCA as competing or complementary method? A qualitative comparative analysis approach to protest event data
Reflections on the value of ethnographic restudies: learning from the pas
The Goldilocks principle: applying the exclusive disjunction to fuzzy sets
Multiple imputation for missing data in a longitudinal cohort study: a tutorial based on a detailed case study involving imputation of missing outcome data
The CAQDAS Postgraduate Learning Model: an interplay between methodological awareness, analytic adeptness and technological proficiency
Email subject lines and response rates to invitations to participate in a web survey and a face-to-face interview: the sound of silence
Obtaining data linkage consent for children: factors influencing outcomes and potential biases
Comparing the effectiveness of respondentdriven sampling and quota sampling in migration research
Transcribing screen-capture data: the process of developing a transcription system for multi-modal text-based data
Issues of collaboration, representation, meaning and emotions: utilising participant-led visual diaries to capture the everyday lives of people in mid to later life
A scoping review to identify the techniques frequently used when analysing qualitative visual data
Survey research with preliterate adult populations in post conflict situations using researcherassisted self-completion questionnaires
Glossing inadequacies: problems with definitions of key concepts in some methodology texts
(Mis)conceptualising themes, thematic analysis, and other problems with Fugard and Potts’ (2015) sample-size tool for thematic analysis
Using implicit measures to explore children’s intergroup attitudes: methodological and practical considerations for researchers
Response option configuration of online administered Likert scales
Positioning and subjectivation in research interviews: why bother talking to a researcher?
Attitudes toward mixed methods research in psychology: the best of both worlds?
Exploring analytical trustworthiness and the process of reaching consensus in interpretative phenomenological analysis: lost in transcription
Normative concepts analysis: unpacking the language of legitimation
Reflecting on participatory methodologies: research with parents of babies requiring neonatal care
Participants’ reflections on being interviewed about risk and sexual behaviour: implications for collection of qualitative data on sensitive topics
The use of group discussions: a case study of learning about organisational characteristics of schools
Developing definitions for a knowledge exchange intervention in health policy and program agencies: reflections on process and value
Engaging with children as co-researchers: challenges,counter-challenges and solutions
Capturing complexity: mixing methods in the analysis of a European tobacco control policy network
Integrating critical realist and feminist methodologies: ethical and analytical dilemmas
The structure of global centrality measures
Personal reflexivity and biography: methodological challenges and strategies
New frontiers in qualitative longitudinal research: an agenda for research
Operationalizing a QLR project on social change and whiteness in South Africa, 1770s–1970s
What is the value of qualitative longitudinal research with children and young people for international development?
Beyond anonymity: temporality and the production of knowledge in a qualitative longitudinal study
Going back: ‘Stalking’, talking and researcher responsibilities in qualitative longitudinal research
Live tweeting and building the digital archive; #NFQLR – who and what is it for?
‘The past was never simply there to begin with and the future is not simply what will unfold’: a posthumanist performative approach to qualitative longitudinal research
The quality of responses to grid questions as used in Web questionnaires (compared with paper questionnaires)
Seeing beyond the datasets: the unexploited structure of electoral and institutional data
Snowball sampling: a cautionary tale involving a study of older drug users
Site-specific focus groups: analysing learning spaces in situ
New materialist social inquiry: designs, methods and the research-assemblage
Considering the practical implementation of constructivist grounded theory in a study of widening participation in Irish higher education
On ethical principles for social research
The problems and prospects in the teaching of mixed methods research
‘I’m not a quants person’; key strategies in building competence and confidence in staff who teach quantitative research methods’
Embedding quantitative skills into the social science curriculum: case studies from Manchester
Teaching social research methods after the critical turn: challenges and benefits of a constructivist pedagogy
From guided-instruction to facilitation of learning: the development of Five-level QDA as a CAQDAS pedagogy that explicates the practices of expert users
Learning to manage and share data: jump-starting the research methods curriculum
Using video and dialogue to generate pedagogic knowledge: teachers, learners and researchers reflecting together on the pedagogy of social research methods
Participatory action research and researcher’s responsibilities: an experience with an Indigenous community
Using corpus linguistic software in the extraction of news frames: towards a dynamic process of frame analysis in journalistic texts
Insights and recommendations for recruitment and retention of low socio-economic parents with overweight children
Participatory filmmaking with Qur’anic students in Kano, Nigeria: ‘speak good about us or keep quiet!’
A learning process within an education research group: an approach to learning qualitative research methods
Supporting thinking on sample sizes for thematic analyses: a quantitative tool
A note on fieldwork in ‘dangerous’ circumstances: interviewing illegal tiger skin suppliers and traders in Lhasa
Researching family practices in everyday life: methodological reflections from two studies
Patterns of practice: a reflection on the development of quantitative/mixed methodologies capturing everyday life related to water consumption in the UK
Experimental partnering: interpreting improvisatory habits in the research field
(Auto)Ethnography and cycling
Routinising research: academic skills in analogue and digital worlds
Introduction: a life in methods
Reframing relevance: narratives of temporality and methodological turning points in research on families and gender
June 1989 and beyond: Julia Brannen’s contribution to mixed methods research
Methodological pluralism in international comparative research
Generational research: between historical and sociological imaginations
Focus group methodology in a life course approach – individual accounts within a peer cohort group
Care, gender and employment: changing times, changing methods
Using administrative data for constructing sampling frames and replacing data collected through surveys
An examination of nonresponse in a study on daily family life: I do not have time to participate, but I can tell you something about our life
The interview as narrative ethnography: seeking and shaping connections in qualitative research
Reflections on interviewing children living in difficult circumstances: courage, caution and coproduction
Personal reflections on cautions and considerations for navigating the path of grounded theory doctoral theses and dissertations: a long walk through a dark forest
Using systematic review methods within a Ph.D. dissertation in political science: challenges and lessons learned from practice
The value of conducting door-to-door surveys
Using freedom of information requests to facilitate research
The value of cognitive interviewing for optimizing a patient experience survey
Personal construct psychology methods for qualitative research
The effect of busyness on survey participation: being too busy or feeling too busy to cooperate?
A methodological approach to the materiality of clothing: Wardrobe studies
Exploring the consequences of a recalibration of causal conditions when assessing sufficiency with fuzzy set QCA
Making hermeneutics explicit: how QCA supports an insightful dialogue between theory and cases
Vignette development and administration: a framework for protecting research participants
Research integrity, image manipulation, and anonymizing photographs in visual social science research
Propensity to consent to data linkage: experimental evidence on the role of three survey design features in a UK longitudinal panel
Recognition as a framework for ethical participatory research: developing a methodology with looked after young people
Performing the role of ethnographer: processing and managing the emotional dimensions of prison research
Using student subjects in experimental research: a challenge to the practice of using students as a proxy for taxpayers
Mandalas as a visual research method for understanding primary care for depression
Uncertainty in the study of belief: the risks and benefits of methodological agnosticism
Which probes are most useful when undertaking cognitive interviews?
Analysis of 0 to 10-point response scales using factorial methods: a new perspective
Population size matters: bias in conventional meta-analysis
Using respondent-driven sampling with ‘hard to reach’ marginalised young people: problems with slow recruitment and small network size
Social network boundaries and tricky to access populations: a qualitative approach
Membership function sensitivity of descriptive statistics in fuzzy-set relations
Investigating validity and effectiveness of cognitive interviewing as a pretesting method for non-English questionnaires: Findings from Korean cognitive interviews
No two ageisms are the same: testing measurement invariance in ageism experience across Europe
The development of synchronous text-based instant messaging as an online interviewing tool
Studying dynamic social processes with ARIMA modeling
Dignity and ethics in research photography
Advancing towards inclusive social research: visual methods as opportunities for people with severe mental illness to participate in research
Sampling: bridging probability and non-probability designs
A computer-assisted approach to filtering large numbers of documents for media analyses
The use of visual methods with children in a mixed methods study of family food practices
PDAs in socio-economic surveys: instrument bias, surveyor bias or both?
Seeking university Research Ethics Committee approval: the emotional vicissitudes of a ‘rationalised’ process
Surviving as a qualitative researcher in a quantitative world: a personal reflection
Towards more systematic Twitter analysis: metrics for tweeting activities
Doing qualitative fieldwork in Cuba: social research in politically sensitive locations
A typology of designs for social research in the built environment
Institutional ethnography and data analysis: making sense of data dialogues
Interviewing the surveyors: factors which contribute to questionnaire falsification (curbstoning) among Jamaican field surveyors
The social shaping of digital research
Reading the riots on Twitter: methodological innovation for the analysis of big data
Making sense of self-reported socially significant data using computational methods
Hyperlinks and networked communication: a comparative study of political parties online
Digital social research, social media and the sociological imagination: surrogacy, augmentation and re-orientation
Making sense of big text: a visual-first approach for analysing text data using Leximancer and Discursis
Community understanding of respondent-driven sampling in a medical research setting in Uganda: importance for the use of RDS for public health research
Can we, should we, measure ethnicity?
Evaluating the effect of esthetically enhanced materials compared to standard materials on clinician response rates to a mailed survey
Negotiating doorstep access: door-to-door survey researchers' strategies to obtain participation
Cross-national qualitative research: the development and application of an analytic framework in the Mental Health and Poverty Project
Considering the realities of salivary research with young children: What’s spit all about?
Using software to tell a trustworthy, convincing and useful story
Methodological challenges of conducting ‘insider’ reflexive research with the miscarriages of justice community
An evaluation of mixed methods (diaries and focus groups) when working with older people
Clustering in the field of social sciences: that is your choice
Developing and validating a cross-national cumulative scale measuring attitudes toward illegal immigrants
Home movies in participatory research: children as movie-makers
The fallacy of the instrumental gate? Contextualising the process of gaining access through gatekeepers
Gatekeeping and drinking cultures: how do we talk about drinking?
‘It’s important for the students to meet someone like you.’ How perceptions of the researcher can affect gaining access, building rapport and securing cooperation in school-based research
Power and trust: an academic researcher’s perspective on working with interpreters as gatekeepers
Investigating human trafficking from the Andean Community to Europe: the role of goodwill in the researcher–gatekeeper relationship and in negotiating access to data
Close encounters: researching intimate lives in Europe
Tiers of gatekeepers and ethical practice: researching adolescent students and sexually explicit online material
Sexually harassed by gatekeepers: reflections on fieldwork in Surinam and Turkey
Reflexivity in the age of reconstructive social science
Disciplinary apprentices: ‘Qualitative methods’ in student psychological research
Collision or collusion? A discussion and case study of the unplanned triangulation of quantitative and qualitative research methods
Researching small companies' charitable giving through telephone interviews
Beyond agreement and disagreement: the inappropriate use of Likert items in the applied research culture
Are you sitting on your qualitative data? Qualidata's mission
E-mail: a qualitative research medium for interviewing?
The effect of the interview on the interviewee
Doing research on ‘fear of crime, boys, race and masculinities’: utilizing a feminist standpoint epistemology
Video recording children at night in the home
Academic research and the voluntary sector—a personal view
Developing evidenced-based policy and practice in social interventions with children and families
Focus group methodology: a review
A fair trial? Judging quality in qualitative research
‘Whose side are you on?’ Dilemmas in conducting feminist ethnographic research with young women
Interpretive biography as a method: researching tenants' experiences of housing renewal
A social semiotic analysis of male heterosexuality in sexual health resources: the case of images
Learning to be intellectually insecure: the dis/empowering effects of reflexive practice
If you were a teacher, it would be harder to talk to you: reflections on qualitative research with children in school
Why do people agree to participate in social research? The case of drug injectors
Researching the sexual behaviour of older people: a methodological challenge
Access to public documents in a study of the NHS internal market: Openness Vs secrecy in contracting for clinical services
The negotiation of a working role in organizational ethnography
Realising children's agency in research: Partners and participants?
Improving the measurement of attitudinal responses: An example from a crime survey
Plus ca change? Reflections on a career as a qualitative researcher
Contextualization in cross-national comparative research
Qualitative research methods in cross-national settings
In pursuit of quality: Issues for cross-national survey research
Concepts, context and discourse in a comparative case study
Combining quantitative and qualitative research methods in the study of international migration
Cross-national qualitative research: Accommodating ideals and reality
Context, culture and values in migration research on children within the European Union
Cross-national research notes
Adult images of childhood and research on client children
Non-response bias in prospective studies of patients and health care professionals
A story behind a story: Developing strategies for making sense of teacher narratives
Drawing the Veil?': Some reflections on joint research supervision of women students in Saudi Arabia
Paradigm wars: Some thoughts on a personal and public trajectory
The gold standard for life satisfaction: Confirmation and elaboration using an imaginary scale and qualitative interview
Research to order: Dilemmas in the design and control of tenant satisfaction surveys
The importance of the conditions and relations of project design for the construction of qualitative data: Some experiences from collaborative team working
Once would be enough': Some reflections on the issue of safety for lone researchers
Measuring inequality in a cross-tabulation with ordered categories: From the Gini coefficient to the Tog coefficient
Collaboration and censorship in the oral history interview
Prescription: Its importance and prerequisites
Case study in the contemporary world of research: Using notions of purpose, place, process and product to develop some principles for practice
Using vignettes in awareness and attitudinal research
Quantifying the Muslim population in Europe: Conceptual and data issues
Using and analysing focus groups: Limitations and possibilities
At home with the young homeless
Exactness and precision
Social research? the emergence of a discipline?
Developing sociological arguments through community studies
Inviting intimacy: The interview as therapeutic opportunity
Problematizing transcription: Purpose, paradigm and quality
Varieties of social research: A typology
Computer software and qualitative analysis: Trends, issues and resources
New methodologies for the 2001 Census in England and Wales
Boundary oscillations: Epistemological and genre transformation during the 'method' of thesis writing
Snippets and silences: Ethics and reflexivity in narratives of sistering
I wanna tell you a story': Exploring the application of vignettes in qualitative research with children and young people
Ethnic monitoring in higher education: Some reflections on methodology
Methodology out of context: Getting Zimbabwean entrepreneurs to participate in research
Understanding talk: Directions from Bernstein's sociology
Symbolic control: Issues of empirical description of agencies and agents
Sleeping with the enemy? Exploiting the textual turn in management research
Researching policy implementation: Interview data analysis in institutional contexts
Opening-up: Engaging people in evaluation
Qualitative comparative analysis and a hermeneutic approach to interview data
The study of women's deprivation: How to reveal the gender dimension of poverty
Working with emotion: Issues for the researcher in fieldwork and teamwork
Research by children
Political elites and the pragmatic paradigm: Notes from a feminist researcher - in the field and out to lunch
Research Note: The relationship between accuracy and confidence in survey-based research: Findings from a pilot study on the fear of crime
An evaluation of the use of diaries in a study of medication in later life
HIV/AIDS and constructs of gay community: Researching educational practice within community-based health promotion for gay men
Researching an-'other' minority ethnic community: Reflections of a black female researcher on the intersections of race, gender and other power positions on the research process
Notes from the field: Emotions of place in the production and interpretation of text
Translating values: Making sense of different value bases−Reflections from Denmark and the UK
Social policies in Europe and the issue of translation: The social construction of concepts
Comparing child maintenance systems: Conceptual and methodological issues
The issues of translation, transferability and transfer of social policies: French and British 'urban social policy': Finding common ground for comparison?
Power and translation in social policy research
Translating English and French social policy concepts: A personal view from France
Commitment and Investigation in Knowing the Social World
Problems of participation: The limits of action research
A critical appraisal of participatory methods in development research
Studying age, 'race' and gender: Translating a research proposal into a project
The Sociological pied-piper: Moving forward without RATs
Knowing the social world through literature: Sociological reflections on Robert Musil's The Man Without Qualities
Platonic Forehand versus Aristotelian Smash - the use of computers as macroscopes in knowing the social world
Complexity and the social world
Knowledge as communication: A review of recent literature on method and theory in social science
Work orders: Analysing employment histories using sequence data
The value of event history techniques for understanding social processes: Modelling women's employment behaviour after motherhood
Researching religion: The vocation of the sociologist of religion
Researching paramilitary violence in Northern Ireland
Matched controls in a case-control study. Does matching by doctor's list mean matching by relative deprivation?
The use of video in research dissemination: Children as experts on their own family lives
Qualitative research and computing: Methodological issues and practices in using QSR NVivo and NUD*IST
An intellectual history of NUD*IST and Nvivo
Going the distance: 'Closeness' in qualitative data analysis software
The evolution of a project involving an integrated analysis of structured qualitative and quantitative data: From N3 to Nvivo
Narrative research with audiovisual data: Video Intervention/Prevention Assessment (VIA) and Nvivo
Qualitative computing--a methods revolution?
Merging and its procedures in QSR software
The silence of numbers: A split-sample experiment concerning respondents' linguistic sensitivity in Danish survey studies
Can we measure homelessness? A critical evaluation of the method of 'capture-recapture'
Labour pains: Some considerations on the difficulties of researching juvenile prostitution
The salience of terminology: Housing research with older people from minority ethnic communities
Evaluation research as passive and apolitical? Some reflections from the field
Multiple perspectives on the 'family' lives of young people: Methodological and theoretical issues in case study research
Methodological triangulation in researching families: Making sense of dissonant data
The modifiable areal unit problem: Segregation between schools and levels of analysis
Issues and dilemmas in teaching research methods courses in social and behavioural sciences: US perspective
Measuring social capital: Orthodoxies and continuing controversies
Alternative approaches to researching social capital: A comment on van Deth's measuring social capital
Narratives of challenging research: Stirring tales of politics and practice
Case study as a research strategy: Some ambiguities and opportunities
Size doesn't matter: The fallacy of class-differential fertility in social mobility analysis
Participation and partnerships in research: Listening to the ideas and experiences of a parent-carer
Conducting research using web-based questionnaires: Practical, methodological, and ethical considerations
Time, texture and childhood: The contours of longitudinal qualitative research
Why we interview now--reflexivity and perspective in a longitudinal study
Longitudinal qualitative studies and the reflexive self
Interpretive claims and methodological warrant in small-number qualitative, longitudinal research
Hindsight, foresight and insight: The challenges of longitudinal qualitative research
From ethnography to life history: Tracing transitions of school students
Some practical and ethical issues encountered while conducting tracking research with young people leaving the 'care' system
Maintaining contact with drug users over an 18-month period
Capturing change: Doing research in a society undergoing transformation
Cross-sectional profiling and longitudinal analysis: Research notes on analysis in the longitudinal qualitative study, 'Negotiating Transitions to Citizenship'
Project 4:21 Transitions to Womanhood: Developing a psychosocial perspective in one longitudinal study
Interviewing men in uniform: a feminist approach?
Who's talking: drawing conclusions from focus groups—some methodological considerations
Developing quality standards for cross-national survey research: five approaches
Using research questionnaires with young people in schools: the influence of the social context
Towards ethical practice in the use of archived transcripted interviews
Towards a usable past for qualitative research
Doing sociological research: the genre of ‘owning up’
Reflections on researching Family and Kinship in East London
Qualitative data and The Affluent Worker study: a missed opportunity?
Understanding health inequalities: from ‘Transmitted Deprivation’ to ‘Social Capital’
The changing experience of researching family and intimate relationships
Qualidata and the preservation of meaning: researching mental health
Reflections on becoming a researcher
Getting the most from archived qualitative data: epistemological, practical and professional obstacles
Doing collaborative research: doing what feels right and makes sense
Inside out: some notes on carrying out feminist research in cross-cultural interviews with South Asian women immigration applicants
Loss, collective memory and transcripted oral histories
Revisiting crime surveys: emotional responses without emotions? OR Look back at anger
An evaluation tool to assess the quality of qualitative research studies
Researching others: epistemology, experience, standpoints and participation
Storying stories: a narrative approach to in-depth interview conversations
Researching family and social mobility with two eyes: some experiences of the interaction between qualitative and quantitative data
Making Southern realities count: research agendas and design in North-South collaborations
User satisfaction surveys and cognitive question testing in the public sector: the case of personal social services in England
Power at work: reflections on the research process
Touch talk': the problems and paradoxes of embodied research
The use of biographical material in intellectual history: writing about Alva and Gunnar Myrdal's contribution to sociology
Research note: reflections on interviewing across the ethnic divide
Reassessing the research relationship: location, position and power in fieldwork account
Making sense of interviewee–interviewer dynamics in narratives about violence in intimate relationships
Ratings and rankings: reconsidering the structure of values and their measurement
Feminist pedagogy in the teaching of research methods
The UK Freedom of Information Act and social research
Scoping studies: towards a methodological framework
Living history, undoing linearity: memory‐work as a research method in the social sciences
Snowball sampling: using social networks to research non‐heterosexual women
Influence of questionnaire design on response to mail surveys
The effect of personalization on response rates and data quality in web surveys
Experiencing racism: Reflections on the practice of research with minority ethnic older people in Britain
Searching for analytical concepts in the research process: Learning from children1
Using interpretive sociology to explore workplace skill and knowledge
Using a model of group psychotherapy to support social research on sensitive topics
Mixing Methods: The Entry of Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches into the Research Process
What Works and Why: Combining Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches in Large‐scale Evaluations
A Multi‐method Approach to the Study of School Class Size Differences
Investigating the Effects of Pre‐school Provision: Using Mixed Methods in the EPPE Research
Students’ Developing Knowledge in a Subject Discipline: Insights from Combining Quantitative and Qualitative Methods
The Wider Benefits of Adult Learning: An Illustration of the Advantages of Multi‐method Research
Methodological Issues in Combining Diverse Study Types in Systematic Reviews
Emancipatory Research Methodology and Disability: A Critique
Validating New Measures of the Fear of Crime
The Myth of Research‐based Practice: The Critical Case of Educational Inquiry
The Focus Group Interview as an In‐depth Method? Young Women Talking About Sexuality
A Different Kind of Snowball: Identifying Key Policymakers
Disability Research by Disabled and Non‐Disabled People: Towards a Relational Methodology of Research Production
On Becoming a Pragmatic Researcher: The Importance of Combining Quantitative and Qualitative Research Methodologies
Exploring the Potential of Shadow Controls in the Evaluation of Children’s Services
A Critical Reflection on Researching Black Muslim Women’s Lives Post‐September 11th
Constructing a Teacher of Qualitative Methods: A Reflection
Driving the Bus from the Rear Passenger Seat: Control Dilemmas of Participative Action Research
The Feasibility of Using National Surveys to Derive Samples of Older People from Different Ethnic Groups in Britain: Lessons from ‘Piggy‐Backing’ on the Family Resources Survey
Access, Ethics and the (Re)construction of Gender: The Case of Researcher as Suspected ‘Paedophile’
Heard the One About … Applying Mixed Methods in Humour Research?
The Naïve Researcher: Doing Social Research in Africa
Research Ethics and Data Quality: The Implications of Informed Consent
Exploring ‘Quality’: Research Participants’ Perspectives on Verbatim Quotations
Paradigm Peace and the Implications for Quality
Digging for Nuggets: How ‘Bad’ Research Can Yield ‘Good’ Evidence
Quality Issues with Survey Research
A User Perspective on Research Quality
Reflexivity in the Research Process: Psychoanalytic Observations
An Ethnographic Approach to Researching Children in Junior School
An Application of the Three‐Step Test‐Interview (TSTI): A Validation Study of the Dutch and Norwegian Versions of the ‘Illegal Aliens Scale’
‘Long‐Termness’ with Regard to Sickness and Disability: An Example of the Value of Longitudinal Data for Testing Reliability and Validity
Filming Patient Interviews to Demonstrate the Value of Welfare Advice in General Practice: A Strategy for the Dissemination of Project Outcomes
Globalization, Individualization and Gender in Adolescents’ Texts
Set Them Free: Improving Data Quality by Broadening the Interviewer’s Tasks
Tuning‐in to Teenagers! Using Radio Phone‐in Discussions in Research with Young People
What Counts as Research? The Implications for Research Governance in Social Care
An exploration of kaupapa Maori research, its principles, processes and applications
A Case Study of Sample Design for Longitudinal Research: Young Lives
Spiralling Up or Spinning Out: A Guide for Reflecting on Action Research Practice
Software and Method: Reflections on Teaching and Using QSR NVivo in Doctoral Research
Handling your Baggage in the Field Reflections on research relationships
Multidisciplinary research ethics review: is it feasible?
This Morning I’m A Researcher, This Afternoon I’m An Outreach Worker: Ethical Dilemmas in Practitioner Research
The Research Question in Social Research: What is its Role?
Methodological Issues for Qualitative Research with Learning Disabled Children
Tripping Over Molehills: Ethics and the Ethnography of Police Work
Selecting Cases in Cross‐National Political Research
‘How Much Money Do You Spend on Gambling?’ The Comparative Validity of Question Wordings Used to Assess Gambling Expenditure
Working with Traumatic Stories: From Transcriber to Witness
Analysing Police Decision‐Making: Assessing the Application of a Mixed‐Method/Mixed‐Model Research Design
Swapping Stories: Comparing Plots: Triangulating Individual Narratives within Families
The Opt‐in/Opt‐out Feature in a Multi‐Stage Delphi Method Study
Developing a Syllabus for a Mixed‐Methods Research Course
Population Surveys of Children’s Health and Wellbeing: Parental Views on Data Collection Content and Methods
Representing ‘Sex’ in the Research Process
Emotions and Research
Triangulation and Theoretical Understanding
Developing a Low‐Cost Technique for Parallel Cross‐Cultural Instrument Development: The Question Appraisal System (QAS‐04)
Reflections on Two Studies of Emotionally Sensitive Topics: Bereavement from Murder and Abortion
Optimal Matching Analysis Using Ideal Types to Describe the Lifecourse: An Illustration of How Histories of Work, Partnerships and Housing Relate to Quality of Life in Early Old Age
Islam, Ethnography and Politics: Methodological Issues in Researching amongst West Yorkshire Pakistanis in 2005
Use of Mixed Methods in a Study of Residence and Contact Disputes between Divorced and Separated Parents
Qualitative Data from a Postal Questionnaire: Questioning the Presumption of the Value of Presence
Non‐Response in a Birth Cohort Study: The Case of the Millennium Cohort Study
The Gateshead Millennium Baby Study: A Prospective Study of Feeding and Growth
Enhancing Longitudinal Studies by Linkage to National Databases: Growing Up in Australia, the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children†
The Case for Diet Diaries in Longitudinal Studies
Cross‐National Research Using Contemporary Birth Cohort Studies: A Look at Early Maternal Employment in the UK and USA
The Grounded Theory and the Analysis of Audio-Visual Texts
A Potential Method for the Interpretive Synthesis of Qualitative Research: Issues in the Development of ‘Meta-Interpretation’
The Feasibility of linking household survey and administrative record data: New evidence for Britain
Separately Together: Working Reflexively as a Team
Asking the Experts: Developing and Validating Parental Diaries to Assess Children’s Minor Injuries
Rural community studies
‘From continuing tradition to continuous change’, W.M. Williams interviewed by Paul Thompson
Hertfordshire commuter villages: from Geography to Sociology
Reflections on community studies: from Sparkbrook to Liverpool
Recent rural community studies
In the city but not of the city? Telegraph Hillers and the making of a middle‐class community
Histories, belongings, communities
Community studies today: urban perspectives
Beyond Transitions: Applying Optimal Matching Analysis to Life Course Research
Challenges of Generating Qualitative Data with Socially Excluded Young People
A Tale of Two Hyphens: Working the Policy‐Research and Researcher‐Researched Hyphens in a Longitudinal Youth Transition Project
On ‘False, Collusive Objectification’: Becoming Attuned to Self‐Censorship, Performance and Interviewer Biases in Qualitative Interviewing
Interview Control Questions
Quality Criteria for Quantitative, Qualitative and Mixed Methods Research: A View from Social Policy
Interview as a Social Event: Cultural Influences Experienced While Interviewing Older Adults in India
The Power of Talk: Transformative Possibilities in Researching Violence with Children in South Africa
Impact of Situational Factors on Survey Measured Fear of Crime
Sampling Knowledge: The Hermeneutics of Snowball Sampling in Qualitative Research
Young People's Constructions of Self: Notes on the Use and Analysis of the Photo‐Elicitation Methods
Useful resources: ethnography through the internet
On the Applicability of the Most Similar Systems Design and the Most Different Systems Design in Comparative Research
Combining Narration‐Based Interviews with Topical Interviews: Methodological Reflections on Research Practices
The Management of Confidentiality and Anonymity in Social Research
Research Governance, Ethics and Access: A Case Study Illustrating the New Challenges Facing Social Researchers
Researching Conservative Groups: Rapport and Understanding across Moral and Political Boundaries
Researching Muslim Prisoners
‘Sperm Milkshakes with Poo Sprinkles’: The Challenges of Identifying Family Meals Practices through an Online Survey with Adolescents
Defining disability: effects of disability concepts on research outcomes
Inside qualitative, cross‐national research: making methods transparent in a EU housing study
When dichotomisation becomes a problem for the analysis of middle‐sized datasets
The role of gender, environment and Individual biography in shaping qualitative interview data
Participatory research and the voice‐centred relational method of data analysis: is it worth it?
Participant recruitment in intervention research: scientific integrity and cost‐effective strategies
Methodologies à la carte: an examination of emerging qualitative methodologies in social research
Research and Indigenous participation: critical reflexive methods
Drawing the experience of chronic vaginal thrush and complementary and alternative medicine
Disrupting edges – opening spaces: pursuing democracy and human flourishing through creative methodologies
Having their say: email interviews for research data collection with people who have verbal communication impairment
Explaining the intention to participate in a web survey: a test of the theory of planned behaviour
Research Note: The LIVITY study: research challenges and strategies for engaging with the black caribbean community in a study of HIV infection
Against the ethicists: on the evils of ethical regulation
Reflections on applying for NHS ethical approval and governance in a climate of rapid change: prioritising process over principles
The researcher as hooligan: where ‘participant’ observation means breaking the law
Methodological approaches at PhD and skills sought for research posts in academia: a mismatch?
Item non‐response rates: a comparison of online and paper questionnaires
Imputation methods for handling item‐nonresponse in practice: methodological issues and recent debates
Supporting a grounded theory with an audit trail: an illustration
The evolving nature of grounded theory: experiential reflections on the potential of the method for analysing children’s attitudes towards physical activity
The ethics and implications of paying participants in qualitative research
Learning to see: lessons from a participatory observation research project in public spaces
Between skepticism and empowerment: the experiences of peer research assistants in HIV/AIDS, housing and homelessness community‐based research
The use of population‐level data to advance interdisciplinary methodology: a cell‐through‐society sampling framework for child development research
Recruiting parents and children into a research project: a qualitative exploration of families' decision‐making processes
Using photography to understand change and continuity in the history of residential care for older people
To capture an emerging industry: using industrial standards to identify the biotech industry
Reflections on doing participatory research in health: participation, method and power