Research design
On campus workshops
Online resources for research students
Links
- 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.
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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.
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.
Method Specific
- Action Research Site is the University of the Southern Cross website on Action Research. Highly recommended for research students doing complex research projects and for refining your methodology as you go. Contains articles 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.
- Qualitative Research Methods by C. George Boeree, Shippensburg University. This is a simple workbook you can download.
- 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.
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