MethodsNews Spring 2011

Contents: Research evidence in public policy, by Anna Vignoles and Lorraine Dearden; CAQDAS - Contributor to social scientific knowledge? by Sarah Bulloch and Christine Rivers; How can we find relevant research more quickly? by James Thomas and Alison O’Mara; Using paradata to explain interviewer effect, by Gosia Turner; Working with archived qualitative data, by Rosalind Edwards; Journal special issues and methodological debates, by Melanie Nind and Rosalind Edwards; Research methods at the University of Southampton, by Patrick Sturgis + NCRM Annual Lecture by ESRC Chief Exec Paul Boyle; £7.2M further investment for NCRM; Patrick Sturgis joins Nuffield Council working part