MethodsNews Spring 2013

Contents: The effects of job loss and re-employment on men’s mental health: Causation or selection? by Fiona Steele, Robert French and Mel Bartley; Family lives and the environment: Narratives across countries, by Janet Boddy; Deriving flexible summaries from life course data, by George Ploubidis and Richard Silverwood; Analyzing food blogs: developing means of understanding online communication, by Gunther Kress, Carey Jewitt, Myrrh Domingo and Elisabetta Adami; Advanced research methods training in the UK, by Sean Moley and Rose Wiles; Are you sure the two groups are comparable? Selection in evaluation questions, by Monica Costas Dias; Visualizing real-time data with an interactive iPad video wall, by Steven Gray, Richard Milton and Andrew Hudson-Smith; Podcast: Big Data challenges for social scientists; New working paper: Availability and use of UK based ethnicity data for health research; Date for your diary: 6th ESRC Research Methods Festival, 8-10 July 2014, Oxford