Tickets available here. Join us for a Meet the Author seminar at the University of Leeds, where we will bring together experts in realist methodology to discuss the latest advances in the field, as set out in Ana Manzano and Emma Williams’ new book: Realist Evaluation: Principles & Practice. Professor Joanne Greenhalgh will chair the...
The White Rose Centre presents the Longitudinal Data Analysis course for PGRs: Longitudinal data are an important tool for social researchers, as they can help address questions related to temporal ordering, change over time, and sometimes even causal relationships. Learning how to collect and analyse longitudinal data is therefore a desirable skill to a quantitative...
The White Rose and Social Research Methods Centre present the inaugural PGR Data Analytics & Quantitative Methods Conference 2025, an innovative and engaging forum designed to expand our collective understanding of quantitative methods and strengthen our research community. Our annual training sessions have traditionally focused on a series of specific methods that, in collaboration with...
Please register here: tickets Teams link: here Abstract: In this session, Jill will outline the inspiration for her research around pracademics (those with dual professional experience as practitioners and academics) and summarise how she drew on artefacts as a creative method. During the discussion, Jill will offer insights around the potential of artefacts to enrich...
Please register here. The Leeds Social Sciences Institute (LSSI) and the Social Research Methods Centre (SRMC) are delighted to invite you to a joint research seminar on co-production methodologies. This event will explore a range of experiences and insights into the use of co-production in research, offering an opportunity for engaging discussion and networking with...
The first meeting of the Social Research Methods Centre Steering Group.
Please register here: seminar tickets Abstract: Life course research necessitates the use of longitudinal research to trace the intersection of education, career trajectories, personal lives and health across time. In this presentation, I explore strategies used to track work and life histories over a near-30-year study of lawyers in Canada. The project involved surveys...
Please register here: seminar tickets Abstract: When empirical data are limited or difficult to obtain, expert elicitation provides a valuable methodology for quantifying subjective judgments in the social sciences. By systematically capturing knowledge from subject experts, elicitation techniques can offer insights into complex social phenomena that are challenging to measure directly. This...
Registration required: NCRM and Social Research Methods Centre, Open, Reproducible and Transparent Social Science Open science involves making scientific methods, data, and outcomes transparent to everyone. It includes making as transparent and available as possible (1) steps taken in data collection, processing and analysis that lead to the production of results, (2) study plans, data, materials and...
Agenda: 20 minutes: A concise summary and discussion led by our team (without the paper authors). 2:25 PM: Q&A session with the paper's authors. Paper Under Discussion: Steltenpohl, C. N., et al. (2023). "Rethinking Transparency and Rigor from a Qualitative Open Science Perspective." Journal of Trial & Error. https://doi.org/10.36850/mr7 Brief summary: This paper challenges the traditional...