Library & Cultural Services: Sociology: Research Methods. Study Skills

Research Methods (General)

BSA Guidelines on Ethical Research
Includes the new Statement of Ethical Practice (2017)
Essex Software Hub
The University's portal, with Apps that enable you to remotely access a wide variety of qualitative & quantitative software packages
Methods@Manchester
Useful portal to resources for social research.
National Centre for Research Methods
ESRC network promoting the use of high quality social research methods. Full text of the Survey methods newsletter, and details of other NCSR publications, plus extremely useful ReStore repository of resources across all types of methods.

SAGE research methods online
SAGE Research Methods is a library database, intended to give practical help in identifying & using all types of research methods. It incudes a variety of content (books, reference works, articles, videos, case studies). Essex users have access to all content on SAGE Research Methods
Institutional login

SAGE Teaching Methods
Aimed at teachers, this useful open access website shares resources for teaching quantitative methods in the social sciences
Social Research Association
UK organisation for social researchers since 1968.
UK Data Service Guides
A wide range of very useful guides & other sources of help, especially for students & researchers using the UKDS datasets or undertaking survey research generally

ArcGIS
Mapping tool using GIS (Geographic Information Systems) for data visualisation.
LSE Methodology Department
Online tutorials for SPSS & STATA.
STATA Corp.
See especially Resources.
Statistics How To
Useful website originally developed by academic Stephanie Glen that describes statistical concepts clearly
UCLA Institute for Digital Research & Education - statistical resources
UK Data Archive Quantitative Methods E-books
E-books and accompanying quizzes aim to build skills in quantitative methods and SPSS statistical software. They use the Living Costs and Food Survey to look at variables, correlations & regressions
UK Data Service Data Skills Modules
Self-learning modules covering: survey, longitudinal and aggregate data, and exploring crime data with R

Association of Narrative Research & Practice
Leading international centre for narrative work. ANRP aims to bring researchers together to develop innovative narrative research of all kinds
Gephi
Free open source software used for social network analysis & visualisation
International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA)
Maintains a useful list of software programs for social network analysis.
Introduction to Conversation Analysis
Website maintained by Charles Antaki, Loughborough University.
Society for Longitudinal and Lifecourse Studies
UK based society promoting the use of longitudinal research & methodology.

Guide to Undergraduate Dissertations
Useful online guide from Birmingham University about undertaking a dissertation in the social sciences.
Skills for Success (University of Essex)
Provides a range of online resources & training events to support study skills around writing, dissertations, maths & stats support.

In addition you can find numerous books in the Library on academic writing, how to do a research project, writing a dissertation, etc.

Most of these can be found on floor 5 at classmarks LB 2369 - LB 2395, and many are also available online as e-books