Advanced Research Methods and Skills (ARMS)

The Advanced Research Methods and Skills programme runs once a month during term time. It aims at introducing students to research methods and skills that can be useful for their own present or future research, and to research and methods that students will not use themselves but are encountered in the literature. Speakers are experts from the Department, the Institute for Effective Education and White Rose institutions. The approach is hands-on and interactive, although theoretical issues are also discussed.

In the year 2012/13, speakers include:

  • Professor Rob Klassen (Department of Education) An Introduction to Meta-Analysis
  • Dr Annie Irvine (Social Policy Research Unit) Using phone interviews: Methodological issues and a comparison with face-to-face interviews
  • Gillian Hampden-Thompson (Department of Education) An introduction to the Longitudinal Survey of Young People in England (LSYPE) and the National Pupil Database (NPD)

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Professor Li Wei (London) talking to doctoral students, Spring 2012