Social Research Update is published quarterly by the Department of Sociology, University of Surrey, Guildford GU7 7XH, England.
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Previous Issues
- Analysing Qualitative Data by Computer
- Using Diaries in Social Research
- Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing
- Exploring the Internet
- Ethnographic Writing
- Computer simulation of social processes
- Correspondence Analysis
- Telephone Interviewing
- Official Social Classifications in the UK
- Archiving qualitative research data
- Visual research methods
- Elicitation techniques with young people
- Comparative research methods
- Paying respondents and informants
- Collecting data through joint interviews
- Occupational Gender Segregation
- Open and Closed Questions
- Complexity Theory and Social Research
- Focus groups
- Finding information on the World Wide Web
- Using e-mail as a research tool
- Secondary analysis of qualitative data
- Multilevel models
- Optimal matching analysis
- The Use of Vignettes in Qualitative Research
- Examining the paradox of achievement gaps
- Anticipating the problems of contract social research
- Longitudinal Research in the Social Sciences
- Safety in Social Research
- A re-examination of segregation indices in terms of compositional invariance
- Translating from one language to another
- Soft Modelling the Predictors of Drug Treatment Use
- Accessing Hidden and Hard-to-Reach Populations: Snowball Research Strategies
- Undertaking Action Research: Negotiating the Road Ahead
- The Importance of Pilot Studies
- The Anonymity of Research Participants
- Citizens Juries
- Tools for Digital Audio Recording in Qualitative Research
- Ethics and equity: pursuing the perspective of non-participants
- Photo-Interviewing for research
- Online Resources for Social Survey Researchers
- Tracing and Mapping: the challenges of compiling databases and directories
- Analysing Complex Survey Data: Clustering, Stratification and Weights
- Telephone Focus Groups
- The Use of Piloting in an Application for Funding
- Personal agendas in emotionally demanding research
- Measuring quality of life using free and public domain data
- Exploiting freely available software for social research
- The ethics of Internet usage in health and personal narratives research
- Cognitive Interviewing as a Research Technique
- Research without Consent
- Mind-mapping
- In-depth interviewing by Instant Messaging
- Systematic reviewing
- R and Quantitative Data Analysis
- The ethics of the secondary analysis and further use of qualitative data
- Begin at the beginning... Using a lifegrid for exploring illness experience
- Researching ethnic inequalities
- Analysing Cognitive Interview data to Improve Cross-National Survey Questions
- Using NVivo Audio-Coding: Practical, Sensorial and Epistemological Considerations
- Internet Research and Unobtrusive Methods
- Why familiarise?
- Humour Analysis and Qualitative Research
- The possible advantages of the mean absolute deviation 'effect' size
- Multiple Imputation for handling missing data in social research
- Integrative Reviewing for exploring complex phenomena
- Walking Interviews
- Using secondary data in education research
Social Research Update is edited by Nigel Gilbert <n.gilbert@surrey.ac.uk>