Over breakfast one day last week, my son gave me a rundown of the relative pros and cons of several cinemas in Derby. This developed into a discussion about what exactly you would need to compare – what data would be needed – to make a proper comparison. We made a list of things that …
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Musings on ways of doing research (and socks)
There are some words and phrases you will encounter in methodological discussions and it’s important to understand what they mean and how they are used by researchers. Let’s start with ‘methodology’ itself. I tell my students that ‘method’ is what you do and the ‘ology’ is why and how you’re doing it that way. A …
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Musings on methodology 