Research Resources

This page started as a Research Methods hub but over recent years has also had many links added which could be described as "The Research Environment". It's a useful collection for me so I thought others might also find some resources of interest.

Research Methods resources on this Website

Qualitative Research Methods

Qualitative Methods: Conducting an Interview

Statistical Analysis

Study Skills - Academic Reading, Writing etc

Research Ethics

Conducting Systematic Reviews & Meta-Analyses

Evaluation as Research

Adams, J., & Neville, S. (2020). Program Evaluation for Health Professionals: What It Is, What It Isn’t and How to Do It. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 19, 1609406920964345. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1609406920964345

Recommended Journal Articles

Caldwell, A., Vigotsky, A. D., Nuckols, G., Boardley, I., Schmidt, J., Tenan, M., … Halperin, I. (2019, January 3). Moving Sport and Exercise Science Forward: A Call for the Adoption of More Transparent Research Practices. https://doi.org/10.31236/osf.io/fxe7a

Gray, K., & Wegner, D. M. (2013). Six guidelines for interesting research. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 8(5), 549-553. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691613497967

Imenda, S. (2014). Is there a conceptual difference between theoretical and conceptual frameworks?. Journal of Social Sciences, 38(2), 185-195. https://doi.org/10.1080/09718923.2014.11893249

Ioannidis, J. P. (2005). Why most published research findings are false. PLoS medicine, 2(8), e124.

Open Science Collaboration. (2015). Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science. Science, 349(6251), aac4716. http://science.sciencemag.org/content/349/6251/aac4716

Cole, G. D., Shun-Shin, M. J., Nowbar, A. N., Buell, K. G., Al-Mayahi, F., Zargaran, D., ... & Francis, D. P. (2015). Difficulty in detecting discrepancies in a clinical trial report: 260-reader evaluation. International journal of epidemiology, 44(3), 862-869.

Sand‐Jensen, K. (2007). How to write consistently boring scientific literature. Oikos, 116(5), 723-727. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0030-1299.2007.15674.x

Scheel, A. M., Tiokhin, L., Isager, P. M., & Lakens, D. (2020). Why hypothesis testers should spend less time testing hypotheses. Perspectives on Psychological Science, https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1745691620966795

Recommended Textbooks

  • Hart, C. (2018). Doing a Literature Review: Releasing the Research Imagination. Sage.

  • Furseth, I., & Everett, E. L. (2013). Doing your master's dissertation: from start to finish. Sage.

  • Hall, S. & Getchell, N. (2014) Research Methods in Kinesiology and Health Sciences. Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins

  • Berg, K. E., & Latin, R.W.(2008). Essentials of research methods in health, physical education, exercise science, and recreation (3rd Ed). Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins [google books]

  • Evans,I., Thornton, H. and Chalmers, I. (2010 ) Testing Treatments: Better research for better healthcare. Pinter & Martin Limited [full text]

  • Gallagher, K. (Ed.). (2008). The methodological dilemma: Creative, critical and collaborative approaches to qualitative research. Routledge.[google books]

  • Salkind, N. J. (2011). 100 Questions (and Answers) about Research Methods. London: Sage. [google books]

  • Edwards, R., & Holland, J. (2013). What is qualitative interviewing?. A&C Black.[full text]

  • National Health Service (2006) Research Governance Framework for Health & Social Care (2nd Ed) [full text]

  • Creswell, J. W. (2012). Qualitative inquiry and research design: Choosing among five approaches. London: Sage

  • Pawson, R. and Tilley, N. (2004) Realist Evaluation [full text]

  • Silverman, D. (2013). Doing qualitative research: A practical handbook. London: Sage

  • Taylor, B. and Francis, K. (2013) Qualitative Research in the Health Sciences London: Routledge

  • How to use an interview as a method of qualitative research [click here]

  • Office of Behavior and Social Science Research - e-Source online textbook

  • The National Centre for Research Methods - [www resources]

Recommended Resources

Exercise, Sport Science and Research

Bishop, D. (2008). An applied research model for the sport sciences. Sports Medicine, 38(3), 253-263. https://link.springer.com/article/10.2165/00007256-200838030-00005

Drust, B., & Green, M. (2013). Science and football: evaluating the influence of science on performance. Journal of Sports Sciences, 31(13), 1377-1382. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02640414.2013.828544


Podcasts

National Centre for Research Methods

In interviews of around 10-15 minutes they share the latest methodological developments, research findings and ideas and discuss their potential and actual impact

www.ncrm.ac.uk/resources/podcasts/

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