Objectives To alleviate the shortage of qualified physicians in rural areas, since 2010, the Chinese government has launched a National Compulsory Service Programme (NCSP) to enrol medical students ...

This course is compulsory on the MSc in Global Media and Communications (LSE and Fudan), MSc in Global Media and Communications (LSE and UCT), MSc in Global Media and Communications (LSE and USC), MSc ...

Objective To identify how parents judge the credibility of online health news stories with links to scientific research. Design This qualitative study interviewed parents who read online stories about ...

There is relatively little advice in the Engineering domain for undertaking qualitative studies. Researchers have to rely on generic guidance that may result in imprecise application of qualitative ...

In previous posts I shared here and elsewhere, I discussed both qualitative research and quantitative research and in this post, I talk about mixed methods research. I also created an illustrative ...

A couple of weeks ago, I shared a visual on quantitative research and I was really glad to see how many of you found it useful, especially for teaching and workshops. Today I’m shifting the focus to ...

A behind-the-scenes blog about research methods at Pew Research Center. For our latest findings, visit pewresearch.org. The Pew-Knight Initiative supports new research on how Americans absorb civic ...

Abstract: The paper entitled “Qualitative Methods in Empirical Studies of Software Engineering” by Carolyn Seaman was published in TSE in 1999. It has been chosen as one of the most influential papers ...

The MSc is clearly the UK market leading social research methods degree. This is true both in terms of the quality of the teaching but also in terms of the quality of the students choosing to read for ...

1 Faculty of Law, Economics and Humanities, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan. 2 Department of Psychiatry, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan. 3 Graduate School of Medical and Dental Science, ...