Resource links

We have put together a list of useful online resources, which we will be adding to from time to time. We hope you find them useful.

(Please report any broken links via the 'Webmaster' link at the foot of this page.)

General research resources

• A comprehensive textbook in social research
  

Designing a questionnaire

• The Question Bank
• Hints for designing effective questionnaires
• Online survey design guide
• Questionnaires and surveys - a free tutorial
  
• Questionnaire design and analysis - a workbook by Alison Galloway
  
• Survey Design - how to
• How to make a good questionnaire!
  
• Introduction to Survey Methodology and Design
• Survey & Questionnaire Design
  

Statistics-related

• Statsoft electronic text book
• Probability and statistics e-book
• TRAMSS
• Selecting statistics
• Sampling and measurement
  
• Master statistical analysis techniques without pain

Statistics for beginners

• How to read a paper: Statistics for the non-statistician. I: Different types of data need different statistical tests
• Internet for social statistics
• Intro to quant methods
• Clay Helberg’s statistic resources
• Statistics
• WWW Resources for teaching statistics

Literature reviews

• Doing successful literature reviews
• http://lancashirecare.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/2008-undertaking-a-literature-review-a-step-by-step-approach.pdf
• http://lancashirecare.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/step-by-step-guide-to-criti-research-part-1-quantitative-reseawrch.pdf
• http://lancashirecare.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/2007-step-by-step-guide-to-critiquing-research-part-2-qualitative-research.pdf
• http://toby.library.ubc.ca/webpage/webpage.cfm?id=502
• http://library.ucsc.edu/ref/howto/literaturereview.html
• http://www.internettutorials.net/boolean.html

Bibliographic software

• WIKINDX is a single or multi-user bibliography environment storing searchable references, notes and citations and integrated with a WYSIWYG word processor for the authoring of publication-ready articles automatically formatted to chosen citation styles
• Biblioexpress
• Citeulike
  

Qualitative research resources

• http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/pract_res.html
• Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research
• Houston (2008)
• Qual Page
• Qualitative methods workbook
• the qualitative report
• Qualitative methods
• Qualiti
  

• Qualitative measures
  

Links to some major funders

• The Higher Education Academy
• ESRC - Economic and Social Research Centre
• The Nuffield Foundation
• British Academy