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Chemical applications of escience to interfacial spectroscopy
This report is a summary of works carried out by the author between October 2003 and September 2004, in the first year of his PhD studie
Exploring new data sources in the social sciences
The National Centre for Research Methods will be holding its fourth residential training event targeted at early career researchers - this year an autumn rather than a summer school - between November 12th to 14th. The theme this year is on the challenges and opportunities of new sources of data and methods for their analysis. Our starting point is the recent assertion of Mike Savage and Roger Burrows (Sociology, 41, 5, 2007) that academic social scientists are losing their monopoly on innovative methods and sources of data in the face of a serious challenge from research expertise and new data sources available outside of academia. A key aim of the autumn school is to challenge this view through exploring recent developments in relation to the types of data and approaches to their analysis increasingly available to academic researchers
Working across boundaries: Interdisciplinary and multi-method research
The second NCRM Summer School will be held at the University of Southampton,11-14th September 2006. This year’s summer school will focus on the challenges of
conducting collaborative research across disciplinary and methodological boundaries
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