Applied Social Research Methods: Practical Guides and Online Tools

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2	About
3	This list of online resources has been curated by Nissa Ramsay, Think Social Tech, in Feb-Mar 2018 on behalf of the Open Data Institute
4	Information about the project can be found here
5	https://theodi.org/blog/invitation-to-tender-development-of-applied-best-practice-research-guides
6	https://medium.com/@thinksocialtech/what-does-best-practice-look-like-for-organisations-doing-applied-social-research-b66bd5b3d48c
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8	Read the final project blog post and find out more about a range of open guides to doing social research here:
9	https://theodi.org/article/check-out-our-rd-open-research-tools/
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11	https://medium.com/@thinksocialtech/reflections-developing-best-practice-research-guides-for-multidisciplinary-teams-46e9025a9da9
12	Contact
13	nissa@thinksocialtech.org
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15	Please feel free to contribute to this resource and to use it where helpful. It will be updated and maintained throughout 2018
16	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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18	Resources have been included where:
19	Focus on the practicalities of doing research
20	Provide useful tips about applying methods
21	Give a good overview of the research process or collate other guides about research methods
22	Have been reccomended by professionals in applied social research
23	Are freely available online (although some are academic or closed access they have been included where they meet the criteria above)
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25	The following codes have been used to group the resources
26	Code name	Notes
27	Overview	A general introduction or a resource which includes guidance on various methods or approaches to applied social research and selecting method
28	Survey	Sampling, questionnaire design
29	Interview	Includes guides to qualitative research and ethnographic interviews
30	Online Tools	Includes guides outlining or explaining different tools to collect data online/using mobile
31	Research process	Information about informed consent, ethics, GDPR, administration, research principles
32	Data visualisation	How to create and judge good visualisations
33	GDPR/ Data Protection/ Informed Consent/ Safeguarding	Includes infromed consent, guides and frameworks that focus on GDPR for social research and maintaining privacy through digital data collection
34	Selecting methods	Overview guides comparing methods
35	User Research	User experience, service design, user-centered design and usability (Includes moderated, unmoderated and guerilla) methods, observation
36	Social Media	Twitter data, focus on the research methods and processes
37	Analysis	Includes quantitative/qualitative, user research analysis, grounded theory
38	Reporting	Creating actionable insights
39	Literature reviews	What to think about when doing a literature review, how to write it up
40	Workshops	includes user research and service design methods
41	Online Guides	Guides deemed particularly useful to teams undertaking applied social research
42	Online Research Tools	Free tools available online
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44	Acknowledgements
45	Thanks to the following organisations and people for their contributions to this resource (feel free to add your name)
46	New Philanthropy Capital	https://www.thinknpc.org/
47	Snook	https://wearesnook.com/
48	CAST	https://medium.com/@wearecast/
49	Charity Catalogue	https://charitycatalogue.com/
50	Linda Raftree	https://lindaraftree.com/
51	Nesta	https://www.nesta.org.uk/
52	David Kane	https://twitter.com/kanedr
53	Anna Maria Petruccelli	https://twitter.com/AnnnaPetru
54	Harry Harrold, Neon Tribe	https://www.neontribe.co.uk/
55	Mor Rubinstein, 360 Giving	http://www.threesixtygiving.org/
56	Jake Grout-Smith, Comic Relief	www.comicrelief.com
57	Ed Howarth , Bath Social and Development Research Ltd	http://bathsdr.org/
58	Harriet Pearce Willis, NCVO Charities Evaluation Services
59	Kate Towsey	https://airtable.com/universe/exp7BidtSB73ihAqw/user-research-tool-box?explore=true
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