SRA Training Course: Quality in Social Research (Pam Campanelli and Liz Spencer) – 18-19 November 2009

Summary:

Promoting and assessing ‘quality’ in social research is now a major growth area, with a number of ‘how to’ textbooks, the development of evidence-based policy and practice, and the increasing use of systematic reviews. Despite these developments, assessing quality in social research remains a difficult and contentious area. Not only do many different approaches and criteria exist, but questions about the desirability, feasibility, status, scope and application of quality standards remain unresolved. This course offers insight into how to deal with the “quality issue” for both qualitative and quantitative research.

Objectives:

During the two-day course, participants will become familiar with key debates and issues learn about a range of quality assessment tools perform quality assessments by applying quality criteria to examples of social research proposals and reports develop the confidence to critically appraise the value of different criteria and approaches to quality assessment

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