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Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Research Methods: A Practical Guide to Peer and Community Research
Students learned what community research is, some critical social perspectives, and research ethics. It covered how to develop research questions and find appropriate research methods. Research methods included interviews/ focus groups, participant observation, and other qualitative methods, as well as surveys and other quantitative methods. It briefly touched on analysing research data. Finally, students learned how to stay safe during research, and different ways to share findings.
10 weeks, 2 hours per week
Annahita Ehsan
Postdoctoral Research Associate
King's College London
Charlotte Woodhead
Lecturer, Society & Mental Health
King's College London
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Learning outcomes
- Explore different ways to do community research, and gain an understanding of qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods research.
- Apply appropriate research methods to investigate research questions.
- Develop skills to design your own community research project.
- Demonstrate an understanding of equity, diversity, and inclusion in community-based research.
- Reflect critically on power dynamics and your own position in research.
Syllabus
- Diversity and inclusion in research including critical perspectives
- Research ethics
- Identifying research questions
- Choosing research methods to address your question
- Introduction to evaluation
- Introduction to analysing qualitative data
- Introduction to analysing survey or routinely available data
- Looking after yourself as a researcher
- Sharing findings (including an introduction to publication, campaigning, presenting skills)
Issued on 22nd June 2023
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