Research Methods: A Practical Guide to Peer and Community Research
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Research Methods: A Practical Guide to Peer and Community Research at FutureLearn Overview
Duration | 10 weeks |
Mode of learning | Online |
Credential | Certificate |
Research Methods: A Practical Guide to Peer and Community Research at FutureLearn Highlights
- Explore different ways to do community research, and gain an understanding of qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods research.
- Complete 90% of course steps and all of the assessments to earn your certificate.
Research Methods: A Practical Guide to Peer and Community Research at FutureLearn Course details
- This practical, four-week course from Kings College London provides an overview of all aspects of research, with the principle aim to support and empower people to conduct their own research to initiate positive social change.
- Using an extensive range of research steps, practical exercises and links to a multitude of comprehensive resources, you will develop your own ethical research project, with the overall aim being to share your findings with those that really matter.
- You will cover the concepts of diversity and inclusion, as will see how to tie these in to research methods such as critical perspectives - or when research critically analyses empirical data without being emancipatory in nature.
- You will then cover the subject of research ethics, the moral principles and actions guiding and shaping research from start to end.
- You will then identify specific research questions in order to address your question, and will get an introduction on how to evaluate and analyse qualitative, survey or routinely-available data results.
- You will then get to grips with how to look after yourself as a researcher, and will identify how best to share your findings via campaigning, presenting and publications.
- You will be learning from research methods experts at Kings College London, and will also be getting advice from leading academics at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience. The course itself will also be getting feedback from Black Thrive and Thrive LDN; two organisations striving to tackle mental health issues.
Research Methods: A Practical Guide to Peer and Community Research at FutureLearn Curriculum
Introduction to Community Research
Welcome to the course and Week 1
Defining communities
Summary of community research
Equity, diversity &; inclusion
Understanding key terms
Critical perspectives in research
Learning to think of equity, diversity, and inclusion in research
Summary of considering equity, diversity, and inclusion
Ethics
Introduction to research ethics
Informed consent
Applying ethics in community based research
Summary of ethics in research
Identifying research questions and methods
Research topics and questions
Choosing the right research method
Summary of research questions/ methods
Community research methods - Part 1
Understanding interviews
Conducting a good interview
Understanding focus groups
Summary of interviews and focus groups
Community research methods - Part 2
Understanding ethnography and participant observation
Participant observation
Photovoice
Community mapping
Summary of ethnography and alternative qual methods
Community research methods - Part 3
Understanding surveys
Doing surveys
Overview of all research methods
Summary of surveys and other research methods
Data analysis
Qualitative data analysis
Quantitative data analysis
Summary of data analysis
Researcher support
Why protect yourself as a researcher
Accounting for safety
Summary of safety and peer researcher support
Sharing knowledge and course conclusion
Share your findings
Practical help on sharing findings
Summary of sharing knowledge
Course overview and conclusion
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