List of Links

I. Introduction to Research Methods

  • Research Methods, Techniques, Methodology [PDF]: https://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/researchmethods/wp-content/uploads/sites/728/2019/05/Research-Methods-Techniques-Methodology.pdf
  • Where Do Research Ideas Come From?: https://www.soas.ac.uk/cedep-demos/000_P506_RM_3736-Demo/unit1/page_19.htm
  • Where Good Ideas Come From: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NugRZGDbPFU

II. Ethics in Research

  • Canadian Council on Animal Care: https://www.ccac.ca/
  • Belmont Report: http://humansubjects.stanford.edu/education/2009_05_Belmont.pdf
  • National Research Service Award Act of 1974 [PDF]: http://history.nih.gov/research/downloads/PL93-348.pdf
  • PDF of the Nuremberg Code: https://history.nih.gov/research/downloads/nuremberg.pdf
  • Russel Odgen v. SFU: http://www.sfu.ca/~palys/OgdenPge.htm
  • Stanford Prison Experiment: http://www.prisonexp.org/
  • Stanford Prison Experiment Documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_LKzEqlPto
  • Video on Milgram’s Obedience Experiment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTX42lVDwA4

III. Developing a Research Question

  • Interview-based Qualitative Research in Emergency Care Part II: Data Collection, Analysis and Results Reporting: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26284572
  • Qualitative Research in Emergency Care Part I: Research Principles and Common Applications by Choo, Garro, Ranney, Meisel, and Guthrie (2015): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4545270/

V. The Literature Review

  • Annotated Bibliographies: http://www.jibc.ca/library/writing-study-help/writing-skills/annotated-bibliographies
  • Evaluating Information Sources: What is a Peer-Reviewed Article?: ttp://guides.lib.jjay.cuny.edu/c.php?g=288333&p=1922599
  • How TransAlta used a university-sanctioned research project to lobby for the coal industry: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/transalta-coal-report-1.4752314
  • JIBC Library Guide to APA Style: https://libguides.jibc.ca/c.php?g=409383&p=2788391
  • JIBC Literature Review Information [PDF]: http://www.jibc.ca/sites/default/files/library/pdf/Lit_Review.pdf
  • Statistics Canada: https://www.statcan.gc.ca/eng/start
  • The Literature Review, Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IUZWZX4OGI
  • The Literature Review, Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoYpyY9n9YQ&t=8s
  • The Literature Review, Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK6Lsl1tcm0

VI. Data Collection Strategies

  • Example of direction in scatterplots: https://www.khanacademy.org/math/ap-statistics/bivariate-data-ap/scatterplots-correlation/v/scatter-plot-interpreting
  • The Research Randomizer: https://www.randomizer.org/

VII. Sampling Techniques

  • Sampling Terminology: https://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/sampterm.php
  • Stat Trek: https://stattrek.com/

VIII. Data Collection Methods: Survey Research

  • Gallup Opinion Polls: http://www.gallup.com/Home.aspx
  • Survey Monkey: http://www.surveymonkey.com

IX. Analysis of Survey Data

  • Statistical Package for the Social Sciences: http://www.spss.com

X. Qualitative Data Collection & Analysis

  • An introduction to using video for research [PDF]: http://eprints.ncrm.ac.uk/2259/4/NCRM_workingpaper_0312.pdf
  • Atlasti Qualitative Data Analysis: http://www.atlasti.com
  • NVivo: http://www.qsrinternational.com
  • Research Rundown: https://researchrundowns.com/qual/qualitative-coding-analysis/
  • University of Toronto History Research Resources: https://guides.library.utoronto.ca/c.php?g=250737&p=2676118

XII. Field Research: A Qualitative Field Technique

  • Ethical Challenges in Participant Observation: A Reflection on Ethnographic Fieldwork: https://nsuworks.nova.edu/tqr/vol13/iss1/8/

XIII. Unobtrusive Research: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches

  • Add Health: http://www.cpc.unc.edu/projects/addhealth
  • Centre for Demography for Health and Aging: http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/wlsresearch/
  • General Social Survey (GSS): https://www.statcan.gc.ca/eng/survey/household/4501
  • Institute for Social & Economic Research: https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/bhps
  • International Social Survey Program: http://www.issp.org/
  • National Opinion Research Center: http://www.norc.org/About/Pages/default.aspx
  • Statistics Canada: https://www.statcan.g.ca
  • The Global Feminisms project at the University of Michigan: https://globalfeminisms.umich.edu/
  • The Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard: http://dvn.iq.harvard.edu/dvn/dv/mra
  • The Murray Research Archive Harvard: https://murray.harvard.edu/

XV. Sharing Your Research

  • Plagiarism Costs Degree for Senator John Walsh: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/11/us/politics/plagiarism-costs-degree-for-senator-john-walsh.html

XVII. Research Methods in the Real World

  • Gallup: http://www.gallup.com/home.aspx
  • Nielsen: http://www.nielsen.com/us/en.html
  • The Canadian Journal of Action Research: https://journals.nipissingu.ca/index.php/cjar
  • The Canadian Sociological Association (CSA): https://www.csa-scs.ca/
  • University of Maine’s Sustainability Solutions Initiative (SSI): https://journals.nipissingu.ca/index.php/cjar

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