Resources for Practitioner-Researchers in the Career Sector

Open Educational Resources (OERs) for practitioner-led research

A listing of free to access courses to help you to improve on specific areas of your research skills. For a more detailed overview of getting starting with practitioner-led research in the career development sector, please see my practical book, The Career Professional's Guide to Research, available via Trotman, Amazon and other retailers.

OpenLearn Courses on General Research Approaches

Carrying out research for policy and advocacy work

An introduction to classroom research

Becoming an ethical researcher

Organisations offering free research methods training resources

National Centre for Research Methods
NCRM has over 100 tutorials currently available.

OpenLearn Courses 

Patterns and formulas
Exploring numerical patterns.

Hypothesis Testing
A practical overview of how to undertake statistical hypothesis testing. 

The power of infographics in research dissemination
Tools for data sharing

Working with charts, graphs and tables and More working with charts, graphs and tables
Presenting and interpreting data.

Diagrams, charts and graphs
Data visualisation tools. 

Exploring data: Graphs and numerical summaries
Representation methods.

Data analysis: visualisations in Excel
Using spreadsheets to analyse and interpret data

Getting started with SPSS
SPSS is a popular statistical software packages used in our sector.

Rounding and estimation
Quite a light-hearted look at accurate rounding and estimation of numbers.

Ratio, proportion and percentages
Develop a more critical understanding of how numbers are presented.

Interpreting data: Boxplots and tables
Explore common data presentation tools.

Bayesian statistics
Bayes' theorem: estimation, probability and inference

Conducting qualitative interviews: an introduction
How to prepare for, conduct and conclude research interviews.

Courses from other providers

University of Edinburgh: Introduction to Social Research Methods


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