This week’s topics
Data Types, Sampling, and Collection Strategies
- Primary versus secondary health datasets
- Probability and purposive sampling techniques
- Designing psychometric questionnaires and clinical survey tools
- Semi-structured interviewing and focus groups
- Qualitative research methods
- Types of Sampling Methods and Bias
- Fundamentals of Qualitative Research Methods: Focus Groups (Module 4)
- Public Health 250B - Lecture 13: Bias - selection
- Public Health 250B - Lecture 12: Bias - information
What you will be able to do
- 3.2 Design an appropriate research proposal.
- 4.1 Explain types and sources of research data.
Activity
Start with this week’s 5 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: design an appropriate research proposal.
Study materials
Videos
- Qualitative research methods · YouTube · Global Health with Greg Martin · 14 min · for registered students
- Types of Sampling Methods and Bias · YouTube · Galton College · 30 min · for registered students
- Fundamentals of Qualitative Research Methods: Focus Groups (Module 4) · YouTube · Yale University · 22 min · for registered students
Further resources
- Research Methods in Psychology, ch. 9: Survey Research · PDF · Saylor Academy, textbook chapter; pp. 215–237 · for registered students
- Principles of Data Science, 2.1: Overview of Data Collection Methods · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 58–60 · for registered students
- Introductory Statistics 2e, ch. 1: Sampling and Data · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 17–76 · for registered students
Materials marked “for registered students” open in the student portal, which is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance.
