Research Methods and Design in Psychology

Paul Richardson is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Sheffield Hallam University. He is a neuropsychologist, with particular research interests in atypical child development and the neural correlates of psychopathological disorders. He currently organises and teaches modules on research methods and statistics at both undergraduate and post-graduate level. Allen Goodwin is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Sheffield Hallam University. He is a visual psychophysicist who has been involved in the teaching of research methodology and statistics for the past ten years across a variety of institutions. Currently he is responsible for the delivery of Research Methods and Statistics for both undergraduate and post graduate courses at Sheffield Hallam University. Emma Vine is a Lecturer in Psychology at Sheffield Hallam University. She is a qualitative methodologist, specialising in Discursive and Rhetorical psychology. Her work focuses on the interaction of the Media, Law and Politics. She has taught research methods to both undergraduates post graduate student, for several years.

The activites and critical thinking questions are really useful to use in my lectures or as seminar activities.

• IntroductionDesigning Psychology Research StudiesEthicsLevels of MeasurementExperimental DesignsTime Course StudiesCorrelational DesignsIntroducing Qualitative DesignQualitative Data CollectionQualitative Data AnalysisMixed MethodsCommon ProblemsReport Writing