Carrying out research for policy and advocacy work
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Contents

  • Introduction
  • Learning outcomes
  • 1 What is policy research?
  • 2 Research ethics
    • 2.1 What are the most important ethical rules?
    • 2.2 Research ethics in practice
  • 3 Research methodology
    • 3.1 Research methods
    • 3.2 A research plan
  • 4 Carrying out empirical research
    • 4.1 Literature review
    • 4.2 Freedom of information requests
    • 4.3 Designing surveys
    • 4.4 Carrying out research interviews and focus groups
    • 4.5 Documentary research
  • 5 Analysing the data
    • 5.1 Statistical analysis
    • 5.2 Thematic analysis
    • 5.3 The importance of values
  • 6 Writing the report
    • 6.1 Presenting quantitative and qualitative data
  • Conclusion
  • Further resources
  • References
  • Acknowledgements

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