Are you interested in Qualitative methods? If so, Carla Willig's book 'Introducing Qualitative Research in Psychology: Adventures in theory and method' is very good.
Also, Bryman's 'Social Research Methods' is excellent for the basics in both Quantitative and Qualitative, and covers the epistemological issues too.
Rosalind
On 26 Jul 2013, at 19:50, "Sarah Uni" <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
Hi, I agree andy Fields book is a good starter.
Re courses, the University of Ulster have a summer school covering various topics at the end of august / sept, check out their website.
Lancaster University also run good courses that I found from a google search, a good few universities run courses to suit varying levels and more specific courses.
(It may be a good idea to have some idea of what stats you may need to use before you gather your data maybe? There maybe limitations or restrictions on the most appropriate tests you need to use to answer your research questions(s) which you can consider before you data gather, I found out the hard way).
Sarah
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On 26 Jul 2013, at 18:06, Ben Haysom-Newport <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
Hi Maria
I'd firstly recommend Andy Field's books:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Discovering-Statistics-Introducing-Statistical-Methods/dp/1847879071/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1374858238&sr=8-1&keywords=andy+field
and
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Discovering-Statistics-Using-Andy-Field/dp/1446200469/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1374858300&sr=8-3&keywords=andy+field
Plus "Figure it Out" seems to be good - I've been to their training session's, Check out http://www.offbeat.group.shef.ac.uk/FIO/qualifications.htm
Hope this helps
Best Wishes
Ben Haysom-Newport MSc, BSc (Hons), MBPsS
On 26 July 2013 17:17, Maria Pomoni <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
Dear colleagues,
Hope you are all enjoying the sun as much as you can. I just wanted very briefly to ask for any suggestion for a good book in Research Methods in Psychology. I would appreciate any suggestion you found useful and helpful. I would like to gain a more general idea and start focusing where I need while I will be getting my research results. In addition, I was wondering whether you might be aware of any free or in a reasonable price courses in Research Methods in UK that you might have attended probably and you found useful.
Thank you so much for your help in advance.
Wish you all a lovely weekend.
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Pomoni Maria, MSc
Doctoral Researcher
School of Psychology
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
B15 2TT
United Kingdom
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