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10 powerful methodology courses for PhD students [online]

Good knowledge of research methodology is a precondition for a successful PhD thesis. However, not all PhD students have access to methodology courses as part of their PhD programme. Fortunately, there are good options online, such as the following 10 powerful methodology online courses for PhD students provided via Coursera.

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Coursera is a US-based platform that provides massive open online courses. To provide these courses, Coursera works together with universities and other specialised organizations such as Google or IBM.

Almost all online courses on Coursera, including methodology courses, can be accessed for free. This provides PhD students with plenty of opportunities to improve their methodological skills.

The only caveat of accessing methodology courses for free is the lack of a certificate upon course completion. Furthermore, in some courses, you cannot participate in the assignments and peer review of projects if you decide to go for the free option.

However, if you are just looking for a short refresher or some in-depth information on a specific method or research approach, simply accessing a course for free is a wonderful way to gain and deepen your knowledge.

Here are two examples:

Understanding Research Methods (University of London)

A powerful online methodology course that lends itself to the option of free access is Understanding Research Methods. The course is targeted at students conducting research as part of postgraduate studies and provides a great overview of the fundamentals of conducting research and different research methods. The syllabus includes information on research questions, literature reviews, research planning and research evaluation. If you choose the certificate option, instead of accessing the course for free, you can even create your own research proposal and receive individual feedback!

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Basic Statistics (University of Amsterdam)

Coursera also provides powerful introductory courses on specific methods of analysis. Basic Statistics is one of them. Despite its focus on people working in the social and behavioural sciences, this course offers a great introduction to statistics to all PhD students who start from scratch when it comes to statistics, or those who learned some basic statistics a long time ago. The course teaches you how to explore data, understand correlation and regression, probability, probability and sampling distributions, and much more!

Learning new skills should be the most important part of following online courses in research methodology. However, it can also be useful to collect evidence of your knowledge and skills in the form of certificates.

Certificates look good on your CV and may come in handy in future job applications (within and outside of academia). In general, all Coursera issues certificates for the successful completion of all its course for a relatively low fee, including the ones presented above.

However, for PhD students who look for certificates in research methodology, it can be smart to follow online research methodology courses that are more extensive or go further in-depth compared to introductory courses.

Here are three good examples:

Research Design: Inquiry and Discovery (University of North Texas)

One powerful course that goes in-depth when it comes to research methodologies is Research Design: Inquiry and Discovery , which is definitely worth a certificate! It is a great course for PhD researchers who want to dive deeper into the creation of good research questions, how to connect research questions to suitable research approaches, as well as to methods of data collection and analysis. Additionally, it discusses important topics such as research ethics, which will really make you reflect on your own PhD research design.

Research Data Management and Sharing (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill & The University of Edinburgh)

Another methodology course that is definitely worth a certificate is Research Data Management and Sharing . Many universities place a growing emphasis on data management as part of a research methodology. And often, a well-developed data management plan is a precondition for receiving ethics approval for a PhD research project. The online course teaches valuable knowledge on things to consider and actionable steps to develop your own research data management and sharing plan, including the curation, preservation, access and reuse of data!

Data Science Graduate Certificate (University of Colorado Boulder)

PhD students who work a lot with quantitative data can benefit from enrolling in Coursera’s Data Science Graduate Certificate, provided by the University of Colorado Boulder. In contrast to the other methodology courses, this one is a complete programme consisting of 14 courses! The programme teaches you how to extract knowledge and insight from large datasets, and incorporates knowledge of statistical analysis, data mining, and machine learning. And while it is taught 100% taught online, you can receive not only a certificate but 12 credits! So if these skills are useful for your PhD, it can be worth exploring whether the programme can be part of fulfilling the educational requirements of your PhD degree.

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Improving your knowledge of research methodology does not have to take months on end. There are many short methodology courses provided on Coursera , which provide PhD students with an efficient way to learn or refresh their knowledge of specific research methods.

Here are two good examples:

Quantitative Research Methods (University of Amsterdam)

This course on quantitative research methods takes approximately 30 hours, which means you can tackle it in less than a week. It provides a good overview of quantitative research methods and covers the fundamental principles of science, some history and philosophy of science, research designs, measurement, sampling and ethics. Quantitative Research Methods is an introductory course and does not specifically target the PhD level. However, it is a quick way for PhD students to explore different options of quantitative methods before diving deeper into the ones they ultimately select for their research.

Qualitative Comparative Analysis (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

A lot of PhD students using qualitative methods are interested in comparative analyses. If this is the case, the course Qualitative Comparative Analysis is right for you! In approximately 27 hours, the course discusses everything from the analytical foundations of qualitative comparative analysis, to research design and calibration, to systematic comparisons and the interpretation of results. All in all, PhD researchers can learn how to conduct a comparative analysis in a scientifically sound manner.

PhD students who look for more extensive online courses in research methodology are advised to follow a so-called Coursera ‘specialisation’. Specialisations often consists of several related courses and always involve a capstone project, which is individual work in the form of, for instance, a case study analysis or research paper.

When you finish and pay for a specialisation, you get course certificates for each individual course that it part of the specialisation as well as an extra certificate for the specialisation as a whole.

Here are three examples of powerful specialisations focusing on methodology:

Methods and Statistics in Social Sciences Specialization (University of Amsterdam)

The Methods and Statistics in Social Sciences Specialisation includes some of the individual courses already mentioned above. It consists of five different courses, which cover quantitative methods, qualitative research methods, basic statistics, inferential statistics, and a final research project on methods and statistics in social sciences. Not only provides this course provides a great foundation of research methods and methodologies but teaches you in a practical way how to formulate a research hypothesis and design, come up with operationalizations, create manipulation and measurement instruments, collect data, perform statistical analyses and document the results.

Survey Data Collection and Analytics Specialization (University of Maryland and University of Michigan)

PhD students who are interested in surveys as part of their research can benefit from following the Survey Data Collection and Analytics Specialisation . This specialisation consists of 7 different courses, that provide in-depth knowledge on surveys in different fields, including market research, social sciences, government statistics and other domains. Students who follow the course will learn everything from designing questionnaires to sampling, dealing with missing values to analysing survey data. At the end of the specialisation, a Capstone Project is used to apply the skills taught during the courses. After the completion of the course, PhD students can tackle their own survey from beginning to end.

Econometrics for Economists and Finance Practitioners Specialization (Queen Mary University of London)

Finally, the Econometrics for Economists and Finance Practitioners Specialisation is a great intensive online programme that can benefit PhD students doing quantitative research. Yes, the course focuses on practitioners but hear me out: PhD students (and everyone else for that matter) can highly benefit from information even if it is not directly targeted at them. This specialisation, for instance, provides rigorous training in econometric methods and uses a ton of real-data examples. Learning how to test hypotheses on the relationship between variables is a crucial skill for many PhD students. Even those who are not directly involved in economics and finance theories.

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Research Methodology

The present course intends to target the students who are pursuing the subject of Research Methodology as a part of their degree or post graduate degree courses in criminology, law, sociology, social work, etc. Divided over 15 weeks, the course has 35 Modules which would be disseminated to the learners through e-text and video lectures. The contents of the course have been organised in a manner that they result into a progressive learning of the subject on the part of the learners. The discussion forum and quiz component of the course will enable the students for a participatory learning experience. The course can also be taken by the learners who are practioners in different organisations as the certificate programme.

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• Basics of Research
• Legal Research
• Legal Reasoning
• Socio-Legal Research
• Research Problem
• Research Design
• Qualitative and Doctrinal Methods in Research
• Quantitative Methods in Research
• Methods of Data Collection
• Tools & Techniques of Data Collection
• Data Analysis
• Jurimetrics
• Use of Law Library in Legal Research
• Report Writing
• Research Ethics
• Quantitative Research
• Qualitative Research
• Research Proposal
• Review of Literature
• Measurement
• Reliability & Validity
• Primary & Secondary Data
• Survey Method
• Content Analysis
• Case Study Method
• Projective Techniques
• Data Processing
• Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS)
• Drawing Conclusions
• Presentation of Research
• Citation Patterns

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Prof. G.S. Bajpai, Vice-Chancellor

Prof. (Dr.) G.S. Bajpai serves as the Vice Chancellor of National Law University Delhi. He is equipped with more than thirty years of professional experience as an author, researcher, teacher and administrator.

He has previously served as the Vice Chancellor at  Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law (RGNUL), Punjab,  and  Registrar at National Law University Delhi . He has also served as  Senior Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice (Law), Chair Professor at K.L Arora Chair in Criminal Law,  and  Chairperson of the Centre for Criminology & Victimology  at National Law University Delhi. Before that, he served as  Professor (Law and development) & Chairperson at the Centre for Criminal Justice Administration,  National Law Institute University, Bhopal. He has also held positions at the Indian Institute of Public Administration (1989), Bureau of Police Research & Development (1989- 1995), Punjab Police Academy, Punjab and Department of Criminology & Forensic Science, University of Saugar, M.P. Under his guidance, as many as 12 students have already completed doctoral dissertations (Ph. D.). In addition to a Master’s specialisation in Criminology and criminal Justice, he holds a doctorate in victimology and a post-doctorate in criminal justice from Leicester University, U.K., as a Commonwealth Fellow at the Department of Criminology, Leicester University, U.K.

Prof. Bajpai has authored twenty-two books/monographs, more than sixty papers, over a hundred op-eds in leading dailies like Indian Express, the Hindu, and the Tribune and thirteen project reports.  His books (2011) 'Witness & Criminal Justice Systems', 'On Cyber Crime & Cyber Law', 'Situational Crime Prevention & Crime Reduction' and ‘Victimological Narratives on Gender Violence’ (2014), Victim Justice- A Paradigm Shift in the Indian Criminal Justice System" and "Judgments that Shaped the India Jurisprudence" published (2017) by Thomson & Reuters, 'Living on the Edge' and 'Juvenile Justice' (Bloomsbury (2019) have been well-received. His recent publications include 'Handbook of Laws and Case Laws for Victims of Crime', Thomson Reuters (2022), and Fast Track Courts in India Promise & Performance, published by Satyam Law International (2022) and 'Hate Crime in India' from Springer (2023) are noteworthy.

He is the editor of two prestigious international journals: Journal of Victimology & Victim Justice (published by Sage Publications) and Indian Journal of Criminology, a publication of the Indian Society of Criminology since 1972.

Prof. Bajpai has been conferred various awards and honours for consistent, high-quality research. He received the  G. B. Pant Award  for his book on Human Rights and Police. In recognition of his contribution to the growth of Criminology in India, Dr Bajpai was conferred the title of  Fellow of the Indian Society of Criminology (FISC)  by the Indian Society of Criminology (ISC). He was also awarded (2005) the coveted  Prof. S. Srivastava Memorial Award  for excellence in research/teaching in Criminology and the  ‘Best Social Scientist Award’  of the Indian Society of Criminology (2014). He was conferred the prestigious  Prof. K. Chockalingam Award  in the Fourth International & Eight Biennial Conference of the Indian Society of Victimology in October 2014. Prof. Bajpai was conferred upon the  'ISC-Kumarappa Reckless Award' , the highest honour and award of ISC, in recognition of his significant contribution to research, teaching and administration in the field of Criminal Justice Administration (2018).  Sagar Ratna Award  by the Govt. of Madhya Pradesh for his contribution to Higher Education, especially in Legal Education (2022). He has been conferred the  Life Time Achievement Award (2023)   by the Commission for Other Backward Classes, Govt. of NCT. on the occasion of Teacher’s Day for distinguished services in the field of education.

Prof. Bajpai is the Secretary-General of the World Society of Victimology (WSV).  He is the first Indian to be elected as Secretary-General of the WSV. He is also the Vice President of Victim Support Asia, President of the Indian Society of Victimology, and Vice-Chairman of the Indian Society of Criminology. He has also been appointed as a Member of BPR&D's ‘Standing Committee on Research Methodology for Research Projects’ of BPR&D.

As a passionate criminal law teacher for over two decades, he is credited with designing and pioneering the expression 'Critical Criminal Law ' in India, now an LL.M. Course in many universities. Besides, he is also credited with conceptualising the novel paradigms of "Victim Justice", "Victim Jurisprudence", and "Wrongful Prosecution" in the Indian context.

Please visit  www.profgsbajpai.in  

Mr Aashish Gaur, Assistant Professor, RGNUL, Patiala, Punjab

Mr. Aashish Gaur is currently serving as Assistant Professor of Sociology at Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law (RGNUL), Punjab and pursuing PhD at Panjab University, Chandigarh. He cleared the UGC (NET-JRF) exam in the subject of Sociology in 2018. He has participated and presented papers at various National and International Conferences and has multiple publications in UGC-CARE listed journals. His research interests include culture, gender, sociology of law and sociology of sports. He has a strong affinity for qualitative research techniques and is an ethnographer at heart. His work is grounded in a variety of academic fields, including sociology, anthropology, law, history, and area studies.

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• Labor force trends and economic outcomes for young adults
• Economic outcomes for young men
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• The American Trends Panel survey methodology
• Current Population Survey methodology
• Survey of Consumer Finances methodology

The American Trends Panel (ATP), created by Pew Research Center, is a nationally representative panel of randomly selected U.S. adults. Panelists participate via self-administered web surveys. Panelists who do not have internet access at home are provided with a tablet and wireless internet connection. Interviews are conducted in both English and Spanish. The panel is being managed by Ipsos.

Data in this report is drawn from ATP Wave 139, conducted from Nov. 27 to Dec. 3, 2023, and includes an  oversample  of non-Hispanic Asian adults, non-Hispanic Black men, Hispanic men, Republican or Republican leaning Hispanic adults who are registered to vote, and Republican or Republican leaning 18- to 29-year-olds in order to provide more precise estimates of the opinions and experiences of these smaller demographic subgroups. These oversampled groups are weighted back to reflect their correct proportions in the population. A total of 5,203 panelists responded out of 5,655 who were sampled, for a response rate of 92%. The cumulative response rate accounting for nonresponse to the recruitment surveys and attrition is 3%. The break-off rate among panelists who logged on to the survey and completed at least one item is 1%. The margin of sampling error for the full sample of 5,203 respondents is plus or minus 1.8 percentage points.

Panel recruitment

The ATP was created in 2014, with the first cohort of panelists invited to join the panel at the end of a large, national, landline and cellphone random-digit-dial survey that was conducted in both English and Spanish. Two additional recruitments were conducted using the same method in 2015 and 2017, respectively. Across these three surveys, a total of 19,718 adults were invited to join the ATP, of whom 9,942 (50%) agreed to participate.

In August 2018, the ATP switched from telephone to address-based sampling (ABS) recruitment. A study cover letter and a pre-incentive are mailed to a stratified, random sample of households selected from the U.S. Postal Service’s Delivery Sequence File. This Postal Service file has been estimated to cover as much as 98% of the population, although some studies suggest that the coverage could be in the low 90% range. 5 Within each sampled household, the adult with the next birthday is asked to participate. Other details of the ABS recruitment protocol have changed over time but are available upon request. 6

We have recruited a national sample of U.S. adults to the ATP approximately once per year since 2014. In some years, the recruitment has included additional efforts (known as an “oversample”) to boost sample size with underrepresented groups. For example, Hispanic adults, Black adults and Asian adults were oversampled in 2019, 2022 and 2023, respectively.

Across the six address-based recruitments, a total of 23,862 adults were invited to join the ATP, of whom 20,917 agreed to join the panel and completed an initial profile survey. Of the 30,859 individuals who have ever joined the ATP, 11,934 remained active panelists and continued to receive survey invitations at the time this survey was conducted.

The American Trends Panel never uses breakout routers or chains that direct respondents to additional surveys.

Sample design

The overall target population for this survey was noninstitutionalized persons ages 18 and older living in the U.S., including Alaska and Hawaii. It featured a stratified random sample from the ATP in which non-Hispanic Asian adults, non-Hispanic Black men, Hispanic men, Republican or Republican leaning Hispanic adults who are registered to vote, and Republican or Republican leaning 18- to 29-year-olds were selected with certainty. The remaining panelists were sampled at rates designed to ensure that the share of respondents in each stratum is proportional to its share of the U.S. adult population to the greatest extent possible. Respondent weights are adjusted to account for differential probabilities of selection as described in the Weighting section below.

Questionnaire development and testing

The questionnaire was developed by Pew Research Center in consultation with Ipsos. The web program was rigorously tested on both PC and mobile devices by the Ipsos project management team and Pew Research Center researchers. The Ipsos project management team also populated test data that was analyzed in SPSS to ensure the logic and randomizations were working as intended before launching the survey.

All respondents were offered a post-paid incentive for their participation. Respondents could choose to receive the post-paid incentive in the form of a check or a gift code to Amazon.com or could choose to decline the incentive. Incentive amounts ranged from $5 to $15 depending on whether the respondent belongs to a part of the population that is harder or easier to reach. Differential incentive amounts were designed to increase panel survey participation among groups that traditionally have low survey response propensities.

Data collection protocol

The data collection field period for this survey was Nov. 27 to Dec. 3, 2023. Postcard notifications were mailed to all ATP panelists with a known residential address on Nov. 27.

Invitations were sent out in two separate launches: soft launch and full launch. Sixty panelists were included in the soft launch, which began with an initial invitation sent on Nov. 27. The ATP panelists chosen for the initial soft launch were known responders who had completed previous ATP surveys within one day of receiving their invitation. All remaining English- and Spanish-speaking sampled panelists were included in the full launch and were sent an invitation on Nov. 28.

All panelists with an email address received an email invitation and up to two email reminders if they did not respond to the survey. All ATP panelists who consented to SMS messages received an SMS invitation and up to two SMS reminders.

Data quality checks

To ensure high-quality data, the Center’s researchers performed data quality checks to identify any respondents showing clear patterns of satisficing. This includes checking for whether respondents left questions blank at very high rates or always selected the first or last answer presented. As a result of this checking, four ATP respondents were removed from the survey dataset prior to weighting and analysis.

The ATP data is weighted in a multistep process that accounts for multiple stages of sampling and nonresponse that occur at different points in the survey process. First, each panelist begins with a base weight that reflects their probability of selection for their initial recruitment survey. These weights are then rescaled and adjusted to account for changes in the design of ATP recruitment surveys from year to year. Finally, the weights are calibrated to align with the population benchmarks in the accompanying table to correct for nonresponse to recruitment surveys and panel attrition. If only a subsample of panelists was invited to participate in the wave, this weight is adjusted to account for any differential probabilities of selection.

Among the panelists who completed the survey, this weight is then calibrated again to align with the population benchmarks identified in the accompanying table and trimmed at the 1st and 99th percentiles to reduce the loss in precision stemming from variance in the weights. Sampling errors and tests of statistical significance take into account the effect of weighting.

The following table shows the unweighted sample sizes and the error attributable to sampling that would be expected at the 95% level of confidence for different groups in the survey.

Sample sizes and sampling errors for other subgroups are available upon request. In addition to sampling error, one should bear in mind that question wording and practical difficulties in conducting surveys can introduce error or bias into the findings of opinion polls.

Dispositions and response rates

Most of the analysis of the labor market and economic outcomes of young adults is derived from the Current Population Survey (CPS). Administered jointly by the U.S. Census Bureau and the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the CPS is a monthly survey of approximately 60,000 occupied households that typically interviews about 50,000 households. It is the source of the nation’s official statistics on unemployment and is explicitly designed to survey the labor force. It is representative of the civilian, noninstitutionalized population.

This analysis used the  Annual Social and Economic Supplement (ASEC) of the CPS, conducted in March of every year. The ASEC survey typically features an expanded sample of more than 75,000 households with about 70,000 interviews. The ASEC collected in 2023 had about 57,000 households. The ASEC is the basis for the Census Bureau’s annual income and poverty reports.

The pandemic hampered the collection of data in 2020 and 2021, and thus the underlying sample sizes in these years tend to be smaller. For example, in 2021 the sample included about 900 women ages 25 to 34 who were high school graduates working full time, full year.

The Census Bureau generated entropy balance weights for the 2020 and 2021 ASEC to account for nonrandom nonresponse. Our analysis used these weights.

Estimates of household income refer to the prior calendar year. Household incomes are adjusted for the number of people in a household using the methodology from Pew Research Center’s previous work on the American middle class . Income is rescaled for this analysis because a four-person household with an income of, say, $50,000, faces a tighter budget constraint than a two-person household with the same income. Household incomes are expressed in 2022 dollars using the Chained Consumer Price Index for all Urban Consumers (C-CPI-U) between 2001 and 2023 and the Consumer Price Index for all Urban Consumers Retroactive Series (R-CPI-U-RS) between 1979 and 2000.

The CPS microdata used in this report are the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) provided by the University of Minnesota. The IPUMS assigns uniform codes, to the extent possible, to data collected in the CPS over the years. Read more information about the IPUMS , including variable definition and sampling error.

The household wealth analysis is based on the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) sponsored by the Federal Reserve Board of Governors and the Department of the Treasury. It has been conducted every three years since 1983 and is designed to provide detailed information on the finances of U.S. families. The 2022 SCF sample included approximately 4,600 families with household heads of any age. The small sample size of young adult household heads across education groups prevented us from analyzing their wealth by gender. For example, the 2022 SCF sampled a total of 113 families with a household head ages 25 to 34 whose highest educational attainment was a high school diploma.

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Addressing the Challenge of Hybrid Learning Environment in Foreign Language Education: Training Lecturers for Blended Teaching Approaches

• Abdirahman Abdi Ali Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University
• Khadijah AlQarni King Abdulaziz University
• Hamzah Faleh Migdadi Al-Hussan Group for Education and Training
• Tahani I. Aldosemani Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University
• Shadi Majed Alshraah Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University

This study investigates the effectiveness of training programs in supporting language lecturers in integrating blended learning methodologies. It underscores the significance of Vygotsky's educational theory and involves 126 university educators through a mixed-methods approach. Interviews and surveys were conducted to explore challenges and solutions. Findings reveal the pivotal role of training in enhancing lecturers' digital literacy and content creation skills and ensuring fair access for all students. Notably, 61.3% of participants recognize the value of training in developing engaging digital content, with 29.88% strongly supporting this perspective. Training is essential for creating multimedia resources and designing online courses to foster student engagement. The study emphasizes the need for tailored training to address diverse technological needs, with 59.74% of respondents acknowledging its importance and 31.53% strongly agreeing. Overall, training empowers lecturers to meet the varying digital accessibility needs of students, including through the development of alternative offline materials and the implementation of asynchronous activities. This research highlights the critical role of training programs in facilitating effective blended learning practices among language lecturers.

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Abdirahman abdi ali, prince sattam bin abdulaziz university.

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