Methodological Challenges and Innovations in Mobilities Research

Methodological Challenges for Collaborative Learning Research

Vulnerable participants in health research: methodological and ethical challenges

ethical reasoning in bioethics attempts to justify normative claims by referring to moral theory and arguments in an effort to defend conclusions with which all reasonable people must agree. (Burgess, 2007, p. 2285) However, as we have illustrated, ethical guidelines and notions of informed consent are normative claims that may be challenged in social and health research. The guidelines from me...

Methodological issues in centenarian research: pitfalls and challenges

Assumptions based on findings from younger individuals are not necessarily true for centenarians. It is important to establish appropriate research questions for this age-group. Research with these individuals poses some methodological challenges. The challenges vary for biophysical, psychosocial or ethnographic research. In selecting a representative sample, the main challenges are problems of...

Climate Science and Policy Research Conceptual and Methodological Challenges

Measuring sexual behaviour: methodological challenges in survey research.

Introduction The study of sexual behaviour lies at the heart of understanding the transmission dynamics of sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Academic investigation into sexual behaviour dates back to the 18th century and, over time, has employed a variety of approaches including the medical and psychiatric investigation of sexual disorders, anthropological investigations, and survey resea...