Hello, we have three items of news this month. 1) Realcom and Realcom-Impute software updated2) New society: 'Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies'3) Invitation to apply to the post of ESRC +3 PhD Studentship in Social Statistics (closing date

A new studentship is available at the Centre for Multilevel Modelling, University of Bristol (funded by the LEMMA Reseach Project).For further details please date is the 11/12/09

As a Senior Officer for the Research Data Management Support Services section at the UK Data Archive, you will be responsible for co-ordinating a JISC-supported project on research data management for ESRC data-rich investments. This involves working closely with selected

We have now released MLwiN 2.15. Some bugs have been fixed, e.g. we have fixed a potential error when reading worksheets containing column descriptions. Further details about MLwiN 2.1 bug fixes go to our bugs page www.cmm.bristol.ac.uk/MLwiN/bugs/fixes.shtmlAlso! We are delighted

Contributions are invited to a special issue of the International Journal of Multiple Research Approaches (MRA) dedicated to Mixed Methods in Psychology and Law and in Criminological Research. The issue will include papers on epistemology in psychological, legal and criminological

Social scientists from the Universities of Southampton and Manchester have collaborated on a new research methods text just published by Palgrave Macmillan. 'Doing Social Science' examines how experienced researchers tackle key methodological issues as they carry out their research. Looking

MLwiN has been updated to work with the new weighting feature of the latest REALCOM-IMPUTE. Also other fixes including: Fixed reading in Stata files after there was already data in the worksheet

A new version of REALCOM-IMPUTE is now available. In addition to providing a very general multilevel multiple imputation procedure for mixtures of normal and categorical variables it now allows the use of weights, such as those used in sample surveys,

is being organised by NCRM and will be held on 5-8 July 2010 at St Catherine's College, Oxford, UK. As at previous festivals, an impressive line up of presenters will speak about issues at the cutting edge of developments in

The National Centre for Research Methods has a call out for research methods training bursary applications. The bursaries are available for UK social science community engaged in research, teaching research methods or supervising research to update their skills. Contract researchers

One of the Methods Centre's research strands focuses on Interdisciplinarity, asking 'what happens when perspectives from different disciplines come together?'Some of the research outputs are now available online: Five Strategies for Practising Interdisciplinarity (NCRM Working Paper 02/09) in http://eprints.ncrm.ac.uk/782/ What

Professor Graham Crow, Deputy Director of the Methods Centre, was interviewed by Dr Patrick Brindle, Research Methods Publisher at Sage.

You can now upgrade to the latest MLwiN release for free if you already own a previous version. You can also upgrade if you are a UK academic and therefore eligible for a free download.

A collaboration between the Lancaster-Warwick-Stirling Social Statistics node of the National Centre for Research Methods, the Department of Applied Social Science at Lancaster and the University of Glasgow has successfully won funding of £360,000 to study the gambling trajectories of

MLwiN 2.13 now available: You can now upgrade to the latest MLwiN release for free if you already own a previous version. New MCMC methodology features: parameter expansion, hierarchical centring, orthogonal parameterisations, structured MCMC, structured MVN.

The National Centre for Research Methods will be holding its fifth residential training event targeted at early career researchers between November 11th to 13th 2009. Our focus this year is on what might be described as 'hybrid' or 'crossover' methods

Fiona Steele, Professor of Social Statistics at the Centre for Multilevel Modelling, awarded the Guy Medal in Bronze in 2008, has now become the youngest ever female Fellow to be elected to the British Academy.Professor Steele's research in multilevel modelling,

Ethics are considered in detail when they relate to research participants but there are plenty of ethical considerations to do with working in a research team. This new pdf toolkit based on one of our training sessions highlights some of

Contributions are invited from all members of the social science research community to an update of a consultation we conducted in 2006, on needs for research in the field of research methods. Please download a form and email a completed

The Centre for Multilevel Modelling is pleased to announce the addition of a new module to our online training course: Module 7 on Multilevel Models for Binary Responses. This module has two integrated components: a description of concepts and models