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Introduction to Research Strategies

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Studying Cities: Social Science Methods for Urban Research

Universidade Erasmus de Rotterdam

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Welcome! Are you looking to learn more about how to conduct scientific research, specifically in an urban or local context? Then you have found the right course: Studying Cities: Social Science Methods for Urban Research by the Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS), Erasmus University Rotterdam. During the course you will gain more insight in the different steps of the research cycle, and build a firm foundation for your own future research endeavors. Before any (urban) researcher may start conducting research, it is crucial to understand the different aspects and elements of doing research. The course will guide you through the various steps of the research cycle to provide you with the basic knowledge necessary for any Master-level program, but with a special focus on urban and local development. The course starts with introductory lectures on the problem statement, research objective, empirical cycle and the research question. Over the following weeks you will also learn the components and criteria of the theoretical framework and operationalization, research strategies, and the collection and analysis of quantitative and qualitative data. You will be provided with the necessary tools to understand and evaluate these key steps in scientific research by watching video lectures with in-video questions and by completing the final peer review, which will use all the elements you have learnt throughout the course.

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Research Strategies

By studying this week’s materials and by answering the related questions and quiz, you will gain more knowledge about the possible strategies or approaches in empirical research. The research strategy of any research should be a coherent body of decisions concerning the way in which the researcher is going to carry out the research in order to obtain valid answers to the research questions. The main strategies in social science research will be discussed during this week’s lectures, namely the survey, quasi-experiment, case study and desk research (working with existing large data sets). You will gain basic knowledge on these 4 strategies, and how they link to research questions. By the end of the week you will understand the importance of choosing appropriate methods and techniques in relation to a research question.

Introduction to Research Strategies3:40

Strategy Validity and Reliability8:10

Ministrado por

Laura Neijenhuis
Research Assistant
Jan Fransen
Head of Education & Training
Dorcas Nthoki
Research Assistant
Rick Wolff
Senior Educational Advisor
Maria Zwanenburg

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Hello, everyone. Welcome to week three of this course on research methods. My name is Laura Neijenhuis and I'm a research assistant at IHS. I might be a new face to you now, but you'll see me some more the coming week. In the previous weeks, we learned about the problem statement, the research objective, and research question. After that, we discussed the theoretical framework and operationalization on the basis of your research. Now, we will look at the next step in the research cycle, the research strategy. The research strategy is the first decision we make when moving from the conceptual part of the research cycle to the technical design phase. This means that we will translate the research objective in question, the conceptual framework, and the operationalization into a technical plan, including a research strategy, material, and data, and the research planning. This week, we focus on the different research strategies that exists and can be used in urban research. In the video, you will get an introduction to these strategies and during the week, you will learn more about how you can make your own choices based on the research question and objective. This is crucial as you need to choose the most appropriate strategy in order to get the data you require to get a valid answer to your research question. So, how do you choose a research strategy? Well, when the choice for a strategy has to be made, it is actually the choice of what kind of approach to take when conducting research. It is therefore not just one, but actually should be a coherent body of decisions concerning the way in which a researcher conducts their research. Before making any kind of decision, you have to think about three dilemmas. First is breadth versus depth. To get the information you need to answer your question, do you need to obtain broad information, or do you need to gain more in-depth knowledge? Next, quantitative versus qualitative. Will you need to do quantitative research with a large number of respondents, or do you need to carry out qualitative research where you learn more about why and how? And finally, empirical versus desk research. Does your research question require empirical research done in the field you are studying, or would it be better to base the desk research with data from earlier researchers? These are all questions you need to ask yourself in order to be able to choose the right research strategy. This choice can be a hard one to make, and your strategy needs to enable you to find a valid answer to your research question. Therefore, the choice of a research strategy is closely linked to the research objective and the research question. In this course, we focus on four research strategy, namely, the survey strategy, the experiement or quasi-experiments, the case study, and the use of secondary data or what we also called desk research. In the videos that follow this week, we will discuss strategies in depth. These are all also the most commonly used strategies in urban research around the world. So, this was our introduction to research strategies for now. The next video will teach you which strategy is best in different situations. It will also introduce you to the concepts of validity and reliability. Thank you for watching.

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