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Can be interesting, complex, and experimental in themselves. Realities is part of the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods, based in the Morgan Centre for the Study of Relationships and Personal Live at the University of Manchester. Here we find out what Realities Toolkits are, and give links and abstracts for a small selection of the resources. Text taken directly from an email sent by the Morgan Centre, to the 'postgrad' academic JISC email list:

Online QDA is a set of learning materials which address common issues of undertaking qualitative data analysis (QDA) and beginning to use Computer Assisted Qualitative Data AnalysiS (CAQDAS) packages. We aim to complement courses run by, for example, the CAQDAS Networking project, many independent trainers and the large number of undergraduate and postgraduate social sciences research methods training courses.

This looks like one for those of us who can't work out what we're doing :-) Actually, it is more useful than that and I think worth a read.

Research Methods Knowledge Base

Really interesting slides that explore differing approaches to the Grounded Theory method

Useful reassurance that doing the lit review after the research is appropriate in GT methods