Dr D Weinhold, CON. H710 and other International Development staff.

For MSc Development Studies, MSc Development Studies (Research), MSc Development Management and MSc International Development and Humanitarian Emergencies students only. Students from other programmes may audit the course, but they may not take it for credit.

The course consists of ten two-hour lectures introducing students to the basic ingredients of modern social science research, with an emphasis on methods commonly employed in studies of development. In the process we will briefly cover quantitative and qualitative methods of investigation, including basic data collection and analysis, sampling and surveying, ethnographic methods and participant observation. Where appropriate, other aspects of development research such as those relating to gender and ethical issues will be considered.

Teaching will consist of ten two-hour lectures in Michaelmas Term.

R Ramanathan, Introductory Econometrics with Applications; A Deaton, The Analysis of Household Surveys: A Microeconomic Approach to Development Policy; B Pratt & P Loizos, Choosing Research Methods: Data Collection for Development Workers; M Bulmer & D P Warwick (Ed), Social Research in Developing Countries: Surveys and Censuses in the Third World; S Devereux & J Hoddinott (Eds), Fieldwork in Developing Countries; R Ellen (Ed), Ethnographic Research: A Guide to General Practice; M Agar, The Professional Stranger: An Informal Introduction to Ethnography; P Bardhan (Ed), Conversations between Economists and Anthropologists: Methodological Issues in Measuring Economic Change in Rural India.

Students will complete an on-line quiz. Students must achieve a pass on the quiz before proceeding with the dissertation, DV410.