The Durham Research Methods Centre is hosted by the Faculty of Social Sciences. The Centre provides an interdisciplinary environment for the development of research methods and for methods training. Activities are co-ordinated by a team of Core Staff, and delivered by over 40 DRMC Fellows.
We run interdisciplinary MA and PGcert programmes in social research methods and we are launching new cross-faculty Masters in Data Science (social analytics) and Masters in Data Science (Health).
We run non-credit-bearing training courses for postgraduate students, staff and external partners.
I would highly recommend MA Research Methods in Education, especially for students who are planning to enhance their experience and knowledge of research in education and plan to do a PhD. It is an excellent programme even for those who want to know the nature and value of evidence in education research. I gained a thorough understanding of research methods and learnt a lot of practical skills to do research. The great strength of the programme was its interdisciplinary nature, which meant that we were able to take courses from different departments and to meet students and teachers from different disciplines.
We would like to share our most recent bulletin. In this busy issue we look back at what has been happening this term - DRMC Week 2026; The Christine Merrell Annual Methods Lecture; Picturing Research: A DRMC Competition 2025/26; Social Complexity Retreat 2026; The Biostatistics Unit projects update; an update on the MA in Interdisciplinary Research Methods and the Research Methods Café; and The Social Simulation Conference 2026 that is coming up in August!
Hear from members of our Research Methods Centre
Durham University
Enquiries about Research Methods Centre should be sent via the email below.
Faculty of Social SciencesArthur Holmes BuildingDurham UniversityDurhamDH1 3LEUK
