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For those of us too disillusioned to return to academia, are there any definitive primers on research methodology (particularly historical)?

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I don't have any desire to get a degree, but I have ideas that need some minimal stress testing.

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, your predilections of any use here?)

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Never been in academia beyond uni; always just used my own. Obv. I'd say complexity based; multidisciplinary with mixed methodology.

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As in quantitative and qualitative (with an emphasis on the latter if you fancy addressing the shortfall).

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This makes some interesting and important points. sru.soc.surrey.ac.uk/SRU18.html