{"id":108,"date":"2014-05-09T10:03:34","date_gmt":"2014-05-09T10:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/epress.utsc.utoronto.ca\/cord\/?page_id=108"},"modified":"2014-05-30T10:15:52","modified_gmt":"2014-05-30T10:15:52","slug":"cord-research-methods","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/epress.utsc.utoronto.ca\/cord\/activities\/cord-research-methods\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Methods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CORD researchers use a variety of different methods to contribute to the organisation&#8217;s mission of\u00a0<em><strong>\u00a0&#8216;contributing to inclusive citizenship and democratic governance through collaborative, applied research.&#8217;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Andrew Charman, from the <a href=\"livelihoods.org.za\/\">Sustainable Livelihoods Foundation<\/a>\u00a0in Cape Town,\u00a0for instance, uses a variety of participatory methods for collecting data &#8211; including the use of a Photovoice Competition, engagement through social media, and live exhibitions as tools to understand street trading in the Ivory Park community of Cape Town, South Africa. See the presentation, below, for more information about Andrew&#8217;s work and methods:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/slideshow\/embed_code\/34755938\" width=\"427\" height=\"356\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"border:1px solid #CCC; border-width:1px 1px 0; margin-bottom:5px; max-width: 100%;\" allowfullscreen> <\/iframe> <\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom:5px\"> <strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/beckles\/cord-cape-town-s-photovoice-methodology-120514\" title=\"Photovoice and Social Media Methodologies - Understanding street trading in Cape Town\" target=\"_blank\">Photovoice and Social Media Methodologies &#8211; Understanding street trading in Cape Town<\/a> <\/strong> from <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/beckles\" target=\"_blank\">beckles<\/a><\/strong> <\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222\">Alternatively, Shylashri Shankar, from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cprindia.org\/\">Centre for Policy Research<\/a> in Delhi, has employed an entirely different set of research methods for understanding decisions made in India&#8217;s Supreme Court. In her presentation below, she outlines\u00a0an econometric approach to analyse the judgments of India&#8217;s Supreme Court and the high courts on the rights to health and education. She\u00a0discusses the creation of the datasets on the judges&#8217; characteristics and the judgments, the problems of designing a dependent variable that best captures the pro-citizen impact of these rights, and the techniques of testing the hypotheses through the models.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/slideshow\/embed_code\/34755941\" width=\"427\" height=\"356\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"border:1px solid #CCC; border-width:1px 1px 0; margin-bottom:5px; max-width: 100%;\" allowfullscreen> <\/iframe> <\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom:5px\"> <strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/beckles\/cord-presentation-shylashri\" title=\"Scaling Justice: India&#x27;s Supreme Court and the Rights to Health and Education\" target=\"_blank\">Scaling Justice: India&#x27;s Supreme Court and the Rights to Health and Education<\/a> <\/strong> from <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/beckles\" target=\"_blank\">beckles<\/a><\/strong> <\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CORD researchers use a variety of different methods to contribute to the organisation&#8217;s mission of\u00a0\u00a0&#8216;contributing to inclusive citizenship and democratic governance through collaborative, applied research.&#8217; Andrew Charman, from the Sustainable Livelihoods Foundation\u00a0in Cape Town,\u00a0for instance, uses a variety of participatory methods for collecting data &#8211; including the use of a Photovoice Competition, engagement through social [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34,"parent":12,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.utsc.utoronto.ca\/cord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/108"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.utsc.utoronto.ca\/cord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.utsc.utoronto.ca\/cord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.utsc.utoronto.ca\/cord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.utsc.utoronto.ca\/cord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/epress.utsc.utoronto.ca\/cord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262,"href":"https:\/\/epress.utsc.utoronto.ca\/cord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/108\/revisions\/262"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.utsc.utoronto.ca\/cord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.utsc.utoronto.ca\/cord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.utsc.utoronto.ca\/cord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}