Can some forms of crime be effectively managed through the control of physical space? Painter and Farringtonês seminal Stoke-on-Trent street-lighting study suggests they can and Kate Painter explains how continuities and changes in the...

Epidemiology underpins everything we do in public health and global health. Epidemiology is more than just research methods and qualitative and quantitative study design. It's about understanding the distribution of states of health and...

Psychologists have told us a lot about human behaviour. But to what extent can we trust the findings? This film looks at the part played by reliability and validity in helping to answer this question. Reliability and external and...

This short film uses a real world example (the relationship between learning and time of day) to explore 3 different types of experimental design: Repeated Measures; Independent Measures; Matched Pairs.

Here we look at some psychological field experiments, such as Hofling's study of nurse obedience, Fischer's test of the cognitive interview and the Pilliavins' research on samaritanism, to show what they offer psychologists compared to...

This film uses some famous psychological experiments (such as Bandura's BoBo doll and Loftus's Eyewitness Testimony) to show, rather than simply tell, students: what is meant by the experimental method in psychology, how laboratory...

Here we begin with a research question, what is the most effective time of day to learn new material, to illustrate the strengths and possible limitations of repeated measures, independent measure and matched pairs experimental designs....

In this video, Dr Greg Martin provides an introduction to research methods, methedology and study design. Specifically he takes a look at qualitative and quantitative research methods including case control studies, cohort studies,...