We have been getting to grips in here for the last two years with integrating different methods to understand research questions. Below are two recent working papers co-authored by me and others in the group that examine the concept of excessive alcohol consumption from quantitative and qualitative perspectives. The first paper shows that anchoring vignettes "work" in terms of adjusting for the fact that individuals hold very different subjective beliefs about the concept of excessive that they use when answering whether they themselves drink excessively. The second paper digs deeply in to the concepts underlying these response utilising extended quants questions and qualitative methods. My own experience of this merging of methods has been very positive. At some stage, we should write down what we have learned from working together with all these different perspectives.
anchoring vignettes paper
mixed methods paper
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