Welcome to MSc Research Methods

A group of students working in the Levy Lab

Reading List

  • Experimentology. This book covers the full range from thinking about theories via estimation to report writing.
  • Telling Stories within Data -- This provides a snapshot -- also from thinking to writing via modelling -- of the state of the art.
  • R. McElreath (2020). Statistical Rethinking. London: Chapman and Hall -- This one has links to free Youtube lectures and is highly recommended
  • Goldacre, B. (2009). Bad Science. London: Harper Perennial.
  • Wickham, H. & Grolemund, G. (2022). R for data science. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly Press
  • And some ideas for where learning how to think about data in psychology might take you: Can I be a Data Scientist?