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Project background
This training programme was developed under two ESRC-funded projects. This area of the site aims to provide general information about these projects including information on project aims and rationale, the organisation, evaluation and dissemination of the projects, and the project teams.
Exploring Online Research Methods in a Virtual Training Environment
was an ![[External Link - opens in a new window]](../generic/external.gif){kind=small}
ESRC
funded project running from May 2004 to July 2006 under the Research
Methods Training Programme (Award ref: RES-333-25-0001).
The project aimed to enhance understanding of online research methods through the production and evaluation of a self-supporting online training package targeted at the social science community.
TRI-ORM was a project which ran from May 2007 to July 2009 under
the ESRC Researcher
Development Initiative (Award ref: RES-035-25-0002)
The project aimed to stimulate the careful and critical uptake, and further sophisticated use, of Online Research Methods (ORM) and to work towards mainstreaming these innovative methods by building a national and virtual network of research training in ORM.
