Designing interview schedules and questionnaires - great resources

Many of my fellow students and I are starting to prepare for the 'hands on' elements of our research where we will be conducting interviews and / or questionnaires with a wide range of people.

Designing a good interview schedule and questionnaire is a fine art, and I found this fantastic website from Professor T.D . Wilson on this very subject. Here, Professor Wilson outlines the benefits and pitfalls of various types and approaches to interviews and techniques, and there are some really practical tips too. I have found this a most useful resource.

In the meantime, it's a while since I wrote about Newcastle United. What can you say? We continue to walk a relegation tight rope and we don't instil a great degree of belief in the fact that we can turn this around.
My top tip is that 4-5-1 just doesn't work; stop it right now! If Chelsea couldn't effectively play with Drogba in this formation we certainly can't, especially with one of the shortest teams in the premiership.
I'm off to see the Lads on Monday, v Birmingham City and as usual they will receive great support from our travelling fans. I just hope that the potential absence of James Milner won't impact too heavily on the team as I view him as a key player. Player 4.4.2 though, perhaps bringing in Shola to complement Owen and / or Martins, and we could do this you know. Now is the time to turn it around Lads.
Howay, you can do it!

NHS Healthcare libraries, faster & cheaper than Amazon

I am very lucky. I work with a great team of people now, and I used to work with a great network of librarians in the North West. As part of my research the other day, I found a really interesting citation about some recent research which was conducted by the University of Leeds into Web 2.0 usage amongst medical students and practitioners.
Unfortunately neither my NHS or University Athens accounts gave me access to the resource that I needed, but a quick email to my colleagues in the North West saw that very item allocated and saved for my collection from my local health library the very same day. This is what health libraries do so brilliantly, helping and supporting users to find, consider, and use the resources that they need, and the North West has always had a very strong collaborative network which I hope will continue to operate in this way in the future.
For those who are interested, the article in question is:
TI: Title
Web 2.0 technologies for undergraduate and postgraduate medical
education: an online survey.
AU: Author
Sandars, J; Schroter, S
AF: Affiliation
Medical Education Unit, The University of Leeds, 20 Hyde Terrace,
Leeds LS2 9LN, UK.
SO: Source
Postgraduate medical journal, 2007 Dec, 83(986):759-62
IS: ISSN
1469-0756