I'm trying to build up a research project proposal drawing together complexity, qualitative and quantitative overlap, fuzzy modelling, partial order facets, comparisons of narratives etc...

I'm not quite sure where it's going but I'm wanting to generate a toolkit to mean that data collection isn't hamstrung by over-simplistic data structures... etc

At the moment I'm reading Peter Abell's mathematical sociology writings to see if there's a way that they could be one of a series of… Continue

That's NED for short - our Strathclyde university improve-our-methodology self-help group.
I like to think it can help both qualitative and quantitatives, but I suspect I'm the only mixed method member!