A

• Academic writingWriting resulting from academic work
• Art methodologyTechniques for art study or reassessment
• Art-based researchArt-based research is a mode of formal qualitative inquiry that uses artistic processes in
• AutoethnographyResearch method using personal experience

B

• BibliometricsStatistical analysis of written publications

C

• CitationReference to a source
• Critical realism (philosophy of the social sciences)Philosophical approach to understanding science
• Cultural mappingCultural mapping, also known as cultural resource mapping or cultural landscape mapping, r

D

• DataUnit of information

E

• ExperimentScientific procedure performed to validate a hypothesis

F

• Field researchCollection of information outside a laboratory, library or workplace setting

H

• Human subject researchSystematic, scientific investigation that involves human beings as research subjects

I

• Information scienceAcademic field concerned with collection and analysis of information

L

• LaboratoryWorkplace for scientific activity
• Literature reviewReview of the current knowledge of a particular topic

M

• MethodologyStudy of research methods
• MultimethodologyResearch based on more than one method of collecting data

N

• Narrative inquiryDiscipline within qualitative research
• Natural scienceBranch of science about the natural world and its life forms.
• NatureMaterial world and its phenomena
• Nominal group techniqueThe nominal group technique (NGT) is a group process involving problem identification, sol

O

• ObservationActive acquisition of information from a primary source

P

• ParamedicineIn the United States, paramedicine is the physician-directed practice of medicine, often v
• PhenomenographyResearch method involving experiences
• Phenomenology (sociology)Branch of sociology

Q

• Qualitative researchForm of research
• Quantitative researchAll procedures for the numerical representation of empirical facts

R

• Raw dataCollection of information that has not been fully processed or analyzed
• ResearchSystematic study undertaken to increase knowledge
• Research proposalDescription of planned research for which funding is requested
• Research questionQuestion that a research project sets out to answer

S

• ScienceSystematic endeavour to gain knowledge
• Scientific lawStatement based on repeated empirical observations that describes some natural phenomenon
• Scientific methodInterplay between observation, experiment, and theory in science
• Scientific modellingScientific activity that produces models
• Scientific theoryFalsifiable explanation of natural phenomena
• Subtle realismPhilosophical position
• Surface finishSmall, local deviations of a surface from a perfectly flat ideal