Project methods
Where appropriate for longitudinal comparison the current project will use research methods that replicate those of the 1999-2001 project. However, the new project will also go beyond the original project's restriction to contractually pre-set questions and terms of reference.
Therefore, while remaining policy-relevant, it will have the intellectual freedom to explore broader issues and to question assumptions. It will also engage with more recently emergent religious, social and legal questions and issues.
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In the context of the present project where appropriate for longitudinal comparison the research methods used will replicate those of the 1999-2001 project. The longitudinal and comparative aspect of the project, when coupled with the new research questions and additional research methods, will add value to our understanding of the impact of a decade of change. But the new project will also go beyond the original project's contractual restriction to pre-set and immediately policy-related terms of reference, while also taking account of what is now a different evidence base and also emergent religious, social and legal questions and issues.
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