This book provides detailed examples of the development of pedagogic practices in response to distinctive challenges of teaching social research methods. It informs and inspires a developing pedagogic culture essential to capacity-building among the social science research community. This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Social Research Methodology.

Introduction: The teaching and learning of social research methods: developments in pedagogical knowledge 1. The problems and prospects in the teaching of mixed methods research 2. 'I'm not a quants person'; key strategies in building competence and confidence in staff who teach quantitative research methods' 3. Embedding quantitative skills into the social science curriculum: case studies from Manchester 4. Teaching social research methods after the critical turn: challenges and benefits of a constructivist pedagogy 5. From guided-instruction to facilitation of learning: the development of Five-level QDA as a CAQDAS pedagogy that explicates the practices of expert users 6. Learning to manage and share data: jump-starting the research methods curriculum 7. Using video and dialogue to generate pedagogic knowledge: teachers, learners and researchers reflecting together on the pedagogy of social research methods