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Supriya Thukral, Spark's resident videographer, shares practical tips for making compelling video in our Productivity during Pandemic series. She talks video types and tech set-up, and how you…
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In this video Astara van der Jagt discusses the pandemic-friendly research method of digital ethnography and how researchers across disciplines can apply it to understand online communities and…
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In this video, Spark's own webmaster, Celine Keomany, talks about how you can build an informative and eye-catching academic website. She shares the elements of an effective academic website,…
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Rochelle Wijesingha, a member of the Brighter Spark Applied Research team discusses how to address demographic questions in quantitative analysis in ways that both reflect complex human realities and…
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In this Open House session, Equity Burke speaks about the use of social media to advance research careers. She takes you on a whirlwind tour through different social media platforms and discusses how…
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Gavin Zhao, member of the Brighter Spark Applied Research team introduces AppSheet, a google add-on that allows you to create custom apps. Zhao built an app for Brighter Spark's evaluation of a…
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In this short video, Michelle Dion, Academic Director of Spark outlines what Spark: a centre for social research innovation is about and how we support social researchers and community leaders.
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In this video, Michelle Dion, Academic Director of Spark discusses outliers — instances of data that do not fit the theory or model. She talks about a range of approaches to addressing them…
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In this video, Dr. Michelle Dion, Academic Director of Spark introduces the key considerations involved in effective data management and resources for doing it right. She talks about different…
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Summarizing experience gained through thousands of research interviews, Allison Van continues her Better Interview series by demonstrating and discussing
approaches to deeper listening within…
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Building on recent research on gaming, Camila Caro has
newly developed a measure of gaming during difficult life situations and
explores the role of emotion regulation and coping self-efficacy as…
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Tyler Girard
will be speaking on the
construction, adoption, and effects of international norms are major topics of
research in political science. However, our approaches to measurement have…
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Government intentions stand at the
heart of debates about how big data can and should be used in
the Global South. Laura will present three government visions for
big data, discuss each…
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This session features interactive collaboration with feedback from science communication expert Dr. Southwell, posing the question "How can your research
help with today’s…
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In this first of a two part workshop, Dr. Brian Southwell explores the latest understanding of how social and political opinions are formed and re-formed, and the implications for how researchers…
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In this short video, Dr. Brian Southwell introduces you to his workshop that explores the latest understanding of how social and political opinions are formed and re-formed, and the implications for…
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In this session, Miheala Gruia will walk through important considerations for building a communications plan for your research. With concrete examples from participants she talks about how to drill…
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How many times have you committed to sharing your research with the public while not quite knowing how? Mihaela Gruia from Research Retold joins us from the UK for a two-part workshop series on…
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How many times have you committed to sharing your research with the public while not quite knowing how? Mihaela Gruia joins us from the United Kingdom for a two-part workshop series on developing a…
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So you're going to conduct research interviews? Allison Van has done thousands. In this seminar, she'll walk you through the core questions and approaches to consider when developing your…
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There is so much data available to researchers virtually, but they can be hard to find and even harder to access. In this talk, Data Specialist Vivek Jadon will share how McMaster researcher's…
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RETURN TO Register for Part 1 of the series: https://libcal.mcmaster.ca/calendar/scds/plan-to-communicate-1
Registration ends 11 November 2020
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In this talk Dr. Fei Yu will introduce what bibliometric analysis is and what you can do with it. She will use examples from her own work to discuss the resources, tools, methods, and processes of…
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From climate change to ecosystem and habitat destruction to the spread of infectious diseases such as COVID-19, many contemporary societal challenges are exacerbated by collective action problems. In…
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