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This talk will introduce audience members to the "the biggest lie on the internet" (known as "I agree to the terms and conditions"). Online consent is fundamental to privacy law…
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Increasing the transparency and reproducibility of scientific research has received considerable attention over the past decade. Takeup of this call has varied considerably over the social sciences,…
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In this talk, Dr. Hatzifilalithis will give an overview of her postdoctoral research that focuses on how age-based stereotypes influence digital technologies. She will also give a walkthrough of how…
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Allison Van is the Executive Director of Spark: a centre for social research innovation at McMaster University. She specializes in mixed-methods complex systems analysis, community/academic…
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Addressing the future of Indigenous sexual transmitted and blood borne infections (STBBI) research that challenges colonialism makes it possible for the expansion of culturally appropriate,…
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Data security is becoming increasingly important in today's research climate. In this talk, led by Lily Wang, Manager of SEAL, we will discuss classifications of sensitive data and related data…
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Podcasting is one way a researcher/academic can make their work accessible to mainstream audiences outside of their fields of study. It is also a way of meeting a like-minded community. This…
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Toolkit #6: Research QualityThe American Economic Association's Data Editor has reviewed more than 1,000 empirical articles since July 2019, and worked with authors to improve the…
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Toolkit #3: Empowerment, Equity, and Engaged Methods This presentation explores my challenges as I tried to navigate the qualitative fieldwork as a first-generation ethnic researcher. While…
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Toolkit #6: Research QualityCo-founders of the science communication project and science blog "The Null Hypothesis"— our project centers around demystifying scientific research - what…
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Toolkit #6: Research QualityMeta-research is a new discipline that assesses the quality of research for society. A new area of interest is how reproducible social interventions translate to…
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Toolkit #6: Research Quality In this talk, I’ll walk participants through the Platform for Experimental, Collaborative Ethnography (PECE, pronounced “peace”), an open-source,…
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Toolkit #6: Research Quality This virtual research talk on RDM was supported by the Digital Research
Alliance of Canada.
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Toolkit #7: Knowledge MobilizationThis session will walk-through methodologies, toolkits, and
analytical approaches for understanding the importance of inclusive data and
GBAPlus frameworks in…
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Toolkit #3: Empowerment, Equity, and Engaged Methods Social scientists use various techniques to elicit honest answers to sensitive questions in surveys. The list experiment is a popular option that…
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Toolkit #6: Research Quality Allison is a rockstar at using research methods to help find solutions for complex social problems. She is excited to be building Spark into a model for facilitating…
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Friday March 18, 2022 Dr. Ifatunji's talk and workshop will focus on the theoretical and
practical considerations for using public datasets such as census data
or large-scale opinion surveys…
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April 1, 2022 In this talk, Carolyn will explore the ethical considerations of
contact-based research and ask how the identities of researchers and
research participants shapes the ethics of…
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Spark has been embarking for the last two years on a journey with partners in the community to apply the best of social science research to the real challenges of running community services and…
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Did the
election of Donald Trump have an immediate effect on trust in the US government
in Latin America? Leveraging the timing of the field implementation of the 2016
wave of the…
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How can we comparatively assess the
“successfulness” of mass protests? I develop an expanded typology of protest
outcomes to score protest campaigns on their effectiveness in…
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Shockingly, an FDA assessment found that medical device sound issues are linked to hundreds of fatalities each year. Despite the fact that the technology in these life-saving gadgets has grown at an…
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An introductory talk discussing the ways in which classification is an
infrastructure and technology of power. Considering the fundamental
role of classification in AI, the presenters will…
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Friday February 4, 2022In
this talk, the discussion will be the alignment between machine
learning and qualitative methods. Dr. Nelson will illustrate this
alignment by using machine learning,…
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