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Virtually Anonymous: Conducting Online Interviews with Anonymous Participants with Andrey Kasimov - Productivity during Pandemic

In this Productivity During Pandemic talk, PhD sutdent Andrey Kasimov shares tips and insights gained from conducting online interviews with anonymous participants belonging to reactionary online…

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Rethinking Group Consent in Community-Based Research with Dr. Karen Nairn and Dr. Carisa Showden – Productivity During the Pandemic

In this talk, Dr.'s Karen Nairn and Carisa Showden will share the challenges and solutions they encountered while working with community activist groups in New Zealand. They discuss the…

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Private Consulting as a Career with Ben Chan, Strategy & Operations Principal at Slalom Consulting - Productivity during Pandemic

In this video Ben offers great insight in to how he ended up in private consulting after his training in political science. He shares interview tips for landing a job in consulting as well as how to…

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Enhancing the Diversity of Course Syllabi Readings with Dr. Jane Sumner - Productivity During Pandemic

There are good reasons to diversify the readings in your course syllabi, but it can be easier said than done. In this talk, we will discuss reasons to diversify, how to assess diversity, and…

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Social Science Methods in Meta Research with Dr. Zacharias Maniadis

Meta-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 efficacious public policy. Social…

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Reproducibility of 1,000 articles; Lessons Learned with Lars Vilhuber

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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Truth and Consequences: How Scientists think about Error and Fraud in Research with Dr. Justin Esarey

To err is human, but to issue a meaningful correction or retraction is relatively rare in scientific publishing. In this joint project with Daniel Bischof and Michelle Dion, we ask: why? This…

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Black Christian Millennials "Doing Religion" In and Outside of the Black Church with Shaonta' Allen M.A., Ph.D. Candidate - Productivity During Pandemic

In this talk, Shaonta' Allen shares findings from her PhD dissertation on the individual experiences of religion of Black Christian Millenials. She identifies the experience of tension young…

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Managing References & Digital Files with Zotero with Dr. Michelle Dion - Productivity during Pandemic

This session will focus on configuring Zotero to work with plug-ins to manage your digital library and make writing & citing more effortless and easy. Great for students and faculty alike who…

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Group Process Mapping with Allison Van - Productivity During Pandemic

In this workshop Allison will introduce a facilitation process for helping organizations understand the informal and divergent processes that can occur when working with clients. Group processes is…

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Security Options for Sensitive Data with Lily Wang

Data security is becoming increasingly important in today's research climate.  In this talk, led by Lily Wang, Manager of the Securie Empirical Analysis Lab (SEAL), we will discuss…

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Emerging Powers and Big Data with Laura Mahrenbach – Productivity during Pandemic

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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Session 2: Mental Models, Trust and the Translation of Science with Dr. Brian Southwell - Relevant Research

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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Norm Emergence and Change in a Collective-Risk Social Dilemma with Dr. Giulia Andrighetto – Productivity During Pandemic

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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Addressing Sensitivity Bias on Surveys with Dr. Matthew Nanes – Spark Talks

How can researchers accurately and safely measure sensitive topics on surveys? We evaluate several common methods using a randomized-controlled trial on a survey about insurgency in the…

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Word Embeddings for Social Science with Dr. Dong Nguyen – Spark Talks

Natural Language Processing (NLP) has changed radically with the emergence of neural network approaches that learn to represent words, sentences, and other linguistic units as dense real-valued…

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Leveraging Social Media for Career Success and Research Communication with Equity Burke – Open House

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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Systemic Social Observation of Civil Society with Dr. Matthew Baggetta – Spark Talks

What happens inside meetings, events, and activities held by civil society organizations—and how often do those internal dynamics occur? I answer these questions using a new adaptation of…

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White Supremacy and Statistical Regression Models with Dr. Mosi Adesina Ifatunji – Identity In Research

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 to measure identity,…

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The Social Autopsy with Dr. Stefan Timmermans – Spark Talks

The social autopsy takes the death of a set of individuals as its starting point and then critically and systematically examines social and political conditions to explain these deaths and…

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Session 1: Data Visualization Tools with Juan Velasco - Relevant Research

In this workship, Juan Velasco demonstrates the use of free and practical tools like Tableau, Datawrapper and Flourish to create stunning and informative of static and interactive data…

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Asking and Analyzing Demographic Questions for Intersectionality with Rochelle Wijeshingha

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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Dealing with Data Outliers with Dr. Michelle Dion – Spark Open House

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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Data Management 101 with Dr. Michelle Dion - Open House

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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