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In their talk, Vassenden and Mangset answer to a recent interactionist/situationist critique of qualitative interviews. This critique holds that because interviews are social encounters with…
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Research is too often a process done to participants, but what if participants were viewed as co-investigators at every step of the research process? We will highlight the ways social scientists can…
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How much should ethnographers involve themselves with the people, places, and processes they study? One answer has become increasingly popular: invert participant observation into observant…
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1 – Most social work interventions are not well-supported by research. This situation is not likely to change. Although guided by good intentions this may result in poor or even harmful…
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Predictive policing is a tool used increasingly by law enforcement agencies around the world, but legal scholars, critics, and community activists have argued that such technologies are inherently…
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The overarching mission of many social science researchers is to understand “what works” for improving life outcomes. However, mounting evidence suggests that results from many studies do…
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In their talk, Vassenden and Mangset answer to a recent interactionist/situationist critique of qualitative interviews. This critique holds that because interviews are social encounters with…
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What happens when hundreds of researchers investigate the same research question with the same data? Answer: almost anything goes. Observing researchers in such a task reveals so many minute…
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Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is an equity-focused research method that seeks to involve and empower community partners in collectively developed research, but initiatives often fail…
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In this talk, Dr. Collen Renihan and Dr. Julia Brook will discuss their SSHRC- and CFI-funded research project on accessible music theatre for older adults, which they transformed from a face-to-face…
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In
this talk, Paul Bakker, Credentialed Evaluator, will provide an introduction to
the practice of impact evaluation. Topics will include: what is
evaluation, how it differs from other types of…
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This Spark Talk will discuss considerations of qualitative approaches to “research” involving topics of “mental health” among immigrant communities. Issues of the limitations…
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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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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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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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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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This presentation explores my challenges as I tried to navigate the qualitative fieldwork as a first-generation ethnic researcher. While exploring linguistically compatible communities, I encounter…
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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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In this talk, Dr. Kim Fortun will walk participants through the Platform for Experimental, Collaborative Ethnography (PECE, pronounced “peace”), an open-source, freely accessible digital…
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In this talk Moyo Sogaolu and Mohamed Fathalla will discuss research data management (RDM) in the social sciences. They go over what data management looks like, the "reproducibility…
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Starting graduate school? No matter what program or school you're in, this video will help you orient yourself to this big change. Allison Van will talk about how grad school is different from…
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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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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 research in…
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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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