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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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Want to use social media to engage your audience? Twitter is the social media of choice for many academics. This talk will discuss practical ways you can use Twitter for academic networking and to…
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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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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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Transparency is all the rage in the social sciences. Yet, how exactly transparency can be pursued in qualitative research is very much still up for debate, especially when issues around…
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Systemic change is
at the heart of so much of the social sector’s work these days. Foresight and
futures thinking has a critical and often unseen role in helping us describe
and pursue those…
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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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Hosted by Juan Velasco, a visual journalist with a long career focused on visualizing complex research and scientific information, this session will help participants understand why design is an…
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Welcome to McMaster! with Dr. Michelle Dion. This talk provides an overview of some
of the platforms students will likely be using this fall for their classes. It
will also provide some tips and…
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September 24, 2021 Spark: a centre for social research innovation exists to help solve
challenges that come up in social research education and applications. Each
session will introduce one of…
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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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September 24, 2021 Spark: a centre for social research innovation exists to help solve
challenges that come up in social research education and applications.Each
session will introduce one of…
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Sex work provides a perfect example to ponder the distinctions between formal and informal politics and explore the relationships of money, intimacy, and authenticity. Building on the ethnographic…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The quest to understand music’s emotional power has long fascinated philosophers and acousticians —not to mention the composers, performers and educators entrusted with its transmission. …
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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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With anti-immigrant sentiment on the rise, surveillance
of immigrants has become common including in labour markets. Such
surveillance is so normalized that it is not recognized as such,…
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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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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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