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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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 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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