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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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Are you undertaking a new writing project? Maybe looking for some help writing a book or important manuscript? Working with an academic editor can help you nail a project and improve your writing,…
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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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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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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 short video, Michelle Dion, Academic Director of Spark outlines what Spark: a centre for social research innovation is about and how we support social researchers and community leaders.
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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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Co-founders of the science communication project and science blog "The Null Hypothesis"— our project centers around demystifying scientific research - what it looks like behind the…
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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 Astara van der Jagt discusses the pandemic-friendly research method of digital ethnography and how researchers across disciplines can apply it to understand online communities and…
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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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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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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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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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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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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 talk, Dr. Nelson will discuss the alignment between machine
learning and qualitative methods. Dr. Nelson will illustrate this
alignment by using machine learning, specifically word…
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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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The talk will present an automated content analysis method based on supervised machine learning (SML) and recent advances in transfer learning. The method will be presented through a case study on…
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Dr. Hyunjin Seo leads technology education and information literacy workshops to marginalized groups including formerly incarcerated women now seeking to enter the workforce. She will be talking…
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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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Participants will learn about the method of cognitive interviewing to pretest survey questions. I will introduce the general goals of pretesting and key aspects of cognitive interviewing. Then we…
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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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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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