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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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Many students of statistics and econometrics express frustration with the way a problem known as “bad control” is treated in the traditional literature. The issue arises when the addition…
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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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Participants that complete online surveys and experiments may be
inattentive, which can hinder researchers’ ability to draw substantive
or causal inferences. Closed-ended manipulation…
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There is so much data available to researchers virtually, but they can be hard to find and even harder to access. In this talk, Data Specialist Vivek Jadon will share how McMaster researcher's…
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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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In this talk, Dr. Hatzifilalithis will give an overview of her postdoctoral research that focuses on how age-based stereotypes influence digital technologies. She will also give a walkthrough of how…
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Spark has been embarking for the last two years on a journey with partners in the community to apply the best of social science research to the real challenges of running community services and…
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In this session, Dantzker will review and discuss the purposes, methodologies, and utility of applied social science research and program evaluation approaches she has used over the course of her…
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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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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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In this Productivity During Pandemic talk
we are joined by McMaster Sociology PhD Candidate Alan Martino. Alan talks to
us today about intimate citizenship and the barriers to sexual spaces…
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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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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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In this talk Dr. Fei Yu will introduce what bibliometric analysis is and what you can do with it. She will use examples from her own work to discuss the resources, tools, methods, and processes of…
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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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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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Supriya Thukral, Spark's resident videographer, shares practical tips for making compelling video in our Productivity during Pandemic series. She talks video types and tech set-up, and how you…
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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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Tyler Girard
will be speaking on the
construction, adoption, and effects of international norms are major topics of
research in political science. However, our approaches to measurement have…
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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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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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Spark has organized the vast and ever changing world
of social research methods into seven toolkits. In this Open House
series, the Academic Director and Executive Director of Spark introduce…
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In this talk, Dr. Rupu Gupta will share her work in research and evaluation in the field of conservation psychology. She discusses how conservation psychology can be a means to tackle the complex…
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