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Objectives:
To
critically appraise a journal article about using assessment data to
identify residents in need.
Article: Ross, S.,
Binczyk, N., et al. Association
of a…
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In this talk, Hardin will introduce her duo-ethnographic work with a group of friends and colleagues who part of a collaborative group, Nutrire CoLab. She will introduce some of the fundamental…
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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 methodology toolkits. In this Open House series, the Academic Director and Executive Director
of Spark…
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Situation-Action-Result Statements help contextualize how your experiences and education translate into job success. Learn how to craft SAR statements to use in your resume, cover letters, or in an…
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"I review ethnographic methods that allow researchers to assess distress in a culturally sensitive manner. I focus on describing the development of reliable and valid culturally sensitive…
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Arguments about how causal qualitative and quantitative research are “usually” or “mostly” done abound. In our workshop, we summarize the results of a review of 180…
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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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I review methods for handling missing data in empirical studies in the social sciences. I define missing data, and provide a taxonomy of main approaches to analysis, including complete-case and…
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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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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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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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Record video from Nov 17th group G
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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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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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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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Spark has organized the vast and ever-changing world of social research methods into seven methodology toolkits. In this Open House series, the Academic Director and Executive Director of Spark…
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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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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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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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