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Quantitative Methods Toolkit: An Introduction with Dr. Michelle Dion – Open House

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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Does the tale of two “methods cultures” hold up? with David Kuehn and Ingo Rohlfing

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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Transparency and Positionality in Qualitative Team Coding with Dr. Victoria Reyes – Spark Talks

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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Session 1: Mental Models, Trust, and the Translation of Science with Dr. Brian Southwell

In this first of a two part workshop, Dr. Brian Southwell explores the latest understanding of how social and political opinions are formed and re-formed, and the implications for how researchers…

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Transparency and Reproducibility: Doing Open Quantitative Social Science with Jeremy Freese

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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Moving from What Works to What Replicates with Bryan Cook and Vivian Wong

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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A Hidden Universe of Uncertainty with Nate Breznau

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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We All Make Mistakes: Stories of Research Gone Wrong with Akacia Propst and Brianne Morgan

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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Applying Research Methods to Environmental Decision Making with Dr. Heather Dantzker

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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Dr Brian Southwell - Mental Models, Trust and the Translation of Science

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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Building a Digital Space for Qualitative Research Collaboration with Dr. Kim Fortun

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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Ethics in Contact-Based Research: Standing Out vs. Blending In with Dr. Carolyn Holmes – Spark Talks

In this talk, Carolyn will explore the ethical considerations of contact-based research and ask how the identities of researchers and research participants shapes the ethics of research in…

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Research Quality Toolkit: An Introduction with Michelle Dion – Open House Fall 2021

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 six of…

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Computational Social Science Toolkit: An Introduction with Michelle Dion – Open House Fall 2021

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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Compelling Websites with Celine Keomany – Open House

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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The Future of Machine Learning is Qualitative with Dr. Laura K. Nelson – Spark Talk

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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Bibliometrics Approach to Evaluating Research Impact with Dr. Fei Yu – Productivity During Pandemic

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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Challenges and Opportunities in the Measurement of Global Norms with Tyler Girard - Productivity During Pandemic

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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Emerging Powers and Big Data with Laura Mahrenbach – Productivity during Pandemic

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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Truth and Consequences: How Scientists think about Error and Fraud in Research with Dr. Justin Esarey

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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Social Science Methods in Meta Research with Dr. Zacharias Maniadis

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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