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In
this talk, Paul Bakker, Credentialed Evaluator, will provide an introduction to
the practice of impact evaluation. Topics will include: what is
evaluation, how it differs from other types of…
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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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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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This presentation explores my challenges as I tried to navigate the qualitative fieldwork as a first-generation ethnic researcher. While exploring linguistically compatible communities, I encounter…
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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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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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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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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 short talk, Allison Van shares her passion for mobilizing data and using it to build a brighter world. Using the most humble of data visualization tools, Excel, she talks about the questions…
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Building on recent research on gaming, Camila Caro has
newly developed a measure of gaming during difficult life situations and
explores the role of emotion regulation and coping self-efficacy as…
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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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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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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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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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In this session, Miheala Gruia will walk through important considerations for building a communications plan for your research. With concrete examples from participants she talks about how to drill…
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How many times have you committed to sharing your research with the public while not quite knowing how? Mihaela Gruia from Research Retold joins us from the UK for a two-part workshop series on…
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How many times have you committed to sharing your research with the public while not quite knowing how? Mihaela Gruia joins us from the United Kingdom for a two-part workshop series on developing a…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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