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Digital Ethnography with Astara van der Jaght — Open House

Astara van der Jagt, a PhD student in Anthropology and course developer at Spark discusses the pandemic-friendly research method of digital ethnography and how researchers across disciplines can…

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Compelling Websites with Celine Keomany – Open House

Spark's own webmaster, Celine Keomany, shares in this short video the elements of an effective academic website and some of the tools you can use to build one.

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Asking and Analyzing Demographic Questions for Intersectionality with Rochelle Wijeshingha

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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Using Social Media with Equity Burke – Open House

Equity Burke, a research coordinator at the Gilbrea Centre and member of the communications team at Spark, speaks about the use of social media to advance research careers.

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Data Collection in AppSheet with Gavin Zhao – Open House

Gavin Zhao, member of the Brighter Spark Applied Research team introduces AppSheet, a google add-on that allows you to create custom apps. Zhao built an app for Brighter Spark's evaluation of a…

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Open House: Compelling Videos

Supriya Thukral, communications team member at Spark who produced the videos on our website, discusses features of compelling video that can be applied to knowledge mobilization of research.

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What We Do at Spark with Michelle Dion – Spark Open House

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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Outliers with Michelle – Spark Open House

In this short video, Michelle Dion, Academic Director of Spark discusses outliers — instances of data that do not fit the theory or model and the range of approaches to addressing them…

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Data Management 101 with Dr. Michelle Dion

In this short video, Michelle Dion, Academic Director of Spark introduces the key considerations involved in effective data management and resources for doing it right.

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Better Interviews: Tips for Listening with Allison Van

Summarizing experience gained through thousands of research interviews, Ms. Van continues her Better Interview series by demonstrating and discussing approaches to deeper listening within…

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Gaming in Difficult Times with Camila Caro

Building on recent research on gaming, Ms. 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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Challenges and Opportunities in the Measurement of Global Norms with Tyler Girard

Challenges and Opportunities in the Measurement of Global Norms Tyler Girard will be speaking on The construction, adoption, and effects of international norms are major topics of research in…

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Brighter Spark Applied Research video

At Spark: a centre for social research innovation we provide research services to community organizations and researchers both inside and outside academia. From simple one-off services like a…

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Spark's Homepage Video – spark.mcmaster.ca

Learn about Spark: a centre for social research innovation within McMaster's Faculty of Social Sciences. It is our mission to engage with researchers and community organizations to harness the…

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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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Session 2: Mental Models, Trust and the Translation of Science with Dr. Brian Southwell

This workshop explores the latest understanding of how social and political opinions are formed and re-formed, and the implications for how researchers should think about designing the message that…

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Dr. Brian Southwell - December 6, 2020

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

This workshop explores the latest understanding of how social and political opinions are formed and re-formed, and the implications for how researchers should think about designing the message that…

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Session 2: Designing a Communications Plan with Mihaela Gruia

Mihaela Gruia is a social and data scientist passionate about the intersection between research, communication and design. She is the founder and Director of Research Retold (www.researchretold.com),…

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Mihaela Gruia Session 1 - What is the central message of my research 13 Nov 2020

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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Research Retold - Video 2 - 5 building blocks of a research communications plan

https://libcal.mcmaster.ca/calendar/scds/plan-to-communicate-2 How many times have you committed to sharing your research with the public while not quite knowing how? Mihaela Gruia joins us from the…

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Better Interview Questions with Allison Van – Productivity During the Pandemic

Better Interview Questions http://https//macdrive.mcmaster.ca/f/ae65c7880be9457a9181/ So you're going to conduct research interviews? Allison Van has done thousands. In this seminar,…

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Access Data Resources “Remotely” with Vivek Jadon – Productivity During Pandemic

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Research Retold - Video 1 - 5 reasons for communicating research beyond academia

RETURN TO Register for Part 1 of the series: https://libcal.mcmaster.ca/calendar/scds/plan-to-communicate-1 Registration ends 11 November 2020

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