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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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Turning critique into promise: How situationalism can aid qualitative interviewing with Anders Vassenden and Marte Mangset

In their talk, Vassenden and Mangset answer to a recent interactionist/situationist critique of qualitative interviews. This critique holds that because interviews are social encounters with…

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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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Research Creation as Responsive Design with Julia Brook & Colleen Reihan

In this talk, Dr. Collen Renihan and Dr. Julia Brook will discuss their SSHRC- and CFI-funded research project on accessible music theatre for older adults, which they transformed from a face-to-face…

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Introduction to Impact Evaluation with Paul Bakker

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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"You're Nothing" - Researching the Labour Market Experiences of Undocumented Caribbean Careworkers with Carieta Thomas

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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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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