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The National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) Research Methods Festival 2012 filmed sessions

National Centre for Research Methods


    • Jul 5, 2012 LATEST EPISODE
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    • 36m AVG DURATION
    • 16 EPISODES


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    A quantitative approach to framing in political speech by Dr Eyal Sagi

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 5, 2012 12:44


    Eyal Sagi talks about framing in political speech. The example he uses is The War on Terror and whether terror can be framed as either a crime or an act of war.

    Framing policy debates in the EU: new techniques to answer old questions by Professor Christine Mahoney and Dr Heike Kluver

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 5, 2012 12:30


    Heike Kluver talks about whether quantitative text analysis can be used to systematically study framing policy debates in the EU.

    Geography in a Web 3.0 World by Dr Andy Hudson-Smith

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 5, 2012 39:37


    Andy Hudson-Smith talks about using volunteered geographic information from social media for research.

    Geovisualisation, spatial analysis and simulation by Dr Nick Malleson

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 5, 2012 24:26


    Nick Malleson talks about how to simulate urban phenomena, especially crime, and how to use new kinds of data to improve models.

    Happiness and welfare with changing preferences by Professor Sayantan Ghosal

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 5, 2012 49:26


    Sayntal Ghosal talks about the use of happiness data as a measure of disadvantage, and his work on poverty traps and aspirational failure.

    Human validation of latent trait scaling from textual data by Professor Kenneth Benoit and Dr Will Lowe

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 5, 2012 14:44


    Will Lowe talks about extracting political information from legislative speech: learning about policy agenda and position taking.

    International journal of social research methodology lecture: The vicissitudes of methods by Professor Andrew Abbott

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 5, 2012 54:37


    Andrew abbott talks about the turnover of various methods in sociology over the last sixty years, attempting to consider both quantitative and qualitative methods.

    Is there a single "right" way to study political text? Legislative hearings on monetary policy, as viewed from three different perspectives by Dr Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 5, 2012 15:28


    Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey talks about researching the quality of the monetary policy deliberation.

    Key lecture: Choosing and combining units by Professor Laura Stoker

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 5, 2012 51:39


    Decisions about units of observation, of analysis, and of measurement are central to research design. This talk by Laura Stoker addresses cases in which thorny, consequential, unit decisions arise.

    Key lecture: Now you see it now you dont by Professor Gillian Rose

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 5, 2012 54:07


    Gillian Rose examines the extraordinary growth in visual methods over the last decade or so across all the social sciences. It is often suggested that this growth has to do with the saturation of everyday life with images: if we live in a hypervisual culture, it is argued, then visual methods are some sort of response to that culture.

    Leadership without leaders? Starters and followers in on-line collective action by Professor Helen Margetts

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 5, 2012 22:34


    Helen Margetts talks about experimental ways to look at collective political behaviour on the Internet.

    Life satisfaction and income by Dr Eugenio Proto

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 5, 2012 49:32


    Eugenio Proto talks about how happiness and income correlate, how personality traits affect directly the level of happiness, and how personality traits influence income and the way happiness depends on income.

    Machining geography and spatial analysis by Mr Richard Milton

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 5, 2012 46:24


    Richard Milton talks about using spatial data in research and machining geography.

    NCRM Annual Lecture: The challenges of the 21st century by Professor Sir John Beddington

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 5, 2012 47:44


    Professor Sir John Beddington - the UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser - talks about some of the key challenges that are facing us in the 21st century and the real difference that the social sciences can make to addressing them. The focus of the talk is primarily on international issues: food, water and energy security, population growth,urbanisation, migration, climate change and disease.

    Social choice and individual reports of subjective well-being by Professor Peter Hammond

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 5, 2012 46:26


    Using randomized experiments to develop effective tax collection strategies by Professor Donald Green and Dr Laura Haynes

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 5, 2012 46:26


    Donald Green talks about using text messaging as a nudge instead of traditional tax or fine collection techniques.

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