We check in with GailBot, the £15k Concept Grant winner. Combining ASR and ML to capture paralinguistic features, GailBot has been revamped for wider researcher use. After a week-long UCLA hack session, we’re addressing internationalization and user-driven feature requests, ensuring scalable and versatile transcription. Join our Slack Community for updates!

This blog by Nur Şat, Associate Professor at Hitit University, Türkiye discusses a project which bridged a critical gap in Public Administration (PA) research by offering a free, online training program on qualitative methods. Master's students and academics honed their skills in areas like proposal development and data analysis. The program attracted strong interest, with a mobile-friendly website garnering nearly 2,000 visits. Participants reported high satisfaction and a significant improvement in their research abilities. This experience offers valuable insights for academics seeking to organize similar projects.

Listen to this interview, and check out Rhys Jones’ latest book: Statistical Literacy: A Beginner's Guide.

Informed consent is the term given to the agreement between researcher and participant. In this post Janet Salmons offers suggestions about the intersections of the Internet communications, ethics and participants.

Find examples and guidance about collecting data on blogs or vlogs.

Explore the significance of Juneteenth in US history and reflect on inclusive research practices with us! We highlight the role that researchers can play in designing research that is ethical, community based and transformative.

This blog post is the eighth, and final, post in a follow-on to our 2021 “The future of computational social science is Black” series, about a Summer Institute in Computational Social Science organized by Howard University and Mathematica. It continues to bring the power of computational social science to the issues of systemic racism and inequality in America. This marks the third iteration of the successful SICSS model being hosted by a Historically Black College or University.

While some types of online research use communication tools to interact with remote participants, digital methods use online approaches to study online phenomena.

This blog is the seventh, and penultimate post, in a follow-on to our 2021 “The future of computational social science is Black” series, about a Summer Institute in Computational Social Science organized by Howard University and Mathematica. It continues to bring the power of computational social science to the issues of systemic racism and inequality in America. This marks the third iteration of the successful SICSS model being hosted by a Historically Black College or University.

Dr. Stommel brings clarity to the messy world of data collection on social media.

This blog post is the sixth of eight in a follow-on to our 2021 “The future of computational social science is Black” series, about a Summer Institute in Computational Social Science organized by Howard University and Mathematica. It continues to bring the power of computational social science to the issues of systemic racism and inequality in America. This marks the third iteration of the successful SICSS model being hosted by a Historically Black College or University.

Latanya Sweeney, scholar of technology science, Daniel Paul Professor of the Practice of Government and Technology at the Harvard Kennedy School and in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and director and founder of the Public Interest Tech Lab, delivered the keynote address for SICSS-Howard/Mathematica 2023.

Do you have concerns about how to carry out data collection with vulnerable populations online? Find research strategies for reaching vulnerable people online.

This collection of open access articles offers multidisciplinary examples, guidance, and perspectives about online experimental research.

What are some of the issues researchers face, and what are the experiences of online participants? This collection of open-access articles includes diverse examples and perspectives.

This blog post is the fifth of eight in a follow-on to our 2021 “The future of computational social science is Black” series, about a Summer Institute in Computational Social Science organized by Howard University and Mathematica. It continues to bring the power of computational social science to the issues of systemic racism and inequality in America. This marks the third iteration of the successful SICSS model being hosted by a Historically Black College or University.

How do you know online participants are who they say they are? This collection of articles explores the issues - and solutions.

This blog post is the fourth of eight in a follow-on to our 2021 “The future of computational social science is Black” series, about a Summer Institute in Computational Social Science organized by Howard University and Mathematica. It continues to bring the power of computational social science to the issues of systemic racism and inequality in America. This marks the third iteration of the successful SICSS model being hosted by a Historically Black College or University.

The wealth of material available online is irresistible to social researchers who are trying to understand contemporary experiences, perspectives, and events. The ethical collection and -use of such material is anything but straightforward. Find open-access articles that explore different approaches.

How to protect data when recording interviews on videoconference platforms.