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Ethnography, or participant observation, is a field-based practice based on sharing in our interlocutors’ everyday life with the aim of understanding the world from their perspective. …
The research community is currently fortunate to have a large number of high-quality web survey software packages. For example, Capterra (sourced 19 December 2021), shows …
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have learned a lot about how the global spread of the virus has impacted people’s lives. Surveys have …
Economists (and more broadly social scientists) are increasingly focused on the measurement and causes of inequality in health. Health inequality has many sources, not all of …
It has often been said that COVID-19 has made amateur epidemiologists of us all, and perhaps less often, amateur behavioural scientists and economists too. As society has …
In many practical situations when it comes to modelling data through a simple linear regression, we may have the scenario where observations are somehow similar, correlated …
This week I am just back from teaching a two-week course at the Essex Summer School called Introduction to Multilevel Models. Traditionally a popular annual residential …
The most pronounced challenge of doing research during COVID-19 was the watershed switch to the online world. With limited or no training and support, researchers and …