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Author Archives: Vicki Bolton
This shouldn’t be a surprise, but ‘gold’ costs an average of £1727 while ‘green’ is free…
I admit, I am coming in a little late on this one. It turns out that publishing papers may be about to cost money. An average of £1727 per paper, if RCUK has done its sums right. Some lovely folks … Continue reading
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Tagged funding, Open Access, RCUK, REF
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The tax payer buys some data. Now who owns it? A private research company.
It turns out that when the Government commissions research (including data collection) from a private research company, it is not standard practice to require, as part of the contract, that the data is later placed in the UK Data Archive. … Continue reading
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Who should be responsible for policy evaluation?
The Guardian has published a note by Nick Axford on when a charity might wish to carry out a randomised controlled trial. Axford works for a charity which promotes the use of evidence in designing services for children and families. … Continue reading
Posted in Academic research, Journalism
Tagged charities, Government, longitudinal, regression to the mean, third sector, time
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First, select your cohort
The first of the national cohort studies, the one begun one week in March 1946 has been the subject of a series of Radio 4 interviews and a newspaper article this week. A cohort study follows a group of people (the cohort) … Continue reading
“…part of what I call the Big Society…”
The Prime Minister has gone and brought it up again. I confess that I’m a little slow off the mark, and this is actually from before Christmas (thank you to George Disney for pointing it out to me) but I … Continue reading
Time use surveys and volunteering
I’ve been reading up on the available (UK) time use data on volunteering and found a short technical paper produced by Kimberley Fisher from the Centre for Time Use Research. The paper’s interesting in its own right, but here’s what … Continue reading
Posted in Methods, PhD
Tagged time, time use, volunteering
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Having trouble funding your longitudinal data collection…?
My friend Francis Brearley was running into just such a problem and has decided to try crowd-sourcing i.e. asking many people to fund a little of the project. (If you’re in the US, you’ll be familiar with the technique through … Continue reading
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Tagged funding, longitudinal
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Infant feeding again. And peer reviewed journals again. Resulting in an overlong post. Again.
According to the Guardian (and the Daily Mail, Channel 4 News etc etc) we’ve learned that babies fed on demand ‘do better at school’. This makes me sound smug but I learned this a year ago when the first author, … Continue reading
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AntiSocial Science: ‘research has revealed’ that we shouldn’t trust a press release
Research has also revealed some fairly predictable stuff about the best laid plans of mice and men. There was briefly the promise that I might get paid to blog, but it evaporated, so my blog gets the benefit. This was … Continue reading
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Tagged AntiSocial Science
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Volunteering, social class and some other things
The NCVO/VSSN Researching the Voluntary Sector Conference took place in London last week. Many of the big names were there, but a lot of the stuff I found most interesting came from Jon Dean, a doctoral researcher at the University … Continue reading
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Tagged social class, volunteering
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