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Category Archives: PhD
I trust we’re all in this together…?
Spot the odd one out. I trust you. She’s a trusting soul. Do you trust him? Generally speaking, would you say that most people can be trusted or that you can’t be too careful in dealing with people? Of course … Continue reading
Posted in Academic research, PhD
Tagged Citizenship Survey, Daily Mail, Guardian, Putnam, social capital, social class, trust
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Another advantage of longitudinal data
I have been having trouble formulating an important argument in one of my PhD papers, so I’m going to rehearse it here. If anyone could help me to refine it, I’d be eternally grateful if you’d let me know… Longitudinal … Continue reading
Survey Data Not Be All And End All – Shock
Apparently there’s more to research than survey data – who knew? Those who have been paying attention will remember that I have used the National Child Development Study (NCDS) to examine the relationship between volunteering and political activity for the … Continue reading
Posted in Methods, PhD
Tagged data, methods, PhD, political activity, politics participation, qualitative, quantitative, volunteering
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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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Not exactly blogging the SPA conference…
As a freshly established blogger, I had in mind to try my hand at ‘blogging a conference’ (the Social Policy Association Conference, to be precise). I think a laptop the size of a planet may not be the best tool, … Continue reading
Thinking out loud about differences between surveys
What with one thing (daughter’s chickpox) and other (holiday in the US) and all the stuff in between (more bank holidays than you can shake a stick at at), I haven’t been here for a while. I’m rapidly rolling towards … Continue reading
What is volunteering?
My supervisor has suggested that I leave this question alone for a little while, so of course I can’t… (For those of you who can’t countenance studying something before defining it, please bear in mind that I pretty much have … Continue reading