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The pain, the pain

Posted on February 6, 2019 by Vicki Bolton

I should have written “I’m done!”nearly three years ago. I couldn’t face it. Finishing my PhD was soul-destroying. I had several changes in supervision* and a sizeable disagreement with my incoming supervisors about the work I had already produced, which … Continue reading →

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I’m done!

Posted on February 6, 2019 by Vicki Bolton

I finished my PhD. It was quite a while ago now. You can download a pdf here, or via the University of Southampton. In short, I found that volunteering was associated with a small, positive effect on political activity. However, … Continue reading →

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A sense of dignity

Posted on October 22, 2014 by Vicki Bolton

I went to hear Jonathan Wolff (UCL Philosophy) give a lecture on relative poverty and social inquality tonight.  It’s part of a piece of work he’s doing for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF). The JRF is bringing together academic ideas … Continue reading →

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Mystery

Posted on September 11, 2013 by Vicki Bolton

I spoke yesterday at the Voluntary Sector and Volunteering Research Conference about the first paper of my PhD. I finally answered the question I asked two years ago in this post: http://www.confoundingfactor.org/archives/145 For those who are interested, the answer is: the … Continue reading →

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The tax payer buys some data. Now who owns it? A private research company.

Posted on February 12, 2013 by Vicki Bolton

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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Infant feeding again. And peer reviewed journals again. Resulting in an overlong post. Again.

Posted on March 28, 2012 by Vicki Bolton

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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