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Monthly Archives: May 2012
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
Posted in Academic research, Methods
Tagged funding, longitudinal
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