NCRM Research Methods Festival 2012 filmed sessions

Eyal Sagi talks about framing in political speech. The example he uses is The War on Terror and whether terror can be framed as either a crime or an act of war.

Heike Kluver talks about whether quantitative text analysis can be used to systematically study framing policy debates in the EU.

Andy Hudson-Smith talks about using volunteered geographic information from social media for research.

Nick Malleson talks about how to simulate urban phenomena, especially crime, and how to use new kinds of data to improve models.

Sayntal Ghosal talks about the use of happiness data as a measure of disadvantage, and his work on poverty traps and aspirational failure.

Will Lowe talks about extracting political information from legislative speech: learning about policy agenda and position taking.

Andrew abbott talks about the turnover of various methods in sociology over the last sixty years, attempting to consider both quantitative and qualitative methods.

Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey talks about researching the quality of the monetary policy deliberation.

Decisions about units of observation, of analysis, and of measurement are central to research design. This talk by Laura Stoker addresses cases in which thorny, consequential, unit decisions arise.

Gillian Rose examines the extraordinary growth in visual methods over the last decade or so across all the social sciences. It is often suggested that this growth has to do with the saturation of everyday life with images: if we live in a hypervisual culture, it is argued, then visual methods are some sort of response to that culture.