A new journal article on research ethics and ethical recommendations to consider when conducting research on Reddit has come out. This builds on an earlier...
New year, new article off the press! Abstract The present study examined framing that emerged in global newspaper coverage of the COVID-19 vaccine throug...
Working with colleagues at the University of Alabama, here’s a systematic review article which covers a niche look at Reddit, but from the perspective of t...
In September my conference paper on how Reddit research discussed ethics was presented at the Association of Internet Researcher’s (AoIR) annual conference...
Reddit. Reddit. Who are studying it, how do they do it, and what are they studying? Nicholas Proferes, myself, Sarah Gilbert, Casey Fiesler, and Michael Z...
In November 2020 last year I officially joined the Alabama Reddit Research Group (ARRG) headed by Dr Elliot Panek. The Alabama Reddit Research Group (ARRG)...
In October 2020 I started researching and collaborating on a meta-analysis of Reddit health studies. There are many health studies which have used Reddit ...
Recently another researcher contacted me after reading an old article of mine comparing virtual ethnography, Netnography, & digital sociology from the ...
In August 2020 I joined a new research project with several American academics involving the social media website Reddit. We are aiming for at least 3-4 pa...
Over the past several months I’ve paused on writing about Reddit because of personal and professional reasons. This is an update on that, next steps and ov...
A list of academic journal articles and resources you should really be citing. Yes, this is for you, random Google searcher. People use data from Reddit a...
Making surveys can be deceptively easy. Platforms like Google Forms, Surveymonkey and university bought services like, Qualtrics makes surveys cheap, quic...
Doing research online is paradoxically both easy and hard. The amount of readily available information which can be collected is staggering. From mundane c...
A couple months back I conducted a sytematized literature review of research on Reddit. The results? I identified 211 academic works on Reddit between 201...
Reddit: The front page of the internet Reddit is a popular social media website founded in 2005. It’s both a discussion and aggregator platform. The websi...
This blogpost is the first in a two-part series which outlines the result of a study on MP’s social media Q&As sessions. This first post details the them...
This blogpost is the second in a two-part series which outlines the result of my dissertation on MP’s online Q&As sessions on social media. The first det...
Credit: Two British fishing trawlers. Source: The Times. Even since the run up to the 2016 EU Referendum and ever since politicians, pundits an...
Evidence-based policymaking (commonly abbreviated as EBPM) has been a concept and buzzword across the policy communities for a while now. It refers to the ...
Founded in 2000 by Justine Roberts, Mumsnet has become part of the British social landscape. The anonymous forum aims to make parents’ lives easier by pool...
Think about your target population and what dates or events might influence response rates. For example, don’t have a return date for a business survey aro...
You work in surveys long enough and you notice people use different terms when talking about surveys. Sometimes it’s due to popularity, sometimes due to ho...
Having worked on both social and economic surveys in the UK I’ve been musing about the differences between the two for a while now. I am to write some more...
A response rate in surveys is the percentage of people or businesses (referred to as “respondents” usually) who complete a survey questionnaire divided by ...
Statisticians aren’t really known for giving snappy names to things. Often surveys are named to be very precise, or what it says on the tin to what a stati...
It’s nearly exactly 4 years since I made this website, and since then I’ve both have a fulfilling and fun career at the Office for National Statistics (ONS...
In summer 2020 I took advantage of Google’s free course on the Fundamentals of Digital Marketing as a way of up skilling myself. A free certificate at the ...
In the process of making a new personal website I downloaded all my Medium posts with medium-2-md. After I was all done porting posts across I plugged my we...
I had no previous experience with making websites at all. The most I have done was use Medium.com which involved typing blog posts out in an editor and the...
Women of Wolverhampton, a local community group, asked me to help investigate the impact of the pandemic on women, mainly from ethnic minority disadvantaged...
What Works Centre for Wellbeing The What Works Centre for Wellbeing is an independent research centre that develops and shares robust, accessible and usef...
What Works Centre for Wellbeing The What Works Centre for Wellbeing is an independent research centre that develops and shares robust, accessible and usef...
Aim What brands are the most popular across Reddit? How does popularity change over time? Is there a gender divide? What brands are talked about positivel...
Like a lot of people in the current working from home purgatory I’ve been wearing casual clothes a lot. Add to that I spent an unhealthy amount of time on ...
In January 2021 I’m happy to say I started a new job as a data analyst for the UK’s Office for National Statistics (ONS). The ONS is the UK’s largest indep...
Drum and Brass is a Leicester based community group that brings individual and communities together by developing skills and wellbeing through group music-...
Finding a mentor in the civil service can be a great development experience and a boost to your career. Here’s a few things to consider when trying to find...
Broadly speaking there’s two big project management (PM) qualifications you’ll come across in the Civil Service. Warning: it’s a bit of an acronym word sal...
