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Three questions for… Marko Lüftenegger
Uncertainty, fatigue, frustration – the COVID 19 pandemic is a very demanding situation for pupils and students. Marko Lüftenegger investigates how young people adapt to new learning conditions. In...

Working with Twitter data
Joseph Allen discusses how researchers can benefit from using Twitter data for research, and how to get started.

For lecturers: Uncomplicated access to data sets with restricted access
You are a lecturer and would like to work with a data set in your course that has restricted access in AUSSDA? Here is an easy way to do that.

We need three columns to build a temple! Three policy-oriented reactions to political polarization and online harms
The author argues that in order to rebuild and strengthen the columns of this temple that we call democracy, we need to take a holistic approach. Thus, any policy-oriented counterstrategy to curren...

Challenges and opportunities within UK census geographies
As part of our continuing census series, James Reid introduces the opportunities, challenges and solutions when approaching different geographies in the UK censuses.

Cats are liquids: Equipercentile equating of different instruments
Equipercentile equating is an alternative version of observed score equating that can accommodate non-normal response distributions. It corrects for differences in mean and standard deviation but a...