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Human Rights – Erosion of a Human History Milestone?
On 10 December is Human Rights Day. This year, the United Nations has given the day the motto “Recover Better – Stand Up for Human Rights.” Especially now, we need to tackle the shortcomings reveal...
#CiteTheData: How persistent identifiers for data can enhance Research Excellence Framework impact case studies
With three months to submission find out why citing data in impact case studies is a great way to enhance their ‘FAIR-ness’ and support the persistence of their components, REF to REF as its digita...
Preliminary findings of the German Emigrants Overseas Online Survey – What did we learn about the Germans we reached through social networking sites?
In another GESIS blog post, Steffen Pötzschke and Bernd Weiß have provide some information on their recent survey that used Facebook and Instagram to reach Germans abroad. In this text we present p...
Data for Good – an ESRC Festival of Social Science workshop
Patty Doran introduces a recent co-produced event which explored how different types of data can be used for good by the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise sector.
Dataverse, Adaptation to the European Research Environment, Translation of the User Interface
Within the SSHOC project, the open source repository software Dataverse will be adapted to the European research environment. One of the things we adjust is the language of the User Interface. Prim...
Using Facebook and Instagram to sample German emigrants on a nearly global scale
Migration research faces many methodological challenges. This is already true when the focus is on newcomers (immigrants) in a single or a small number of countries. A major difficulty in this rega...