Category: social media for academics

  • Blogging as analytical aid for team-based research projects

    Research notes have traditionally played an important role in the analysis of data in social science. Apart from transcribing audio-recording, the contextual information serves as a rich source of complementary data. Indeed, various researchers have suggested additional ways of recording supplementary information (Miles and Huberman 1994). These include “interim summaries”, “self-memos”, “and researcher´s diary”. Yet,…

  • My research visit at UFZ Leipzig

    I have been awarded a Erasmus Internship Scholarship by European Union to do a research stay at the Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology at Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ in the city of Leipzig (Eastern Germany) during July, August and September. For this reason, I have decided to create a blog category (“Visiting UFZ Leipzig“) entirely…

  • why blog your field work?

    Great post! Another good reason to do so is that not only participants but also co-researchers and/or supervisor, know more about what you’re doing.

  • Bringing together research and teaching in a blog

    I like the way this blog functions. It was created as an outlet for the work of her undergraduates. They bring together research and teaching, and in the process are building a substantial community of interest. This methodology could perfectly works out for other subjects like sociology or research methods, publishing the working class discussions, case…

  • Six years blogging!

    I cant’t believe that I’ve already been six years blogging in wordpress!. Well, two years in this specific blog and four else in other ones.

  • The day I stopped facebooking (somehow)

    I have been living in Poland for four years. Most of my friends and family live in Spain. Here I have met a few good friends, but nothing that let me say that my social life is active. My personal situation over the last years, becoming father and developing my PhD didn´t allow me building…