Tag: health

• January 6, 2025

  Doing research as if participants mattered

  Almost all qualitative and quantitative research into human society involves the participation of other humans. However, they are frequently rendered passively in research outputs as ‘research subjects’. In this post, Helen Kara, argues that the way we define participants in research is outdated and presents three ways in which research participants can be made more central…

• October 21, 2014

  Secondary data source for well-being related indexes

  I find great this OECD statistic source on well-being across countries and regions. Here is a brief description of the whole project: “There is more to life than the cold numbers of GDP and economic statistics – This Index allows you to compare well-being across countries, based on 11 topics the OECD has identified as…

• August 3, 2014

  Sociology of Development Journal

  I find this journal very interesting to publish some of my work. Coming March 2015! Sociology of Development is an international journal addressing issues of development, broadly considered. With basic as well as policy-oriented research, topics explored include economic development and well-being, gender, health, inequality, poverty, environment and sustainability, political economy, conflict, social movements, and…