Department of Methodology

Data Science Seminar Series

Date: 24 November 2016
Time: 16:15 - 17:45
Title: Measuring and explaining political sophistication through textual complexity
Speaker: Professor Ken Benoit (pictured), Head of Department, Department of Methodology at LSE

The sophistication of political communication has been measured using ``readability'' scores developed from other contexts, but their application to political text suffers from a number of theoretical and practical issues. Read more...

Alasdair Jones to speak at the RCA

Alasdair Jones (pictured) will be speaking at the final conference of the EU Marie Curie research project ‘TRADERS: Training Art and Design Researchers for Participation in Public Space.’  The conference – entitled MEDIATIONS: Art & Design Agency and Participation in Public Space – will be taking place at the Royal College of Art, London (21-22 November 2016).  At the conference Alasdair will be speaking about the curation of public space on London’s South Bank.  If you are interested in attending the conference you can register for it here.

Flora Cornish speaks at Keynote debate

Dr Flora Cornish, Department of Methodology, spoke in a keynote debate on measurement at the Development Studies Association of Ireland annual conference in Dublin on Thursday 19 November. She argued that the evidence paradigm is producing misuses of social scientific research in the service of policy and donor interests, drawing on her recent paper on systematic reviews, published in Anthropology & Medicine. November 2015.