Archive for epop
Modern attitudes to research: a different perspective
Over on his blog, Joe Nutt has deprecated some modern approaches to research: Something which completely bemused me when I first left the world of academic English teaching and the scholarship that goes with it, for the world of educational technology, was what that ICT world seemed happy to call “research.” Over the years I’ve [...]
EPOP: The perils of measuring what you can measure
At the weekend I went to Glasgow for the 2009 EPOP conference: an academic conference looking at elections, political parties and opinion polls. Being a UK conference, it is dominated by British politics, though there is a strong sprinkling of papers about other counties which, apart from their inherent interest, helps guard against too parochial [...]
