Kristi Winters
I dislike writing about myself in the third person, so this will be rather informal.
After spending a fair few years in both campaign and legislative politics in Wisconsin, USA (Democratic Party Events Co-ordinator, Office Manager, then Chief of Staff for State Senator Kevin Shibiliksi - D), I left the US to earned my Masters from the University of Essex, UK.
In 2004 I became a doctoral student and Senior Research Officer for the 2005 British Election Study. I worked with Dr. Rosie Campbell (Birkbeck) conducting focus groups during the 2005 British general election. I oversaw a Special Project on Measurement Validity component for a quantitative dataset (ESRC Gender & Voting Behaviour in Britain RES-000-22-1857). Measures of gender from psychology were included in the dataset and formed the basis of my thesis research, which was completed in 2009.
After earning my doctorate I was awarded a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship based at Birkbeck College, University of London. While at Birkbeck I taught quantitative and qualitative research methods at the post-graduate level.
I continue to work on my doctoral topic and conducted the 2010 and 2015 Qualitative Election Study of Britain. (See: http://qesb.info) Several book chapters and journal articles have come out of that research and more qualitative studies are planned.
Currently I am the Project Manager for CharmStats at GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences in Köln, Germany. We develop CharmStats products, free and open-source software that digitizes the process of harmonizing comparative and longitudinal data and its documentation.
Supervisors: Professor David Sanders
After spending a fair few years in both campaign and legislative politics in Wisconsin, USA (Democratic Party Events Co-ordinator, Office Manager, then Chief of Staff for State Senator Kevin Shibiliksi - D), I left the US to earned my Masters from the University of Essex, UK.
In 2004 I became a doctoral student and Senior Research Officer for the 2005 British Election Study. I worked with Dr. Rosie Campbell (Birkbeck) conducting focus groups during the 2005 British general election. I oversaw a Special Project on Measurement Validity component for a quantitative dataset (ESRC Gender & Voting Behaviour in Britain RES-000-22-1857). Measures of gender from psychology were included in the dataset and formed the basis of my thesis research, which was completed in 2009.
After earning my doctorate I was awarded a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship based at Birkbeck College, University of London. While at Birkbeck I taught quantitative and qualitative research methods at the post-graduate level.
I continue to work on my doctoral topic and conducted the 2010 and 2015 Qualitative Election Study of Britain. (See: http://qesb.info) Several book chapters and journal articles have come out of that research and more qualitative studies are planned.
Currently I am the Project Manager for CharmStats at GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences in Köln, Germany. We develop CharmStats products, free and open-source software that digitizes the process of harmonizing comparative and longitudinal data and its documentation.
Supervisors: Professor David Sanders
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Chapter one explains why YouTube is an effective platform for content, raises practical questions to answer before you start a project, and reviews project management and time management skills. Chapter two provides guidance on organizing educational content by using storyboards and a script. Chapter three explains the importance of planning in the pre-production phase of the work. Creating a high-quality audio recording is the focus of chapter four. In chapter five, video recording advice and tips are provided. Editing audio and video together, as well as producing and uploading a video to YouTube, are covered in chapter six of this Handbook.
Webinars are the focus of chapter seven. The last two chapters review the technical requirements for various social media platforms and who uses them, and the two copyright licensing options offered by YouTube. The footnotes include links to online resources and training materials, and the appendices include examples and sample documents for readers to consult and use.
This YouTube video series is a research diary for the project, and a resource those running a qualitative research project for the first time. We record our planning meetings throughout the project.
‘Just not relevant to us’: devolution, Scottish voters and the 2010 British general election. Based on the cognitive demands devolution places on voters, we think the UK-wide parties should be pro-active by incorporating the reality of devolution in their campaign discourse when appropriate
During this session, Kristi and Edzia cover:
• Using qualitative methods in a quantitative world
• Replicating focus group research
• Using discourse analysis through NVivo
• Key findings from the research
• The value-added of NVivo to medium and large-scale qualitative research
The session will last for one hour and you can ask any questions you may have during the session. There is no charge for registering or attending. If you would like to join us but cannot attend the live session, feel free to register your details and we will send a recording of the session to you. Resources and downloads
Winters, K. and E. Carvalho. 2013. '2010 British General Election Leader Evaluations: Replicating Electoral Focus Group Research', The Qualitative Report, 18(89), 1-21.
NB: First 5 minutes devoted to quants essay structures, then moves to reviewing a previous year's qualitative research design essay that proposed a research design.