PRS: Practicing Research Skills
Computational Approaches
in Political and Social
Sciences
Week 4A: Final Presentations and Reflection. Mon 24 June
Diliara Valeeva and Eelke Heemskerk
Plan for Week 4
Mon 24 June: Group presentations and individual reflections
Wed 26 June: no class / group meetups if necessary
Fri 28 June: Final presentations
=> Submitting 'Individual Reflection' assignment
Plan for today
1. Final presentations & Skills Tutorial
2. Individual Reflections
3. Forms and announcements
1. Final presentations
Presentation Structure
1. Introduction: 3 min
2. Research question & hypotheses: 1 min
3. Data and methods: 2 min
4. Main findings: 5 min
5. Conclusions: 1 min
12 min in total + 3 min for questions
Upload on Canvas by Friday 28 June, 19.00
Skills Tutorial
How to start?
- State a question
- Imagine / what if
- Tell a story or a joke
- Quote something
- Shock with numbers
Design of slides
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A presentation is just a tool
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Less text, more visuals
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One main message per slide
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No more than 6 lines per slide
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Colors and contrast
Visuals
Less is more
Tables
| Name of the party | % of people voting for the party in 2018 |
|---|---|
| Right Party | 30% |
| Left Party | 60% |
| Party A | 0.25% |
| Whatever Party |
9% |
| Party B | 0.25% |
| Party C | 0.5% |
| Party | Votes in 2018, % |
|---|---|
| Left | 60 |
| Right | 30 |
| Whatever | 9 |
| Others | 1 |
BAD
GOOD
How to end?
- Summmarize
- Repeat the main message
- Return to the beginning
- Tell a story, use a quote
2. Individual Reflection
Individual Reflection
1. The quality of the data / results
2. Improvement of data/methods/results
3. Ethical issues
4. Work in groups
* max 1500 words
Deadline: Friday 21 June, 19.00
1. The quality
Was the data complete?
Do you see any limitations of your approach?
Elaborate on validity and reliability.
Elaborate on internal and external validity.
2. Improvement
Did you answer your research question properly with these methods and data?
What can be improved?
3. Ethics
Any ethical issues in your research?
Did you collect additional personal information?
What would you change in order to be more ethical towards your research subjects?
4. Work in groups
Reflect on team work/diversity/communication skills
Did you encounter any difficulties?
Did you develop any new inter-personal skills?
What would you like to improve?
This week
Wednesday 26 June
No class.
But group meetings if necessary
Friday 28 June
Final presentations
Submitting individual reflection
3. Forms and announcements
IC2S2 work
July 14-20 at UvA, full time
What to do
- building up the conference venue
- guiding people through the building
- assist with small technical questions
What you get
- 100 euro per day
- free lunch and borrels
- attendance of talks
Contact
Lucas van Straalen at lucas.vanstraalen@student.uva.nl
Poli Sci Buddies
What is the buddy system?
1 older-year student and up to 5 first-year international students
Help new students integrate and to get to know UvA
Scan the QR-code or fill in the form: https://forms.gle/pV24BEgmNxMBpD4Q8
Email to t.m.schopper@uva.nl
Contact
End of the year evaluation
