Making Science Public

Tag: qualitative

  • Methodological clarity required when publishing social science in natural science journals

    Methodological clarity required when publishing social science in natural science journals

    This is a joint post with Greg Hollin. The latest issue of Nature Climate Change features a Correspondence from Peter Jacobs and colleagues which concerns a recent Letter that appeared in the same journal; our Reply is also published. We do not wish to deny that there are real and significant differences between ourselves and…

  • Doing science: Some reflections on methods

    Doing science: Some reflections on methods

    Over the last few months some members of our Institute, especially Bev Gibbs, Greg Hollin and I have had discussions about ‘methods’ in the (natural and) social sciences. In this post I want to dig a bit deeper into methods and perhaps clear up some confusions (or create more!). I’ll focus on four methodological concepts:…