Studying Marine Social Science with Mixed Methods

Marine social science studies multifaceted relationships between people and oceans, marine and coastal environments. But it is not yet well integrated into ocean science and policy. This blogpost asks how we can use mixed methods to study the way marine social scientists make their research visible.

Judit Varga • October 11, 2021

Evaluative Inquiry III: Mixing methods for evaluating research

Critiques on research metrics have produced an unhelpful divide between quantitative and qualitative research methods. In this blogpost, we explain why research evaluation can benefit from the strengths of both.

Tjitske Holtrop, Laurens Hessels and Ad Prins • August 21, 2020

The quackathon: quantitative and qualitative hacking

Last September we organised the first research retreat at CWTS. Away from our normal workplace and usual thinking patterns we spent two days full of pitches, workshops, presentations, and fun of course. One special element of the research retreat was the so-called "quackathon".

Vincent Traag and Guus Dix • February 03, 2020

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Studying Marine Social Science with Mixed Methods

Evaluative Inquiry III: Mixing methods for evaluating research

The quackathon: quantitative and qualitative hacking