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Alienation Online: An Analysis of Populist Facebook Pages In Brandenburg

October 24, 2017 by Sarah Coughlan, Populism, Populism, Project reports, Unkategorisiert No Comment 2 Views

This year, as part of the Social Science Works project ‘Deliberation gegen Populismus’ we have been monitoring right-wing populist Facebook pages associated with Brandenburg. The project was financed by Tolerantes Brandenburg and includedRead More

Shy Tories & Virtue Signalling: How Labour Surged Online

June 16, 2017 by Sarah Coughlan, Uncategorized No Comment 4 Views

The calm after the storm has settled in London. The UK has had its third national election in as many years after Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May called a snap election to shore upRead More

The Limits Of Survey Data: What Questionnaires Can’t Tell Us

March 7, 2017 by Sarah Coughlan, Science Criticism, Uncategorized No Comment 8 Views

All research methodologies have their limitations, as many authors have pointed before (see for example Visser, Krosnick and Lavrakas, 2000). From the generalisabilty of data to the nitty-gritty of bias and question wording,Read More

New Neighbors – Here, But Not Yet At Home

January 22, 2017 by Sarah Coughlan, Project reports, refugees and integration No Comment 3 Views

The article here was published in German in Die Linke’s Lotta magazine: issue 12, January 10, 2017 and is available here. The original article was written by Sophie Freikamp and was translated by Sarah Coughlan.Read More

Recruiting Men To Civil Society Projects: Trials & Tribulations From The Front L

December 22, 2016 by Sarah Coughlan, Project reports, Uncategorized No Comment 3 Views

This year we have been working with the Landeszentrale für politische Bildung in Brandenburg to recruit German and German-speaking men to work with refugee men in Brandenburg in our buddy project. The ideaRead More

How The EU Referendum Campaign Poisoned The UK’s Political Discourse

June 27, 2016 by Sarah Coughlan, Social Criticism No Comment 7 Views

The message on my phone said: “I’m so, so sorry”. That’s how I learnt that the UK had voted to leave the European Union. This is something I had feared from the momentRead More

How NYE Turned German Political Debate Upside Down

June 3, 2016 by Sarah Coughlan, Social Criticism No Comment 2 Views

At Social Science Works we seek to engage with contemporary political debate and offer solutions to its most pressing problems by applying social scientific thought. In this blog, co-founder Sarah Coughlan and NiklasRead More

For My Next Trick I Shall Eliminate Child Poverty

August 23, 2015 by Sarah Coughlan, Uncategorized 2 Comments 4 Views

The intersection between social science and real life can often seem – even for those on the inside – vague, abstract and frankly unlikely a lot of the time. That is until aRead More

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