January 2024

The launch event of a Comparative Judgement Special Interest Group

Loughborough University, Tue 16 Jan 2024, 10:30am to 4pm

Funded by the National Centre for Research Methods

Agenda

10:30
Arrival and coffee.

11:00
Welcome, introductions, overview of comparative judgement (Ian Jones).

11:30
Short talk (Rowland Seymour).

11:45
Short talk (Marie-Josée Bisson).

12:00
Data sandpit (1 hour) using open-access comparative judgement data hosted in a GitHub repository. Attendees discuss hypotheses and research questions for investigating archived data.

13:00
Lunch.

14:00
Structured discussion (1 hour) of focus or priorities for the initiation of the MSIG. Will include a discussion of developing existing online resources such as the GitHub repository and NCRM course, for the wider research community.

15:00
Structured discussion of priorities for CJ research including the topic of funding and specific calls such as the ESRC pre-announcement for interdisciplinary projects.

15:30
Close and next steps, including invite to join an email list (Ian Jones).