Prof. Thomas Pollet


This page will feature updates on my work.

A new preprint on university rankings... .

We have a new preprint. This paper is a research article demonstrating how institution ranking lists compare to a robust ranking method based on subjects, in a UK context. Simply put, publications such as the Guardian produce lists of institutions overall, next to rankings of institutions by each subject. However,... [Read More]
Tags: Robust Ranking method, R, University Rankings

An app for reviewing abstracts... .

As I needed to sort out the review for a bunch of abstracts, I decided to venture into the Shiny world. This worked surprisingly well - with some AI prompting, I managed to get something half decent up and running. You can check it out here. [Read More]
Tags: Shiny, R, App

Website makeover... .

A very brief message about the website update. This is how I spent my afternoon. Hurrah! [Read More]
Tags: Website, Github, Bluesky

Be(e) Awesome talk, update.

Today, I’ll give a brief talk on a small funded project which we are about to launch. It deals with bees - well more accurately pollinators. Local parks have set up some interventions which might help pollinators and this pilot project we will examine how these might be received by... [Read More]
Tags: Research, Urban Futures, Methodology, Pollinators, Environmental psychology