Prof. Thomas Pollet


This page will feature updates on my work.

A lightning talk about sampling in Body Image

Today I’ll give a five minutes lightning talk on sampling in Body Image. A lot to be unpacked but in a nut shell: these samples tend to differ from the general population. [Read More]
Tags: Research, Students, Methodology, Sampling, Body Image

A talk about rankings of universities in student guides

Tomorrow, I’ll give a talk on robust ranking methods as applied to rankings in student guides. A lot to be unpacked but in a nut shell when we applied some ranking methods from other fields we might get different conclusions. [Read More]
Tags: Research, Student, Methodology, Rankings

Technicians talk

Today, I am presenting about UKRN for a technicians event at Northumbria University. It is a bit bittersweet as this is my last act as UKRN Institution lead. [Read More]
Tags: Research, Reproducibility, UKRN

Be(e) Awesome talk

Tomorrow, I’ll give a lightning 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

Talk on open research projects.

Yesterday, I gave a short talk about two open research projects which we recently conducted. You can find the slides here. I rushed through it but it is 90% gifs. You can navigate via arrows. The slides were made with Xaringan. The biblionetrics project lives here. At present, there is... [Read More]
Tags: Research, Open Research, Methodology, REF, Bibliometrics