Prof. Thomas Pollet

For my course (PY0794), I made a very short introduction to Markdown on youtube. Have a look. There was a hiccup, as I couldn’t seem to get it to accept my solution to paragraphs in lists? (Lesson 6, final element). Anyway, I have never had to use it, so don’t... [Read More]

In my home country (Belgium), schools are back on. Soon the academic year starts off here at Northumbria University. To that end, I have compiled an ‘induction’ page for my quantitative research methods course (PY0794). I’ll update it in due course but already some things to browse through if you... [Read More]

While I have not been on break, I have being keeping myself occupied with working through some projects. I did find some time to revisit the write-up of a bachelor project from this year by Tian Cheyne. You can find the preprint here. Tian examined the social support networks of... [Read More]

It has been a while,… . COVID-19 is still wreaking havoc but I did find some time to revisit the write-up of a bachelor project from last year by Sarah Dawson. You can find the preprint here. Sarah tried to replicate this (paywalled) paper by Corning and Gondoli (2012). This... [Read More]

A small post about a new resource on my website. As COVID-19 is causing a lot of disruption, a minor part is to student projects. Students who were planning on collecting data in person can no longer do so. Now obviously a lot of research can move to online data... [Read More]