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Academic Research and Research Center IT Director
Honorary professor (retired, but doing full time research)
Leverhulme Early CAreer Fellow, Course Coordinator
Program Director, equivalent to Departmental chair
Research officer - researcher and administrator combined
Assistant Professor in the context of USA

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Social network analysis, internet research

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post graduate diploma in social science-sociology

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None. I am not a researcher - I am an operational/project manager
cross domain visualisation data mapping abstraction
Specializing on Central Asia Mountain Societies
international relations in connection to communication studies
artificial intelligence / cognitive science
Professional Planning - Land Use & Web Technology
Data dissemination - I work at a national data centre
CSCW/ethnography (NOT sociology or CS - interdisciplinary)
cross-discipline, social justice approach (cultural studies, media studies, political science, social policy, social movements)
Artificial Intelligence (it straddles philosophy, and several other disciplines)
Biodiversity conservation (I don't think that is meant by 'environmental planning')
My present work is specifically inter-disciplinary, spanning Economics, Psychology and Sociology
I work in differnet fields: STS, Anthropology, Sociology, Politics
Political Economy (Telcom Economics & Policy)

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p/t uni plus freelance not-for-profit sector
private sector education and research institute
Regiona Internet Registry (nonprofit regional technical coordination institution)

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Attempting to extract meaning from everyday language. Developing innovative methods in a wide variety of areas - and using t hem in a wide variety of domains
collaborative action research, grounded theory
developing new methods for social sciences
literature and legal materials reviews; legal research and analysis
conversation analysis, microethnography, discourse analysis
participatory methods, such as Fokus groups

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Various third party audio conferencing services
skype, dedicated project planning website

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I don't know - provided and maintained by the university

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Built-in iSight camera on MacBook Pro laptop

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FullText and KrKwic by Loet Leydesdorff and Han Woo PARK

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own non commercial, Processing, stereo particle systems
issue cralwer developed by govcom.org (svg maps)
I have used but do not recall the brand name
Poplog + extensions. Colleagues use other things. developed in house

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UMN Mapserver, GeoDA, PySAL, R-Geo, Yahoo! Maps API
Genealogy software for spatial analysis of event data
Visual Nature studio, VTP, VegaPrime, Sketchup

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spss - perhaps I've misunderstood 'integrating data'
GIS- may be not an appropriate response having seen the examples
Not sure - tend to work with specilaist where this is necessary
SPSS - for data from different hierarchical levels or different surveys.

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Note that I wouldn't see myself as a typical respondent (as I'm a non-researcher working with researchers to promote and develop support for e-research).
It would have been useful to have comment boxes for a few of the questions to which none of the options really applied.
Don't hesitate to keep me informed of your activities/projects.
Too many questions. It may be better to cut some out.
Is it possible to make the questionnaire available for replication studies elsewhere?
I have used Instant messenger as a tool for communication with research partners and found it very useful, including the ability to tranfer files online
This survey, in its tone, assumed that respondents worked in the University sector.
Thank you very much. an interesting survey, which makes me curious about some developments I have not followed closely. I would like to be kept updated with developments of this research. (and I indicate that in the last question 'in what country wer
my attitude to e-social science is 'realist' and 'practical user' rather than 'enthusiast' - that category didn't seem to be offered. Also my approach to pre-print publication is determined by the publishers contracts in some cases.
About the last question: I meant here publications in these languages
This is not only useful research but answering the questionnaire got me interested in some new things
why use 'agree' scales ever, NOT amount scales as more sensibly interpretable in many of your questions?
I was born in and live in the UK, but could not find it in the two lists which you provided. Have I missed soemhting, or was that a deliberate omission on your part? If so, why? There was insufficient scope in the questionnaire for me to discuss
Re Question about promoter or Critic of E research - would argue that you can be both which was not allowed sociology encourages a critical reflectiuve approach to research and thus these can be combined. I use and encoureage the use of eresreach but
survey is too long and too many detailed questions about software. questions about WHO on the team (PI, students, staff) use these tools would be informative.
I look forward to read the result of this survey.
There is some duplication of questions about video conferencing and related technologies.
This is an interesting survey, but I feel a bit frustrating that it does not capture or assess the gap between the desire and interest for the use of e-SS tools and the access researchers have to them, or the constraints imposed by having to work wi
I'm not so sure the term e-Social Science is currently used here in Canada so that's why some of my responses might seem contradictory. I am very interested in using advanced technology for research but not in 'e-Social Science' per se.
I found a couple of pages were repeated, so i ignored the repeats
This is an interesting project but you have a very seriously biased sample.
Some questions need a wider range of response categories. For example, I have been published in a co-authored publication written in German, but I was not an author in terms of actually writing in German.
I will be encouraging my colleagues to take part in this survery. My institute is a think tank. I would appreciate a copy of the final report.
One of my areas of research concerns older people and their use of the internet, as my research subjects. This field is not irrelevant for older researchers. Both software tools and access devices are often not user friendly for those who do not have
your questions reflected a need to assess the level of collaboration happening, and yet they all assumed that there was a single individual using these tools. I 'use' lots of tools as part of a project but never touch them. They form part of my anth
i encountered some technical problems in the beginning of the survey. some pages were loaded TWICE.
It would have been useful to distinguish between Open Sourced / Free Software tools and Privative Ones in order to asset if researchers prefer to use Free Software Tools for research rather than Privative ones, despite their accuracy in 'finding res
Thank you most interesting to complete, i would be very interested in the results
I work between various academic research bases and the arts and cultural sectors. Whilst a proportion of my work involves research, this, strictly speaking is not academic research. I think some better understanding of the increasing pluarlity of kin
I wasn't quite sure what to put on some of the questions, as I'm really only starting out in research seriously; however, as it'sfocussing on student use of Web2.0 tools (for one project) and SecondLife (for two other projects), several of the answer
Keep up the great work! This is definitely the future of my research.
Interesting survey. I think it is important to check attitudes of e or potential 'e' researchers but I also afraid that surveys like this mainly involve researchers already engaged in e research or at least very interested.
It would have made sense to mention not only websites, institutional and central repositories etc for publishing but also genuine open-access journals (i do not remember the exact question)
I don't have much idea about e-social science.It is a suggestion to sensitize people regarding this.
may be you'd ask about the difficulty to find good scientific sources online
One of the questions baffled me - 'do I consider myself an empirical researcher?' As opposed to what? Also I don't make my research downloadable from my website but I do invite people to email me to get it - not an option on the survey.
The question on e-Research was not very clear - what did you mean by e-Research (how is it different from e-Social Science?) and why was there no 'neither agree nor disagree' category in the responses?
problem of questionnaire is that our team maintain a lot of software but the blogs for example are maintained by individuals but used for the team and the questions dont quite address this
The survey was very technical in its content causing me at times to switch off or not give proper attention to my answers.
The term 'desk (screen) research' is used as one of the responses for one of the questions. I take this to mean someone who does secondary data analysis. The term itself is not used as such in some important social science disciplines and should b
I think the development of computational e-social science is hindered by the reliance of Linux and Globus and an entry into training which involves too great a learning curve. Even the first stage of gaining certificates and permission to use the com
Like most new technologies, users and potential users of the technology will not fully realize all the potential applications and possible uses until the technology has been around for some time. I think the rate of adoption of e-science technologie
Some of the tools described are not new to escience or e-research e.g. video conferencing
Sorry about the lack of opinion at the end of the survey, but I'm not a social scientist
* 'webmetrics' is not a well-defined field (the term is not well known in the US, for example) -- would perhaps be useful to give an example of what you mean * when we are asked whether we have used particular types of software (e.g. qualitative ana
My profession (broadcaster) may be marginal for your purposes
As a post graduate student there is a complete lack of training available on tools for conducting online research within house. Training is therefore largely dependent on the good will of friends, family or individual staff members with an interest i
Amazing that you have never heard of Rhodesia, where I was born (now called zimbabwe). In a well designed questionare, *every* list of answers should have space for 'other' plus details to be selected. I think this questionnare sometimes assume
In my (limited) view, there is an emerging triangle between social scientists, computer scientists and data managers/librarians. Support for social scientists is provided both by IT services and by data managers/librarians. Although many bigger uni
I think I would qualify my answer to 'Is e-Social science just hype?' by adding that it doesn't appear to have been widely adopted yet. Which isn't to say it wouldn't be in future.
A couple of mistakes occurred during the survey, I had to re-submit a couple of pages. Apart from that, I was interested especially in the 'helpful tool' part. I would have asked, but maybe this is a more specific question, something on how people u
e-research is absolutely relevant, necessary, and important in the new e-world that is becoming pervasive worldwide.
People who live in 'developing countries' lag behind in being able to develop their skills in esocialscience research. Even where one has the skills, or the opportunity to develop them, the working environment,whether in the university or the public/
I'm retired and answered the questionnaire to the best of my ability and from the standpoint of an adviser to my former consulting company in the field of Telecommunication, Communication and Technology
You've left Zimbabwe off the list of birthplaces. You end at Zambia.
My position is not really catered for: fully retired, but almost as active as when full-time. Also honorary status (professorial fellow) and paid consultancies within in and outside academia
Great! Hope this would help increase awareness and shore-up funding, to ensure access at subsidised cost or to countries who are financially challenged. We in the Global South can only partcipate with the 'same tools ', as it were.
My anwers may seem a bit negative but I'm semi-retired and only working part-time doing a little teaching and research. E-social science will probably make a bigger impact on the next generation than on mine!
If it is possible, I would like to involve in this project from Japanese side. I wll go back to Japan in April.
I'm retired and your questionnaire dsoesn't really allow for this. I'm busy on several projects, principally converting training materials for SPSS from Vax mainframe to Windows on a PC. I am a survey researcher and still active with the SRA (Mark
My sex is in fact male. It is incorrect to use the term 'gender' to describe biological difference, which is essentially a categorical variable. 'Gender' is of value for describing important qualitative differences. To substitute 'gender' for 'sex' i
My work is primarily spatial and cross disciplinary (ie working in social science, medical science, natural science and the humanities). It is crucial to bring *all* the e-science initiatives in terms of spatial methodologies together as this area i
re question requesting opinions on e-research, definition of what e-research is was unclear, so asking whether there should be more of it etc seemed a little redundant - perhaps opinion could be sought on whether or not e-research can be regarded as
One of the questions asked about current research projects and one of the possible answers was 'none' - which I opted for becuase at present I am between research projects. The questions that followed (on the same page) made the assumption that all
e-Social Science and e-Research don't mean a whole lot - in general, with those questions, I have NO idea to what you're referring. It's like saying economic behavior ---- ok, and .... what about it particularly? Generally I know you're referring to
good questionnaire! Sorry for not having answered earlier.
I know it is aimed more at academics but support staff have a great role in education establishments yet the survey totally ignored this fact.
AS I am reaching retirement age and do less research than i use to some of these questions are less relevant to me. but i know that much of the techniques qill be essential for coming generations