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Reaching "Hard-to-Reach" Populations for research in Anthropology, Sociology, and Public Health
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Thursday, February 28, 2013
1:00 p.m.
Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology
Manning Hall, Brown University |
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This discussion, geared towards interested faculty and students and lead by guest speaker Kirk Dombrowski (CUNY), will focus on recently developed techniques for using network theory to sample hard to reach populations, and their modification for population estimation and the collection of community topological data. The talk will feature examples from work by the speaker and the Social Network Research Group at CUNY, and include data from populations as diverse as undocumented migrants, underage prostitutes, methamphetamine users, disperse rural 1st Nation populations in Canada, and others. This will be an informal discussion that will focus on the logic behind the sampling strategies and their modification, rather than their formalization (i.e. long on theory, short on math) with the intention of providing interested faculty and students with information on new techniques that may help in rethinking what kinds of research are possible even under difficult circumstances. Discussion sponsored by the National Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs, ARCUS, and donors to the Shepard Krech III Lecture fund.
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