Yr Athro Luke Sloan
Lecturer in Quantitative Methods
Ysgol y Gwyddorau Cymdeithasol
- Sylwebydd y cyfryngau
- Ar gael fel goruchwyliwr ôl-raddedig
Trosolwyg
I am Deputy Director of the Social Data Science Lab (http://socialdatalab.net/) and my work on understanding who uses Twitter through the development of demographic proxies and data linkage is internationally recognised. My background is in Political Science but my interests are primarily methodological and span the Social Sciences, hence my focus on representation, geography, quantitative analysis and modelling, exploring data linkage and social surveys. I work closely with external agencies and government as an expert member of the Social Media Analytics Review and Information Group (SMARIG) and my work has been used in GSR guidance on how Twitter data can be used to augment social research.
I believe in research-informed teaching, so through my role as Co-Director of the Cardiff Q-Step Centre of Excellence in Quantitative Methods Teaching (www.cardiff.ac.uk/qstep) I am leading the development of a new degree programme (BSc Social Analytics - UCAS code J3G5) in collaboration with external agencies such as the Office for National Statistics to give graduates the skills they need to thrive in a data-centric world.
Cyhoeddiad
2023
- Williams, M. L. et al. 2023. The effect of the Brexit vote on the variation in race and religious hate crimes in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. The British Journal of Criminology: An International Review of Crime and Society 63(4), pp. 1003-1023. (10.1093/bjc/azac071)
- Tanner, A. R. et al. 2023. Epicosm -a framework for linking online social media in epidemiological cohorts. International Journal of Epidemiology 52(3), pp. 952-957. (10.1093/ije/dyad020)
- Anthony, R., Young, H., Hewitt, G., Sloan, L., Moore, G., Murphy, S. and Cook, S. 2023. Young people’s online communication and its association with mental wellbeing: Results from the 2019 Student Health and Wellbeing Survey. Child and Adolescent Mental Health 28(1), pp. 4-11. (10.1111/camh.12610)
2022
- Williams, M., Brookfield, C. and Sloan, L. 2022. Quantitative research methods teaching in a digital age. In: The SAGE Handbook of Digital Society. Sage
- Sloan, L. and Quan-Haase, A. eds. 2022. The SAGE handbook of social media research methods 2nd ed. Sage.
- Sloan, L., Baghal, T. A. and Jessop, C. 2022. Linking Twitter and survey data: Gaining consent, making the link, and maintaining data security. In: Quan-Haase, A. and Sloan, L. eds. The SAGE Handbook of Social Media Research Methods. 2nd Ed.. SAGE, pp. 691-702.
- Quan-Haase, A. and Sloan, L. 2022. Introduction. In: Quan-Haase, A. and Sloan, L. eds. The SAGE Handbook of Social Media Research Methods. 2nd Ed.. SAGE, pp. 1-9.
- Mohamed, M. and Cullen, A. 2022. COSMOS 2.0: the journey of developing a social analytic tool. In: Quan-Haase, A. and Sloan, L. eds. The SAGE Handbook of Social Media Research Methods. SAGE Publications Ltd, pp. 417-434.
- Di Cara, N., Winstone, L., Sloan, L. S., Davis, O. S. and Haworth, C. M. A. 2022. The mental health and well-being profile of young adults using social media. npj Mental Health Research 1, article number: 11. (10.1038/s44184-022-00011-w)
2021
- Clark, T., Foster, L., Sloan, L. and Bryman, A. 2021. Bryman's social research methods. 6th edition.. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Cook, S. et al. 2021. Increases in serious psychological distress among Ontario students between 2013 and 2017: assessing the impact of time spent on social media. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry / Revue Canadienene de Psychiatrie 66(8), pp. 747-756. (10.1177/0706743720987902)
- Al Baghal, T., Wenz, A., Sloan, L. and Jessop, C. 2021. Linking Twitter and survey data: asymmetry in quantity and its impact. EPJ Data Science 10, article number: 32. (10.1140/epjds/s13688-021-00286-7)
- Breuer, J., Al Baghal, T., Sloan, L., Bishop, L., Kondyli, D. and Linardis, A. 2021. Informed consent for linking survey and social media data - fifferences between platforms and data types. IASSIST Quarterly 45(1) (10.29173/iq988)
- Brookfield, C., Williams, M., Sloan, L. and Maule, E. 2021. Engaging social science students with statistics: opportunities, challenges and barriers. Numeracy 14(2), article number: 6. (10.5038/1936-4660.14.2.1386)
2020
- Al Baghal, T., Sloan, L., Jessop, C., Williams, M. L. and Burnap, P. 2020. Linking Twitter and survey data: the impact of survey mode and demographics on consent rates across three UK studies. Social Science Computer Review 38(5), pp. 517-532. (10.1177/0894439319828011)
- Sloan, L., Jessop, C., Al Baghal, T. and Williams, M. 2020. Linking survey and Twitter data: informed consent, disclosure, security and archiving. Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics 15(1-2), pp. 63-76. (10.1177/1556264619853447)
- Di Cara, N. H. et al. 2020. Views on social media and its linkage to longitudinal data from two generations of a UK cohort study. Wellcome Open Research 5(44) (10.12688/wellcomeopenres.15755.1)
2019
- Williams, M., Sloan, L. and Brookfield, C. 2019. The quantitative crisis in UK sociology. In: Evans, J., Ruane, S. and Southall, H. eds. Data in Society: Challenging Statistics in an Age of Globalisation. Policy Press, pp. 337-348.
- Johns, N., Green, A., Swann, R. and Sloan, L. 2019. Street pastors in the night-time economy: harmless do-gooders or a manifestation of a New Right agenda?. Safer Communities 18(1), pp. 1-15. (10.1108/SC-05-2018-0015)
- Gruzd, A. et al. 2019. Introduction to the 2019 International Conference on Social Media & Society. Presented at: 10th International Conference on Social Media and Society, Toronto, ON, Canada, 19-21 July 2019SMSociety '19: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Social Media and Society. New York: ACM pp. 1-4., (10.1145/3328529.3328530)
2018
- Gruzd, A. et al. 2018. Introduction to the 2018 International Conference on Social Media and Society. Presented at: 9th International Conference on Social Media and Society, Copenhagen, Denmark, 18-20 July 2018SMSociety '18: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Social Media and Society. New York, NY: ACM pp. 1-4., (10.1145/3217804.3217891)
2017
- Williams, M. L., Burnap, P., Sloan, L., Jessop, C. and Lepps, H. 2017. Users' view's of ethics in social media research: informed consent, anonymity and harm. In: Woodfield, K. ed. The Ethics of Online Research., Vol. 2. Advances in Research Ethics and Integrity Emerald Publishing, pp. 27-51., (10.1108/S2398-601820180000002002)
- Williams, M. L., Burnap, P. and Sloan, L. 2017. Towards an ethical framework for publishing Twitter data in social research: taking into account users’ views, online context and algorithmic estimation. Sociology 51(6), pp. 1149-1168. (10.1177/0038038517708140)
- Williams, M., Sloan, L. and Brookfield, C. 2017. A tale of two sociologies: analytic versus critique in UK sociology. Sociological Research Online 22(4), pp. 132-151. (10.1177/1360780417734146)
- Williams, M. L., Burnap, P. and Sloan, L. 2017. Crime sensing with big data: the affordances and limitations of using open-source communications to estimate crime patterns. British Journal of Criminology 57(2), pp. 320-340. (10.1093/bjc/azw031)
- Sloan, L. 2017. Who tweets in the United Kingdom? Profiling the Twitter population using the British Social Attitudes Survey 2015. Social Media and Society 3(1), pp. 1-11. (10.1177/2056305117698981)
- Sloan, L. ed. 2017. The SAGE handbook of social media research methods. SAGE.
- Quan-Haase, A. and Sloan, L. 2017. Introduction to the handbook of social media research methods: goals, challenges and innovations. In: Sloan, L. and Quan-Haase, A. eds. The SAGE Handbook of Social Media Research Methods. SAGE, pp. 1-10.
- Sloan, L. 2017. Social science 'Lite'? Deriving demographic proxies from Twitter. In: Sloan, L. and Quan-Haase, A. eds. The SAGE Handbook of Social Media Research Methods. SAGE, pp. 90-104.
- Sloan, L. and Quan-Haase, A. 2017. A retrospective on state of the art social media research methods: ethical decisions, big-small data rivalries and the spectre of the 6Vs. In: Sloan, L. and Quan-Haase, A. eds. The SAGE Handbook of Social Media Research Methods. SAGE, pp. 662-672.
2016
- Henderson, M., Scourfield, J., Cheung, S. Y., Sharland, E. and Sloan, L. 2016. The effects of social service contact on teenagers in England. Research on Social Work Practice 26(4), pp. 386-398. (10.1177/1049731514557363)
- Williams, M. D., Sloan, L., Cheung, S. Y., Sutton, C., Stevens, S. and Runham, L. 2016. Can't count or won't count? Embedding quantitative methods in substantive sociology curricula: a quasi-experiment. Sociology 50(3), pp. 435-452. (10.1177/0038038515587652)
- Burnap, P., Gibson, R., Sloan, L., Southern, R. and Williams, M. L. 2016. 140 characters to victory?: Using Twitter to predict the UK 2015 General Election. Electoral Studies 41, pp. 230-233. (10.1016/j.electstud.2015.11.017)
- Williams, M., Payne, G. and Sloan, L. 2016. Making sociology count: Some evidence and context in the teaching of quantitative methods in the UK. In: McKie, L. and Ryan, L. eds. An End to the Crisis of Empirical Sociology? Trends and Challenges in Social Research. Sociological Futures Abingdon and New York: Routledge, pp. 171-186.
- Williams, M. D., Payne, G. and Sloan, L. 2016. An end to the crisis of empirical sociology? Trends and challenges in social research. In: McKie, L. and Ryan, L. eds. An End to the Crisis of Empirical Sociology Trends and Challenges in Social Research. London: Routledge, pp. 171-186.
2015
- Sloan, L. and Morgan, J. 2015. Who tweets with their location? Understanding the relationship between demographic characteristics and the use of geoservices and geotagging on Twitter. PLoS ONE 10(11), article number: e0142209. (10.1371/journal.pone.0142209)
- Burnap, P. et al. 2015. Detecting tension in online communities with computational Twitter analysis. Technological Forecasting & Social Change 95, pp. 96-108. (10.1016/j.techfore.2013.04.013)
- Sloan, L., Morgan, J., Burnap, P. and Williams, M. 2015. Who tweets? Deriving the demographic characteristics of age, occupation and social class from Twitter user meta-data. PLoS ONE 10(3), article number: e0115545. (10.1371/journal.pone.0115545)
- Burnap, P. et al. 2015. COSMOS: Towards an integrated and scalable service for analysing social media on demand. International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems 30(2), pp. 80-100. (10.1080/17445760.2014.902057)
- Burnap, P., Gibson, R., Sloan, L., Southern, R. and Williams, M. L. 2015. 140 characters to victory?: Using Twitter to predict the UK 2015 General Election. Working paper. Cardiff University.
- Swann, R., Green, A., Johns, N. and Sloan, L. 2015. Street pastors as substitutes for trust in the context of plural policing. Safer Communities 4(4), pp. 168-182. (10.1108/SC-03-2015-0011)
- Williams, M. L. and Sloan, L. 2015. Gaining insights from social media data: collection, analysis and interpretation. Presented at: Supporting Human Rights Organisations to Deliver Insights From Social Media, University of Essex, UK, 2015.
2014
- Sloan, L., Williams, M. L. and Burnap, P. 2014. Deriving demographic variables from twitter data. Presented at: Office for National Statistics Big Data Project Workshop, Titchfield, England, 21 July 2014. pp. -.
- Burnap, P. et al. 2014. Tweeting the terror: modelling the social media reaction to the Woolwich terrorist attack. Social Network Analysis and Mining 4, article number: 206. (10.1007/s13278-014-0206-4)
- Thrasher, M., Borisyuk, G., Rallings, C. and Sloan, L. 2014. Voting systems in parallel and the benefits for small parties: an examination of Green Party candidates in London elections. Party Politics 20(1), pp. 134-142. (10.1177/1354068811436045)
- Housley, W. et al. 2014. Big and broad social data and the sociological imagination: a collaborative response. Big Data & Society 1(2) (10.1177/2053951714545135)
2013
- Sloan, L., Morgan, J., Housley, W., Williams, M. L., Edwards, A. M., Burnap, P. and Rana, O. F. 2013. Knowing the Tweeters: Deriving sociologically relevant demographics from Twitter. Sociological Research Online 18(3), article number: 7. (10.5153/sro.3001)
- Sloan, L. 2013. Can we feel their presence? a new framework for investigating minor parties in English Local Government. Local Government Studies 40(4), pp. 621-641. (10.1080/03003930.2013.795891)
- Edwards, A. M., Housley, W., Williams, M. L., Sloan, L. and Williams, M. D. 2013. Digital social research, social media and the sociological imagination: Surrogacy, augmentation and re-orientation. International Journal of Social Research Methodology 16(3), pp. 245-260. (10.1080/13645579.2013.774185)
- Williams, M. L. et al. 2013. Policing cyber-neighbourhoods: Tension monitoring and social media networks. Policing and Society 23(4), pp. 461-481. (10.1080/10439463.2013.780225)
- Taylor, C. M., Rees, G. M., Sloan, L. and Davies, R. 2013. Creating an inclusive Higher Education system? Progression and outcomes of students from low participation neighbourhoods at a Welsh university. Contemporary Wales 26, pp. 138-161.
- Williams, M. L., Procter, R., Housley, W., Edwards, A. M., Burnap, P., Sloan, L. and Voss, A. 2013. Collaborative online social media observatory. Presented at: COSMOS Launch, London, England, 2013.
- Sloan, L., Rob, P., Williams, M. L., Housley, W., Edwards, A. M., Burnap, P. and Rana, O. F. 2013. The Collaborative Online Social Media Observatory. Presented at: ESRC Seminar Series: New Social Media, New Social Science? Blurring the Boundaries: One Year On, London, UK, 2013.
- Sloan, L., Williams, M. L., Burnap, P., Housley, W., Edwards, A. M. and Rana, O. F. 2013. Using social media with survey data. Presented at: ESRC Seminar Series: New Social Media, New Social Science?, London, UK, 2013.
- Burnap, P. et al. 2013. Collaborative online social media observatory. Presented at: Web Observatory Launch, Royal Society, London, UK, 2013.
- Rob, P. et al. 2013. Enabling social media research through citizen social science. Presented at: 13th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Paphos, Cyprus, 21-25 September 2013.
- Burnap, P., Williams, M. L., Housley, W., Edwards, A. M., Sloan, L. and Rana, O. F. 2013. Detecting tension in social media. Presented at: Third International Conference on Social Computing and its Applications, Karlsruhe, Germany, 30 Sept - 2 Oct 2013.
2012
- Scourfield, J. B., Tolman, R., Maxwell, N., Holland, S., Bullock, A. D. and Sloan, L. 2012. Results of a training course for social workers on engaging fathers in child protection. Children and Youth Services Review 34(8), pp. 1425-1432. (10.1016/j.childyouth.2012.03.022)
- Shand, R. and Sloan, L. 2012. Regeneration vs. The Market: How Were House Prices in Barking Affected by Renewal Projects in the Area?. Social and Public Policy Review 6(2), pp. 18-29.
- Slater, T., Scourfield, J. B. and Sloan, L. 2012. Who is citing whom in social work? A response to Hodge, Lacasse and Benson. British Journal of Social Work 42(8), pp. 1626-1633. (10.1093/bjsw/bcs190)
- Burnap, P. et al. 2012. Working paper 153: social media analysis, Twitter and the London Olympics 2012 [working paper]. Working paper. Cardiff: School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University. Available at: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/socsi/resources/Working%20Paper%20153%20-%20Burnap%20et%20al.%20(2013)%20Social%20Media%20Analysis,%20Twitter%20and%20the%20London%20Olympics%202012%20-%20A%20Research%20Note.pdf
- Burnap, P. et al. 2012. Social media analysis, Twitter and the London Olympics (a research note). Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
Adrannau llyfrau
- Williams, M., Brookfield, C. and Sloan, L. 2022. Quantitative research methods teaching in a digital age. In: The SAGE Handbook of Digital Society. Sage
- Sloan, L., Baghal, T. A. and Jessop, C. 2022. Linking Twitter and survey data: Gaining consent, making the link, and maintaining data security. In: Quan-Haase, A. and Sloan, L. eds. The SAGE Handbook of Social Media Research Methods. 2nd Ed.. SAGE, pp. 691-702.
- Quan-Haase, A. and Sloan, L. 2022. Introduction. In: Quan-Haase, A. and Sloan, L. eds. The SAGE Handbook of Social Media Research Methods. 2nd Ed.. SAGE, pp. 1-9.
- Mohamed, M. and Cullen, A. 2022. COSMOS 2.0: the journey of developing a social analytic tool. In: Quan-Haase, A. and Sloan, L. eds. The SAGE Handbook of Social Media Research Methods. SAGE Publications Ltd, pp. 417-434.
- Williams, M., Sloan, L. and Brookfield, C. 2019. The quantitative crisis in UK sociology. In: Evans, J., Ruane, S. and Southall, H. eds. Data in Society: Challenging Statistics in an Age of Globalisation. Policy Press, pp. 337-348.
- Williams, M. L., Burnap, P., Sloan, L., Jessop, C. and Lepps, H. 2017. Users' view's of ethics in social media research: informed consent, anonymity and harm. In: Woodfield, K. ed. The Ethics of Online Research., Vol. 2. Advances in Research Ethics and Integrity Emerald Publishing, pp. 27-51., (10.1108/S2398-601820180000002002)
- Quan-Haase, A. and Sloan, L. 2017. Introduction to the handbook of social media research methods: goals, challenges and innovations. In: Sloan, L. and Quan-Haase, A. eds. The SAGE Handbook of Social Media Research Methods. SAGE, pp. 1-10.
- Sloan, L. 2017. Social science 'Lite'? Deriving demographic proxies from Twitter. In: Sloan, L. and Quan-Haase, A. eds. The SAGE Handbook of Social Media Research Methods. SAGE, pp. 90-104.
- Sloan, L. and Quan-Haase, A. 2017. A retrospective on state of the art social media research methods: ethical decisions, big-small data rivalries and the spectre of the 6Vs. In: Sloan, L. and Quan-Haase, A. eds. The SAGE Handbook of Social Media Research Methods. SAGE, pp. 662-672.
- Williams, M., Payne, G. and Sloan, L. 2016. Making sociology count: Some evidence and context in the teaching of quantitative methods in the UK. In: McKie, L. and Ryan, L. eds. An End to the Crisis of Empirical Sociology? Trends and Challenges in Social Research. Sociological Futures Abingdon and New York: Routledge, pp. 171-186.
- Williams, M. D., Payne, G. and Sloan, L. 2016. An end to the crisis of empirical sociology? Trends and challenges in social research. In: McKie, L. and Ryan, L. eds. An End to the Crisis of Empirical Sociology Trends and Challenges in Social Research. London: Routledge, pp. 171-186.
Cynadleddau
- Gruzd, A. et al. 2019. Introduction to the 2019 International Conference on Social Media & Society. Presented at: 10th International Conference on Social Media and Society, Toronto, ON, Canada, 19-21 July 2019SMSociety '19: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Social Media and Society. New York: ACM pp. 1-4., (10.1145/3328529.3328530)
- Gruzd, A. et al. 2018. Introduction to the 2018 International Conference on Social Media and Society. Presented at: 9th International Conference on Social Media and Society, Copenhagen, Denmark, 18-20 July 2018SMSociety '18: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Social Media and Society. New York, NY: ACM pp. 1-4., (10.1145/3217804.3217891)
- Williams, M. L. and Sloan, L. 2015. Gaining insights from social media data: collection, analysis and interpretation. Presented at: Supporting Human Rights Organisations to Deliver Insights From Social Media, University of Essex, UK, 2015.
- Sloan, L., Williams, M. L. and Burnap, P. 2014. Deriving demographic variables from twitter data. Presented at: Office for National Statistics Big Data Project Workshop, Titchfield, England, 21 July 2014. pp. -.
- Williams, M. L., Procter, R., Housley, W., Edwards, A. M., Burnap, P., Sloan, L. and Voss, A. 2013. Collaborative online social media observatory. Presented at: COSMOS Launch, London, England, 2013.
- Sloan, L., Rob, P., Williams, M. L., Housley, W., Edwards, A. M., Burnap, P. and Rana, O. F. 2013. The Collaborative Online Social Media Observatory. Presented at: ESRC Seminar Series: New Social Media, New Social Science? Blurring the Boundaries: One Year On, London, UK, 2013.
- Sloan, L., Williams, M. L., Burnap, P., Housley, W., Edwards, A. M. and Rana, O. F. 2013. Using social media with survey data. Presented at: ESRC Seminar Series: New Social Media, New Social Science?, London, UK, 2013.
- Burnap, P. et al. 2013. Collaborative online social media observatory. Presented at: Web Observatory Launch, Royal Society, London, UK, 2013.
- Rob, P. et al. 2013. Enabling social media research through citizen social science. Presented at: 13th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Paphos, Cyprus, 21-25 September 2013.
- Burnap, P., Williams, M. L., Housley, W., Edwards, A. M., Sloan, L. and Rana, O. F. 2013. Detecting tension in social media. Presented at: Third International Conference on Social Computing and its Applications, Karlsruhe, Germany, 30 Sept - 2 Oct 2013.
Erthyglau
- Williams, M. L. et al. 2023. The effect of the Brexit vote on the variation in race and religious hate crimes in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. The British Journal of Criminology: An International Review of Crime and Society 63(4), pp. 1003-1023. (10.1093/bjc/azac071)
- Tanner, A. R. et al. 2023. Epicosm -a framework for linking online social media in epidemiological cohorts. International Journal of Epidemiology 52(3), pp. 952-957. (10.1093/ije/dyad020)
- Anthony, R., Young, H., Hewitt, G., Sloan, L., Moore, G., Murphy, S. and Cook, S. 2023. Young people’s online communication and its association with mental wellbeing: Results from the 2019 Student Health and Wellbeing Survey. Child and Adolescent Mental Health 28(1), pp. 4-11. (10.1111/camh.12610)
- Di Cara, N., Winstone, L., Sloan, L. S., Davis, O. S. and Haworth, C. M. A. 2022. The mental health and well-being profile of young adults using social media. npj Mental Health Research 1, article number: 11. (10.1038/s44184-022-00011-w)
- Cook, S. et al. 2021. Increases in serious psychological distress among Ontario students between 2013 and 2017: assessing the impact of time spent on social media. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry / Revue Canadienene de Psychiatrie 66(8), pp. 747-756. (10.1177/0706743720987902)
- Al Baghal, T., Wenz, A., Sloan, L. and Jessop, C. 2021. Linking Twitter and survey data: asymmetry in quantity and its impact. EPJ Data Science 10, article number: 32. (10.1140/epjds/s13688-021-00286-7)
- Breuer, J., Al Baghal, T., Sloan, L., Bishop, L., Kondyli, D. and Linardis, A. 2021. Informed consent for linking survey and social media data - fifferences between platforms and data types. IASSIST Quarterly 45(1) (10.29173/iq988)
- Brookfield, C., Williams, M., Sloan, L. and Maule, E. 2021. Engaging social science students with statistics: opportunities, challenges and barriers. Numeracy 14(2), article number: 6. (10.5038/1936-4660.14.2.1386)
- Al Baghal, T., Sloan, L., Jessop, C., Williams, M. L. and Burnap, P. 2020. Linking Twitter and survey data: the impact of survey mode and demographics on consent rates across three UK studies. Social Science Computer Review 38(5), pp. 517-532. (10.1177/0894439319828011)
- Sloan, L., Jessop, C., Al Baghal, T. and Williams, M. 2020. Linking survey and Twitter data: informed consent, disclosure, security and archiving. Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics 15(1-2), pp. 63-76. (10.1177/1556264619853447)
- Di Cara, N. H. et al. 2020. Views on social media and its linkage to longitudinal data from two generations of a UK cohort study. Wellcome Open Research 5(44) (10.12688/wellcomeopenres.15755.1)
- Johns, N., Green, A., Swann, R. and Sloan, L. 2019. Street pastors in the night-time economy: harmless do-gooders or a manifestation of a New Right agenda?. Safer Communities 18(1), pp. 1-15. (10.1108/SC-05-2018-0015)
- Williams, M. L., Burnap, P. and Sloan, L. 2017. Towards an ethical framework for publishing Twitter data in social research: taking into account users’ views, online context and algorithmic estimation. Sociology 51(6), pp. 1149-1168. (10.1177/0038038517708140)
- Williams, M., Sloan, L. and Brookfield, C. 2017. A tale of two sociologies: analytic versus critique in UK sociology. Sociological Research Online 22(4), pp. 132-151. (10.1177/1360780417734146)
- Williams, M. L., Burnap, P. and Sloan, L. 2017. Crime sensing with big data: the affordances and limitations of using open-source communications to estimate crime patterns. British Journal of Criminology 57(2), pp. 320-340. (10.1093/bjc/azw031)
- Sloan, L. 2017. Who tweets in the United Kingdom? Profiling the Twitter population using the British Social Attitudes Survey 2015. Social Media and Society 3(1), pp. 1-11. (10.1177/2056305117698981)
- Henderson, M., Scourfield, J., Cheung, S. Y., Sharland, E. and Sloan, L. 2016. The effects of social service contact on teenagers in England. Research on Social Work Practice 26(4), pp. 386-398. (10.1177/1049731514557363)
- Williams, M. D., Sloan, L., Cheung, S. Y., Sutton, C., Stevens, S. and Runham, L. 2016. Can't count or won't count? Embedding quantitative methods in substantive sociology curricula: a quasi-experiment. Sociology 50(3), pp. 435-452. (10.1177/0038038515587652)
- Burnap, P., Gibson, R., Sloan, L., Southern, R. and Williams, M. L. 2016. 140 characters to victory?: Using Twitter to predict the UK 2015 General Election. Electoral Studies 41, pp. 230-233. (10.1016/j.electstud.2015.11.017)
- Sloan, L. and Morgan, J. 2015. Who tweets with their location? Understanding the relationship between demographic characteristics and the use of geoservices and geotagging on Twitter. PLoS ONE 10(11), article number: e0142209. (10.1371/journal.pone.0142209)
- Burnap, P. et al. 2015. Detecting tension in online communities with computational Twitter analysis. Technological Forecasting & Social Change 95, pp. 96-108. (10.1016/j.techfore.2013.04.013)
- Sloan, L., Morgan, J., Burnap, P. and Williams, M. 2015. Who tweets? Deriving the demographic characteristics of age, occupation and social class from Twitter user meta-data. PLoS ONE 10(3), article number: e0115545. (10.1371/journal.pone.0115545)
- Burnap, P. et al. 2015. COSMOS: Towards an integrated and scalable service for analysing social media on demand. International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems 30(2), pp. 80-100. (10.1080/17445760.2014.902057)
- Swann, R., Green, A., Johns, N. and Sloan, L. 2015. Street pastors as substitutes for trust in the context of plural policing. Safer Communities 4(4), pp. 168-182. (10.1108/SC-03-2015-0011)
- Burnap, P. et al. 2014. Tweeting the terror: modelling the social media reaction to the Woolwich terrorist attack. Social Network Analysis and Mining 4, article number: 206. (10.1007/s13278-014-0206-4)
- Thrasher, M., Borisyuk, G., Rallings, C. and Sloan, L. 2014. Voting systems in parallel and the benefits for small parties: an examination of Green Party candidates in London elections. Party Politics 20(1), pp. 134-142. (10.1177/1354068811436045)
- Housley, W. et al. 2014. Big and broad social data and the sociological imagination: a collaborative response. Big Data & Society 1(2) (10.1177/2053951714545135)
- Sloan, L., Morgan, J., Housley, W., Williams, M. L., Edwards, A. M., Burnap, P. and Rana, O. F. 2013. Knowing the Tweeters: Deriving sociologically relevant demographics from Twitter. Sociological Research Online 18(3), article number: 7. (10.5153/sro.3001)
- Sloan, L. 2013. Can we feel their presence? a new framework for investigating minor parties in English Local Government. Local Government Studies 40(4), pp. 621-641. (10.1080/03003930.2013.795891)
- Edwards, A. M., Housley, W., Williams, M. L., Sloan, L. and Williams, M. D. 2013. Digital social research, social media and the sociological imagination: Surrogacy, augmentation and re-orientation. International Journal of Social Research Methodology 16(3), pp. 245-260. (10.1080/13645579.2013.774185)
- Williams, M. L. et al. 2013. Policing cyber-neighbourhoods: Tension monitoring and social media networks. Policing and Society 23(4), pp. 461-481. (10.1080/10439463.2013.780225)
- Taylor, C. M., Rees, G. M., Sloan, L. and Davies, R. 2013. Creating an inclusive Higher Education system? Progression and outcomes of students from low participation neighbourhoods at a Welsh university. Contemporary Wales 26, pp. 138-161.
- Scourfield, J. B., Tolman, R., Maxwell, N., Holland, S., Bullock, A. D. and Sloan, L. 2012. Results of a training course for social workers on engaging fathers in child protection. Children and Youth Services Review 34(8), pp. 1425-1432. (10.1016/j.childyouth.2012.03.022)
- Shand, R. and Sloan, L. 2012. Regeneration vs. The Market: How Were House Prices in Barking Affected by Renewal Projects in the Area?. Social and Public Policy Review 6(2), pp. 18-29.
- Slater, T., Scourfield, J. B. and Sloan, L. 2012. Who is citing whom in social work? A response to Hodge, Lacasse and Benson. British Journal of Social Work 42(8), pp. 1626-1633. (10.1093/bjsw/bcs190)
Llyfrau
- Sloan, L. and Quan-Haase, A. eds. 2022. The SAGE handbook of social media research methods 2nd ed. Sage.
- Clark, T., Foster, L., Sloan, L. and Bryman, A. 2021. Bryman's social research methods. 6th edition.. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Sloan, L. ed. 2017. The SAGE handbook of social media research methods. SAGE.
Monograffau
- Burnap, P., Gibson, R., Sloan, L., Southern, R. and Williams, M. L. 2015. 140 characters to victory?: Using Twitter to predict the UK 2015 General Election. Working paper. Cardiff University.
- Burnap, P. et al. 2012. Working paper 153: social media analysis, Twitter and the London Olympics 2012 [working paper]. Working paper. Cardiff: School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University. Available at: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/socsi/resources/Working%20Paper%20153%20-%20Burnap%20et%20al.%20(2013)%20Social%20Media%20Analysis,%20Twitter%20and%20the%20London%20Olympics%202012%20-%20A%20Research%20Note.pdf
- Burnap, P. et al. 2012. Social media analysis, Twitter and the London Olympics (a research note). Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
- Sloan, L., Jessop, C., Al Baghal, T. and Williams, M. 2020. Linking survey and Twitter data: informed consent, disclosure, security and archiving. Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics 15(1-2), pp. 63-76. (10.1177/1556264619853447)
Ymchwil
Summary
I am Deputy Director of the Social Data Science Lab (www.http://socialdatalab.net/). My principle research interests are understanding representation on Twitter and augmenting social media data through data linkage. I have worked on a range of projects investigating the use of Twitter data for understanding social phenomena covering topics such as election prediction, tracking (mis)information propagation during food scares and ‘crime-sensing’. My published work focuses on the development of demographic proxies for Twitter data to further understand who uses the platform and increase the utility of such data for the social sciences. I sit as an expert member on the Social Media Analytics Review and Information Group (SMARIG) which brings together academics and government agencies and work closely with the Office for National Statistics and Food Standards Agency. I am currently involved in three large UK-based social survey studies that are exploring potential linkage between Twitter and survey data – British Social Attitudes 2015, the Welsh Election Study 2016 and the Understanding Society Innovation Panel 2017.
Research Grants (awarded)
- Welsh Election Study 2016, ESRC (Co-Investigator, £226k) ES/M011127/1
- Public perceptions of the UK food system: public understanding and engagement, and the impact of crises and scares 2014, ESRC/FSA (Co-Investigator, £291,200), ES/M003329/1
- NCRM Methodological Innovation Project 2013 (Co-Investigator, approx. £180k): COSMOS 2.0 Social Media Data Mashing, Tension Analysis and Predictive Analytics
- Nuffield Children, Young People and Families using Social Work Service in Four UK Cohort Studies 2013(Co-Investigator, approx. £150k): a project investigating social worker contact with respondent the Millennium Cohort Study, ALPAC, BHPS and LSYPE
- European Social Fund (ESF) Women Adding Value to the Economy 2012 – WAVE (Co-Investigator, approx. £1m): A project investigating the gender pay gap in Wales, particular responsibility for quantitative strand involving supervision of a research associate
PhD Supervisions
- Simon Read (completed): The Cultural Representation of Older People: Ageism and the National Health Service
- Rhiannon Yapp (in progress): Peer Mediating and Moderating Effects on Parent-Child Relationships, School Connectedness and Adolescent Substance Use
- Nell Warner (in progress): The Impact of Adversity on Improvements in Parental Feelings of Competence among Home-Start Parents
- Jen Hampton (in progress): The Nature of Quantitative Methods and Analysis in A-Level Social Sciences
Addysgu
Summary
I have three key roles in the University that are directly related to teaching.
As Co-Director of the Cardiff Q-Step Centre of Excellence in Quantitative Methods Teaching (and Teaching Group Coordinator) I am responsible for overseeing the successful implementation and quality control of all our new programme content on BSc Social Analytics. The Q-Step Centre award was given after an international peer-review process and we are 3 years (halfway) into the project.
As a Co-Director for Teaching and Learning I oversee all admissions, recruitment and marketing activities in the School.
I also coordinate the annual State of the Campus Project – a week long experiential learning event that all our 300+ returning year two students partake in during the first week of teaching. During this week our students conduct a research project of interest to the University community involving the collection, analysis and presentation of qualitative and quantitative data. In 2015 we focused on student accommodation and this in turn informed the student housing charter with over 1,000 surveys conducted, 200 images captured and 200 interviews transcribed. For 2016 students will be focusing on the issue of race in the University with their findings and analysis potentislly feeding in to the University’s application for the Race Equality Charter Mark.
Teaching/Scholarship Grants (awarded)
- Q-STEP Centre for Excellence in Quantitative Methods Teaching, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, HEFCE and ESRC (Co-Director, approx. £1.3m)
- Changing the Learning Landscape, A national Student-Led Survey: creating a cross-institutional survey project through student collected data for better quantitative methods teaching 2013, HEA (Principle Investigator, £750)
- Innovation in the Assessment of Social Science Research Methods in UK HEIs 2013, HEA (Principle Investigator, £7,900).
- ESRC Research Development Initiative 2011 (Co-Investigator, approx £90K): a project to develop an international pedagogic network in which good practice can be shared in teaching quantitative methods (QM), ES/J011851/1
- ESRC Curriculum Innovation 2011 (Co-Investigator, approx £90k): a project to develop new modules in the social science curriculum in which quantitative methods are embedded, ES/J011843/1
Bywgraffiad
Education & Qualifications
- 2007-2010: PhD (Political Science) University of Plymouth, UK*
- 2006-2007: MSc (Social Research) University of Plymouth, UK*
- 2003-2006: BSc Hons (Politics) University of Plymouth, UK
* awarded a 1+3 ESRC Studentship with the Elections Centre, University of Plymouth
Career Overview
- April 2014 - present: Senior Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, UK
- Jan 2011 - March 2014: Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, UK
- Oct 2010 - Dec 2010: Research Fellow in Leadership & Governance, Plymouth Business School, University of Plymouth, UK
Anrhydeddau a dyfarniadau
- Winner of the "Most Effective Teacher Award" at the Cardiff University Enriching Student Life Awards for innovation in research methods teaching in 2013
- "Knowing the Tweeters" shortlisted for Sociological Research Online Best Paper Award in 2013
Aelodaethau proffesiynol
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
- Member of the Political Studies Association
Pwyllgorau ac adolygu
Internal Committees/Groups
- Chair of School of Social Sciences Admissions and Recruitment Committee
- Member of School of Social Sciences Teaching and Learning Committee
- Member of AHSS College Admissions and Recruitment Group
- Member of University Student Survey Review T&F Group
- Member of the steering group for a medium/large project funded under the Cardiff University Education Innovation Fund (“Grand Challenges through Project Based Learning”)
External Committees/Groups
- Expert member of the Social Media Analytics Review and Innovation Group (SMARIG), set up to provide strategic guidance to government departments and agencies on how social media data can be used for social research