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I'm here today with Rob Denny, Election

Research Methods. So, Rob, in terms of thinking about your
professional experience and your academic experience, what do you
understand research to be? >> Okay, so, we search for me, in social science,
central scientific
research is the process, I mean on a really simple level it's the process of
collecting information
about the world. Using that information to answer
questions. What makes it social science as opposed to journalism or something like
that would be
the fact that we collect it in a way which is as systematic as you can possibly be,
hopefully. And, we try and say something a little bit
beyond the data itself. So, we try to make inferences on the basis
of our data, two sets of conclusions. And they can be in terms of explanations
about the social world, or they can be interpretations, or
they can just be descriptions. But for me, that's pretty much where I'm
situated. >> Okay.