My name is Mary Sanford. I'm a DPhil
candidate on the Social Data
Science programme here at the OII. I
came to the OII for two main reasons:
1) the topic of my research is climate
change communication, and the OII is
great for for studying that because of
the way it interfaces with all the other
departments around the university that
also focus on this research topic. So you
have a nice synthesis of research
and that maximizes the
potential for impact, and also the
methodology; so I come from a very mixed
quantitative/qualitative background and
being able to synthesize those in a
very coherent research project, learning
what I need to, picking up necessary
things as I go, being able to do that all
here at a single department
makes all the difference for the
progress of my research.
If you're looking for a place where you
can explore, where you can
synthesize across the spectrum
of methods and of research topics, it's
really perfect; and also to feel that you
can actually collaborate and extend your
research beyond just our
city limits is also a huge factor.
