One of the things I’ve become slightly obsessed with in recent years is moving my data analysis away from SPSS and over to R. And if I’m obsessed with something, you can be damn sure I’ll be inflicting this on my students too. For the past three years, I’ve embedded R into my From CellContinue reading “Teaching R on my MSc Health Psychology course”
Author Archives: Richard Clarke
I built an app to cheat at wordle
Wordle sucks, I hate it, so I built an app to cheat at it. I explain in my R book how we can use the wordle to practice our data skills, in particular filtering a dataset. This app is just the completed exercise rendered in a Shiny App. Like most apps I make, it worksContinue reading “I built an app to cheat at wordle”
Managing allergy-related COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: A multi-methods analysis of practitioner notes and referral outcomes
When COVID-19 vaccines were first rolled out in the UK, most people were eager to get protected. But for a small group, the decision wasn’t straightforward. For people with allergies (or who believed they had allergies vaccination) came with an extra layer of fear. Media stories about allergic reactions, early mixed messages from regulators, andContinue reading “Managing allergy-related COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: A multi-methods analysis of practitioner notes and referral outcomes”
I was mentioned in The Psychologist
Yes, that magazine that turns up once a month and we never read! And I can’t remember exactly why or how this happened, but I’m counting it as an academic output (because they are few and far between at the moment!). Marcus Munafò reached out to ask how I used open data as a researchContinue reading “I was mentioned in The Psychologist”
Making Research Methods Less Scary
Teaching research methods can be a real challenge, not because the concepts are inherently difficult, but because for many students their first encounter with data analysis software feels intimidating. For a long time, SPSS was the default (and often the only) option, but as open science practices have become more mainstream, a wider range ofContinue reading “Making Research Methods Less Scary”
Non-pharmaceutical interventions and risk of COVID-19 infection: survey of UK public from November 2020–May 2021
This study was a nightmare, the survey was hosted on LimeSurvey (which remains one of the least intuitive platforms I’ve ever used), suffered badly from survey bloat, and had zero analysis plan going in. Recruitment was a constant struggle, which led to some frantic learning about web-scraping email addresses and then more frantic learning aboutContinue reading “Non-pharmaceutical interventions and risk of COVID-19 infection: survey of UK public from November 2020–May 2021”
COVID-19 vaccination beliefs, attitudes, and behaviours among health and social care workers in the UK: A mixed-methods study
This is probably my favourite of my COVID-era papers. It was one of those rare projects where everything moved at speed: we started planning in early January, had data coming in by early February, analysis wrapped up by March, and a pre-print out by April. Sadly, that’s also where things slowed to a crawl, withContinue reading “COVID-19 vaccination beliefs, attitudes, and behaviours among health and social care workers in the UK: A mixed-methods study”
Climate change risk communication: a vaccine hesitancy perspective
This paper is a short commentary that aim is to draw lessons from vaccine hesitancy research and apply them to climate change risk communication. Our central argument was that achieving net-zero carbon emissions will fail if it focuses only on technological solutions and ignores public trust, engagement, and behaviour. Drawing on experience from COVID-19 vaccinationContinue reading “Climate change risk communication: a vaccine hesitancy perspective”
Parents’ and guardians’ views and experiences of accessing routine childhood vaccinations during COVID-19
When the first COVID-19 lockdown began in England, there was growing concern that routine childhood vaccinations might quietly fall by the wayside. Messages such as “stay at home” and “protect the NHS” were essential for controlling the pandemic, but we were worried about an unintended consequence: parents being unsure whether routine childhood vaccinations were stillContinue reading “Parents’ and guardians’ views and experiences of accessing routine childhood vaccinations during COVID-19”
Parents’ and guardians’ views on the acceptability of a future COVID-19 vaccine
As the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded, it became clear that developing a vaccine would only be part of the challenge. Even before any vaccine was available, questions were already emerging about whether people would be willing to accept it, particularly when it came to vaccinating children. The aim of this study wasContinue reading “Parents’ and guardians’ views on the acceptability of a future COVID-19 vaccine”
Richard M Clarke (PhD) 