The Month in Community Psychology: January
A light month in publications. January has long been the dumping ground for movies that studios don’t really want to think about anymore. Potentially the same is true for articles? JPS Note: 2.16.21. This link works now. My bad ???? CBPR continues to dominate the published literature. There are also a bunch of really interesting…
January Retractions
This is PubTrawlr’s monthly retraction notice. At first, it appeared that the journal of Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment really took it on the chin with a series of article from what appears to be one lab. The editors specifically remark: Following the conclusion of our investigation the decision has been made to retract the published article. The…
Community Readiness indicators: Reflections on ‘Twitter and Tear Gas’
In the ReSOLV project, part of our task is to identify how community readiness impacts the ability of school districts to promote schools safety. In 2020, our work was disrupted by the twin zeitgeist changing events of George Floyd’s murder and the COVID-19 pandemic. One of our great P.I.s, Trish Campie suggested that we look…
Move over Preston and Unspeakable: The Next YouTube Star is here!
PubTrawlr has been out for about three weeks now, and many of our friends have told us some variation of, “PubTrawlr is really cool, but how do you use it?” This is problematic for a few reasons, but the central one is that we designed PubTrawlr to be straightforward and intuitive. Clearly, we have more…
Data Feminism: A book recommendation
Heads up: I clipped the above image from the Data Feminism website. It’s not mine. My buddy Yakov Bressler has been the source of many books recommendations that have greatly expanded and clarified how I think about systemic issues in our society and what the role of evaluation is in supporting progressive changes. Far and…
Even More on Barriers and Facilitators
Happy Birthday, PubTrawlr! Today is the day PubTrawlr moves live and open for business. In honor of this occasion, I fired it up for one of my favorite topics; barriers and facilitators. In my humble opinion, barriers and facilitators work is stale. I think I’ve read hundreds of versions of the sentence, “Leadership and buy-in…
A December to Not Remember: Monthly Retractions
We’re going to start publishing notices and synthesis of monthly retractions. Science is fluid, and retractions aren’t a bad thing! It means that either something is not replicable, there are analytic problems, or (in the worst case) fraud has been caught. Let’s keep moving closer to the truth! Click on the gif below to go…
An Introduction to Readiness
Author’s Note: So this is a draft a book chapter that didn’t really go anywhere. I might go back to it at some point, but in the spirit of emptying the archives before rolling into the new year, I’m putting it up here. I wrote this back in June prepping for some work with The…
Journalism and Evaluation: Long lost siblings?
Much of our work here at Dawn Chorus is qualitative. Actually sitting down and talking to people can provide huge amount of data and nuance that gets lost in the numbers of survey. While there are courses in most graduate programs around qualitative methods, I’ve been wondering whether the particular set of skills that journalists…
The Month in Quality Improvement
I’ve recently gotten involved in the ECHO project, which helps to build COVID-19 and improvement capacity in nursing homes across the United States. This recent Axios article shows that this word is very timely. To help build my own improvement capability, I’m gotten back into the QI literature. Using PubTrawlr, I pulled from six of…
The Last Month in Evaluation (with some thoughts on AEA)
It’s been a minute since we took a look at the evaluation literature. There’s a lot of stuff that gets published with no way to comb through it all. Click below to go to PubTrawlr’s recap of the last 30 days of some of the main Evaluation journals. Like it? We plan to offer 30…
The Last Month in Community Psychology
It’s a been a long 30 days. For those of us involved in community-based projects and social justice initiatives, it can be exhausting to just stay on top of the news, let alone the academic research. To help the field out, we are going to be launching a monthly newsletter, The Last Month in Community…
