Tom Farsides
@tomfarsides.bsky.social
Internet waif. Employed as a social psychologist at the Univeristy of Sussex but my interest in people caring about and trying to help others takes me far beyond the boundaries suggested by my job title.
As I move into the “Recycling the last hard copy of my PhD” stage of clearing my office, it gives me pause to see just how unrelenting my malcontent and snark have been. 🤪
July 28, 2025 at 1:16 PM
As I move into the “Recycling the last hard copy of my PhD” stage of clearing my office, it gives me pause to see just how unrelenting my malcontent and snark have been. 🤪
Today I learned about the empiricist's moustache. Steinmetz, G. (2004). Odious comparisons: Incommensurability, the case study, and “small N's” in sociology. Sociological theory, 22(3), 371-400. doi.org/10.1111/j.07...
June 12, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Today I learned about the empiricist's moustache. Steinmetz, G. (2004). Odious comparisons: Incommensurability, the case study, and “small N's” in sociology. Sociological theory, 22(3), 371-400. doi.org/10.1111/j.07...
I'm teaching 'Quality assessment in Qualitative Research (QLR)' tomorrow. I will be pleading for no new checklists that add little to Chapter 5 of Murphy et al (1999). QLR … A review of the literature. Health Tech. Assess., 2(16), doi.org/10.3310/hta2...
November 7, 2024 at 9:43 AM
I'm teaching 'Quality assessment in Qualitative Research (QLR)' tomorrow. I will be pleading for no new checklists that add little to Chapter 5 of Murphy et al (1999). QLR … A review of the literature. Health Tech. Assess., 2(16), doi.org/10.3310/hta2...
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October 20, 2024 at 9:12 AM
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"The experimental method ... taxes patience to the utmost, and could hardly have arisen in a country whose natives could be bored.... Germans .... obviously cannot" (James, 1890, p. 192) psychclassics.yorku.ca/James/Princi...
December 31, 2023 at 11:08 AM
"The experimental method ... taxes patience to the utmost, and could hardly have arisen in a country whose natives could be bored.... Germans .... obviously cannot" (James, 1890, p. 192) psychclassics.yorku.ca/James/Princi...
