
Dr Grant Blank
Departmental Lecturer
Grant Blank's work focuses on the social and cultural implications of the Internet and new media, quantitative and qualitative methods, and cultural sociology. He teaches on the OII social statistics courses.
Digital Social Research: Statistics Core is one element of the six elements that make up Digital Social Research. It introduces students to statistics for the social sciences, with an emphasis on application to research on the Internet and society. This course introduces students to the most important types of quantitative social science data: discrete, counted data and continuous data.
The course is based on four themes: