This lecture will look at how to undertake a systematic survey of online activity using the wildlife trade as a case study. Building on the well-establish systematic evidence review, this approach aims to collect online data in a transparent and reproducible manner to provide an understanding of human activity.
Led by: Dr David Roberts, School of Anthropology and Conservation
This session will discuss:
- Study objectives
- Search terms and their diversity
- Use of logic grids
- Approaches to the search: search engines or browsers
- Stopping rules
- Verifiability
- Inclusion and exclusion criteria
For further reading, see:
- Bazzell (2019) Open Source Intelligence Techniques: Resources for Searching and Analyzing. IntelTechniques.com (NB: 2019 edition has opening chapters on personal security when conducting online research)
- British Psychological Society (2017) Ethics Guidelines for Internet-Mediated Research. INF206/04.2017
- Higgins et al. (Eds) (2019) Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions. Wiley & Sons (Also see training.cochrane.org/handbook/current)
Watch the training video here (Kent access only)