Mandy Investigates
researching
"The rise and regulation of lap dancing and the place of sexual labour and consumption in the night time economy.":"You will work on an ESRC funded study on the rise and regulation of lap dancing and the place of sexual labour and consumption in the night time economy. The post will involve qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis. It is based in Leeds, although some travel to other cities may be necessary."Are the hookers of Leeds not quite up to scratch then?
A spectacular waste of money made only worse when you realise it is in fact taxpayer funded. The ESRC
get funding
from the Department of Business Innovation and Skills to the tune of two hundred million quid a year.Which begs the question why is the BIS Secretary Lord Mandelson so interested in researching the "night time economy" to put it gently?
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Scared they might catch all those Tories then?
Wat Tyler had this up 4 days after the closing date & I live very near Leeds!!!! The perfect job - long hours, err unsocial conditions etc. Bonus payments could create some accounting difficulties but the Jack Straw defence could be appropriate.
Not necessarily a waste of money, if social scientists did research properly you could get interesting data that would inform Government policy.
One slight problem is social scientists bring their voguish leftish beliefs to the table and then fit the "evidence" (which is generally little more than survay data) to the hypothesis.
Disagree with you TB about these being pointless, for example a properly designed trial of the Government's reading recovary programme could have saved millions AND been more effective. However, the experimental design was crap..
This will be a waste of money but not because the objective is wrong.
The post will involve qualitative and quantitative data collection.
Data collection? Wow-ee!
will involve qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis
mmmmmmmmmmm!
Tory,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question
Grrrr. Sorry, I hate the grammar Nazis but this one always bugs me.