In this episode, Tom Emery speaks with Liza Sivak about the role of benchmarking in demographic research and the challenges of working with fertility data. Liza presents the PreFer Benchmarking Challenge , an initiative to assess how well fertility outcomes in the Netherlands can currently be predicted, to improve our understanding of fertility. Affiliations Elizaveta Sivak is a sociologist and a computational social scientist. Currently, she is a PhD candidate at the University of Groningen , where she studies the predictability of fertility. She is co-organising a data challenge for predicting fertility outcomes in the Netherlands (PreFer). Dr. Tom Emery – Executive Director of ODISSEI , the Dutch National Infrastructure for Social Science; Associate Professor, Department of Public Administration and Sociology of Erasmus University, Rotterdam Useful links https://stulp.gmw.rug.nl/prefer/ https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42001-024-00275-6…

In this episode, Tom Emery is joined by Laura Boeschoten to explore the concept of Data Donation. They discuss what it entails, how it works, and the potential it has to shape the future of research and data sharing. Affiliations: Laura Boeschoten is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Methodology and Statistics at Utrecht University. She currently works on building a Digital Data Donation platform which researchers can use to conduct data donation studies. Her research focuses on the various methodological challenges that researchers face when performing data donation studies and on designing intuitive and simple data donation workflows for both researchers and participants. Dr. Tom Emery – Executive Director of ODISSEI , the Dutch National Infrastructure for Social Science; Associate Professor, Department of Public Administration and Sociology of Erasmus University, Rotterdam Useful links https://datadonation.eu/…