Nick Allum
Emeritus Professor of Research Methodology
I am an academic who also plays music. I'm a private pilot and flight instructor too.
Quantitative social science
Research
My research asks how publics come to know, trust and form attitudes towards science and technology. I pursue these questions mainly through large-scale surveys, and in recent years have turned the same tools on science itself, working on research integrity and metascience.
h-index 44 15620+ citations (Google Scholar)
Selected publications
- Testing the cultural-invariance hypothesis: A global analysis of the relationship between scientific knowledge and attitudes to science
- Investigating the links between questionable research practices, scientific norms and organisational culture
- Is something rotten in the state of Denmark? Cross-national evidence for widespread involvement but not systematic use of questionable research practices across all fields of research
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Education
- PhD, Social Psychology
- MSc, Social Research Methods (with Distinction)
- BA, Political Economy (First Class Honours)
Profiles
Drums
Music
I trained at Berklee College of Music. Following that I worked in community music education and have worked as a performer and recording artist in various settings ever since.
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I have worked with Courtney Pine, John Stevens, The Triffids, Audrey Riley, The Apartments, Shane MacGowan and Nick Cave. For five years I toured and recorded with The Fatima Mansions and later worked with Cathal Coughlan in his Grand Necropolitan Quartet.
At the moment I play occasional gigs with my piano trio and I am working on an exciting new project -- Fuzz Kitchen -- that revives the 'Canterbury sound' of bands like Hatfield and the North, National Health, Caravan and Matching Mole.
Discography
Nick Allum Selective Discography — 187 tracks on Spotify. Full recording credits on Discogs ↗.
Flight instructor
Flying
I work as a flight instructor out of Andrewsfield Aerodrome in North Essex. I mainly teach on our Ikarus C42 microlight as well as the occasional sortie in a Cessna 152 or 172.