In this week's recorded live lecture at a Senior Topics Course in Empirical Software Engineering at the University of Victoria, Dr. Elise Paradis demystifies the differences between objectivist deductive research and subjective inductive research, shares how theories help bridge the tension between engineering and science, and with the course participants discusses why we should do research that is both personally and internally coherent.   

This talk and Q&A (starting at approx. min 48) was recorded live at a Senior Topics Course in Empirical Software Engineering at the University of Victoria on Oct 2nd, 2020 (https://github.com/margaretstorey/Ems...).   

Elise Paradis, PhD, is an award-winning researcher, mentor and speaker with an expertise in teamwork. She uses a range of methods in her research, from content analysis to ethnography, interviews, bibliometrics and scoping reviews. Dr. Paradis obtained her PhD from Stanford in 2011. She joined the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Toronto in 2015, and also holds appointments in medicine, sociology, and at the Centre for Critical Qualitative Health Research. She held the Canada Research Chair in Collaborative Healthcare Practice until 2019, when she left the University of Toronto to work at Facebook. Her emphasis is now on maximizing engineers’ wellbeing and productivity through research. She is currently at UVic/Chisel conducting a critical review of the literature on software engineering.  

The presentation and discussion focused on these papers:  
- The Distinctions Between Theory, Theoretical Framework, and Conceptual Framework by Lara Varpio, Elise Paradis, Sebastian Uijtdehaage, Meredith Young, Academic Medicine: Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges, 2019.
- Building Theories in Software Engineering by Dag I. K. Sjøberg, Tore Dybå, Bente C. D. Anda, Jo E. Hannay, Guide to Advanced Empirical Software Engineering pp 312-336, Spring 2008.

This is also available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/_8aPAGD6tdA