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In a recent peer-reviewed article Alexandru Cernat and Melanie Revilla explored the effects of switching from face to face surveys to web data …
GenPopWeb2 network is very excited to announce our next event: Complex measures in online surveys: Challenges and opportunities. The event will consist of three online …
Location: Oxford Road, Manchester Closing date: 09/03/2021 Salary: Professorial Scale Employment type: Permanent Faculty/Organisation: Humanities School/ Directorate: Social Statistics Hours per week: full time Contract Duration: …
For researchers who decide to use more than one method in a project, the question immediately arises of whether to treat two as sufficient or whether …
21 March 2021 is census day in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. There are at least two remarkable aspects to this simple observation – firstly, that …
If you are teaching social research methods, then you may be interested in our new Train the Trainer events. These online ‘courses’ (shared learning/knowledge exchange forums) …
The Covid-19 pandemic has necessitated considerable changes to research practices. This includes a dominant method for the social researcher – the in person interview – made …
This book brings creative writing to social research. Its innovative format includes creatively written contributions by researchers from a range of disciplines, modelling the techniques …