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Job Vacancy - Quantitative researcher, Ipsos MORI, International, London

Ipsos MORI is recruiting for several roles in their expanding International Social Research (ISR) unit based in London and Brussels. For this role they are looking …

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Reflecting on an event: Migrant families challenging the effects of the No Recourse to Public Funds Policy

The PASAR project held an event at the House of Commons, sponsored by Kate Green, MP and Chair of the APPG on Migration. Speakers included …

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Methods in 2017

At the end of each year we like to reflect on methodological developments and trends that dominated the particular year. In 2017 these included methods related …

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The role of the proxy ethnographer: a step too far?

In the days before Google, I wrote a research paper about enlisting a marketing manager in an electronics company to collect ethnographic data about the sales …

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Probing of "Don't Know" responses in surveys

When a respondent’s answer to a survey question is “Don’t know” (DK), we often regard this not as a valid answer but as a form of …

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Creative methods in longitudinal research with young people

Youth research has an established history of using creative approaches to gain qualitative insights into young people’s lives. The past 15 years have seen a rapid …

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Creating the Anonymisation Decision-making Framework

The publication of the book The Anonymisation Decision-making Framework1  in July 2016 marked the culmination of a three-year cross-sector collaboration in the UK, and the beginning …

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Innovations in measuring household finances

Developing feasible and efficient methods for collecting accurate information about household finances poses many challenges. The “Understanding household finance through better measurement” project, funded by the …