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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …