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Call for papers: Creative research methods in the social sciences

The Social Research Association will be hosting a conference on Creative Research Methods in the social sciences, on Friday 8 May 2015, at the British Library …

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Vacancy at ADRC-E, based in UCL: Research Associate

UCL Department / Division: Institute of Child Health Specific unit / Sub department: ICH - Administrative Data Research Centre for England (ADRC-E) Grade: 7 Hours: Full Time Salary (inclusive of …

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Vacancy: Administrative Manager (NCRM)

Administrative Manager (NCRM)   FOS - Social & Human Sciences   Location: Highfield Campus, University of Southampton Salary: £28,695 to £35,256  Full Time, Fixed term until 30 September 2019 Closing Date: Thursday 25 September …

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Research and support vacancies at WISERD

The Wales Institute for Social and Economic Research, Data & Methods (WISERD) is recruiting for a number of new research and support posts linked to three …

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Barbara Sianesi invited to join IZA

Barbara Sianesi, working at the PEPA node in IFS, has been invited to join IZA as a research fellow.  IZA is a private, independent research …

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Jon Rasbash award given to Daniel Stegmuller at the 6th ESRC Research Methods Festival

The Jon Rasbash award was given to Daniel Stegmuller from the University of Essex for his paper Modeling Dynamic Preferences: A Bayesian Robust Dynamic …

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The best PhD student posters chosen at the 6th ESRC Research Methods Festival

The winners of the poster exhibition competition at the 6th ESRC Research Methods Festival were:   1st prize to Ulrike Rauer, Oxford Internet Institute, for her research …

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New guide released : Depositing shareable survey data

Those who own and manage large-scale surveys now have a compact and detailed guide to help them make their data more widely used by researchers.   The …