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Presentations from the SRA Annual Conference
held on 6th December 2011
| Dimensions of the Fuel Hardship
Experience - Andrea
Finney, University Of Bristol (pdf 1.34Mb) |
| Child Trust Fund:
A Policy Evaluation - Sara
Davies, University Of Bristol (pdf 1.69Mb) |
Why Is Well-being Important?
- Gareth
Piggott, Greater London Authority (pdf 6.44Mb)
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| What's New: Reflections
on Current Developments in Qualitative Social Research - William
O'Connor, Natcen (pdf 1.31Mb) |
| Achieving and Maintaining
High Quality Data for the National Student Survey - Sami
Benyahia, Research Director, IPSOS Mori (pdf 3.63Mb) |
| Understanding
Society Innovation Panel: Using
Experiments to Inform Survey
Design - Heather
Laurie, Institute for Social and Economic Research, University
of Essex (pdf 575k) |
| Developing the Participation
of Disabled Children and Young People - Catherine
Shaw, Chloe Gill & Thomas Rowson, NCB (pdf 435k) |
| The Evaluation of the
Separated Parents Information Programme (PIP) - Susan
Purdon, Bryson Purdon Social Research (pdf 85k) |
| Understanding Vulnerable Young
People: Exploring Multiple Disadvantage - Andy
Ross, NatCen (pdf
234k) |
| Mental Illness
and Mental Wellbeing - Sally
McManus, Health and Wellbeing Team, NatCen (pdf 1.41Mb) |
| More than Pretty Pictures: Social
Network Analysis in Social Policy Research - Jacqueline
Beckhelling, Centre for Research in Social Policy (pdf 292k) Notes
to accompany slides (doc 38k) |
| More to follow |
Presentations from the SRA Summer Event held on 5th July 2011
Presentations from the Using Social Media In Social Research Event
held on 23rd February 2011
Presentations from the SRA Annual Conference
held on Tuesday 7th December 2010
| Plenary Presentations |
| Bill
Blyth - Global Methods Director,
TNS (pdf 329k) |
| Mark
Easton - BBC Home Editor (pdf 1.62 Mb) |
| Professor
Sandra Nutley - Edinburgh University (pdf 399k) |
| Phil
Sooben - Director of Policy
and Administration at the ESRC (pdf 853k) |
| Closing Panel |
| Bill
Solesbury - Independent Researcher (pdf 24k) |
| Workshop Presentations |
| Pathways through Participation:
investing in research leading to action -
Véronique Jochum (NCVO)and Diane Warburton
(Involve) Institute for volunteering Research (pdf 527k) |
| Cost-effective behaviour change – harnessing
peer-to-peer communication to get
the most out of government campaigns
- Michael
Thompson ( Opinion Leader) and Natalie
Taylor (GfK NOP) (pdf 416k) |
| Enhancing customer insight:
Birmingham’s Newly Migrant Communities -
Jayne
Francis (M-E-L Research Ltd) (pdf 857k) |
| Making use of high quality
archived data – quantitative and qualitative -
Louise
Corti (National Data Archive) (pdf 688k) |
Getting the best out of
service user led research - Norman
Urquia (Roehampton University) (pdf 2.15Mb)
|
| Researching Multiple Exclusion
Homelessness using ex-service user peer
researchers - Graham
Bowpitt, Reader in Social Policy, (Nottingham Trent University),
Peter Dwyer, Professor
of Social Policy, (University of
Salford), Eva Sundin, Reader in Psychology, (Nottingham Trent
University), Mark
Weinstein, Senior Lecturer in Social Science Research Methods,
(Nottingham Trent
University) (pdf 56k) |
| The Application of Alternative
Modes of Data Collection in UK Government Social
Surveys - Peter
Betts (Office for National Statistics) (pdf 40k) |
Selling sex
on the doorstep development activities to maximise response
on the
National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyle - Andrew
Phelps, Soazig Nicholson, National Centre
for Social Research (pdf 1.66Mb)
|
Measuring Outcomes for Public
Service Users in the public, private and voluntary
sectors - Jenny
Clark, Joy Dobbs, David Kane, Karl
Wilding(NCVO), Alison Spense (ONS) (pdf 750k) |
| ASCOT: Adult Social
Care Outcomes Toolkit - Ann
Netten and Julien Forder (PSSRU), Peter Burge and Dimitris
Potoglou(
RAND Europe), Rob
Sheldon and Beryl Wall (ACCENT) (pdf 374k) |
Presentations from the SRA Summer Event held on 1st July 2010
Presentations from the SRA Annual Conference
held on Tuesday 15th December 2009
Presentations from the SRA Summer Event held on 7th July 2009
Presentations from the Ethics Conference held on 11th May 2009
Presentations from the SRA Summer Event
held on 15th July 2008
Presentations from the Researching
Standards in Public Life Seminar held on 22nd April 2008
Presentations from the Making Policy
in Theory and Practice Seminar held on Monday 10th March 2008
Presentations from the Consent & Confidentiality
in Social Research Seminar held on Tuesday 29th January 2008
Presentations
from the SRA Annual Conference held on Tuesday 4th December
2007
|
Peter Halfpenny's plenary and panel
presentations can be found under 'featured
resource' at http://www.ncess.ac.uk
|
| Reaching Wider Audiences,
Reaching the Right Audience:
Approaches to Dissemination -
Peter
Bailey, Sarah Cheshire & Marcus Hulme Evaluation & Research,
Big Lottery Fund (pdf 330k) |
Making
Policy and Research
Interactive: The Potential of
Web 2.0 Technologies -
William
Solesbury, WSA Consultancy/ KCL London (pdf 2.80Mb)
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| Developing Metrics for
Behavioural Change
Campaigns -
Miles
Burger and Sarah Gray, Research Analysts (pdf 1.29Mb) |
| Issues for Dissemination
of
Research Across Government -
Fiona
Wood, Director of Research, COI (pdf 887kb) |
| Helping Qualitative
Researchers Work With Their Data in New and Innovative
Ways: The Contribution of Framework - William
O’Connor & Kandy Woodfield, Qualitative Research
Unit (pdf 1.19Mb) |
| Promoting the Use of Evidence-Informed
Practice in Adult Health and Social Care - George
Julian and Claire Richards, RIPFA (pdf 47k) |
| Getting More
Impact from your Research - Roger
Sykes, Head of Studies, Audit Commission (pdf 50k) |
Presentations
from the SRA Summer Event held on Tuesday 10th July 2007
Presentations
from the SRA Annual Conference held on Wednesday 6th December
2006
|
Myths and Reality in Social Attitudes
- John
Curtice, Department of Government, University of Strathclyde (pdf 163k)
|
| Private Landlords and
Tenants - their real issues and concerns - Maggie
Davidson, Head
of Policy Support and Analysis and Afi Adjei, Building
Research Establishment (pdf 638k) |
Challenging
the Myth of the Rural Idyll: Using market segmentation
techniques to understand rural attitudes to disadvantage
- Ruth
Bradshaw, Thematic Studies Manager, Commission for Rural
Communities (pdf 119k)
|
Refugees Are
Abusing Our System, Aren’t They? - Siddig Elzailaee,
Researcher, Working Lives Research
Institute, London Metropolitan University (pdf 15k) |
| Whose ‘Problem’ is
Cohesion Anyway? Challenging misconceptions about social
integration and community cohesion - Dr
Adele Smaill, Community Cohesion Evaluation Officer, Strategy
and Resources, Oldham
MBC (pdf 593k) |
| Managing Money
in Older Age: Are pensioners really
as financially vulnerable as
commentators suggest? -
Annie
Irvine and Katharine Nice, Social Policy Research Unit,
University of York and Peter A.
Kemp, Department of Social
Policy & Social Work, University
of Oxford (pdf
67k)
|
| The Reality or Myth of
Poverty - a method for applying
objectivity to poverty studies
- Wendy
Olsen, Cathie Marsh Centre for Census & Survey
Research, University of
Manchester (pdf 99k) |
| ‘Binge Drinking’ in
the UK: An exploration of a confused concept - Rachel
Herring, Research Fellow and Virginia Berridge, Professor
of History,
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University
of London (pdf 300k)
|
| Approaching
Stereotypes and Myths in Social Surveys:
the example of British social
attitudes -
Mark
Johnson and Liz Clery, Senior Researchers, NatCen/ Co-directors
of the British
Social Attitudes survey (pdf
105k) |
| How the Council Reviews
Social Research and Uses it to Combat Myths and Misconceptions
of Refugees in Britain Through the Media -
Paul
Ellis, Research Manager, Refugee Council (pdf
443k) |
Presentations
from the SRA Annual Conference held on Wednesday 7th December
2005
Getting
Non-Researchers Involved: Strategies and Concerns - Martin
Bulmer, University of Surrey (pdf 24k)
|
|
A View
from the Peer - Alex
Christopoulos and Jaime Rose (pdf 52k)
|
Reflections
From the Field: Participatory Research with Children - Liz
Sutton, Noel Smith, Chris Dearden and Sue Middleton, Centre
for Research in Social Policy Loughborough University (pdf
297k)
|
Voluntary
Sector Led Research: Facing the Challenge - Jurgen
Grotz and Colin Rochester, Roehampton University
|
| Analysis
for Policy: What Policy Makers Want - Elizabeth
Coates, University of Surrey & Government Social Research
Unit & Gemma Penn, Siobhan Benita, Phil Davies & Siobhan
Campbell, Government Social Research Unit |
| Necessity
or Nuisance?: Involving cancer patients and carers as co-researchers:
Learning from the Macmillan Listening Study -
Dr
David Wright, Macmillan Senior Research Fellow, Macmillan
Research Unit, University of Southampton & Jenny Walton,
Patient Co-researcher, Humber and Yorkshire Coast Cancer
Network (pdf 244k) |
| Researching
Your Own Community: Peer Research in Practice - Elaine
Arnull and Shilpa Patel, PPRG, Middlesex University (pdf
45k) |
| Researching ‘Problem’ Young
People: More Harm than Good? - Dr
Joanna Sadler, PPRG, Middlesex University (pdf
33k) |
| How
well does research fit the needs of practitioners working to
improve the well-being of children and families? - Madeleine
Stevens, Kristin Liabo and Shruti Uppal, City University (pdf
87k) |
| Riding
the Waves: Managing Enthusiasm and Interest Concerning Research
Findings - Nick
Axford, Dartington Social Research Unit (pdf 17k) |
| Participatory
Approaches to Research and Inquiry into Poverty - Fran
Bennett, Dept of Social Policy and Social Work, University
of Oxford (pdf 21k) |
| Learning
The Doing While Doing the Doing: The Challenges of Conducting
Research Involving Practitioner-Researchers - Dr
Chih Hoong Sin, Disability Rights Commission (pdf
53k) |
Presentations
from the SRA Summer Event held on Tuesday 5th July 2005
|
Working Together
to Create Change: The added value of using participatory action
research methodologies with asylum seekers and refugees. MaggieO'Neill,
University of Loughborough (184k)
|
Panel
on Innovative Approaches to Researching 'Vulnerable' and 'Hard
to Reach' Groups: Jenny
Pearce, Middlesex University (51k) and Sunita
Bhabra, Policy Research Bureau (in preparation)
|
Room
to Roam: England’s Irish Travellers. Dr Colm Power, Action
Group for Irish Youth (AGIY) Summary (536k)
and Full
Version (1.74Mb)
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SRA/RMP Seminars on Survey Methods - 3rd November
2005
If you would like to view the presentations
from this seminar, held jointly by the Social Research Association
and
the ESRC Research Methods Programme, they are available here (weblink)
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