Posted on 09 March 2022 by Duncan Grimes, Research Director When and how to deliberate online At the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen), our Centre for Deliberative Research approaches deliberation as a spectrum of involvement. Read the rest of this entry Tags: NatCen Learning, What UK Thinks, deliberative polling, deliberative research, methodology and innovation
Posted on 27 October 2021 Learnings from Low Traffic Neighbourhood deliberative workshops: A moderator’s perspective Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs) are a keenly debated issue with some strong perspectives. We have used deliberative research methods, bringing together residents from three areas which had undergone trials of LTNs to explore the issues in in-depth online workshops. In this blog, NatCen's Kate Belcher and Eliska Holland discuss the experiences of moderators and participants who took part in the research. Read the rest of this entry Tags: Climate change, NatCen Centre for Deliberative Research, deliberative research, environment, public engagement, transport
Posted on 02 August 2021 by Ceri Davies, Director Where next for online deliberation? Online deliberative research is an emerging discipline, with much of the existing work restricted to examining internet discussion forums. The use of videoconferencing as a mode to support deliberation had, until 12 months ago at least, remained largely unexplored. Read the rest of this entry Tags: deliberative polling, deliberative research, methods, online methods
Posted on 02 February 2021 by Maria David, Researcher Future of Britain: facilitating dialogue on post-Brexit policy during the pandemic As part of our ongoing research about public attitudes towards post-Brexit policy, NatCen ran a large scale Deliberative Poll in October 2020, bringing together over 200 members of the British public online. Read the rest of this entry Tags: Future of Britain, deliberative polling, deliberative research, online methods
Posted on 28 January 2021 by Joshua Vey, Researcher Future of Britain: bringing participants and moderators online during the pandemic As part of our ongoing research about public attitudes towards post-Brexit policy, we ran a large-scale Deliberative Polling event in October 2020, bringing together over 200 members of the British public online. Read the rest of this entry Tags: Future of Britain, deliberative polling, deliberative research, online methods
Posted on 21 July 2020 by Ceri Davies, Director Digital engagement with citizens on the environment Covid-19 is taking social researchers into new territory. With face-to-face fieldwork paused, researchers have been left to explore how else (if at all) they can continue existing studies. The pandemic also poses a particularly tricky question of how findings from research designed for pre-Covid-19 society should be interpreted in what will be very different future realities. Read the rest of this entry Tags: 25 Year Environmental Plan, citizen engagement, deliberative research, fieldwork, online methods
Posted on 05 June 2020 by Helen McCarthy, Senior Researcher The view from the table: facilitating public dialogue about the environment NatCen has been running a series of weekend workshops with the public to discuss their views on the environment. Today, World Environment Day offers a timely opportunity to reflect on the discussions we’ve led so far in London, Hull and Chesterfield. Read the rest of this entry Tags: 25 Year Environmental Plan, citizen engagement, deliberative research, environment, plastic, workshop
Posted on 20 March 2020 by Ceri Davies, Director Going digital with deliberation In the face of measures to delay the spread of Covid-19, qualitative researchers must consider how to continue their research whilst we cannot meet in person. In this blog, Ceri Davies discusses the lessons we’ve learned from running the UK’s first online deliberative poll using videoconferencing software. Read the rest of this entry Tags: deliberative polling, deliberative research, digital, methods, videoconference