Posted on 21 July 2020 by Ceri Davies, Director, NatCen Centre for Deliberative Research 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, Conservation 21, Covid-19, 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, NatCen Centre for Deliberative Research 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