Past events

To mark the official opening of the NatCen Centre for Deliberative Research, we’d like you to join us at this very special launch event.

This webinar will present a theoretical framework for the effect of language at each stage of the response formation process, borrowing from relevant literature and deriving hypothesis about the implications for surveys.

This webinar will explore some of the benefits and limitations of taking deliberations online and the recent received best practice in the practical aspects of what enables or constrains people’s participation.

In April, we will be launching the second annual NatCen Society Watch report. This year's report focuses on mental health, drawing on the key data sources and launching new research on the impacts of the pandemic on our mental wellbeing.

This presentation will summarise the effectiveness of the experiment in terms of cooperation, demographics, representativeness and data quality. The particular design issues of conducting such a survey cross-nationally will also be discussed.

On recent evidence regarding the impact of change of interview modes on measurement in a number of large surveys and the issue of estimating change in the context of multi-mode design.

This webinar describes how Understanding Society, the UK household longitudinal study reacted to the pandemic.

In this talk, Carina Cornesse will provide a detailed account of how researchers at the University of Mannheim adapted the German Internet Panel to create the Mannheim Corona Study.

This seminar, a joint venture with GenPopWeb2, brings together leading methodological experts to discuss the pros and cons of the current methods of choice in the UK, consider these alongside other methods, and identify areas for further research and experimentation.

This talk will discuss the newly developed work package on promoting desirable interviewer behaviour which aims to cover the issues of interviewer behaviour in a holistic and comprehensive manner, while integrating the task into the ESS survey lifecycle.