Survey Data Collection Methods Collaboration: Securing the Future of Social Surveys
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Essex
Department Name: Inst for Social and Economic Research
Abstract
The survey data collection community is facing severe challenges in implementing surveys using pre-pandemic approaches. There are knowledge gaps regarding the advantages and disadvantages of different data collection techniques and approaches such as push-to-web, knock-to-nudge and video-interviewing, and particularly in the mixed-mode context. And there is limited capacity both of skilled interviewers and of research professionals. Recent developments are leading to changes in commissioner requirements for face-to-face data collection as well as having implications for fieldwork costs and the role of interviewers. In several areas of survey methodology, the need for development of improved methods and the need to identify and communicate best practice is urgent.
The Survey Data Collection Methods Collaboration (SDCMC) is a response to these challenges and aims to deliver a step change in approaches to collecting population survey data in the UK to ensure that it will remain possible to carry out high quality social surveys of the kinds required by the public and academic sectors to monitor and understand society, and to provide an evidence base for policy. It will do this primarily through a rigorous programme of research focused on ensuring large-scale social surveys in the UK can innovate and adapt in a changing environment and continue to deliver high quality and inclusive data.
The primary aim of the programme of work is to assess the quality implications of the most important survey design choices relevant to future UK surveys and provide good practice guidance and practical training materials, while a secondary aim is to identify promising ways to improve the capacity and skillset of both interviewers and research professionals and take steps towards making those improvements.
The SDCMC will generate a range of research and training outputs and will engage in a programme of dissemination and promotion activities. Outputs will have a strong practical orientation, consisting of good practice guidance for survey design, survey implementation, survey commissioners and survey data users, all backed up by rigorous and well-documented research and with a range of associated activities to ensure that the lessons are disseminated to all relevant stakeholders and, where appropriate, embedded in institutional practice in a timely manner. The project will also seek to enable a whole community dialogue and collaborative response to wider strategic challenges and issues, as well as incorporating a strong training and capacity building component. To realise the vision of the SDCMC will require leadership, commitment and active participation of a broad range of stakeholders including those who commission surveys, those who implement them, those who use survey data and those involved in research and development of survey methods. Constructive dialogue and collaboration will be crucial to the successful delivery of the ambitious range of activities and outputs that we envisage. We have assembled an experienced project team including academics and survey practitioners (39 people from 14 institutions), who are committed to the necessary constructive collaboration and we will engage a wider range of other stakeholders during the course of the grant to ensure that our outputs directly benefit a wide range of audiences.
Impact will be achieved not only on survey research and survey practice but also on a broad range of disciplines within the social sciences and beyond which employ social survey data for analysis through raised awareness and knowledge of issues and opportunities.
The Survey Data Collection Methods Collaboration (SDCMC) is a response to these challenges and aims to deliver a step change in approaches to collecting population survey data in the UK to ensure that it will remain possible to carry out high quality social surveys of the kinds required by the public and academic sectors to monitor and understand society, and to provide an evidence base for policy. It will do this primarily through a rigorous programme of research focused on ensuring large-scale social surveys in the UK can innovate and adapt in a changing environment and continue to deliver high quality and inclusive data.
The primary aim of the programme of work is to assess the quality implications of the most important survey design choices relevant to future UK surveys and provide good practice guidance and practical training materials, while a secondary aim is to identify promising ways to improve the capacity and skillset of both interviewers and research professionals and take steps towards making those improvements.
The SDCMC will generate a range of research and training outputs and will engage in a programme of dissemination and promotion activities. Outputs will have a strong practical orientation, consisting of good practice guidance for survey design, survey implementation, survey commissioners and survey data users, all backed up by rigorous and well-documented research and with a range of associated activities to ensure that the lessons are disseminated to all relevant stakeholders and, where appropriate, embedded in institutional practice in a timely manner. The project will also seek to enable a whole community dialogue and collaborative response to wider strategic challenges and issues, as well as incorporating a strong training and capacity building component. To realise the vision of the SDCMC will require leadership, commitment and active participation of a broad range of stakeholders including those who commission surveys, those who implement them, those who use survey data and those involved in research and development of survey methods. Constructive dialogue and collaboration will be crucial to the successful delivery of the ambitious range of activities and outputs that we envisage. We have assembled an experienced project team including academics and survey practitioners (39 people from 14 institutions), who are committed to the necessary constructive collaboration and we will engage a wider range of other stakeholders during the course of the grant to ensure that our outputs directly benefit a wide range of audiences.
Impact will be achieved not only on survey research and survey practice but also on a broad range of disciplines within the social sciences and beyond which employ social survey data for analysis through raised awareness and knowledge of issues and opportunities.
Organisations
- University of Essex (Lead Research Organisation)
- United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (Collaboration)
- OFFICE FOR NATIONAL STATISTICS (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- National Institute of Statistics (Collaboration)
- University of Lausanne (Collaboration)
- London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London) (Collaboration)
- University College London (Collaboration)
- Kantar Group (Collaboration)
- The National Academies (Collaboration)
- Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia (Collaboration)
- University of Warwick (Collaboration)
- City of London (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER (Collaboration)
- Statistics Norway (Collaboration)
- Ipsos MORI (Collaboration)
- ULSTER UNIVERSITY (Collaboration)
- University of Bamberg (Collaboration)
- Statistics Netherlands (Collaboration)
- National Centre for Social Research (Collaboration)
- European Commission (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON (Collaboration)
- Statistics Belgium (Collaboration)
- National Centre for Research Methods (Project Partner)
Publications


Cabrera Alvarez P
(2025)
Benefits of increasing the value of respondent incentives during the course of a longitudinal mixed-mode survey
in International Journal of Social Research Methodology

Cabrera-Álvarez P
(2024)
Text Messages to Facilitate the Transition to Web-First Sequential Mixed-Mode Designs in Longitudinal Surveys
in Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology

Charman C.
(2024)
How is survey interviewing changing post-pandemic?

Edochie I
(2024)
Small Area Estimation of Poverty in Four West African Countries by Integrating Survey and Geospatial Data
in Journal of Official Statistics




Description | Contribution of written evidence to the House of Commons Public and Constitutional Affairs Select Committee Inquiry: Transforming the UK's Evidence Base |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/work/7808/transforming-the-uks-evidence-base/ |
Description | Collaboration between Survey Futures and "New Data Spaces for the Social Sciences - An interdisciplinary programme for survey innovation in Germany" |
Organisation | University of Bamberg |
Country | Germany |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | We keep the German team informed on progress and relevant issues arising on our project. We have also agreed to contribute to a panel event being organised by the German team at a major international conference. |
Collaborator Contribution | One member of their team has joined our Advisory Board. They have provided us with information on related methodological projects in progress in Germany. |
Impact | Outcomes to date are informal, aside from one conference session. |
Start Year | 2023 |
Description | Collaboration between Survey Futures and the Smart Surveys Implementation ESSnet |
Organisation | European Commission |
Department | Eurostat |
Country | European Union (EU) |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | We participate in regular knowledge exchange meetings between the two teams and have also jointly organised a conference session aimed at practitioners. |
Collaborator Contribution | ESSnet-SSI members engage in knowledge exchange and one partner member has joined our Advisory Board. |
Impact | To date, only one jointly-delivered event. |
Start Year | 2023 |
Description | Collaboration between Survey Futures and the Smart Surveys Implementation ESSnet |
Organisation | National Institute of Statistics |
Country | Italy |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | We participate in regular knowledge exchange meetings between the two teams and have also jointly organised a conference session aimed at practitioners. |
Collaborator Contribution | ESSnet-SSI members engage in knowledge exchange and one partner member has joined our Advisory Board. |
Impact | To date, only one jointly-delivered event. |
Start Year | 2023 |
Description | Collaboration between Survey Futures and the Smart Surveys Implementation ESSnet |
Organisation | Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia |
Country | Slovenia |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | We participate in regular knowledge exchange meetings between the two teams and have also jointly organised a conference session aimed at practitioners. |
Collaborator Contribution | ESSnet-SSI members engage in knowledge exchange and one partner member has joined our Advisory Board. |
Impact | To date, only one jointly-delivered event. |
Start Year | 2023 |
Description | Collaboration between Survey Futures and the Smart Surveys Implementation ESSnet |
Organisation | Statistics Belgium |
Country | Belgium |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | We participate in regular knowledge exchange meetings between the two teams and have also jointly organised a conference session aimed at practitioners. |
Collaborator Contribution | ESSnet-SSI members engage in knowledge exchange and one partner member has joined our Advisory Board. |
Impact | To date, only one jointly-delivered event. |
Start Year | 2023 |
Description | Collaboration between Survey Futures and the Smart Surveys Implementation ESSnet |
Organisation | Statistics Netherlands |
Country | Netherlands |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | We participate in regular knowledge exchange meetings between the two teams and have also jointly organised a conference session aimed at practitioners. |
Collaborator Contribution | ESSnet-SSI members engage in knowledge exchange and one partner member has joined our Advisory Board. |
Impact | To date, only one jointly-delivered event. |
Start Year | 2023 |
Description | Collaboration between Survey Futures and the Smart Surveys Implementation ESSnet |
Organisation | Statistics Norway |
Country | Norway |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | We participate in regular knowledge exchange meetings between the two teams and have also jointly organised a conference session aimed at practitioners. |
Collaborator Contribution | ESSnet-SSI members engage in knowledge exchange and one partner member has joined our Advisory Board. |
Impact | To date, only one jointly-delivered event. |
Start Year | 2023 |
Description | Committee on National Statistics, National Academies |
Organisation | The National Academies |
Country | United States |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Attendance and presentation at NIA expert meeting on interviewer effects; knowledge sharing including a report on face-to-face interviewing in the UK |
Collaborator Contribution | A report which provided an overview of research findings on the impact of interviewers on response rates and other data quality issues in longitudinal surveys. |
Impact | An Executive Summary, including future directions for research |
Start Year | 2023 |
Description | Quality Charter for Sureys |
Organisation | Office for National Statistics |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Project is in the initiation phase; plans are to create a cross-sector working group to create a Quality Charter for Surveys to be used in the UK. This will be an output of the Survey Futures Programme. I have created an outline template for the SQC document, which shows the potential sections to include and populate. |
Collaborator Contribution | As in initiation phase currently, contributions thus far include the Survey Futures Senior Leadership Team discussion and approval to commence project. Those involved in the working group will be expected to shape and drive this forward, including providing content and assuring the content of the Charter. |
Impact | Underway, no outcomes yet - main deliverable will be a Charter, to be hosted online. |
Start Year | 2025 |
Description | Survey Futures: The UK Survey Data Collection Methods Collaboration |
Organisation | City of London |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | I lead this collaboration as Director. |
Collaborator Contribution | The expertise and experience of the many and varied partners have helped to shape the research programme and the engagement activities. Six partner organisations are represented on the Senior Leadership Team of the project, while others contribute in a range of ways, including as partners on specific research sub-projects. |
Impact | In the first 8 months of the collaboration, we have held 5 engagement/consultative events, made a number of presentations to various bodies and have produced one research output. The core members of the collaboration are survey practitioners and academic researchers with backgrounds in sociology, economics and health. The wider collaboration group includes survey commissioners and survey data users, from government, academia, and the private and third sectors. |
Start Year | 2023 |
Description | Survey Futures: The UK Survey Data Collection Methods Collaboration |
Organisation | Ipsos MORI |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | I lead this collaboration as Director. |
Collaborator Contribution | The expertise and experience of the many and varied partners have helped to shape the research programme and the engagement activities. Six partner organisations are represented on the Senior Leadership Team of the project, while others contribute in a range of ways, including as partners on specific research sub-projects. |
Impact | In the first 8 months of the collaboration, we have held 5 engagement/consultative events, made a number of presentations to various bodies and have produced one research output. The core members of the collaboration are survey practitioners and academic researchers with backgrounds in sociology, economics and health. The wider collaboration group includes survey commissioners and survey data users, from government, academia, and the private and third sectors. |
Start Year | 2023 |
Description | Survey Futures: The UK Survey Data Collection Methods Collaboration |
Organisation | Kantar Group |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | I lead this collaboration as Director. |
Collaborator Contribution | The expertise and experience of the many and varied partners have helped to shape the research programme and the engagement activities. Six partner organisations are represented on the Senior Leadership Team of the project, while others contribute in a range of ways, including as partners on specific research sub-projects. |
Impact | In the first 8 months of the collaboration, we have held 5 engagement/consultative events, made a number of presentations to various bodies and have produced one research output. The core members of the collaboration are survey practitioners and academic researchers with backgrounds in sociology, economics and health. The wider collaboration group includes survey commissioners and survey data users, from government, academia, and the private and third sectors. |
Start Year | 2023 |
Description | Survey Futures: The UK Survey Data Collection Methods Collaboration |
Organisation | London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London) |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | I lead this collaboration as Director. |
Collaborator Contribution | The expertise and experience of the many and varied partners have helped to shape the research programme and the engagement activities. Six partner organisations are represented on the Senior Leadership Team of the project, while others contribute in a range of ways, including as partners on specific research sub-projects. |
Impact | In the first 8 months of the collaboration, we have held 5 engagement/consultative events, made a number of presentations to various bodies and have produced one research output. The core members of the collaboration are survey practitioners and academic researchers with backgrounds in sociology, economics and health. The wider collaboration group includes survey commissioners and survey data users, from government, academia, and the private and third sectors. |
Start Year | 2023 |
Description | Survey Futures: The UK Survey Data Collection Methods Collaboration |
Organisation | National Centre for Social Research |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | I lead this collaboration as Director. |
Collaborator Contribution | The expertise and experience of the many and varied partners have helped to shape the research programme and the engagement activities. Six partner organisations are represented on the Senior Leadership Team of the project, while others contribute in a range of ways, including as partners on specific research sub-projects. |
Impact | In the first 8 months of the collaboration, we have held 5 engagement/consultative events, made a number of presentations to various bodies and have produced one research output. The core members of the collaboration are survey practitioners and academic researchers with backgrounds in sociology, economics and health. The wider collaboration group includes survey commissioners and survey data users, from government, academia, and the private and third sectors. |
Start Year | 2023 |
Description | Survey Futures: The UK Survey Data Collection Methods Collaboration |
Organisation | Office for National Statistics |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | I lead this collaboration as Director. |
Collaborator Contribution | The expertise and experience of the many and varied partners have helped to shape the research programme and the engagement activities. Six partner organisations are represented on the Senior Leadership Team of the project, while others contribute in a range of ways, including as partners on specific research sub-projects. |
Impact | In the first 8 months of the collaboration, we have held 5 engagement/consultative events, made a number of presentations to various bodies and have produced one research output. The core members of the collaboration are survey practitioners and academic researchers with backgrounds in sociology, economics and health. The wider collaboration group includes survey commissioners and survey data users, from government, academia, and the private and third sectors. |
Start Year | 2023 |
Description | Survey Futures: The UK Survey Data Collection Methods Collaboration |
Organisation | Ulster University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | I lead this collaboration as Director. |
Collaborator Contribution | The expertise and experience of the many and varied partners have helped to shape the research programme and the engagement activities. Six partner organisations are represented on the Senior Leadership Team of the project, while others contribute in a range of ways, including as partners on specific research sub-projects. |
Impact | In the first 8 months of the collaboration, we have held 5 engagement/consultative events, made a number of presentations to various bodies and have produced one research output. The core members of the collaboration are survey practitioners and academic researchers with backgrounds in sociology, economics and health. The wider collaboration group includes survey commissioners and survey data users, from government, academia, and the private and third sectors. |
Start Year | 2023 |
Description | Survey Futures: The UK Survey Data Collection Methods Collaboration |
Organisation | University College London |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | I lead this collaboration as Director. |
Collaborator Contribution | The expertise and experience of the many and varied partners have helped to shape the research programme and the engagement activities. Six partner organisations are represented on the Senior Leadership Team of the project, while others contribute in a range of ways, including as partners on specific research sub-projects. |
Impact | In the first 8 months of the collaboration, we have held 5 engagement/consultative events, made a number of presentations to various bodies and have produced one research output. The core members of the collaboration are survey practitioners and academic researchers with backgrounds in sociology, economics and health. The wider collaboration group includes survey commissioners and survey data users, from government, academia, and the private and third sectors. |
Start Year | 2023 |
Description | Survey Futures: The UK Survey Data Collection Methods Collaboration |
Organisation | University of Lausanne |
Country | Switzerland |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | I lead this collaboration as Director. |
Collaborator Contribution | The expertise and experience of the many and varied partners have helped to shape the research programme and the engagement activities. Six partner organisations are represented on the Senior Leadership Team of the project, while others contribute in a range of ways, including as partners on specific research sub-projects. |
Impact | In the first 8 months of the collaboration, we have held 5 engagement/consultative events, made a number of presentations to various bodies and have produced one research output. The core members of the collaboration are survey practitioners and academic researchers with backgrounds in sociology, economics and health. The wider collaboration group includes survey commissioners and survey data users, from government, academia, and the private and third sectors. |
Start Year | 2023 |
Description | Survey Futures: The UK Survey Data Collection Methods Collaboration |
Organisation | University of Manchester |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | I lead this collaboration as Director. |
Collaborator Contribution | The expertise and experience of the many and varied partners have helped to shape the research programme and the engagement activities. Six partner organisations are represented on the Senior Leadership Team of the project, while others contribute in a range of ways, including as partners on specific research sub-projects. |
Impact | In the first 8 months of the collaboration, we have held 5 engagement/consultative events, made a number of presentations to various bodies and have produced one research output. The core members of the collaboration are survey practitioners and academic researchers with backgrounds in sociology, economics and health. The wider collaboration group includes survey commissioners and survey data users, from government, academia, and the private and third sectors. |
Start Year | 2023 |
Description | Survey Futures: The UK Survey Data Collection Methods Collaboration |
Organisation | University of Southampton |
Department | ESRC National Centre for Research Methods |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | I lead this collaboration as Director. |
Collaborator Contribution | The expertise and experience of the many and varied partners have helped to shape the research programme and the engagement activities. Six partner organisations are represented on the Senior Leadership Team of the project, while others contribute in a range of ways, including as partners on specific research sub-projects. |
Impact | In the first 8 months of the collaboration, we have held 5 engagement/consultative events, made a number of presentations to various bodies and have produced one research output. The core members of the collaboration are survey practitioners and academic researchers with backgrounds in sociology, economics and health. The wider collaboration group includes survey commissioners and survey data users, from government, academia, and the private and third sectors. |
Start Year | 2023 |
Description | Survey Futures: The UK Survey Data Collection Methods Collaboration |
Organisation | University of Southampton |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | I lead this collaboration as Director. |
Collaborator Contribution | The expertise and experience of the many and varied partners have helped to shape the research programme and the engagement activities. Six partner organisations are represented on the Senior Leadership Team of the project, while others contribute in a range of ways, including as partners on specific research sub-projects. |
Impact | In the first 8 months of the collaboration, we have held 5 engagement/consultative events, made a number of presentations to various bodies and have produced one research output. The core members of the collaboration are survey practitioners and academic researchers with backgrounds in sociology, economics and health. The wider collaboration group includes survey commissioners and survey data users, from government, academia, and the private and third sectors. |
Start Year | 2023 |
Description | Survey Futures: The UK Survey Data Collection Methods Collaboration |
Organisation | University of Warwick |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | I lead this collaboration as Director. |
Collaborator Contribution | The expertise and experience of the many and varied partners have helped to shape the research programme and the engagement activities. Six partner organisations are represented on the Senior Leadership Team of the project, while others contribute in a range of ways, including as partners on specific research sub-projects. |
Impact | In the first 8 months of the collaboration, we have held 5 engagement/consultative events, made a number of presentations to various bodies and have produced one research output. The core members of the collaboration are survey practitioners and academic researchers with backgrounds in sociology, economics and health. The wider collaboration group includes survey commissioners and survey data users, from government, academia, and the private and third sectors. |
Start Year | 2023 |
Description | UNECE - ASCENT |
Organisation | United Nations Economic Commission for Europe |
Country | Switzerland |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Attendance at monthly meetings for the ASCENT programme, knowledge sharing |
Collaborator Contribution | Knowledge sharing |
Impact | In progress |
Start Year | 2025 |
Description | "Research Strand 1: Enhanced sampling frames and procedures" presentation at Survey Practice Forum #1 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | A presentation on the scope of the research at the beginning of the project, to an audience of c80 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | A delegation of CLS researchers showcase methodological research at the Panel Survey Methods Workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | A delegation of four researchers-Lisa Calderwood, Matt Brown, Tugba Adali, and Alessandra Gaia-attended the 8th Panel Survey Methods Workshop, held on 11-12 July 2024 at Utrecht University, Netherlands. They presented methodological research findings from the cohort studies. A short presentation handout, along with the presentation slides, is available online: https://panelsurveymethods.wordpress.com/earlier-panel-survey-method-workshops/panel-survey-methodology-workshop-2024-utrecht-preliminary-programme/. The discussions following each presentation focused on improving survey practices for longitudinal studies, both nationally and internationally. Notably, Professor Lisa Calderwood is one of the six members of the workshop's scientific committee. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://panelsurveymethods.wordpress.com/about/ |
Description | A panel discussion on "Good practice guides - what makes a practice guide good?" at the 1st ECR Conference, 7th February 2025 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | This session was organised by Sierra Mesplie-Escott (NatCen) and was moderated/hosted by Thomas O'Toole (University of Manchester). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
Description | A talk at the ERSC Survey Futures Early Career Researchers Conference, University of Essex, UK 7th February 2025 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | I gave a presentation titled ''Considering the impacts of mixed mode survey design on UKHLS COVID-19 Study dataset performance' to increase our understanding of the use of mixed interview mode survey designs. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
URL | https://surveyfutures.net/events/2024/11/18/1st-survey-futures-early-career-researchers-conference/ |
Description | Advice to a United Nations Working Group |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Participation (both presentation, discussion and advice) to the United Nations/ World Bank inter-secretariat joint working group on household surveys meeting on updating advice documentation/materials on carrying out household surveys, particularly in developing countries. Considerable discussion ensued and I received an invitation from the UN to become a member of the Project Core Group. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
URL | https://unstats.un.org/iswghs |
Description | Blog: Disinformation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | A blog on recent events that could help to fight statistical disinformation. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
URL | https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/blog/2024/10/23/glimmers-of-hope-in-the-war-against-disinformation |
Description | Cross Government Survey Group |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Invited to present to this cross-governmental group to raise awareness of research in progress and current initiatives and expertise in the area of survey methods. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | Cross-Government Survey Group |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Survey Futures presentation. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | DWP Methods Advisory Group |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | A presentation on "Survey Futures: Addressing current challenges to ensure the future of survey data collection" was given by Dr Olga Maslovskaya. 40 people in attendance. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | Discussion with Office for Statistics Regulation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | I was invited by the Director of the Office for Statistics Regulation, Ed Humpherson, to discuss with him and three senior colleagues issues surrounding the ability of social surveys to deliver the data and information needs of government and society in the UK, including providing advice on issues that they could usefully monitor and questions that they could ask of statistics producers. The discussion meeting took place on 07/01/2025. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
URL | https://osr.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/ |
Description | ESRC Council |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | A presentation on Survey Futures aims and research strands. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | ESSnet on Smart Survey Implementation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Survey Futures presentation. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | Early Life Cohort Methods Advisory Group |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Participated in meetings of the Advisory Group, providing guidance on design and implementation issues. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | Edinburgh Survey Practice Forum |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Gave a talk on initiatives to improve and disseminate good survey practice across the academic, government and private sectors. The audience included government researchers, survey agency executives, PGR students and academics. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | End of project international on-line workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | More than 80 people attended a workshop where the findings of the study were presented, and feedback was obtained from participants. In particular feedback on the form of the toolkit was sought, but participants had limited views. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
Description | Engagement Webinar on Survey Futures |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Webinar to introduce the objectives and work plan of Survey Futures to a broad audience including practitioners from government, private, third and academic sectors, both in the UK and overseas. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdhAQ3rDqHs |
Description | European Social Survey Core Scientific Team |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Survey Futures presentation. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | European Statistical System Network: Smart Survey Implementation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Regular participation in SSI ESSnet project progress meetings plus other knowledge exchange. SSI ESSnet is a multi-organisation collaboration involving Eurostat, the national statistical institutes of the Netherlands, Germany, Norway, Slovenia, Belgium and Italy, private sector organisations and academics. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024,2025 |
URL | https://cros.ec.europa.eu/dashboard/trusted-smart-surveys |
Description | Inclusivity and Incentives Workshop (organised by ONS) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Survey Futures presentation. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | Interview with BBC |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | I was interviewed by Robert Cuffe, Head of Statistics at the BBC, on 17/12/2024, about the work of Survey Futures and the current state of survey methods more broadly. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024,2025 |
Description | Keynote speech to Conference of International Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Keynote presentation attended by over 100 participants in-person and viewed over 300 times subsequently on YouTube (within 3 months of the event). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
URL | https://www.slls.org.uk/events/2024-slls-annual-international-conference |
Description | MZES: Mannheim Research Colloquium on Survey Methods |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Dr Olga Maslovskaya gave a presentation at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research's Mannheim Research Colloquium on Survey Methods on 5th November 2024. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | Organisation of a methods symposium at the Society for Longitudinal Studies Conference 2024 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Centre for Longitudinal Studies organised a symposium at the SLLS 2024 conference to showcase methodological innovations in the CLS cohort studies. Presentations covered use of video interviewing in NCDS and BCS70, the results of a mode experiment in MCS, experimental evidence on the use of targeted incentives in Next Steps (and other innovations) and developments in approaches to handling missing data. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
URL | https://hubble-live-assets.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/slls/file_asset/file/1117/2024_SLLS_CONFERENCE... |
Description | Participation in an expert panel advising on the survey design of the European Values Survey |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Invited to participate (as one of four experts) in an panel advising on the survey design of the Italian round of the European Values Study. The panel focused on enhancing the representativeness of a hard-to-reach group-immigrants residing in Italy -by refining the sampling design and optimizing response maximization strategies. The four experts were: Alessandra Gaia (Centre for Longitudinal Studies), Annamaria Bianchi (University of Bergamo), Peter Lynn (University of Essex) and Pierfrancesco Perri (University of Calabria). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
URL | https://europeanvaluesstudy.eu/ |
Description | Presentation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Keynote at the ECR conference |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
Description | Presentation at Panel Survey Methods Workshop 2024 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The workshop involves survey practitioners from government and private sector organisations (as well as academics). The aim is knowledge exchange and networking. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
URL | https://panelsurveymethods.wordpress.com/ |
Description | Presentation at Survey Futures Early Career Researcher Conference on impact of video interviewing on measurement and data quality |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Marc Asensio presented initial findings from an experiment seeking to compare how the measurement properties of data collected by video interviews compares with data collected online and face-to-face. There is a lack of evidence about the impact of video interviewing on measurement and data quality so these findings make an important contribution to our understanding of this emerging mode for conducting social surveys. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
URL | https://surveyfutures.net/events/2024/11/18/1st-survey-futures-early-career-researchers-conference/ |
Description | Presentation on ""Options for integrating survey and non-survey data" at the 1st ECR Conference, 7th February 2025 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | This presentation was provided by Thomas O'Toole (University of Manchester). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
Description | Presentation on "Assessing methods for within-household selection in self-administered push-to-web surveys" at the 1st ECR Conference, 7th February 2025 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | This presentation was provided by Nathan Reece (City St. George's, University of London). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
Description | Presentation on "Developing training and capacity in the survey sector" at the 3rd Survey Practice Forum, 1st October 2024 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation provided by Debbie Collins (NatCen) and Gabriele Durrant (University of Southampton). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | Presentation on "Digitising the diary component of the National Travel Survey" at thee 3rd Survey Practice Forum, 1st October 2024 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | This presentation was given by Eva Aizpurua (NatCen) and Lisa Eyers (DfT). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | Presentation on "Do we still need non-response follow-ups to web surveys of the UK general population? An analysis of cost-quality trade-offs" at the 1st ECR Conference, 7th February 2025 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | This presentation was provided by Pablo Cabrera-Alvarez (University of Essex). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
Description | Presentation on "Do you think surveys have a bright future? I do" at Survey Futures ECR Conference, Essex, 7 February 2025 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation made by Sarah Henry |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
URL | https://surveyfutures.net/events/2024/11/18/1st-survey-futures-early-career-researchers-conference/ |
Description | Presentation on "Driving efficiency: Optimising knock-to-nudge data collection for the Transformed Labour Force Survey" at the 1st ECR Conference, 7th February 2025 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | This presentation was provided by Michalina Siemiatkowska (ONS). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
Description | Presentation on "Findings from a recent study into mixed mode survey designs to inform the Scottish Government's long-term strategy" at the 4th Survey Practice Forum, 6th December 2024 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | This presentation was provided by Rachel Ormston (Ipsos). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | Presentation on "How do household panel members react to multiple requests for different types of additional data over time?" at the 1st ECR Conference, 7th February 2025 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | This presentation was provided by Jasmine Mitchell (University of Essex). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
Description | Presentation on "Implementing a new push-to-web mixed-mode survey - the DCMS Participation Survey" at the 3rd Survey Practice Forum, 1st October 2024 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation provided by Penny Gaught-Allen (DCMS) and Joel Williams (Verian). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | Presentation on "Methodological lessons from the Transformed Labour Force Survey" at the 3rd Survey Practice Forum, 1st October 2024 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Orlaith Fraser (ONS) gave this presentation. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | Presentation on "Mode differences in propensities to consent to data linkage following repeated requests in a household panel survey" at the 1st ECR Conference, 7th February 2025 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | This presentation was provided by Jim Vine (University of Essex". |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
Description | Presentation on "Reducing mode effects by good questionnaire design" at the 1st ECR Conference, 7th February 2025 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | This presentation was provided by Richard Bull (NatCen). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
Description | Presentation on "Social surveys without field interviewers in the UK: An evidence review" at the 1st ECR Conference, 7th February 2025 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | This presentation was provided by Cristian Domarchi (University of Southampton). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
Description | Presentation on "Survey Futures objectives and activities" at the 4th Survey Practice Forum, 6h December 2024 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | This presentation was provided by Peter Lynn (University of Essex) and Olga Maslovskaya (University of Southampton). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | Presentation on "Targeted procedures in self-completion surveys" at Survey Futures ECR Conference, Essex, 7 February 2025 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | This presentation was made by Mr Viktor Sladka. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
URL | https://surveyfutures.net/events/2024/11/18/1st-survey-futures-early-career-researchers-conference/ |
Description | Presentation on "The Survey Agency Perspective: Current issues in survey data collection" at the 4th Survey Practice Forum, 6th December 2024 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | This presentation was provided by Paul Bradshaw (ScotCen), Chris Martin (Ipsos), and Joel Williams (Verian). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | Presentation on "The Survey Commissioner Perspective: Current issues in survey data collection"" at the 4th Survey Practice Forum, 6th December 2024 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | This presentation was provided by Mark Bell (Scottish Crime and Justice Survey) and Morag Shepherd (Scottish Health Survey). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | Presentation on "The Survey User Perspective; What does a user look for in a survey dataset?" at the 4th Survey Practice Forum, 6th December 2024 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | This presentation was provided by Prof Vernon Gayle (University of Edinburgh) and Dr Ben Matthews (University of Stirling). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | Presentation on "the post-pandemic role of face-to-face fieldworkers" at the 3rd Survey Practice Forum, 1st October 2024 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Debbie Collins (NatCen) presented on this topic. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | Presentation on Adaptive Survey Designs: Targeted Procedures for Low-propensity Respondents at the European Social Survey National Committee Forum, 20-21 November 2024 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | This presentation was to stimulate discussions among National Committee Forum members about implementing adaptive survey designs to target low-propensity respondents based on information available from sampling frames used in different countries. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | Presentation on Survey Futures to government statisticians and others |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | A presentation on the objectives and work programme of Survey Futures, at a national conference attended by statisticians from government, public sector and industry. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | Presentation on Within-household Selection Methods for Surveys without Field Interviewers in the United Kingdom at the 1st Survey Futures Early Career Researchers Conference, University of Essex, 07 February 2025 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | This was a presentation on the work on within-household selection methods for surveys without field interviewers to an audience that in included survey agencies to share evidence. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
Description | Presentation on evaluating a new method for conducting occupation coding - at Survey Futures Survey Practice Forum |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Sebastian Kocar and Lisa Calderwood presented initial findings from an experiment which sought to evaluate the feasibility and quality of occupation coding using a look-up approach. Occupation is a key measure for many social surveys and is challenging to collect online. The development of new methods to improve the quality of occupation coding is therefore of vital importance. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
URL | https://natcen.ac.uk/events/3rd-survey-practice-forum-changing-data-collection-modes |
Description | Presentation on the potential of video interviewing as a method for conducting social surveys - at Survey Futures Survey Practice Forum |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Matt Brown, Gabriele Durrant, Tim Hanson and Martin Wood gave a presentation to a large audience of Survey Practitioners about the use of video interviewing as a mode for conducting social surveys. The presentation included findings from two Survey Futures working papers which document the latest evidence of the use of video interviewing in major surveys in the UK and in ESS - and included reflections from the team on the future potential of this newly emerging mode. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
URL | https://natcen.ac.uk/events/3rd-survey-practice-forum-changing-data-collection-modes |
Description | Presentation to Radical Statistics Conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation on groups that are under-represented in social survey data, what impact this under-representation might have on research findings, and what could be done to reduce the under-representation. Presentation sparked a lot of discussion (both formally during the session and also later during lunch and coffee breaks) amongst activists, students and NGOs. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
URL | https://www.radstats.org.uk/conference/london2024/ |
Description | Presentation to Video Interviewing Special Interest Group |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presented on - 'Experience on interviewing in two UK national cohort studies' to a group of survey practitioners who have a special interest or experience on video interviewing. This forum is used to share experiences and discuss how best to more widely document and disseminate findings in this area. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Provide evidence to ESRC for cohort studies review |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Give evidence to ESRC review of cohort studies |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
Description | Royal Statistical Society International Conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Prof Peter attended the RSS Conference in Brighton in September 2024. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | Royal Statistical Society seminar presentation - video interviewing |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presented on - 'Experience on interviewing in two UK national cohort studies'. This provided information and guidance on how video interviewing was conducted on NCDS and BCS70. This guidance can then be used by other survey practitioners/methodologists in considerations about future survey design. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Royal Statistical Society's National Statistics Advisory Group |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | NSAG is a body which influences the policies of the UK Statistical System, mainly focused on making statistics serve public uses. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023,2024,2025 |
URL | https://rss.org.uk/policy-campaigns/policy-groups/national-statistics-advisory-group/ |
Description | SF Early career Impact Awards Event |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Chaired event designed to celebrate early career researchers and promote survey research as a career. Handed out 8 awards. Awardees gave presentations of their research and research careers. Well-attended event had positive impacts on motivation of ECRs and on perceptions of the industry. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
URL | https://rss.org.uk/training-events/events/events-2024/sections/survey-futures-early-career-impact-aw... |
Description | SF session at RSS conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Survey Futures organised a session to disseminate emerging findings from the SF research programme to statisticians from government, the public sector and industry. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
URL | https://rss.org.uk/training-events/conference-2024/ |
Description | SLLS Annual International Conference 2024 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Prof Peter Lynn provided a keynote talk. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | Survey Futures workshop: survey sampling using health admin data (England & Wales) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | 16 invited participants met to explore the uses for and barriers to using health administrative data for survey sampling. Experiences were exchanged and some actions to improve communication and understanding of processes were proposed. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | Survey Practice Forum #1 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | 83 people, mainly survey practitioners, but also survey commissioners and survey data users, attended a Survey Practice Forum event held in central London, to debate the current challenges facing survey data collection in the UK and to identify information needs that could be addressed through further research. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://surveyfutures.net/events/2023/09/21/survey-practice-forum-2/ |
Description | Survey Practice Forum #2 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | 74 people, mainly survey practitioners, but also survey commissioners and survey data users, attended a Survey Practice Forum event held in central London, to debate the current challenges facing survey data collection in the UK, including from an international perspective, and to identify the top priorities for further research that could be commissioned through this award. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://surveyfutures.net/events/2023/09/08/survey-practice-forum/ |
Description | Survey Practice Forum #3 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | This was an open-invitation forum event aimed at all sectors/professionals with an interest in the future of social surveys. The event involved seven presentations on the theme of changing data collection modes, plus open discussion (more than 20 participants contributed actively to the discussion). There were 162 attendees, encompassing the public, academic, private and charity sectors in the UK as well as ten other countries. Within two months of the event, the online video recording of the event had also been viewed 115 times. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
URL | https://surveyfutures.net/events/2024/01/17/survey-practice-forum-3/ |
Description | Survey Practice Forum #4 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | This was an open-invitation in-person forum event in Edinburgh aimed at all sectors/professionals with an interest in the future of social surveys in Scotland. The event involved three panels of different types of stakeholders (survey agencies; government survey commissioners; academic survey data users) plus a presentation reporting a new research project with wide-ranging implications. There were 36 attendees, encompassing the public, academic, and private sectors in Scotland (and a few attendees from England). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
URL | https://surveyfutures.net/events/2024/10/02/survey-practice-forum-4/ |
Description | Training and Capacity Building Workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | This workshop aimed to identify training needs and capacity challenges facing the UK survey research community, particularly as relates to data collection methods. The outcome was a report setting out the identified needs. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://surveyfutures.net/events/2023/09/21/training-and-capacity-building-forum-in-person-2/ |
Description | UK Statistics Assembly |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Prof Peter Lynn, Gerry Nicolaas (Director of Methods, NatCen), Sarah Henry (Director of Methodology and Quality, ONS) and Prof Paul Smith (Head of the Department of Social Statistics & Demography, University of Southampton) attended and presented at the UK Statistics Assembly in January 2025. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2025 |
Description | United Nations Working Group to Revise Guidance on Household Survey Methods |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | This Working Group is producing updated guidance, in the form of a comprehensive handbook, on good practice in conducting household surveys. The guidance is aimed primarily at the 200+ National Statistical Offices in countries affiliated to the UN, but also to other survey-taking bodies in the public, private and academic sectors. The guidance should therefore ultimately impact upon thousands of surveys and hundreds of thousands of survey users, and indeed the publics affected by policies informed by survey data. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024,2025 |
URL | https://unstats.un.org/iswghs/HandbookRevision |
Description | Webinar on post-pandemic role of interviewers |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | A webinar to present and discuss emerging findings from the Survey Futures project to understand the future role(s) of survey interviewers. The aim was both to disseminate findings and to obtain input from practitioners to influence the next stages of the research. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
URL | https://www.city.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/2024/february/thinking-about-the-post-pandemic-role-of... |