First Announcement and Call for Papers
The landscape in which research technology is being used today has changed rapidly since our previous international conference in 2003. Survey and statistical software is not only evolving in response to the challenges of a more complex world, but is increasingly an agent of change, providing new opportunities for research and driving innovation in survey-based practices.We aim to capture the essence of these developments and promote knowledge and understanding in this sphere by seeking imaginative proposals for papers for our next international conference, 12-14 September 2007, at the University of Southampton, UK.
The conference will offer:
- Keynote addresses from opinion leaders in the field:
- Karen Dunnell,
- UK National Statistician,
- Professor Denise Lievesley,
- Chief Executive of the UK’s Information Centre for Health and Social Care,
President-Elect of the International Statistical Institute
and previously head of UNESCO Institute for Statistics- Mick Couper,
- Senior Associate Research Scientist at the Institute for Social Research and Adjunct Associate Professor for the Department of Sociology, University of Michigan. He is also Research Associate Professor in the Joint Program in Survey Methodology at the University of Maryland.
- Malcolm Rigg,
- Director of the Policy Studies Institute. He was previously Managing Director of the British Market Research Bureau (BMRB).
- A rich programme of presented papers, organised by theme into several parallel streams across the event.
- Poster session
- Discussion forums
- Exhibition, featuring innovative technology and solutions.
- An enjoyable social programme.
All of the papers, which will be subject to peer review, will be published in the Conference Proceedings in book form.
Themes and Topics
Within the central theme of
The challenges of a changing world
there are opportunities for papers to explore a wide range of topics in this field, including:
- Managing Change / Avoiding Disaster
- Reporting and presentation of analysis, results and reports
- Mobile / Mixed Mode Interviewing
- Analysis requirements and expectations
- Online Panels – their use and management
- Developments for web based CATI
- Sample sourcing and management
- Responses to the challenges and opportunities of Web 2.0
- Developments in graphics/video etc for research purposes
- Developments in survey automation / integration
- Integrating research data with data from other sources
- Census developments
- Ethnicity issues
- Researching in global markets
- Internationalisation
- Software licensing, intellectual property, copyright protection
- Data Protection and Security
- Qualitative research
- Text processing, coding and automated classification
- Developments in language translations and comprehension
We welcome contributions which address one or more of the above suggested topics, or on other related subjects. These may be developments in thinking, in practice or in the challenges of developing, implementing and evaluating new or evolving software or technology-based methodologies. We encourage contributions that identify informative failures or omissions as well as qualified or outright improvements.
Special events during the conference included the award of a prize for the Best Presented Poster, and the announcement of the shortlist for the MRS/ASC Joint Award for Technology Effectiveness
We expect about 150-200 Delegates at the Conference, drawn from across the UK, Europe, North and South America and Australasia. Delegates will include practitioners across all aspects of the survey research process. Details of the Exhibition and Sponsorship opportunities this provides can be found here.
Confirmed exhibitors include Data Liberation, QSR International, Global Market Insite, in addition to the Principal Sponsors shown on the right.
Page last updated on 27 March, 2007