Past events
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27 July 2022
Our latest seminar in our lunch time series, aimed at exploring the expanding world of deliberative research, was held on 27 July. The seminar featured guest speakers to provide unique insights into the understanding of deliberation.
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14 July 2022
Pew Research Center has fielded the annual, cross-national Global Attitudes Survey for two decades, surveying publics in around 20 to 40 countries per year, relying on probability-based phone and face-to-face methods outside of the United States.
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14 July 2022
| British Academy
On 14 July 2022, the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen) held an event at the British Academy for the launch of its third annual Society Watch report. The report focuses on the social legacies of the COVID-19 pandemic, with new research exploring the long-term effects of the pandemic for different communities across society.
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13 July 2022
Cannabis-linked livelihoods have been undermined by official laws and policies for generations in Africa. While cannabis remains criminalized in most African countries, in some there have been growing changes in official perceptions on the substance following the emergence of a lucrative global legal cannabis market led by countries such as Canada.
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08 July 2022
This event will explore the opportunities and challenges of developing context-specific pathways towards strengthening gender-inclusive climate action within the context of intersecting crises in Africa.
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29 June 2022
We are pleased to be co-sponsoring this event hosted by The Social Researchers of Colour (SROC) network.
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28 June 2022
In this presentation, Carole Sanchez (Centre for Longitudinal Studies), Mari Toomse-Smith and Kirsty Cole (NatCen Social Research) will discuss the use of video interviewing.
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27 June 2022
| City, University of London
On 27 June 2022, NatCen’s Centre for Children and Families hosted a conference to bring together research and researchers working on inequality and education from the early years all the way to young adults.
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21 June 2022
On 21 June, the Scottish Centre for Social Research (ScotCen) hosted a half day conference online to provide an update on the Growing Up in Scotland (GUS) study. Commissioned by the Scottish Government, GUS is a longitudinal study that has been tracking the lives of thousands of children in Scotland since 2005, from early years through to young adulthood.
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31 May 2022
The inclusion of respondent perspectives in the survey development process through pretesting (e.g., testing the quality of questions in a survey before data collection) is a topic that has received a great deal of attention over the years.