Survey Skills Programme Workshop in Belfast Facilitated by ARK 18 May 2010

Event date: 18 May 2010 - 10:00am
Cost: £20-£50 depending on status
Contact: Beverley Botting
Location: Queen's University, Belfast BT7 1NN

The Survey Skills Programme is an exciting opportunity for new social researchers to gain a first-hand insight  and practical experience of the social survey process in the 'real world' to complement their theoretical learning at uni. Researchers are invited to a very low-cost one-day workshop which provides an introduction to the various aspects of running a social survey. It also  showcases one specific survey -on  18 May this will be the Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey facilitated by ARK.  A prestigious collaboration of academic institutes and professional research organisations, including the National Centre for Social Research, the Office for National Statistics, the British Market Research Bureau and IpsosMORI  have joined together to offer a wide range of training opportunities covering all stages of the survey research process.

Survey Skills is open to postgraduate research students, academics and researchers from the NHS, local and central government and other public bodies, as well as those working in the charity and voluntary sectors.  

We aim to run 12 workshops each year which take place in various venues across the UK. Participants can sign up for up to 4 days of placements on different aspects of surveys - e.g. going out with an interviewer, working with a team designing a new survey etc. Workshops cost between £20 and £50 depending on employment status, and further placements days are free of charge. Employing organisations will need to fund travel and subsistence but there is a small  fund of money for travel support for those who are unfunded. We do want our workshops to be accessible to all, so please do contact me about travel support (or support with paying the workshop fee) if this would make it possible for you to attend. Please feel free to forward this email  to colleagues who may be interested in participating or nominating others for the scheme.

For more details of the workshop timetable please visit our website: www.surveynet.ac.uk . If you click on 'survey skills' in the left hand menu, and then click on 'workshops' this will take you to our timetable and booking form.  If you would like further information on the Survey Skills programme or the Survey Resources Network please contact me.

I am very happy to answer any questions you might have about the Survey Skills Programme. beverley.botting@natcen.ac.uk