GSR conference 2006
Parallel session notes
The information in this report captures some of the main points made in
the various parallel sessions. It is designed as a reminder of the issues
under debate for those who attended, and as a pointer for further discussion
by those who did not. It is not, nor is it intended to be, a comprehensive
record of all that was said. Although every effort has been made to capture
the points made accurately, this information has been compiled from notes
taken at the time by GSR members. It is not written by the speakers themselves,
although they have seen and approved the summary. Any views expressed are
not necessarily those of GSR. Slide presentations are available for some
sessions. Please send any requests for copies of them to Jonathan
Webb
Social research in practice
- Using research to deliver tax credits - Victoria
Hughes, HM Revenue and Customs
- Evaluating a complex funding programme - the experience of the European
Refugee Fund - Carolyne Ndofor-Tah, Home Office
- The value of pilots - case study of the Dedicated Drugs Courts pilot
- Greg Braun, Department for Constitutional Affairs.
- Supporting Policy - the role of statistics - Deborah Brown, Northern
Ireland Statistics and Research Agency.
GSR as a catalyst for collaborative working
- Workplace employment relations study - Barbara Kesley, Department of
Trade and Industry.
- Collaboration as an important cross-cutting issue - New directions for
environment and health research in Scotland - Julie Carr, Scottish Executive
- Building Capacity and Infrastructure for research- CRC Cymru - Susan
Denman, Welsh Assembly Government.
How to have an impact - the trials and tribulations of a GSR
- Deliberative Polling: A Case study: Researchers walk the tightrope:
National Pensions Day - Michael Kelly, Department for Work and Pensions
- What works..? - Gita Anand, Scottish Executive
- Influencing Policy Colleagues: Using Findings from an Overseas Study
Trip - Dr. Stella Mascarenhas-Keyes, Department of Trade and Industry.
Having an Impact
- Increasing GSR’s impact - Teresa Williams, GSRU
- Increasing the impact of our national studies programme - Roger Sykes,
Audit Commission
Developing Our Skills
The role of qualitative research
- Using qualitative research to explore redesign options for the child
support system - Simon Franklin, Department for Work and Pensions.
- The early stage integration for resettled refugees brought to the UK
- a qualitative evaluation - Mark McConaghy, Home Office.
Mixed analytical teams in practice
- Researcher or statistician? - Tracey Budd, Department for Transport.
- R&D tax credits: A cross-disciplinary evaluation experience - Elizabeth
Spratt & Alice Dwyer, HM Revenue and Customs.
- How a lone social researcher can make a splash in a sea of other analysts
- Mike Tibble, Department for Work and Pensions.
Innovative methods of data manipulation
- Methods to improve the estimation of mortality and life expectancy
- Brian Johnson, Office for National Statistics.
- Linking the Labour Force Survey to the Inter - Departmental Business
Register - Matt Fido, Office for National Statistics.
The role of experimental designs
- Utilising Random Assignment: Employment Retention Advancement Demonstration
Operational Challenges - Karl Olsen, Department for Work and Pensions.
- Propensity Score Matching - Elizabeth Whiting and Lucy Cuppleditch,
Home Office
- Refugees Integration: Piloting Experimental Design in Evaluating Refugee
Integration - Nathanael Bevan, Home Office
New Approaches to Procurement
- Small Grant Schemes: Scottish Executive Education Department Sponsored
Research Programme - Rod Harrison, Scottish Executive
- New Ideas Fund - Karen Bathgate and Robert Willis, Welsh Assembly Government
- Collaborative Partnership Opportunities - David Ridley, ESRC
The role of participants
- Ethical research - the voice of research participants - Jane Lewis,
National Centre for Social Research
- Children’s participation - the researchers of tomorrow - Jennifer
Shepherd, Welsh Assembly Government
Citizen Research
- Public perceptions in a devolved Scotland, Iain MacAllister, Scottish
Executive
- Measuring the performance of public services: capturing citizens’
experiences’, Leighton Phillips and Richard Thurston, Welsh Assembly
Government.
- The Citizenship Survey, Robert Rutherfoord, DCLG
Inclusive Research?
- Developing new survey methods for cross-cultural research - Liz Pendry,
Home Office
- People with disabilities in Northern Ireland - how many are there? -
Carly Niblock and Amanda Filmer, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research
Agency
The role of research in encouraging democratic participation
- Putting stakeholders on the map - Claire Hinchcliffe, Scottish Executive
- The role of social research in developing the civil rights of disabled
people - Grahame Whitfield, Office for Disability Issues.
Maximising response and minimising burden
- Researching large complex organisations - what works? - Ellen Springall,
HM Revenue and Customs
- The ‘Taking Part’ Survey: An experiment using incentives
- Rebbecca Aust, Department for Culture, Media and Sport and Joel Williams,
BMRB
Action Research
- Connecting policy, practice and community through action research:
Lessons from the Sustainable Health Action Research Programme in Wales
- Kaori Onoda, Welsh Assembly Government, Professor Steve Cropper, Keele
University and Professor Robert Moore, Liverpool university, SHARP project
representative
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