Government Social Research
Social Research Association (SRA) seminar on 'promoting effective dissemination' on 28 April
Chaired by Ceridwen Roberts, SRA Chair and University of Oxford - report by Rob Reynolds
Online access to key social research databases
ASSIA, Econlit, ERIC, NCJRS, PAIS, Sociological Abstracts, Social Services Abstracts - is now available at desktops via CSA Illumina to GSR subscribing departments - ask your departmental library for details.
The Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS)
The CLS is responsible for three of the internationally-renowned British Birth Cohort Studies that are following cohorts of individuals born in 1958, 1970 and around the time of the last millennium (2000-1).
CLS would like to hear from any who may be interested in being included on the CLS contacts database. Send your full name (including title), postal and email address, along with a contact telephone number to: Farnaz Farahmand, Centre for Longitudinal Studies Tel: +44 0207 6126863
SINAPSE: Providing Scientific Information for Policy-Making
The European Commission has launched SINAPSE (Scientific INformAtion for Policy Support in Europe), a tool which is designed to make scientific advice more easily available for policy-makers at European and national level. It is a web-based communication platform which encourages the exchange of information between the scientific community and all policy-makers who use science to help reach decisions. It aims to provide means for decision-makers to identify and consult relevant experts quickly. It is a tool whereby scientists can make their expertise and research available to those who can make use of it. It will also contribute to improving the amount and quality of information available to the public.
Although it is an open network, SINAPSE intends to respect the level of confidentiality required and expected by its members. This implies that users are in most cases able to decide who has access to the information they publish (e.g. uploading advice in the library, sending out an early warning, or posting a contribution to a debate). This means they can determine whether their contribution should be accessible by everybody, or only by network members/organisations, a subgroup of them, or the Commission Services.
User involvement in research - JRF report
CRSP celebrates 21 years of success
Speakers' full papers will be available at a later date.