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- Acknowledgments
- My personal pantheon (of the great and the good in survey research)
- Recent and planned activities
- Textbooks for Research Methods and Data Analysis
- 1: Survey Analysis Workshop (SPSS)
- 1a: Statistical concepts and methods
- 1b: Teaching with Survey Data
- 1c: Developing research projects using survey data
- 1d: Workshop and presentations for ASSESS (SPSS users in Europe)
- 2: Survey Research Practice
- 2a: Survey Research Methodology, Practice and Training
- 2b: Major survey series
- 3: Subjective Social Indicators (Quality of Life)
- 4: Survey Unit, Social Science Research Council (UK)
- 5a: Polytechnic of North London (1976-1992)
- 5b: Survey Research Unit (1978-1992)
- Village life in Normandy
- Contact
- Origins of the British Crime Survey
- British Crime Survey
Acknowledgments
Fellow researchers (from whom I learned, and to whom I owe, so much)
[New page 28 Feb 2017; last updated 31 August 2017]
A special mention is due to George Argyrous, who introduced me to the SPSS Academic Author program when my initial 5-year free licence expired.
I have been privileged to know and work with many people at all levels and from a wide range of institutions, from whom I learned my trade as a survey researcher and from many of whom I absorbed much wisdom. I am indebted to them all and only regret that, after several decades, I have been unable to track many of them down or provide further information
Social Science Research Council
Michael Young, (Chairman)
Robin Matthews ( Chairman)
Cyril Smith (Secretary)
Visiting Fellows, SSRC Survey Unit:
Angus Campbell (Director, Survey Research Center, ISR, Ann Arbor)
Bernard Blishen (Director, Inst of Social and Behavioural Research, York University, Ontario)
Norman Bradburn (NORC)
Morris Janowitz (Chicago)
Jim Davis (NORC)
Fellow researchers (with whom I was on first name terms and had regular contact)
Academia:
London School of Economics (LSE)
William "Bill" Belson (Director, Centre for Survey Research)
Graham Kalton (Reader in Social Statistics, later Professor at Southampton: founder of www.westat.com/Westat)
Tony Fielding (Lecturer in Social Statistics, later moved to Birmingham, most recently Bristol: died 29 Oct 2012)
Colm O'Muircheartaigh (Lecturer in Social Statistics, now at NORC Chicago)
Strathclyde
Steve Tagg ( but main profile no longer there)
Southampton
Aubrey McKennell (Professor)
Government departments:
Central Statistical Office (now Office for National Statistics)
Claus Moser (Director) died 5 Sep 2015: see also Guardian obituary
Muriel Nissel (editor Social Trends)
Louis Moss (Director, Government Social Survey)
Home Office
Ron Clarke
(Director, Home Office Research Unit: originator of the British Crime Survey, now Crime Survey for England and Wales)
Mary Tuck (Director, Home Office Research Unit: after Ron Clarke)
Not-for-profit institutions:
Social and Community Planning Research (now National Centre for Social Research Natcen)
Roger Jowell
Gerald Hoinville
Martin Collins
Colin Airey
Barry Hedges
Jean Morton-Williams
Jane Ritchie
Patten Smith (now Research Director, Ipsos-Mori)
Roger Thomas
Sharon Witherspoon
Inst of Community Studies
Peter Willmott (later at the Policy Studies Institute)
Market research companies:
Research Services Limited (before they were bought by Ipsos)
Donald Monk (CEO)
Gerry Levens (CEO)
John Palmer (Researcher who designed most of the questionnaire for the Quality of Life in Britain first pilot survey
National Opinion Polls, (now gfk/NOP)
John O'Brien (later moved to BMRB)
Nick Moon
Document Reading Services
Malcolm Brighton (Founder and CEO)
Industrial Facts and Forecasting
Andrew McIntosh (also Labour council member, London Borough of Haringey)
Gallup UK
Gordon Heald (CEO and Joint Managing Director Gallup UK) Stalwart supporter of Dip MRS for graduates of my BA ASS (Social Research) at PNL, provided they met certain standards in Statistics, but then, as Chairman of the Market research Society, added Marketing as a required module.
Bit of name dropping, but I did actually meet them when working on the research projects below
European Value Systems Study Group (EVSSG)
George Gallup
Elizabeth Noelle-Neumann (Allensbach Inst)
Value Systems and Social Problem Indicators in Contemporary Europe (VSPICE)
Louis Guttman,
People long before my time, but who laid many of the foundations of survey research:
Charles Booth
Arthur Bowley
Maurice Kendall
Louis Harris
Tom Harrisson
Rensis Likert
A special mention is due to George Argyrous, who introduced me to the SPSS Academic Author program when my initial 5-year free licence expired.
I have been privileged to know and work with many people at all levels and from a wide range of institutions, from whom I learned my trade as a survey researcher and from many of whom I absorbed much wisdom. I am indebted to them all and only regret that, after several decades, I have been unable to track many of them down or provide further information
Social Science Research Council
Michael Young, (Chairman)
Robin Matthews ( Chairman)
Cyril Smith (Secretary)
Visiting Fellows, SSRC Survey Unit:
Angus Campbell (Director, Survey Research Center, ISR, Ann Arbor)
Bernard Blishen (Director, Inst of Social and Behavioural Research, York University, Ontario)
Norman Bradburn (NORC)
Morris Janowitz (Chicago)
Jim Davis (NORC)
Fellow researchers (with whom I was on first name terms and had regular contact)
Academia:
London School of Economics (LSE)
William "Bill" Belson (Director, Centre for Survey Research)
Graham Kalton (Reader in Social Statistics, later Professor at Southampton: founder of www.westat.com/Westat)
Tony Fielding (Lecturer in Social Statistics, later moved to Birmingham, most recently Bristol: died 29 Oct 2012)
Colm O'Muircheartaigh (Lecturer in Social Statistics, now at NORC Chicago)
Strathclyde
Steve Tagg ( but main profile no longer there)
Southampton
Aubrey McKennell (Professor)
Government departments:
Central Statistical Office (now Office for National Statistics)
Claus Moser (Director) died 5 Sep 2015: see also Guardian obituary
Muriel Nissel (editor Social Trends)
Louis Moss (Director, Government Social Survey)
Home Office
Ron Clarke
(Director, Home Office Research Unit: originator of the British Crime Survey, now Crime Survey for England and Wales)
Mary Tuck (Director, Home Office Research Unit: after Ron Clarke)
Not-for-profit institutions:
Social and Community Planning Research (now National Centre for Social Research Natcen)
Roger Jowell
Gerald Hoinville
Martin Collins
Colin Airey
Barry Hedges
Jean Morton-Williams
Jane Ritchie
Patten Smith (now Research Director, Ipsos-Mori)
Roger Thomas
Sharon Witherspoon
Inst of Community Studies
Peter Willmott (later at the Policy Studies Institute)
Market research companies:
Research Services Limited (before they were bought by Ipsos)
Donald Monk (CEO)
Gerry Levens (CEO)
John Palmer (Researcher who designed most of the questionnaire for the Quality of Life in Britain first pilot survey
National Opinion Polls, (now gfk/NOP)
John O'Brien (later moved to BMRB)
Nick Moon
Document Reading Services
Malcolm Brighton (Founder and CEO)
Industrial Facts and Forecasting
Andrew McIntosh (also Labour council member, London Borough of Haringey)
Gallup UK
Gordon Heald (CEO and Joint Managing Director Gallup UK) Stalwart supporter of Dip MRS for graduates of my BA ASS (Social Research) at PNL, provided they met certain standards in Statistics, but then, as Chairman of the Market research Society, added Marketing as a required module.
Bit of name dropping, but I did actually meet them when working on the research projects below
European Value Systems Study Group (EVSSG)
George Gallup
Elizabeth Noelle-Neumann (Allensbach Inst)
Value Systems and Social Problem Indicators in Contemporary Europe (VSPICE)
Louis Guttman,
People long before my time, but who laid many of the foundations of survey research:
Charles Booth
Arthur Bowley
Maurice Kendall
Louis Harris
Tom Harrisson
Rensis Likert