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- 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)
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Cathie Marsh (1953 - 1993)
Cathie Marsh, who died of breast cancer in 1993 at the tragically early age of 41, was a gifted social scientist who deservedly belongs in the pantheon of social and survey research. She was equally at home in sociological debate, empirical research and statistical modelling.
I first met her when she was a PhD student at Cambridge and attending the SSRC Survey Unit Summer School in Survey Methods at Reading University in 1974. She could turn her hand to anything (including organising a bar where there wasn't one before) and was not afraid of "getting her hands dirty".
The Unit was looking for a new research trainee and had just advertised a Research Assistant post, for which I encouraged Cathie to apply, and to which she was duly appointed. At the Unit she worked on a range of projects with myself (documentation of 1973 and 1975 Quality of Life in Britain surveys, computing, SPSS, commissioning fieldwork) John Utting (sampling, statistics and the SSRC Survey Unit Multi-Purpose Survey) and Jim Ring (statistical modelling) in close collaboration with James A Davis.
When SSRC closed the Unit in 1976 she moved to Cambridge as Lecturer in Social and Political Sciences and in 1989 to the Centre for Census and Survey Research at Manchester, which is now named after her as the Cathie Marsh Institute for Social Research.
I first met her when she was a PhD student at Cambridge and attending the SSRC Survey Unit Summer School in Survey Methods at Reading University in 1974. She could turn her hand to anything (including organising a bar where there wasn't one before) and was not afraid of "getting her hands dirty".
The Unit was looking for a new research trainee and had just advertised a Research Assistant post, for which I encouraged Cathie to apply, and to which she was duly appointed. At the Unit she worked on a range of projects with myself (documentation of 1973 and 1975 Quality of Life in Britain surveys, computing, SPSS, commissioning fieldwork) John Utting (sampling, statistics and the SSRC Survey Unit Multi-Purpose Survey) and Jim Ring (statistical modelling) in close collaboration with James A Davis.
When SSRC closed the Unit in 1976 she moved to Cambridge as Lecturer in Social and Political Sciences and in 1989 to the Centre for Census and Survey Research at Manchester, which is now named after her as the Cathie Marsh Institute for Social Research.
Publications
Marsh C 1975
Job Satisfaction: the Search Goes On (mimeo downloadable from this site)
Paper to UK/USA SSRC Conference on Subjective Measures of Quality of Life, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
SSRC Survey Unit, September, 1975
Cathie Marsh
Guidelines on commissioning an interview survey from a research company
(Pamphlet downloadable from this site)
SSRC Survey Unit, 1976
Catherine Marsh
The survey method : the contribution of surveys to sociological explanation
(Allen and Unwin, 1982)
Catherine Marsh
Exploring Data: An Introduction to Data Analysis for Social Scientists
(Polity Press, 1988)
Catherine Marsh & Jane Elliott
Exploring Data: An Introduction to Data Analysis for Social Scientists
(2nd edition, Polity Press, 2008)
Marsh C 1975
Job Satisfaction: the Search Goes On (mimeo downloadable from this site)
Paper to UK/USA SSRC Conference on Subjective Measures of Quality of Life, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
SSRC Survey Unit, September, 1975
Cathie Marsh
Guidelines on commissioning an interview survey from a research company
(Pamphlet downloadable from this site)
SSRC Survey Unit, 1976
Catherine Marsh
The survey method : the contribution of surveys to sociological explanation
(Allen and Unwin, 1982)
Catherine Marsh
Exploring Data: An Introduction to Data Analysis for Social Scientists
(Polity Press, 1988)
Catherine Marsh & Jane Elliott
Exploring Data: An Introduction to Data Analysis for Social Scientists
(2nd edition, Polity Press, 2008)
Obituaries (downloadable from this site: reprinted with permission):
1: Ruth Durrel (CCSR, Manchester)
2: Angela Dale
3: Sara Arber (Sociology 1993)
1: Ruth Durrel (CCSR, Manchester)
2: Angela Dale
3: Sara Arber (Sociology 1993)