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Survey Research Unit: publications
Publications arising from research contracts/consultancy at the Survey research Unit, Polytechnic of North London
Survey Research Unit: Staff
Over the years SRU recruited a number of researchers from various backgounds and with varying levels of previous experience. As well as conducting research, some also made significant contributions to teaching social research methods. Many went on to successful subsequent careers. This summary table shows where they were recruited from and, where known, their current whereabouts with links to their profiles in universities and elsewhere. All staff had been successfully placed by the time the unit closed in 1992.
Survey Research Unit Projects 1978 - 1985
Actually a proposal to set up a research support service for community groups which led to a separate Community Research Advisory Centre. Annotated list of all projects by the Survey Research Unit at the Polytechnic of North London from 1976 to 1985
Survey Research Unit Projects 1985 - 1992
Lists all projects by the Survey Research Unit at the Polytechnic of North London from 1985 to 1992 (not included in earlier list covering 1978 to 1985) together with details of client, publications etc. Some post 1992 private consultancy projects also included.
Survey Research Unit: survey data sets
Data sets and documentation for surveys done by or through the SRU.
How did SRU (not) fit in?
Outdated financial, reporting and management systems within PNL were cruelly exposed by the arrival and development of SRU. SRU and other research centres developed and thrived only through the goodwill of administrative staff in personnel and finance and the support of computer staff. Things ran smoothly until, following the withdrawal of ILEA rate-borne research funding and the "Harrington" affair, a new senior management imposed totally inappropriate business models and undermined the professionalism, autonomy and discretion of successful research entrepreneurs, many of whom took early retirement at the earliest opportunity.
