Survey Resources Network

The Survey Resources Network (SRN) is a new service funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) to co-ordinate and develop ESRC activities related to survey research methods.

The Network:

• provides, via the Survey Question Bank, extensive online resources for survey researchers, building upon and extending the former ESRC Question Bank, and linking to training and methodological research
• provides, via the Survey Skills Programme, broad training opportunities in survey skills, with a practical focus, delivered in a flexible way so that each trainee can tailor a package of elements to suit their own needs and constraints
• via the Survey Design and Measurement Initiative, identifies and exploits synergies and complementarities between ESRC-funded survey methods research projects, thereby adding value by means such as co-ordinated dissemination
• explores, via the Survey Management Systems project, the potential for improving the efficiency and quality of data collection in the UK via survey data management processes
• co-ordinates with international organisations and networks and provides strategic advice to the ESRC regarding survey research methods

The service is managed and co-ordinated from the University of Essex with four other academic centres as partners. The Principal Investigator is Peter Lynn, Professor of Survey Methodology at the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) with co-directors from the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen); the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM), University of Southampton; the Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS), Institute for Education; and the UK Data Archive (UKDA).