Surveying the Social World: How Social Surveys Can Help US Understand Everyday Life

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Surveying the Social World How Social Surveys
Can Help US Understand Everyday Life

• Julie Lamb and Martin Bulmer
• With Paula Devine

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Welcome!

• Aims of the seminar
• Agenda for the morning
• Who we are!
• Why we are here
• Housekeeping

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Aims of the seminar

• To explore the ways that social surveys impact
  our understanding of our social world
• Introduce some of the key surveys in NI
• To get students amongst you to think about using
  survey data
• Explore the Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey

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Agenda

• What is a Social Survey Martin Bulmer
• Why surveys are important Julie Lamb
• How can researchers/students use surveys in their
  work? Julie Lamb
• Case Study NILTS Paula Devine
• Lunch!!

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Who we are!

• Martin Bulmer is Professor of Social Research at
  the Department of Sociology University of Surrey
• Julie Lamb is Manager of the ESRC Question Bank
  at the University of Surrey
• Paula Devine is Research Director at ARK, working
  for Queens University, Belfast

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Why we are here

• ESRC Festival of Social Science
• 9th 18th March UK wide
• Series of events to showcase UK social science
  activity
• Information in the booklet in your packs
• Other Belfast events
• Whos Creating Knowledge? QUB, 14th March, 6
  7.30pm
• International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
  free access, online activity

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Housekeeping

• Information packs
• Additional publicity material in Canada Room
• PLEASE fill in and put your evaluation forms in
  the box on the way out
• Comfort Break around 11.30
• Lunch after the seminar in the Canada Room
• Water is available in the Canada Room
• Fire Exits