Usage of ESDS Qualidata datasets

This page contains information from users who have downloaded data from ESDS Qualidata and who have agreed to have their project information shared. Users can opt to be included or to amend the details held for them by changing their project registration details.

• Personal family history genealogy – Mr K W Maidens. July 2009

  For research of my family history in the Lindsey county of Lincolnshire and looking for information regarding emigrating family members. Uses: Family Life and Work Experience before 1918, Middle and Upper Class Families in the Early 20th Century, 1870-1977

• Social mobility – Mr Colin Mills (University of Oxford – Sociology). July 2009

  A study of intergeneration social mobility trends in Great Britain using data on sibling correlations to capture unmeasured aspects of family background. Uses: Cultural Capital and Social Exclusion: a Critical Investigation, 2003-2005

• Scottish Alcohol Model – Dr Petra Meier (University of Sheffield – ScHARR). July 2009

  We are modelling of the effect of alcohol policies on health, crime and employment outcomes in Scotland for the Scottish Government. For this we need detailed Scotland specific alcohol consumption data by age and gender. Uses: Branded Consumption and Social Identification: Young People and Alcohol Study, 2006-2007

• Research-political trust – Dr Darren Ellis (University of East London – SSMCS). June 2009

  I am looking at political trust. In particular I am interested in possible relationships between social and political trust. I am also interested in distinctions of trust attitudes between ethnic and religious groupings. Uses: Shifting Securities: Television News Cultures Before and After the Iraq War, 2003-2005

• Undergraduate study-grounded theory – Dr Tessa Webb (University of Leicester – Psychology). June 2009

  Second year undergraduate students will use the transcripts from face-to-face interviews to conduct grounded theory analysis as part of their practical psychology coursework. For ethical clearance reasons they are not permitted to carry out their own interviews, but it is essential they use realistic data sets in order to have a good understanding of how to carry out a qualitative analysis of qualitative data. Uses: Older Men: their Social Worlds and Healthy Lifestyles, 1999-2002

• Historical Comparative Analysis of Family and Parenting: A Feasibility Study Across Sources and Timeframes – Dr Val Gillies (London South Bank University – Families & Social Capital Research Group). April 2011

  This project assesses the feasibility of conducting qualitative secondary analysis and historical comparison in order to explore people's experiences of family and parenting practices, in an attempt to provide insights into the nature of social change and continuity over four decades. It uses pilot thematic analytic questions about informal and formal support in parenting to examine the possibilities for, and viability of, working across different sorts of qualitative material (often referred to as 'scaling up') across sources and timeframes. The project will test sample several cases across several archived classic community and family studies conducted in the 1960s, held by the ESRC-funded ESDS Qualidata archive. Timeframes: The project will compare findings from the test sample classic data with those from an existing contemporary data set, the ESRC-funded 'Resources in Parenting' study. The feasibility study will also empirically scope the multi-faceted historically situated, reflexive and practical contextual issues faced in producing such an historical comparative analysis of continuity and change in parenting practice and support in parenting. The main knowledge generated from this feasibility study will be methodological, identifying the challenges and possibilities of scaling up across sources and timeframes, with the intention of extending this way of researching family change. Nonetheless, findings from the project should also be of theoretical and substantive interest and relevance to academics and to non-academic users in the area of family support. Uses: Katharine Buildings, 1885-1962

• Doctor comparisons UK and Germany – Dr Ruth McDonald (University of Manchester – NPCRDC). June 2009

  Using data to prepare bid for funding to compare hospital doctors in UK and Germany in terms of attitudes to and impacts of managerial reforms aimed at increasing control and accountability. Uses: Being a Doctor: a Sociological Analysis, 2005-2006

• The Construction of Stance in Social Research Interviews – Greg Myers (Lancaster University – Linguistics and English Language). May 2009

  Objectives: 1. To investigate linguistic features of stance in transcripts of research interviews available through the Qualidata archive. 2. To develop and apply a systematic framework of stance analysis that can be used by other academic and commercial researchers in interpreting qualitative interviews. 3. To relate uses of different stance devices to kinds of self presentation, strategies of interviewing and being interviewed, and dilemmas posed by the interview genre. 4. To augment and revise current linguistic research on stance-taking by considering how these devices are used in an extensive body of text in a specific genre. Summary: Qualitative research interviews provide an important basis of social knowledge both for academic researchers and for commercial marketing and public opinion research. There is a large literature on the practice of interviewing that treats interviews as, ideally, a neutral channel for information and attitudes. But recently discourse analysts have begun to treat research interviews as social encounters, in which both interviewer and interviewee present themselves, moment to moment, responding to and anticipating responses of the other person. These researchers do not just quote isolated excerpts from transcripts to show individual attitudes or provide evidence of behaviours; they ask in each case how the participants are interpreting what is going on, and why this person says this here, at this point in the interview, to this person. One aspect of this interaction is stance, the ways participants mark their association with or disassociation from a statement. Grammatical stance can involve such markers as adverbials ('Obviously it was too late'), complement structures ('I admit that I smoked too much'), and modals ('It may be') and these markers have been extensively studied in corpora. But stance can also be indicated by discourse features such as reported speech (They say that . . . '), pronoun shifts (use of generic 'you'), tag questions ('it is dangerous here, you know?), and narrative evaluation, where a whole story serves implicitly or explicitly to mark a stance on a previous statement. In this study, we analyse transcripts from six qualitative social research projects in which interviews were an important component. We identify the different kinds of stance-taking, and relate them to the ways the interviewees (and interviewers) present themselves, the functions served in particular interactional contexts, and the ways stance-making deals with interactional problems such as tensions, contradictions, and sensitive issues. The framework we develop can sensitise interviewers and interpreters of transcripts to the subtle shifts in the ways interviewees present themselves, and the different ways they could be using their statements in the immediate interaction. It will also provide a test of existing frameworks of stance (for instance, the use of cognitive verbs, or hypothetical reported speech), in a well-defined genre, for which there are extensive data, in which participants are aware of the importance of their statements, and are highly sensitive to the range of possible ways of making statements. Uses: Cultural Context of Youth Suicide: Identity, Gender and Sexuality, 2006

• Automatic transcription of interviews – Dr Vincent Wan (University of Sheffield – Computer Science). May 2009

  Building a speech recognition engine to automatically transcribe interviews for qualltative research. Transcriptions of interviews will be used to train language models for the speech recognition system. Audio recordings may also be used for training or adaptation of acoustic models. This is work for the European FP6 project AMIDA FP6-033812 Uses: Family Life and Work Experience Before 1918, 1870-1973

• To estimate prevelance on IPV across NE England – Dr Nicole Westmarland (University of Durham – School of Applied Social Sciences). May 2009

  I am currently engaged in two projects for Government Office North East (contact name Pat McManus), the first of which is a mapping of violence against women services and the second which is an estimation of prevalence of interpersonal violence across the North East. I will use the BCS IPV module data to estimate prevalence based on population figures across the region. This will then be compared with the number of services in each of the areas. The plan is to create a 'baseline' of what services are the minimum that are needed in each area. I have already had a telephone conversation about this project with Jackie Hoare, Home Office Statistics (in October 2008) Uses: Being a Doctor: a Sociological Analysis, 2005-2006

• Membership study of AIUK – Ms Joanne Sibthorpe (Roehampton University – Business and Social Sciences). April 2009

  To inform a literature review for journal articles and conference papers and for a potential grant application Uses: A Qualitative Study of Democracy and Participation in Britain, 1925-2003

• Public-Private Partnerships – Dr Loke Foo (Glasgow Caledonian University – AFR). April 2009

  Our study aims to draw a dissemination roadmap of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) in the emerging economies with four substantial objectives: - (1) To determine the current state of research in PPPs in the emerging economies. The roadmap will achieve this objective by: - mapping the current literature on PPPs in emerging economies by the countries of origin, sectors, models and other characteristics - assessing the regulatory frameworks and other institutional background of PPPs in each country to understand their similarities and differences with the UK - summarising the research questions addressed in each of the studies to identify recurring themes in which most researchers are interested - tracking the relationship between different studies by using a citation map The above will provide PPP researchers, within and outside the UK, with a broad and clear picture of what is happening in their field. No funding bodies yet. Uses: Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Police Local Partnership Boards in Sierra Leone, 2006

• Demand and capacity of public sector services – Mr Harvey Dodgson (King's College London – Management, Social Science and Public Policy). April 2009

  I am producing a series of papers describing and quantifying the growth in demand for a range of public sector services between 1951 and 2001/7. These papers will also describe and quantify the rate of growth in the capacity to supply these services to meet the growing demand. Uses: Market for Migrant Domestic and Sex Workers, 2002-2006

• Research project – Miss Qianming Lin (University of Oxford – Business). April 2009

  Research project for assignment for masters dissertation, non-commercial usage, using it on Stata software. The dissertation is 6000 words which are going to be supervised by Dr. David Barron and would not be used for any commercial intent. Uses: Trade-offs in Decision-Making for Sustainable Technologies, 2004-2005

• Familiy and Initmate Mobilities – Dr Clare Holdsworth (University of Liverpool – Geography). March 2009

  I am writing a book on Family and Intimate Mobilities. This books seeks to synergise the mobility turn in social sciences with recent debate on family practices. I am carrying out some re-analysis of existing data sets to examine family mobilty in different historical timeframes Uses: Families, Social Mobility and Ageing, an Intergenerational Approach, 1900-1988

• Academic Research – Mr Robert Johns (University of Strathclyde – Government). March 2009

  I use quantitative data for both research and teaching as part of my job as Lecturer in Politics at the University of Strathclyde. Uses: Liberal Democrats: Structure, Strategy and Contemporary Party Politics in Britain, 1999-2001

• Diaspora identities in Britain – Ms Jane Roberts (University of Oxford – Social Studies). March 2009

  I will be using the datasets for my research on Diaspora identities in Britain with specific reference to the notion on homeland and the extent to which this matters. I am in particular exploring notions of homeland and community building within the Sikh and Polish communitites in Britain. Uses: Polish Migrants in London: Social Networks, Transience and Settlement, 2004-2006

• Grounded theory exercise – Dr eleanor wint. March 2009

  I will be using this data to teach analysis using grounded theory. The students are registered in a masters class for social work at the University of Northern British Columbia. This is purely a teaching exercise Uses: Older Men: their Social Worlds and Healthy Lifestyles, 1999-2002

• Survey for teaching use – Dr Brian Alleyne (Goldsmiths' College – Sociology). March 2009

  I wish to explore how I might use these data in my own teaching on research methods at undergraduate and postgraduate level. I will explore the data using SPSS and Minitab. I am not certain at this posint if and how I will use the data eventually. Uses: Employment and Working Life Beyond the Year 2000 : Employee Attitudes to Work in Call Centres and Software Development, 1999-2001

• Empire and Children – Eleanor Wratten (University of Bristol – humanities). March 2009

  I am using this to read oral histories to help with a university group project to see if we can find any information about childhood and the empire in the 20th century. Looking at how susceptible children were to the empire propoganda. Uses: Family Life and Work Experience Before 1918, 1870-1973

• Mental Health and Employment – Mr Dominic Page (Cardiff University – Disability Studies). March 2009

  The literature has identified a number of gaps within mental health research; overall, highlighting that mental health and inequality in the labour market has been severely underdeveloped to the detriment of understanding the experience of those suffering from mental distress. Importantly, the complex relationship between employment status and mental health is still in its infancy, particularly when compared to the advances made within the disability studies movement. The assertion that those experiencing mental health problems are economically excluded needs empirical and analytical assessment. This study aims to contribute to this agenda Uses: Changing Employment Relationships, Employment Contracts and the Future of Work, 1999-2002

• Social Research – Dr Alisoun Milne (University of Kent – Tizard centre). March 2009

  I want to explore the interview data to see how family caring is portrayed and specifically who looks after older disabled members of the family and what, if anything, the experience of caregiving is like. Uses: Family Life of Old People, 1865-1955

• Religion, identity and nation – Dr Michael Rosie (University of Edinburgh – Sociology). March 2009

  Religion, identity and nation - focus on Scotland and religious identity, extending to comparable societies elsewhere in the UK and Europe. Uses: Scottish Demography: Scottish Migration to, and Return from, South East England, 2005-2006

• Learner identities linking community, family and school – Professor Naz Rassool (University of Reading – Institute of Education). February 2009

  I am in the process of writing a research proposal to be submitted to the ESRC. The study focuses on examining learners perceptions of themselves as learners, children and community members; cultural capital of the home and community, educational aspirations, expectations and experience. The ultimate aim is to identify continuities and disjunctures and examine the implications for educational policy nationally and practice at local level. Uses: Cultural Capital and Social Exclusion: a Critical Investigation, 2003-2005

• Event History Analysis – Miss MALGORZATA RADOMSKA. February 2009

  Research concerns event history analysis on migration, labor market and the wages. It should also indicate the connection between the developement of the walfastate(sic) agreement on immigrant workers and the level of the social protection in sending and receiving countries. Uses: Families, Social Mobility and Ageing, an Intergenerational Approach, 1900-1988

• Project "Generations in Family, Society and Memory" – Dr Daniela Koleva (University of Essex – History and Theory of Culture). January 2009

  ECASS scholarship to complete project "Generations in Family, Society and Memory". Includes reading and coding textual sources (in-depth interviews) using software package ATLAS.ti. The information will be used for a comparative study of intergenerational transmission, and to draw methodological insights for planning a similar project in a different national context. Uses: Families, Social Mobility and Ageing, an Intergenerational Approach, 1900-1988

• Assist in teaching research methods course – Ms Margaret Heffernan. December 2008

  Module taught to Masters in Human Resource Management students to assist in writing their dissertations. It is hoped that using this source will assist the students learning. I wish to make the classes as applied as possible by giving students actual qualititative data to code in class and then linking in articles which have been written to show how the original researchers interpreted qualitative data. My own research is quantitative and therefore I do not have opportunities to use my own research when discussing qualitative research analysis. Uses: Changing Organisational Forms and the Re-shaping of Work : Case Study Interviews, 1999-2002

• Designing therapeutic community in cat B/C prisons – Dr Jayaprakash Rajendran (Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Trust – psychiatry). December 2008

  As a mental health lead , I am currently involved in designing personality disorder services in prison settings. The data will help us identify the scope and nature of violent behaviours in prison settings and develop appropriate mental health service input. Uses: Conflicts and Violence in Prison, 1998-2000

• This is an ESRC funded project investigating stance in social research interviews – Dr Sofia Lampropoulou (Lancaster University – Linguistics). December 2008

  This ESRC funded project investigates the construction of stance in social research interviews. In particular, the data will be used for linguistic purposes in order to examine how interviewers and interviewees express stance through the employment of different linguistic features. Uses: Radical Participation: Activists' Identities and Networks in Manchester, Oxford and North Wales, 1970-2001

• Teaching Grounded Theory based on English data – Professor Joerg Struebing. November 2008

  During ECPR Summer School on Methods and Methodologies in Ljubljana, Slovenia in 2009 I will give a master class on data analysis introducing Grounded Theory. Since I am a native speaker of German and the class will be international I am looking for a qualitative data set in English that covers issues of ethnicity, conflict and social welfare. This data set seems to fit. Uses: Context and Motive in the Perpetuation of Racial Harassment and Violence in North Staffordshire, 2004

• Research on Civil Social Democracy – Professor Jiro Yamaguchi. November 2008

  From April 2007, we started a joint research on “civil social democracy on a grant-in-aid for promotion of science by the Ministry of Education. This project succeeds the project on Globalization and Governance that terminated in March 2007. I am serving as a head of the new project as well as the previous one. Nowadays, interest has been growing in inequality and poverty both in academic and journalistic worlds. I would say this is due to the fact that side effects of the neo-liberal structural reform have become evident. In order to overcome these diseases caused by simplistic neo-liberalism, our project aims at considering and proposing political philosophy and policy based upon such important values as equality, human dignity and social solidarity. My intellectual interest was ignited by the stimulus given by Professor Colin Crouch's Post-Democracy, which I myself translated into Japanese and was published by Seitosha in March 2007. Crouch is trying to explain the common paradox that advanced democratic countries are facing. By the notion of post-democracy, he designates the political phenomenon that democratic governments are destroying the welfare state regime under the pressure of global capitalism. We encounter a serious question, why ordinary people support such governments that are imposing cruel and harsh policy on themselves. Crouch's book gives a clue to this question. In Japan, we are also in the situation of post-democracy, where the slogan of small government has been undermining the humble welfare state, and the political leader is crying removal from the post-war regime. Civil Social Democracy is a new concept to overcome post-democracy. This idea is combination of civil society and social democracy. (For detail, please see Challenge for Civil Social Democracy, edited by Yamaguchi, Miyamoto and Ogawa published in 2005 by Nihon Keizai Hyoronsha.) There are twofold meanings in this concept. We firmly believe that civil society can flourish on the fertile soil of social democracy while social democracy can be sustained by vitality of civil society at the same time. We are pursuing the ultimate goal that citizens develop democracy which is capable of promoting social values. Outline of survey Since the 1990s, economic globalization has been putting burden on politico-economic systems in advanced countries through enhancement of competition. Roughly speaking, there are two ways of coping with these issues, one is American style small government approach, and the other is European model based upon the value of equity and equality. Sharing the latter idea, this research aims at supporting decent human lives and viable community in the trend of global capitalism, and tries to investigate the following questions: 1 sustainable public policy, 2 innovations of such important values as equality, solidarity and fairness, 3 innovation of a political and administrative regime which is capable of fulfilling public policy. In west European countries, some distinguished scholars are proposing ideas for revitalizing democracy (for example, post-democracy by Colin Crouch and associative democracy by Paul Hirst). This project tries to make a contribution to this intellectual trend from Japan. Expected results Advanced democratic countries are facing various problems, such as collapse of solidarity, social exclusion, and increase of risk in daily lives. Also, globalization has brought about poverty and environmental crisis. However, individuals who become atomized and lose political motivation yearn for temporary order instead of real solutions. They find integration by symbol and violence attractive. Here appears a paradox that deprived people give acclamation to leaders who implement policies that make the matter worse. This project tries to overcome this crisis of democracy or post-democratic situation by the idea of civil social democracy. Uses: Framing of Terrorist Threats in United States and Russian Elections, 2003-2004

• Teaching research methods – Ms Andrea Lyons-Lewis (Nottingham Trent University – SOCIAL SCIENCES). November 2008

  This dataset will be used with 2nd year undergraduate students on two programmes, Health & Environment, and Sociology. It will be used to explore the possibilites offered by secondary data and also to use as an example dataset for learning quantitative analysis skills. Uses: Inventing Adulthoods: the Showcase Archive, 1996-2006

• Research for a book-informal justice – Dr Heather Hamill (University of Oxford – Sociology). November 2008

  I am researching aspects of informal justice and governance in order to develop a book project. This work is not funded by any other agency Uses: Forward to the Past? Interpreting Contemporary and Future Loyalist Violence, 1994-2006

• Possible secondary analysis – Dr Sharon Ogilvie-Whyte (University of Dundee – Social Work). November 2008

  Exploration of possiblity of secondary analysis and feasibility of data for answering specific questions re: solicitors. Uses: Constructing Children's Welfare : a Comparative Study of Professional Practice, 2000-2001

• MSc Methods and Methodologies – Dr Andy Biggart (Queen's University Belfast – School ofd Education). November 2008

  The intended usage of this data is primarily for teaching purposes on a masters level research module. There are 12 students registered for this module, who are primarily professionals working with young young children within the educational sector. Uses: Laddishness and Self-Worth Protection, 2004

• Modal use modeling – Professor Sveinn Gudmundsson (University of Oxford – Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment). October 2008

  Research into influencing factors on private to public transport facilities, using structural equation modeling to assess latent variable association. Results will be reported in seminars and articles. Uses: Trade-offs in Decision-Making for Sustainable Technologies, 2004-2005

• Academic – Mr Marian Vasile (British Council - Bucharest – KLS). October 2008

  I will write a book chapter, "Validity and fidelity of well-being indicators used in Quality of Life Diagnosis from Romania", in the paper: "Methodology of quality of life". The funding sources are different projects that The Research Institute for Quality of Life, Romanian Academy is doing. Uses: Consumption, Lifestyle and Identity : Reading the New Men's Lifestyle Magazines, 1985-1997

• Designing Sociological Research – Miss Amye Murray (University of Sussex – Sociology). October 2008

  I will be using this data to assist me with my sociology assesment questions, which focus on designing sociological research. I want to look at indirect harm and positive consequences associated with cannabis use, 2001-2003. I will also look at independent and dependent variables. Uses: Indirect Harm and Positive Consequences Associated with Cannabis Use, 2001-2003

• Child Welfare - Teaching – Dr Michel Lahti. October 2008

  Use of data/study to teach interviewing methods and data analysis. Graduate course with students of public policy in the human services. Uses: Neighbourhood Boundaries, Social Disorganisation and Social Exclusion, 2001-2002

• Scoping of Youth Transitions Post WW2 – Dr John Goodwin (University of Leicester – CLMS). October 2008

  We are undertaking a BS funded project to reexamine what existing data can tell us about transitions and social mobility. Uses: Changing Organisational Forms and the Re-shaping of Work : Case Study Interviews, 1999-2002

• Genealogy – Mrs Ruth Narramore. September 2008

  No Funding Source. This is a personal genealogical study of the Mott's of Essex, Norfolk & Hertfordshire, to include related facts & families. I am a direct descendant of the Mott's of Much Hadham, Hertfordshire and, I believe, the Mott's of Braintree, Essex. I am also trying to prove the link to Norfolk Uses: Family Life and Work Experience before 1918, Middle and Upper Class Families in the Early 20th Century, 1870-1977

• Research Methods Course – Dr John Connolly. September 2008

  For use in the teaching of qualitative data analysis as part of a Research Methods Course in an MBS in Procurement at Dublin City University Uses: Delivering Financial Services in the Home, 2002-2004

• Social stratification of cultural consumption – Dr Tak Wing Chan (University of Oxford – Sociology). September 2008

  To examine the pattern of cultural consumption in the UK and other contemporary societies. No external funding for this project at the moment. Uses: Cultural Capital and Social Exclusion: a Critical Investigation, 2003-2005

• Content analysis of children's narratives – Professor Daniel Hart. September 2008

  My goal in this project is to investigate the value of examining children's word usage as a means of understanding their worlds. Towards this end, narratives will be coded for word usage using Pennebaker's Linquistic Word Count program, and the results compared to outcomes using other techniques. Uses: Children and Welfare : Negotiating Pathways, 1998-1999

• Q-sort of lives – Professor Daniel Hart. September 2008

  These data will be coded for personality using the q-sort method. Results of q-sorts will then be compared with text analyses using Pennebaker's system. Uses: Inventing Adulthoods: the Showcase Archive, 1996-2006

• Vegetarian and Vegan numbers – Dr Stephen Walsh. September 2008

  I will use the data to review the summary figures in the DEFRA report on this study for vegetarians and vegans and to look at the characteristics of these subgroups. Uses: Concepts of Healthy Eating Food Research: Phases I and II, 1992-1996

• Study on political participation – Professor Masahiro Kobori. July 2008

  I'm researching the cross country analysis on political participation. Uses: Liberal Democrats: Structure, Strategy and Contemporary Party Politics in Britain, 1999-2001

• Economics of Health – Dr Vanessa Beck (University of Leicester – CLMS). August 2008

  The data will be used for an East Midlands Development Agency (emda) funded project that aims to examine the relationship between mental and physical health and employability, labour market participation and economic performance with specific attention given to the direction of causal relationships. This four month project requires a review of existing literature and data. Uses: Adding Quality to Quantity: Quality of Life in Older Age, 2000-2002

• Sociological research – Professor Yaojun Li (University of Manchester – Institute for Social Change). August 2008

  I am a quantitative sociologist interested in research on social mobility and social stratification, social and political capital, labour market postition especially concerning the minority ethnic groups in Britain, and comparative research between the UK and other countries such as the US and China. I need data primarily for purely academic research and sometimes may incorporate the research findings in teaching where appropriate. Uses: Cultural Capital and Social Exclusion: a Critical Investigation, 2003-2005

• Protests and Social Movements – Dr Michael Rosie (University of Edinburgh – Sociology). August 2008

  A study of contemporary public protest; the utilisation of 'traditional' and innovative forms of protest by social movements; policing of such events; and media coverage of protests and protest policing. Uses: Making Feminist Sense of 'the Anti-Globalisation Movement', 2004-2005

• RELU livestock disease project – Dr David Oliver (Lancaster University – Lancaster Environment Centre). June 2008

  I require this dataset for use within a project exploring livestock disease containment strategies. The project is funded by the UK research councils (BBSRC, NERC and ESRC) under the Rural Economy and Land Use (RELU) programme. Uses: Health and Social Consequences of the Foot and Mouth Disease Epidemic in North Cumbria, 2001-2003

• Academic research – Dr Babu John Mariadoss. June 2008

  This data is used for academic research in open innovation and business strategy. The are no funding sources for this research at the moment. We will acknowledge the depositors and also send a copy of any publication that results out of research using this data. Uses: Retail Competition and Consumer Choice, 2002-2004

• Academic research – Dr Nematollah Fazeli (University of School of Oriental and African Studies – Sociology and Anthropology). May 2008

  Using data for academic research and comparative analysis. I am working on 'Quality of Life in Iran' and use data for comparing Iran and other countries. Uses: A Qualitative Study of Democracy and Participation in Britain, 1925-2003

• Magazine launches – Dr Kevin Mole (University of Warwick – Business School). March 2008

  The information will be used as background secondary information to support some work on the producers of magazines for possible academic publication. No funding source. Uses: Consumption, Lifestyle and Identity : Reading the New Men's Lifestyle Magazines, 1985-1997

• BBC Trust study – Dr Peter Marsh. April 2008

  A study commissioned by the BBC Trust to explore the implications of a wide range of social trends on the future of public service broadcasting Uses: A Qualitative Study of Democracy and Participation in Britain, 1925-2003

• Social psychology project – Mrs Sarah Westcott (University of West of England – HLSS). February 2008

  I am conducting a project in my social psychology module in which I wish to demonstrate changes in violent and anti-social offences in comparison to increased internet usage. Uses: United Kingdom Children Go Online, 2003-2005

• Socio-economic profiles – Ms Lorraine Cowan (Motherwell College – Business). December 2007

  Teaching economics, marketing and business management to both Further and Higher Education groups within the college. Uses: Employment and Working Life Beyond the Year 2000 : Employee Attitudes to Work in Call Centres and Software Development, 1999-2001

• Teaching – Dr Tracey Lee (University of Huddersfield – Behavioural Sciences). February 2008

  I would like to use some data for teaching purposes. The interviews would be used for two sessions. One on coding qualitative interviews and the other on developing a thematic analysis from qualitative data. Uses: Substance Abuse and Perceptions of Risk : Young People's Attitudes to Personal Health, 1990

• Research – Mr Chukwuka Onyekwena (University of Portsmouth – Economics). April 2008

  The data I will get from this website will be used for research purposes. I am a PhD student from the University of Portsmouth. The service is provided free by the university. I just log into the alternative log in page to get access to the datasets. I intend to follow all necessary procedures required to access the data, as well as agree to the terms and conditions involved. Thank you Uses: Girls' and Boys' Body Image Concerns, 1997

• Profiling supermarket stats – Mrs Deborah Morrison (University of Edinburgh – Management School and Economics). March 2008

  I am building a retail simulation model of a convenience store as a teaching aid. I am finding it hard to get good data with which to populate it with figures for margin on different types of sale (food, wine, deli, flowers, magazines, etc); turnover per square foot of selling space; footfall; average spend per customer. Uses: Retail Competition and Consumer Choice, 2002-2004

• Study of partnerships and fertility – Dr Teresa Castro. January 2008

  The data will be used for a study about the factors that influence partnership type: cohabitation vs. marriage. No funding is available yet. Uses: Transition out of the Parental Home in Britain, Spain and Norway, 2001-2002

• Teaching statistics – Dr Gordana Uzelac (London Metropolitan University – DASS). March 2008

  The data will be used for teaching purposes only at London Metropolitan University. These include teaching statistics to undergraduate and postgraduate students of social sciences as well as introductury and advanced courses on SPSS. Uses: Creating Citizen-Consumers: Changing Relationships and Identifications, 2003-2005

• Teaching – Dr Kate Windridge (University of Leicester – Health Sciences). March 2008

  I would like to use interview transcripts as a teaching aid for a qualitative research module of an MSc course in Health Services Research / Social Science Applied to Health, at the University of Leicester Uses: Health and Social Consequences of the Foot and Mouth Disease Epidemic in North Cumbria, 2001-2003

• Edwardian Delight – Dr Roger Cooley (University of Kent – Computing). January 2008

  This is unfunded research on the use of expressions of emotion in life history interviews. Uses: Family Life and Work Experience Before 1918, 1870-1973

• Analysing codeswitching in bilingual communities – Dr Jon Herring (University of Bangor – ESRC Centre for Research on Bilingualism). November 2007

  We in the corpus-based research group of the ESRC Centre for Research on Bilingualism in Theory and Practice are evaluating existing theories that account for codeswitching -- the use of two or more languages in the same discourse either between or within sentences. We are seeking naturally occurring conversational data (either recorded or transcribed, or both) in which words from both languages co-occur. The ethnographic data gathered by O'Reilly is of interest to us as we do not know of existing corpora in which English and Spanish are used where, specifically, the community has English, as opposed to Spanish, as the 'dominant' language (cf. Gibraltar bilinguals (Moyer 1993) and New York Puerto Ricans (Poplack 1980) where both communities are either balanced bilinguals or have Spanish as L1 and English as L2). We would like to examine the transcripts of the in depth face-to-face interviews and focus group meetings from a linguistic perspective to see the frequency and the grammatical properties of Spanish words inserted into predominantly English sentences. Uses: British Migrants in Spain: the Extent and Nature of Social Integration, 2003-2005

• Online news use – Dr An Nguyen (University of Stirling – Film and Media Studies). December 2007

  I need to conduct a preliminary exploration of the dataset to apply for a research grant on the longitudinal diffusion and social impact of online news. Uses: Media Consumption and the Future of Public Connection, 2004-2005

• Review for a small grant application – Dr Roy Horn (Buckinghamshire New University – Business School). October 2007

  I would like to review this data set as research for a small grant application to ESRC; my proposed study is in self-esteem and well-being. Uses: Critical Incidents and the Health-related Behaviour of Schoolchildren, 1997

• For Study Purposes – Mrs Deepa Kuriachan (University of Edinburgh – Social Work). November 2007

  To help in studying the aspects of qualitaitve analysis, a data set is required to work out some practical exercises. This will be of help for this exercise. Uses: Qualitative Investigation of the Lives and Labour Market Experiences of People with Multiple Problems and Needs, 2001-2002

• Raw data for teaching and learning qualitative analysis – Dr Lorrae van Kerkhoff (Australian National University – Fenner School for Environment and Society). September 2007

  This material will be used as raw data for my students in SRES2014/6014 Qualitative research methods for sustainability, at the Fenner School for Environment and Society, Australian National University. The students will, under instruction, code a small subsection of the interview material. They will be learning first-hand how to code, and the implications of different methodological framings for coding practice. Uses: Trade-offs in Decision-Making for Sustainable Technologies, 2004-2005

• Creating Data Format of Qualitative Data Archive in Taiwa – Ms Wen-hsin Wang. August 2007

  SRDA, the data archive I work for, plan to collect qualitative data created in Taiwan and set up a Data Archive. I hope to learn from your great experiences on data processing and develop our standard format for archiving and releasing. Both the National Science Council and Academia Sinica provided grants to SRDA for setting up a Data Archive. Uses: A Qualitative Study of Democracy and Participation in Britain, 1925-2003

• Creating Data Format of Qualitative Data Archive in Taiwan – Ms Wen-hsin Wang. August 2007

  SRDA, the data archive I work for, plan to collect qualitative data created in Taiwan and set up a Data Archive. I hope to learn from your great experiences with data processing and develop our standard format for archiving and releasing. Both the National Science Council and Academia Sinica provided grants to SRDA for setting up a Data Archive. Uses: Changing Organisational Forms and the Re-shaping of Work : Case Study Interviews, 1999-2002

• Study on Policing and Democratization – Dr Guillermina Seri. July 2007

  I have drawn on this database before to provide my dissertation with a broader comparative perspective. I would like to regain access to this data with the same purpose regarding my projected book. Besides, I'm writing a paper in collaboration with Dr. Ruchi Chaturvedi for this year's APSA conference in Chicago, and this database will enhance our fieldwork datasets from Argentina/Uruguay and India respectively. Uses: Policing, Cultural Change and 'Structures of Feeling' in Post-War England, 1945-1999

• Teaching Examples – Dr John Goodwin (University of Leicester – CLMS). July 2007

  There is no funding for this research as I simply want to use the data for teaching purposes to give illustrations of qualitative research in practice. Uses: Changing Employment Relationships, Employment Contracts and the Future of Work, 1999-2002

• Cultural Entrepreneurs – Dr Christina Hughes (University of Warwick – Sociology). June 2007

  Access to this data requested to (a) update knowledge in this field in respect of a planned ESRC application; (b) explore data in terms of gender and trust with a view to reanalysis. No funding source at present. Uses: Cultural Industries and the City, 1980-1999

• Analysis of health identities – Dr Nick Fox (University of Sheffield – ScHARR). June 2007

  I wish to re-analyse this data to assess a model of health identities that has been developed from previous research. This model proposes that health identities can be understood in terms of four dimensions. However, the process of analysis differs from traditional qualititaive analysis. Interviews are searched for mentions of relations, which may be affective, cognitive or physical, and can refer to objects, human actors or to concepts or reflective entities. The analysis of this dataset is intended to validate the model and may lead to new research outputs based on this data, or in conjuncton with other data. There is currently no funding for this research, but research funding may be sought from ESRC once the potential of the data for validating the model has been evaluated. Uses: Young Men, Masculinities and Health, 2003-2004

• Research – Miss Chloe Renner (University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne – SERU). May 2007

  Researching of Gender and Ethnic Minorities in Science, Engineering and Technology at both a regional and national level in the UK. Uses: Young Men, Masculinities and Health, 2003-2004

• Research for book on middle-class family home – Dr Jane Hamlett (University of Manchester – School of Arts, Histories and Cultures). April 2007

  I am a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Manchester. I wish to use this data for research for a book on the middle-class home in the late nineteenth century. The book is an academic monograph and not for profit making purposes. Uses: Family Life and Work Experience Before 1918, 1870-1973

• Research on the fear of crime – Miss Shalina Akhtar (Kingston University – Student). March 2007

  I am currently conducting a study on the fear of crime and how this varies between genders. Uses: Gender Difference, Anxiety and the Fear of Crime, 1995

• Teaching – Dr Kate Orton-Johnson (University of Edinburgh – Sociology). November 2007

  We would like to use the dataset as a teaching resource for qualitative data analysis using CAQDAS at postgraduate level at the University of Edinburgh. Uses: Young Men, Masculinities and Health, 2003-2004

• Geographical analysis – Mr Fabio Rizzo (University of Birkbeck College – Student). January 2007

  Course work for BA in geography to obtain data containing at least two variables that can be used for a specific relationship. Uses: Mothers Alone : Poverty and the Fatherless Family, 1955-1966

• Dissertation – Miss LAURA GALLAGHER (University of London School of Economics – Social Policy). January 2007

  Background reading for my dissertation which is with regard to whether the emergent concept of social cohesion has affected the ways that regeneration policies are implemented. Uses: Neighbourhood Boundaries, Social Disorganisation and Social Exclusion, 2001-2002

• Study of domestic service in Britain, 1890-1960 – Dr Lucy Delap (University of Cambridge – History). January 2007

  I am using the data as part of a wider cultural history of domestic service in twentieth century Britain. The project is not funded specifically, but is undertaken as part of my academic post at St Catharine's College Cambridge Uses: Family Life and Work Experience Before 1918, 1870-1973

• REFERENCE – Mr Anuratha Vnekataraman (University of Warwick – Sociology). February 2007

  RESEARCH FOR STUDY AND ACQUIRING KNOWLEDGE IN MY STUDIES PERTAINING TO SICK PAY AND ITS RAMIFICATIONS ON CORPORATE POLICY Uses: Gender Divisions and Gentrification, 1960-1992

• REFERENCE – Mr Anuratha Vnekataraman (University of Warwick – Sociology). December 2006

  RESEARCH FOR STUDY AND ACQUIRING KNOWLEDGE IN MY STUDIES PERTAINING TO SICK PAY AND ITS RAMIFICATIONS ON CORPORATE POLICY Uses: Employment and Working Life Beyond the Year 2000 : Employee Attitudes to Work in Call Centres and Software Development, 1999-2001

• Research for project on child nutrition – Dr Abigail Wills (University of Oxford – History). February 2007

  I am a junior research fellow at Brasenose College, Oxford, undertaking a postdoctoral project on the history of child nutrition in Britain, 1930-1970. The research will examine the ways in which ideas about infant and child nutrition were expressed and negotiated within the politics, culture and society of Britain. It will seek to explore the evolving relations between policy, scientific knowledge, families, and the subjective experiences of children. Uses: Families, Social Mobility and Ageing, an Intergenerational Approach, 1900-1988

• Coursework – Mr Rene della Ragione (University of Plymouth – Social Science and Business). November 2006

  I need to find the market shares to complete my course work for the UK supermarket industry. Uses: Retail Competition and Consumer Choice, 2002-2004

• Teaching tool – Professor Sam Porter (Queen's University Belfast – Nursing and Midwifery). October 2006

  I intend to use the data as the basis for a discussion of lay understandings of health care in a seminar with students studying a qualitative methods course for a masters degree in nursing. Uses: Technology and Natural Death: a Study of Older People, 2001-2002

• Analysis of transcripts – Dr KAY GOODALL (University of Glasgow – Law). October 2006

  Analysis of transcripts of focus groups to compare interpretation of data with that in the published report. No funding source. Writing article on interpretation of data from studies of racist discourse. Uses: Context and Motive in the Perpetuation of Racial Harassment and Violence in North Staffordshire, 2004

• Northern Ireland Civil Rights Movement – Dr Lorenzo Bosi (University of Kent – SSPSSR). October 2006

  I am working on the Civil Rights Movement in Northern Ireland between the 1960s and 1970s. This material would be really helpful for my understanding of the movement. My research applies social movement theories to the Civil Rights Movement and looks how the movement changed during the 1960s. Uses: Impact of New Technology on the Communication of Parliamentary Information, 2001

• Teaching – Mr Yi FANG (University of Edinburgh – Economics). October 2006

  Create a econometric project for students in Edinburgh university. The project aims at reproducing the results of previous research and practising some econometric techniques. All we will do with the data is not commercial related. Uses: Cross-Generational Investigation of the Making of Heterosexual Relationships, 1912-2003

• Teaching sociological research methods – Dr Jacqueline O'Reilly (University of Sussex – Sociology). September 2007

  Teaching second year sociology students how to access real data sets as part of learning how to use SPSS. Uses: Indirect Harm and Positive Consequences Associated with Cannabis Use, 2001-2003

• Teaching data analysis – Dr Andrew Knops (University of Birmingham – Sociology). September 2006

  Samples of qualitative interview transcripts and quantitative interview data will be used on the University of Birmingham's Department of Sociology's second year undergraduate research methods module analysis workshops. Students will be asked to analyse the material provided by these deposits as part of the practical component of the second year research methods module which focuses on analysis techniques. Students will use NVIVO to assist with qualitative analysis, and SPSS to assist with quantitative analysis. Uses: Changing Employment Relationships, Employment Contracts and the Future of Work, 1999-2002

• Teaching – Professor Monique Hennink. September 2006

  Use of data for examples in teaching qualitative methods course for masters of public health degree. Example data for students to analyse using QDA techniques, coding, data analysis, comparative analysis and developing conceptual frameworks. Uses: At the Margins of the Chinese World System : the Fuzhou Diaspora in Europe, 1999-2001

• Research – Mr Ryan Woolrych (Manchester Metropolitan University, The – Research Institute for Health and Social Change). September 2006

  Part of a literature review into the effectiveness of urban regeneration on well-being. Researching quality of life indicators and well-being measures. Twelve month project in an urban regeneration area in the North of England. Uses: Urban Regeneration, Mental Health and Quality of Life in Wythenshawe, South Manchester, 1998-2001

• Exemplification of educational data analysis – Dr Erica McAteer (University of Strathclyde – Educational and Professional Studies). September 2006

  My need for a set of data sets from well-conducted qualitative research in the general education sectors relates to my responsibility as course director for the M.Sc in Applied Educational Research, currently under development and piloting with a cohort of 11 part time students at the University of Strathclyde. The course is delivered through 'mixed mode' with the bulk of the narrative, interactive and communication pedagogies being engaged on-line. Particularly for Module 4, 'Data Analysis in Educational Research', I need qualitative research data sets that the students can explore, discuss and use as models for their own work development. Uses: Homework and its Contributions to Learning, 1999-2001

• Research on Voice and Campaigning – Mrs Felicity Pickering (Home Office – Office of the Third Sector). August 2006

  This data will be used as part of a study of citizen voice and empowerment through the third sector, with an aim to improving the support that the government offers to third sector organisations. Uses: A Qualitative Study of Democracy and Participation in Britain, 1925-2003

• Dissertation Project – Ms Maria Komninou (University of London School of Economics – FMG). August 2006

  Individually funded project as part of MSc in Human Resources Management carried out in the London School of Economics. The topic looks at the fringe beneftis in the UK car industry. Uses: Changing Employment Relationships, Employment Contracts and the Future of Work, 1999-2002

• Railways and Rural Society in Britain 1840-1914 – Dr Robert Schwartz. July 2006

  An investigation of the effects of rail transport on economic, social, and cultural change in Great Britain. Using estimates of net migration, agricultural statistics, and a railway GIS, I shall gauge the effects of railway expansion across England and Wales. Uses: Family Life and Work Experience Before 1918, 1870-1973

• Urban Energy Systems – Mr Alexander Frenzel Baudisch (University of Imperial College – Tanaka Business School, Innovations Studies Center). July 2006

  An Imperial College London-BP project to explore energy savings in cities. The BP Urban Energy Systems project at Imperial will explore how costs, energy and environmental impacts could be reduced in the future if cities integrated the systems that supply them with resources. The Urban Energy Systems project will document and understand in detail how energy, people and materials flow through a city. The researchers aim to use this information to improve the efficiency of both existing and new-built cities. The project will analyse how much benefit would result if a whole city optimised its use of resources such as power, heating, transport and water, for example by heating homes with the heat from waste water or by arranging residential and business areas to reduce commuting traffic, as well by the systematic introduction of new technology. It will also investigate the energy lessons to be drawn from the differences between cities such as London, New York, and Beijing. Uses: Consumption, Lifestyle and Identity : Reading the New Men's Lifestyle Magazines, 1985-1997

• Exploring the discourse and rhetoric of interviewing – Dr Stephen Gibson (York St John College – Faculty of Health and Life Sciences). July 2007

  The data will be considered for analysis in a project exploring the discourse and rhetoric of research interviewing. A growing literature in Conversation Analysis and Discursive Psychology has begun to explore how research interviews work as interactions, and my current interest is in looking at ways to extend this approach through secondary analysis of qualitative data. My interest is therefore methodological in that I am concerned with interviews-as-interviews, rather than with the substantive topic of the interviews. Indeed, one of the advantages of secondary analysis for such research is that it allows access to interviews concerned with a wide range of topics, thereby (hopefully) allowing for the generation of insights which are not restricted to a particular topic of interview talk. Funding is not yet in place, but it is anticipated that applications for small grants to support the research may be made. Uses: Changing Organisational Forms and the Re-shaping of Work : Case Study Interviews, 1999-2002

• Entrepreneuers and Risk – Mrs Laura Wilson-Edwardes (University of Portsmouth – SBS). May 2006

  We have received a small grant from the Anglo German Foundation to look at cultural aspects of risk perceptions of entrepreneurs, our methodology was to interview British and German entrepreneurs in Spain, hence our interest in this piece of prior research. Outputs will be academic and a report to the foundation. Uses: British Migrants in Spain: the Extent and Nature of Social Integration, 2003-2005

• Training qualitative social researchers – Dr Fabio Chacon. May 2006

  I teach a Survey of Social Science Research Methods class at SUNY-Empire State College. As part of the curriculum, the students need to learn how to code qualitative data based on theoretical categories. Therefore, I will conduct a couple of coding and interpretation exercises with my students. All of them are adult learners. Uses: Cross-Generational Investigation of the Making of Heterosexual Relationships, 1912-2003

• Teaching qualitative data analysis – Dr PETER D'ABBS. May 2006

  I wish to download interview transcripts as a tool for teaching postgraduate students (a) data analysis and (b) data analysis using NVivo qualitative data analysis software. Students will be asked to code and analyse selected transcripts. No further usage or publication is intended. Uses: Critical Incidents and the Health-related Behaviour of Schoolchildren, 1997

• Devolution and political culture, Canada and UK – Dr Ailsa Henderson (University of Edinburgh – Political Science). August 2006

  This research project examines the impact of federalism (or devolution) on the heterogeneity of political attitudes within a State. The case studies are primarily Canada and the UK although supplementary information will be used from Spain, Belgium, Germany and Australia. Uses: Scottish Minorities Survey, 2003-2004

• Sociology of consumption - time use – Dr Mark Tomlinson (University of Birmingham – Business). January 2006

  Exploration of the use of time saving technologies in the consumption process. Uses: Virtual Consumers, 1998-1999

• Preliminary search for career histories – Professor Alan Brown (University of Warwick – IER). October 2005

  Interested in individual career histories and just looking at possibility of making comparisons between information generated here and from other studies. Uses: Counselling and Society: a Case Study of Voluntary Sector Counselling Provision in Scotland, 1960-2002

• Qualitative data analysis – Mr David Hall (University of Northumbria at Newcastle – HSWE). October 2005

  MSc Health and Social Care Research Methods - self-funded. I am currently undertaking the final year of a MSc in Health and Social Care: Research Methods. One of the modules for this course relates to methods of data collection, both quantitative and qualitative and I am required to analyse a publicly available qualitative dataset within a 3,500 word assignment. I have selected this dataset to analyse as I believe there would appear to be sufficient depth and breadth of interview material to conduct a thematic analysis. Uses: Management of Back Pain, 1996

• Use for academic book – Dr Christian W. Haerpfer (University of Aberdeen – Politics and International Relations). October 2005

  The data will be used for an academic book on democracy and market economy in Russia and Ukraine. The book will be published by Johns Hopkins University Press. Uses: Outsiders : Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova and the New Europe, 1999-2001

• MSc Research Methods – Mr Nick Foard (Nottingham Trent University, The – Graduate School). March 2006

  Data will be used for teaching purposes on a module entitled 'Advanced Data Analysis' on the MSc Research Methods at Nottingham Trent University. The course is part funded by the European Social Fund and part funded by students' own fees. Uses: Family Life and Work Experience Before 1918, 1870-1973

• Dissertation research – Mr Stephen Baxendale (Ministry of Defence – DLO). September 2005

  The datasets are to be used as part of my research for my dissertation for SMEs in rural england. Uses: Changing Organisational Forms and the Re-shaping of Work : Case Study Interviews, 1999-2002

• Managerial identities – Dr Gillian Hopkinson (Lancaster University – Marketing). July 2005

  I intend to scan the data in an exploratory fashion in order to see whether and how it relates to current theories of managerial identities. Uses: Cultural Industries and the City, 1980-1999

• ADAT report – Mr Nick Ananin (NHS Grampian – Social Work). June 2005

  Local study (Aberdeenshire) of young people with significant problems as a consequence of drug and alcohol use. Uses: Substance Abuse and Perceptions of Risk : Young People's Attitudes to Personal Health, 1990

• Project on Unmarried Motherhood in England and Wales, 1918-1995 – Dr Tanya Evans (University of London Library – Centre for Contemporary British History). May 2005

  The material will be used for an ESRC funded project on Unmarried Motherhood in England and Wales, 1918-1995. Uses: Mothers Alone : Poverty and the Fatherless Family, 1955-1966

• GRAD RESEARCH METHODS – Professor Tony Coxon (University of Edinburgh – Sociology). April 2005

  Course is: Computer-assisted Text Analysis, organised within Grad. School of Social and Political Studies, Univ. of Edinburgh. 6 students are auditing; 9 for credit. Disciplies include Sociology, Social Research, Social Policy, Social Work, Geography, Policy Studies Uses: Neighbourhood Boundaries, Social Disorganisation and Social Exclusion, 2001-2002

• Research – Miss Celia Taylor (University of Huddersfield – behavioural sciences). September 2005

  ESRC funded project 'Online Support for QDA and CAQDAS and Evaluation of Learning Needs' Uses: Mothers and Daughters : Accounts of Health in the Grandmother Generation, 1945-1978

• Academic research on racial attitudes – Dr Catherine Fieschi (University of Nottingham – Politics). January 2005

  I am carrying out a comparison of attitudes toward immigration in Britain. Uses: Ethnic Relations on West Midland Housing Estates, 1983-1984

• Research – Dr Selina Todd (University of Cambridge – History). January 2005

  I will use this data for a research project on family and community life in working class communities in England, c.1900-1950. This is funded by a 3 year Research Fellowship at Girton College, Cambridge University. Uses: Family Life and Work Experience Before 1918, 1870-1973

• Religious discrimination in the UK – Dr Richard Gale (University of Birmingham – Sociology). January 2005

  This study uses a number of large, national datasets in combination with more localised studies to assess the extent and nature of discrimination experienced by religious minority communities in the UK in a variety of different institutional settings. Uses: Engaging Faith Communities in Urban Regeneration, 2001-2002

• CAQDAS TRAINING – Ms Ann Lewins (University of Surrey – Sociology). November 2004

  Training in qualitative data analysis, using secondary data, to facilitate using software (ATLAS.ti etc) on actual data in the public arena, and to acquaint students and participants with the qualidata archive as an information source or secondary analysis data source. Uses: Mothers and Daughters : Accounts of Health in the Grandmother Generation, 1945-1978

• Global Management Analysis – Dr Milton Mayfield. November 2006

  This study area is designed to explore performance, economic, and theoretical understanding of global management practices. Special attention will be paid to European related studies. The goal of this research is to develop cross-cultural recommendations for improving managerial and organizational output. Uses: Changing Organisational Forms and the Re-shaping of Work : Case Study Interviews, 1999-2002

• Teaching ex - NCRM summer school – Dr Libby Bishop (University of Essex – Qualidata). August 2006

  We were invited to do a session at NCRM summer school. The theme for the project is health. We will show the data and develop some kind of brief hands on exercise using extracts. Uses: Critical Incidents and the Health-related Behaviour of Schoolchildren, 1997

• Researching the Social – Dr Emma Uprichard (University of Durham – School of Applied Social Studies). July 2005

  Im looking for useful teaching datasets for undergraduate sociology (approx 50 every year). Uses: Homework and its Contributions to Learning, 1999-2001

• Transitions to Democracy – Ms Martha Peach. November 2007

  We are studying transititons to democracy, with a focus on attitudes, economic and social indicators as well as election and political indicators. Uses: Geographies of Terror and Fear: Black Communities in Colombia and Displacement, 2004

• British Election Study – Ms Martha Peach. April 2005

  The study will be about electoral competition between socialist and nationalist parties in Spain (Galicia, Basque Country, Catalonia) and Britain (Scotland and Wales). For the British case we will use all survey data available with respect to electoral behaviour, social values, social attitudes etc. Uses: A Qualitative Study of Democracy and Participation in Britain, 1925-2003

• Teaching about Computerised Analysis of Qualidata – Dr Wendy Olsen (University of Manchester – Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research). March 2005

  I teach a module using both Atlas TI and NVIVO. It is for post-graduates. Uses: Mothers and Daughters : Accounts of Health in the Grandmother Generation, 1945-1978

• Understanding the Transformation of the Prospects of Place – Dr Eldin Fahmy (University of Bristol – School for Policy Studies). November 2005

  This project, funded by Joseph Rowntree Foundation, seeks to develop a longitudinally consistent approach to understanding the changing geography of poverty and affluence in Britain in the period 1968-2004. The research involves extensive quantitative analysis of large-scale surveys of poverty and wealth in Britain in order to derive synthetic models that can then be applied to census small area statistics for the purposes of geospatial analysis. These sources include a series of nationally representative poverty surveys conducted in 1968-9, 1981, 1990, and 1999, and Family Expenditure Survey data for the period 1968-2001. Uses: Poverty in the United Kingdom : a Survey of Household Resources and Standards of Living, 1967-1969