ISER research team are showcasing a raft of new research this summer. We have 12 presentations at this year’s European Survey Research Association Conference 2025 at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands 14-18 July. The Conference brings together applied survey researchers, methodologists and statisticians from across Europe and beyond to discuss the latest research findings. This year’s theme is Promises and problems of new and alternative data sources and data formats for survey research. Methodological challenges and substantive conclusions.
Our presentations include:
Dr Violetta Parutis presents Understanding survey participation among children, teenagers and young adults: opportunities, challenges and gaps
Dr Carla Xena presents Building the Foundations for Adaptive Survey Design: Identifying Key Predictors of Nonresponse Using Neighbourhood-Level Data
Dr Jamie Moore and Professor Annette Jäckle present Do web surveys of the general population still require follow-ups of non-respondents in other modes to ensure representativeness? A case study using Understanding Society – the UK Household Longitudinal Study.
Dr Jon Burton presents Remote collection of biomeasures in Understanding Society: The UK Household Longitudinal Study
Jasmine Mitchell presents Asking panel respondents to complete additional data collection tasks: Which types of tasks increase panel dropout and which types of respondents are we more likely to lose?
Dr Laura Fumagalli presents Gender differences in attitudes about the society and the economy. The role of midpoint selection.
Dr Jim Vine presents Why are respondents less likely to consent to data linkage in web than in-person interviews, and what can we do to increase informed consent in web?
Professor Peter Lynn presents Do Social Surveys Still Need Probability Sampling? and The Future of Survey Data Collection in the UK
Dr Pablo Cabrera Álvarez presents Maximising push-to-web response with an address-based sample: Contact strategy and incentive strategy and Who is still offline? An analysis of web non-users and web non-respondents with a longitudinal perspective
Linh Nguyen presents Studying language switching in multilingual survey interviews – evidence from a Zambian face-to-face survey
In addition, Dr Pablo Cabrera Alvarez is a speaker at a special session in memory of the renowned survey methodologist, Don Dillman, who died last year.