Dr Jonathan Burton Associate Director; Surveys, University of Essex

Jonathan Burton
Email
jburton@essex.ac.uk
Office
2N2.5A.02
Curriculum vitae

Position

Jonathan Burton is the Understanding Society Associate Director for Surveys and is responsible for the management of the survey and is involved in all aspects of data collection and fieldwork design for the main study, the Innovation Panel, and other enhancements to the study.

Groups

Chair: Progress Team; Survey Implementation Group; Methods Review Group.

Member: Executive Team; Methods Research Group; Data & Ethics Group; Data Improvements Group; Emergency Response Team; ISMS Management Review; Support Steering Group.

Additional Responsibilities:

  • Deputy Chair of University Ethics Sub-Committee 1, ISER Ethics Officer
  • Member, Research Ethics Board, ESS-ERIC
  • National Survey for Wales: Member of Science and Technical Advisory Group
  • English Longitudinal Study of Aging (ELSA): Advisory Group member
  • Swiss Household Panel Study: Scientific Commission member
  • Associate Editor for Survey Research Methods

Research Interests

  • Survey methods, particularly survey participation, understanding the process of consenting to data linkage, use of technology and mobile devices in surveys, and mixed-mode studies.

Projects

Follow me on BlueSky on @jonburton.bsky.social

Recent publications:

Quality of expenditure data collected with a mobile receipt scanning app in a probability household panel

How do survey respondents decide whether to consent to data linkage?

How different mixed-mode data collection approaches impact response rates and provision of biomeasure samples

Are interviewer administered follow-ups of web non-respondents still needed to maximise respondent dataset quality?

 


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Latest Publications

Overview of open access European survey data 3: the UK Household Longitudinal Study

  1. Surveys

Improving response rates

  1. Survey Methodology

Moving Understanding Society to mixed mode: effects on response and attrition

  1. Survey Methodology

Results for web/face-to-face linkage consent questions in the Innovation Panel

  1. Survey Methodology

Fieldwork experiments to boost web response

  1. Survey Methodology

Understanding Society

Do interviewers’ attitudes towards sharing personal information affect the consent rate they achieve?

Full house: trying to encourage whole-household web-completion


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