Prof Peter Lynn Professor, University of Essex

Peter Lynn
Email
plynn@essex.ac.uk
Office
2N2.5A.13
Curriculum vitae

ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3493-5686

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=7nJPKZYAAAAJ

Twitter: @ProfPeterLynn

Research Interests

Peter is Director of Survey Futures, Chair of the European Social Survey Sampling and Weighting Panel, and Understanding Society Associate Director for Methodology. His research interests encompass all aspects of survey methodology, with a particular focus on methods for longitudinal surveys. Research-active topics include:

  • Sampling, weighting and estimation methods
  • Non-response and response maximisation techniques
  • Targeted and adaptive survey design
  • Mixed-mode survey design
  • Measurement errors in surveys

Latest Blog Posts

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Latest Publications

The Effects of Interviewer Characteristics on Co-operation in Face-to-Face Surveys

  1. Annette Jäckle
  2. Peter Lynn

The use of respondent incentives on longitudinal surveys

  1. Heather Laurie
  2. Peter Lynn
  1. Survey Methodology
  2. Surveys

Sample design for longitudinal surveys

  1. Paul Smith
  2. Peter Lynn
  3. Dave Elliot
  1. Survey Methodology

Methods for longitudinal surveys

  1. Peter Lynn
  1. Survey Methodology

The potential of a multi-mode data collection design to reduce non response bias. The case of a survey of employers

  1. Emanuela Sala
  2. Peter Lynn
  1. Survey Methodology

“It is time computers do clever things!” The impact of dependent interviewing on interviewer burden

  1. Emanuela Sala
  2. S.C. Noah Uhrig
  3. Peter Lynn
  1. Survey Methodology

Innovation in Longitudinal Survey Methods

  1. Peter Lynn

Sample design for Understanding Society

  1. Peter Lynn
  1. Survey Methodology

Understanding Society. Some preliminary results from the Wave 1 Innovation Panel

  1. Jonathan Burton
  2. Heather Laurie
  3. S.C. Noah Uhrig
  4. Mark L. Bryan
  5. Carol Desousa
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  1. Survey Methodology

The use of respondent incentives on longitudinal surveys

  1. Heather Laurie
  2. Peter Lynn
  1. Survey Methodology

Latest Media

When belief doesn’t translate to action: our twisted relationship with climate change

  1. Peter Lynn

How green are we?

  1. Simonetta Longhi
  2. Peter Lynn
  3. Ben Anderson

What makes us act green? London event for policy makers and academics

  1. Simonetta Longhi
  2. Peter Lynn
  3. Ben Anderson

Sharing patient data will improve all our health

  1. Peter Lynn

The friends and family test is unfit for purpose

  1. Peter Lynn

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