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ISER has an enviable publications record in top academic journals and regularly presents its work at key conferences and policy events in the UK and around the world. It is also frequently commissioned to produce reports and papers for Government Departments, think tanks, charities and businesses and its important work is frequently featured in the media. You can search all of ISER’s outputs including by area of interest and author.

Survey question evaluation at scale: applying large language models to the QAS-99

  1. Caroline Roberts
  2. Patrick Sturgis
  3. Alice McGee
  4. Rebecca Hamlyn
  5. Mayca Minichino
  6. , et al
Survey Futures Working Paper Series, 22 - July 17, 2026 - download  
  1. Surveys
  2. Survey Methodology
  3. Computing

LLMs for survey pretesting: how well can large language models identify flaws in survey questions?

  1. Patrick Sturgis
  2. Caroline Roberts
  3. Thomas Robinson
Survey Futures Working Paper Series, 15 - April 15, 2026 - download  
  1. Surveys
  2. Survey Methodology
  3. Computing

SOCbot: using large language models to measure and classify occupations in surveys

  1. Patrick Sturgis
  2. Thomas S. Robinson
  3. Laura Fung
  4. Caroline Roberts
Survey Futures Working Paper Series, 13 - April 1, 2026 - download  
  1. Labour Market
  2. Surveys
  3. Survey Methodology
  4. Computing

Targeted response inducement strategies on longitudinal surveys

  1. Peter Lynn
Book Chapter, Improving Survey Methods: Lessons from Recent Research, Ch. 27 - June 1, 2015
  1. Uwe Engel
  2. Ben Jann
  3. Peter Lynn
  4. Annette Scherpenzeel
  5. Patrick Sturgis
  6. , et al
  1. Survey Methodology

Coping with nonresponse: overview and introduction

  1. Peter Lynn
Book Chapter, Improving Survey Methods: Lessons from Recent Research, Ch. 26 - June 1, 2015
  1. Uwe Engel
  2. Ben Jann
  3. Peter Lynn
  4. Annette Scherpenzeel
  5. Patrick Sturgis
  6. , et al
  1. Survey Methodology

Improving survey methods: general introduction

  1. Uwe Engel
  2. Ben Jann
  3. Peter Lynn
  4. Annette Scherpenzeel
  5. Patrick Sturgis
  6. , et al
Book Chapter, Improving Survey Methods: Lessons from Recent Research, Ch. 1 - June 1, 2015
  1. Uwe Engel
  2. Ben Jann
  3. Peter Lynn
  4. Annette Scherpenzeel
  5. Patrick Sturgis
  6. , et al
  1. Survey Methodology
  2. Research

Improving survey methods: lessons from recent research

Book, European Association of Methodology Series - June 1, 2015
  1. Uwe Engel
  2. Ben Jann
  3. Peter Lynn
  4. Annette Scherpenzeel
  5. Patrick Sturgis
  6. , et al
  1. Survey Methodology
  2. Research

Religious beliefs, knowledge about science and attitudes towards medical genetics

  1. Nick Allum
  2. Elissa Sibley
  3. Patrick Sturgis
  4. Paul Stoneman
Journal Article - October 15, 2014
  1. Social Attitudes
  2. Biology
  3. Medicine
  4. Religion
  5. Science And Technology

Understanding support for complementary and alternative medicine in general populations: use and perceived efficacy

  1. Paul Stoneman
  2. Patrick Sturgis
  3. Nick Allum
Journal Article - September 15, 2013
  1. Public Opinion
  2. Medicine

Incommensurable worldviews? Is public use of complementary and alternative medicines incompatible with support for science and conventional medicine?

  1. Paul Stoneman
  2. Patrick Sturgis
  3. Nick Allum
  4. Elissa Sibley
Journal Article - January 30, 2013
  1. Social Attitudes
  2. Health
  3. Medicine

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