Dr Jane Sandall
Professor of Midwifery and Women's Health
Florence Nightingale School of Nursing & Midwifery
King's College, London
57 Waterloo Road, London
SE1 8WA
Tel: 020 7848 3605
Fax: 020 7848 3506
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From: "Jane Schofield" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 2:06 PM
Subject: SHORT COURSE - UK
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CENTRE FOR APPLIED SOCIAL SURVEYS
Supported by the ESRC
Short Course: Design and Administration of Postal and Self-
Completion Surveys
Presented by : Elaine McColl (University of Newcastle)
and Roger Thomas (National Centre for Survey Research)
Dates: 13-14 November 2002, Napier University, Edinburgh
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Course Objectives
a) To enable participants to develop a thorough and practical
understanding of the principles of good questionnaire design as
applied to self-administered quantitative surveys (including the
special issues related to the design of factual, attitude and
sensitive questions).
b) To establish understanding and competence in
how to plan, administer and maximise quality and response in
postal and other self-completion surveys.
Course Content
Basic principles of questionnaire design, Designing questions to
measure behaviour, attitudes and values, Special features of postal
and self-completion surveys, Pre-testing and piloting postal surveys
Project management and administration: planning, costing,
timetabling Minimising non-response in postal surveys
Target Audience
The course is aimed at researchers who need to design and
administer self-completion surveys, especially those in the
social, economic, educational and medical sciences. The course
will include workshop sessions so that participants can work
through practical exercises. Teaching staff are willing to discuss
questionnaire issues arising in individual participants' research
between sessions and at the end of day one. If you have a
questionnaire on which you would like comments, please bring 5
copies. Course numbers are limited to facilitate such participant
support but the amount of time that can be devoted to any one
student individually is necessarily limited.
Course Materials
Participants will receive written course notes, work sheets and a
reading list.
The Instructors
Elaine McColl is a National Primary Care Career Scientist at the
Centre for Health Services Research, University of Newcastle upon
Tyne. Her main research interests are in the assessment of
health-related quality of life in relation to chronic disease
management and in survey methodology. She was principal
investigator for a recently completed literature review (to which
Roger Thomas also contributed) on Designing and using Patient
and Staff Questionnaires which was funded by the NHS Health
Technology Assessment Programme.
Roger Thomas is the deputy director of CASS. He has had long
experience of designing, running and managing surveys, first at
Social Survey Division of the Office for National Statistics,
where he was also assistant director in charge of methodology and
founder and editor of the Survey Methods Bulletin, and then at
National Centre for Social Research's Survey Methods Centre,
where he helps to design surveys, participates in the programme of
methodological research and consultancy and teaches survey
methods.
Credit Accumulation and Transfer
Some participants may wish to transfer the academic credit
gained from this course to a university degree programme. This
course is worth 4 CATS points at postgraduate level. To qualify
for CATS points participants will need to undertake assessed work.
Please indicate on the registration form if you wish to do this.
Fee
The standard fee is £250. Because of ESRC support, a number of
bursaries are available which reduce the fee to £65. Applicants
for bursaries must be full-time students, UK academic staff or
ESRC-funded researchers. Payment must be sent with the
registration form which can be obtained from Jane Schofield
([log in to unmask]).
Location
The course will be held at Sighthill Campus, Napier University,
Edinburgh.
Duration
The course will begin with registration and coffee at 10.00 am,
lectures begin at 10.30am on Tuesday, 13 November and end at
5.00 pm Wednesday, 14 November 2001.
Accommodation
Applicants requiring accommodation are asked to contact hotels
directly. A list of hotels can be supplied if required.
For Further Details about the Course please contact
Jane Schofield
Department of Social Statistics
University of Southampton
Southampton
SO17 1BJ
Tel: 023 8059 3048
Fax: 023 80 59 3846
Email: [log in to unmask]
Or visit our website on http://www.socstats.soton.ac.uk/cass/
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CASS is an ESRC Resource Centre hosted by the National
Centre for Social Research, the University of Southampton and the
University of Surrey
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Nyovani Janet Madise
Department of Social Statistics
University of Southampton
Southampton
SO17 1BJ
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)23 8059 2534
Fax: +44 (0)23 8059 3846
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