I apologise to those who were not able to read my first 
announcement. Here it is again.

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Centre for Applied Social Surveys

Short Course: Design & Administration of Postal & Self-completion 
Surveys, 11-12 November 1999
Venue: The Grosvenor Hotel, Grosvenor Road, Newcastle.

Presented by Roger Thomas and Elaine McColl
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Course objectives:
1) 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, non-factual and 
sensitive questions);

2) to establish understanding and competence in how to plan, 
administer and maximise quality and response in postal and other 
self-completion surveys.

Course content will include:
principles of questionnaire design, questionnaires to measure 
behaviour, attitudes and values, pretesting and piloting postal 
surveys, project management and administration, and minimising 
non-response.

The course will include workshop sessions so that participants can 
work through practical exercises. Teaching staff will be present in 
between sessions and on the evening of day 1 in order to discuss 
questionnaire issues arising from individual participants' research.  
Numbers are limited to facilitate such participant support.

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.  If you are unsure 
whether this course is appropriate for you please contact Nyovani 
Madise (E-mail [log in to unmask] or 
Fax +44 (0)23 8059 3846).

Course Materials
Participants will receive written notes, copies of overhead 
transparencies and a reading list.

The Instructors
Roger Thomas is the Director of CASS.  He has had long 
experience of designing, running, and managing surveys and is 
currently at the National Centre for Social Research's Survey 
Methods Centre, where he participates in the programme of 
methodological research and consultancy in survey methods.

Elaine McColl is a Senior Research Associate at the Centre for 
Health Services at the University of Newcastle.

Fee
The standard fee is 250 pounds (sterling).  Because of ESRC 
support, a number of bursaries are available which reduce the fee 
to 65 pounds.  Applicants for bursaries must be full-time research 
students, UK academic staff, or ESRC-funded researchers.

For a registration form or further details contact:

Hannah Williams
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Tel: +44 (0)23 8059 3048
Fax:+44 (0)23 8059 3846

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CASS is an ESRC Resource Centre hosted by the National Centre 
for Social Research and the University of Southampton with the 
University of Surrey.

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