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*** an announcement from The Association for Survey Computing.
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The Challenges of a Changing World:
Developments in the Survey Process
5TH ASC International Conference.
12-14 September 2007.
University of Southampton, England
CALL FOR CONTRIBUTED PAPERS - REMINDER
The landscape in which research technology is being used today has
changed rapidly since our previous international conference in 2003.
Survey and statistical software is not only evolving in response to the
challenges of a more complex world, but is increasingly an agent of
change, providing new opportunities for research and driving innovation
in survey-based practices.
We aim to capture the essence of these developments and promote
knowledge and understanding in this sphere by seeking imaginative
proposals for papers for our next international conference, 12-14
September 2007, at the University of Southampton in England.
Contributed papers will be organised by theme into several parallel
streams across the event.
There will be keynote addresses from our invited speakers:
* KAREN DUNNELL. UK National Statistician
* Professor DENISE LIEVESLEY. CEO of the UK’s Information Centre for
Health and Social Care
* MICK COUPER. Senior Associate Research Scientist at the Institute for
Social Research and Adjunct Associate Professor for the Department of
Sociology.
* MALCOLM RIGG. Director of the Policy Studies Institute.
In addition, the conference will include poster sessions, discussion
forums, an exhibition, featuring innovative technology and solutions,
and an enjoyable social programme.
All full papers, which will be subject to peer review, will be published
in the Conference Proceedings in book form.
THEMES and TOPICS
The main conference title is deliberately non-specific as we are
interested contributions addressing developments or changes in all areas
of Survey Research. These may be developments in thinking, in practice
or in the challenges of developing, implementing and evaluating new or
evolving software or technology-based methodologies. We encourage
contributions that identify informative failures or omissions as well as
qualified or outright improvements.
So there are opportunities for papers to explore a wide range of topics.
Some suggested examples are:
* Managing Change / Avoiding Disaster
* Reporting and presentation of analysis, results and reports
* Mobile / Mixed Mode Interviewing
* Analysis requirements and expectations
* Online Panels – their use and management
* Developments for web based CATI
* Sample sourcing and management
* Responses to the challenges and opportunities of Web 2.0
* Developments in graphics/video etc for research purposes
* Developments in survey automation / integration
* Integrating research data with data from other sources
* Census developments
* Ethnicity issues
* Researching in global markets
* Internationalisation
* Software licensing, intellectual property, copyright protection
* Data Protection and Security
* Qualitative research
* Text processing, coding and automated classification
* Developments in language translations and comprehension
* etc ...
We welcome contributions which address one or more of the above
suggested topics or on other related subjects.
We are also considering short papers (5 minutes) to serve as the basis
for discussion forums.
SUBMITTING YOUR PROPOSAL
Proposals for contributed papers should be between 250 and 500 words in
length, and sent by e-mail to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] to arrive no later
than Friday 12 January 2007.
The planned timetable for approval of papers is:
* Jan 12th 2007 - Final date for proposals for papers to ASC.
* Feb 9th 2007 – Notification of final selection of papers
* Apr 20th 2007 - First draft of papers due to ASC.
* Jun 8th 2007 - Referees comments on contributed papers returned.
* Jul 6th 2007 - Final draft of papers due to ASC.
Please note that papers may not be presented in absentia. At least one
presenter for each contributed paper will be expected to attend the
conference to present their paper. All individual and joint presenters
of full papers benefit from a reduced conference fee as a full
residential delegate.
Further information is available from the ASC website: (
(http://www.asc.org.uk) or from Christine Jenkins, ASC Administrator,
([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
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ASC, PO Box 76, Berkeley, GL13 9WU, UK
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University of Essex, Colchester, UK CO4 3SQ
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