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SUMMARY:Open Research Week opening keynote - British Social Attitudes and ‘Dividing Lines’: 40 years of open-access research
DESCRIPTION:The British Social Attitudes (BSA) Survey is the National 
 Centre for Social Research (NatCen)’s flagship study\, and has been 
 tracking social and political attitudes for over 40 years. As a result of 
 its longevity and its random probability sampling\, it is considered to be 
 a ‘gold standard’ in attitudinal research. Last year\, as part of the 
 Dividing Lines project\, NatCen released a new set of profiles of British 
 voters\, which was based on decades of data from BSA. This analysis\, which 
 created a set of six ‘voter profiles’ to showcase the key divides among 
 the British electorate\, provides just one example of how the many years of 
 archived\, freely accessible BSA data can be utilised. Given its unique 
 position as a survey\, the potential for further re-use of the data to 
 create research of lasting value is high.\n\n\nIn this presentation\, Alex 
 Scholes will discuss the history of BSA and the key findings from the 
 Dividing Lines study. He will also cover the relationship between BSA and 
 open research more generally to answer: how can NatCen maximise the impact 
 that BSA has as an open-access dataset? Is there anything that could be 
 done in addition to data archiving that would increase levels of engagement 
 with the survey among the research and policy communities\, as well as with 
 the general public? And how would this fit in with NatCen’s approach to 
 open data\, both for BSA and the wider research we conduct? Reflecting on 
 the last four decades of BSA can help to answer these questions\, and 
 provide a guide to how to most effectively deliver open access research 
 into the future. \n \n\nOpening ORW 2025: Professor Luca 
 Csepely-Knorr\n\nLuca Csepely-Knorr is Chair in Architecture at the 
 Liverpool School of Architecture. Luca worked as a landscape architect for 
 the Municipality of Budapest before starting her academic career. She has 
 been since involved in architectural and landscape architectural education 
 and research both in the UK and in Hungary.\n\nSpeaker: Alex 
 Scholes\n\nAlex Scholes is Research Director at NatCen\, and works on the 
 British and Scottish Social Attitudes Surveys\, the NatCen Panel and also 
 contributes to the What UK Thinks:EU and What Scotland Thinks websites. He 
 joined NatCen in 2018\, and has contributed to numerous BSA reports on a 
 variety of topics\, including on the role and responsibilities of 
 government\, constitutional reform and\, most recently\, on national pride 
 and identity.
LOCATION:Online
ORGANIZER;CN="Hannah Crago":MAILTO:h.crago@essex.ac.uk
CATEGORIES:Open Research Week
CONTACT;CN="Hannah Crago":MAILTO:h.crago@essex.ac.uk
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URL:https://libcal.essex.ac.uk/event/4301318
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