Narratives of varied everyday lives and linked approaches (NOVELLA), UCL Institute of Education London

Advancing Paradata Outputs

Conference
'Paradata, Marginalia and Fieldnotes: The Centrality of By-Products of Social Research'  conference organised in collaboration Professors Henrietta O'Connor and John Goodwin), at Leicester University  on 14 January 2014.  This included 'Paradata then and now 1: Marginal forms and narratives in the Poverty in the UK survey' and 'Paradata then and now 2: Paradata in poverty surveys, 1968 and 2012', from the Advancing Paradata project

Presentations
Edwards et al;  'Possibilities of Paradata: Technologies and Social Practices: Poverty Surveys 60 Years On' Session convened  for the 6th Research Methods Festival, July 2014, comprising three papers from the project:  'Marginalia forms and narratives in the Poverty in the UK survey 1968', (Ann Phoenix) 'Applications of survey paradata and the UK Poverty and Social Exclusion survey 2012'(Eldin Fahmy and Dave Gordon)  and 'Paradata and administering the UK

Poverty and Social Exclusion survey' (Karen Bell).

Edwards,R; Phoenix,A;  Gordon,D 'Illuminating forty-five years of poverty research through paradata and secondary analysis: technical, social and professional role changes between the Poverty in the UK (1967/68) and Poverty and Social Exclusion (2012) surveys', Social Policy Association, July 2014

Podcast
Paradata in qualitative research: http://www.ncrm.ac.uk/TandE/video/podcasts/view.php/paradata-in-qualitative-research

Publications
Edwards, R; Goodwin, J; O'Connor, H; Phoenix, A (eds) (forthcoming, 2016) Working With Paradata, Marginalia and Fieldnotes: The Centrality of By-Products of Social Research,   ( Edward Elgar Publishing), including two chapter contributions from our project: Elliott, Edwards, Phoenix and Boddy on 'Paradata then and now 1: Marginal forms and narratives in the Poverty in the UK survey', and Fahmy, Gordon and Bell on 'Paradata then and now 2: Paradata in poverty surveys, 1968 and 2012'.

Edwards, R., Gordon, D. and Phoenix, A. (2014) 'Peter Townsend's Poverty in the UK study – a methodological investigation, Policy World, Social Policy Association. Spring, p.22.

Edwards, R et al (in preparation) Technical, social and role changes in poverty survey research.
Bell, K., Gordon, G. and Fahmy, E. 'Quantitative Conversations: The Importance of Developing Rapport in Standardised Interviewing' Quality and Quantity – Under Review