for the 9th International Conference on Social Science Methodology (RC33)
at the University of Leicester (United Kingdom)
Conference Date: September 11th – 16th, 2016
Submission Deadline for Papers: 21st January, 2016
Session Topics
The conference will host the following sessions on survey methodology and other QUAN Methodology:
1. Explaining and predicting measurement error in surveys(Barry Schouten and Vera Toepoel)
2. Effects of Response Scale Design in Surveys (Kathrin Bogner and Natalja Menold)
3. Assessing the Quality of Survey Data (Jörg Blasius)
4. Emerging Methods for Evaluating Survey Measurement Quality (Paul Beatty)
5. Flexible Data Collection Methods and Data Quality in Survey Research (Wander van der Vaart)
6. Measuring social structure in surveys (Silke Schneider and Eric Harrison)
7. Cultural response styles (Martin Weichbold et al)
8. Maximizing Equivalence in Cross-Nation/Cultural Surveys Using the Total Survey Error Paradigm (Tom Smith and Peter Marsden)
9. Recent Developments in Metadata Capture, Discovery and Harmonization in the Social Sciences(Jon Johnson and Joachim Wackerow)
10. Meta-Analysis in Survey Methodology (Michael Bosnjak and Katja Lozar-Manfreda)
11. Enhancing the survey process with paradata (Marek Fuchs et al)
12. Administrative data: issues on data availability, quality, and measurement (Christin Czaplicki)
13. Testing the Behavioral Validity of Survey Experiments (Knut Petzold and Volker Lang)
14. Quasi-experimental methods and establishing causality (Tom Robinson and Peter Davis)
15. Methods for Improving Causal Inference in the Social Sciences (Jochen Mayerl and Volker Stocké)
16. Estimation of Stochastic Differential Equations with Time Series, Panel and Spatial Data (Hermann Singer)
17. Modeling Social Network Dynamics (Christoph Stadtfeld and Tom A.B. Snijders)
18. Methods of Social Network Analysis (Peter Carrington)
19. New sources of data for survey research: challenges and opportunities (Arnaud Wijnants et al)
20. Advances in survey-based methodology of online communities research (Gregor Petrič et al)
21. Gamification of surveys (Florian Keusch and Aigul Mavletova)
22. Digital Methodologies: Beyond Big & Small Data (Mark Carrigan et al.)
23. New data, new quality? Features of data quality in the “data revolution” era (Enrica Amaturo and Biagio Aragona)
24. Technology the frequent traveler (Prabir Mukhopadhyay)
Please check the Conference Website for a full list of sessions and session descriptions.
How to Submit an Abstract
1. To submit a paper abstract for any session of the RC33 9th International Conference on Social Science Methodology, you should visit:
http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/sociology/research/rc33-conference/rc33-conference.
After landing on the homepage, navigate to ‘Abstract Submission’, which appears in the top left hand column of the webpage.
2. Complete the form in full. You may wish to cut and paste your abstract into the Abstract field from another document.
3. Choose the relevant session for your stream. To do so you will need to select the relevant lead session organiser from the drop-down menu highlighted in the image below. To check you are submitting to the correct session, you can view a table of sessions and session convenors by clicking the link entitled ‘View the list of sessions and session convenors’. Once complete, click submit.
http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/sociology/research/rc33-conference/rc33-conference
http://www.rc33.org/