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Poverty measurement
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14/07/2016
Academic colleagues: interviews
David Donnison and Steve Winyard, were academic colleagues of the 1968/69 Poverty in the United Kingdom research team at the time of the study. You can watch their itnerviews below.
Professor David DonnisonIn 1968, Donnison was an academic at the London School of Economics and colleague of Peter Townsend and Brian Abel-Smith. In 1969, he went on to work at the research think-tank, The Centre for Environmental Studies, and then, in 1975, became Chair of the Supplementary Benefits Commission. In 1980, he moved to Glasgow University where he is now an Emeritus Professor in Urban Studies. In this interivew, he reflects back on the impact of social science research over the last fifty years. His interview is in six parts:
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14/07/2016
Interviews: PinUK survey fieldworkers
The ‘Poverty in the UK: advancing paradata analysis and open access’ research study traced and video-interviewed 8 of the field interviewers for the 1968-69 Townsend Poverty in the UK survey: Angela Avens, Andrea Cordani, Deidre Forsyth, Morag Macdonald, Ian NcCannah, Annie Neligan, Fred Twine and Una Widdett.
Some of these field workers were students doing the work as a summer job, others were more experienced research interviewing. These interviews provides unparalleled insight into the conduct of the survey and the role of the field worker.
The interviews were conducted by Karen Bell (university of Bristol) and Heather Elliot (Institute of Education, UCL) for the ‘Poverty in the UK: advancing paradata analysis and open access’ study
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14/07/2016
Interviews: PinUK survey researchers
The research team for the Poverty in the UK survey of 1968-69 were based at the University of Essex and the London School of Economics. The project was set up by Peter Townsend and Brian Abel-Smith who left part way through the project to become a Senior Advisor at the Department of Health and Social Security.
There were three research officers: Hilary Land, Dennis Marsden and John Veit-Wilson who were joined by Adrian Sinfield. Below you can watch interviews with the three surviving members of this core team:
Hilary Land, currenly Emeritus Professor of Family Policy and Child Welfare, University of Bristol
John Veit-Wilson, currenly Emeritus professor Sociology, Newcastle University
Adrian Sinfield, currently Emeritus Professor of Social Policy, University of Edinburgh.
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23/06/2016
The paradata research project
What is paradata?Paradata is generally seen as the by-products of social research, usually referring to survey research. It relates to two types of paradata:
‘macro paradata’ which covers the length of interviews, how long it took to arrange the interview and the like, and ‘micro paradata’ which refers to more qualitative comments and perceptions found, for example, in the marginal notes on a survey booklet. For examples of notes on the 1968/69 Townsend survey go to Marginal notes on the questionnaires.Paradata can provide a wealth of insights into both the topic of the survey and the methods used to conduct it. Its examination can help improve the quality of data collection.
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14/04/2016
Marginal notes from the original 1968/69 questionnaires
Intro. blurb for summary
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07/03/2016
Urban and rural poverty in Scotland
Analysis of the PSE-UK survey results finds significant poverty in every kind of location in Scotland with poverty highest in large urban areas and lowest in remote towns though there is strong evidence that access to services is worse in more rural or remote locations.Category: PSE Report -
05/02/2016
Published output
The PSE team have published the results of the Northern Ireland PSE survey research, the findings of the PSE UK qualitative research in Northern Ireland and the methodolgy and impact of the PSE community collaboration project in the following publications and journal papers.
Books 'Child Poverty in Northern Ireland: Results from the Poverty and Social Exclusion Study' by Mike Tomlinson, Paddy Hillyard and Grace KellyIn 'Beneath the Surface: Child Poverty in Northern Ireland', (pp. 11-34, Chapter 2) Belfast: Child Poverty Alliance (2014)
Summary
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03/02/2016
Briefings, PhD theses and other reports
Are subjective measures of well being effective at identifying risk of material deprivation? What are they measuring? How should we take account of children's views when examining measures of child poverty? Read Grace Kelly and Gill Main's Phd theses drawing on the PSE research.
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01/02/2016
Books
OUT NOW - the two-volume study based on the findings of the Poverty and Social Exclusion in the UK research. Volume 1 examines the extent of poverty and volume 2 the different dimensions of disadvantage. Published by Policy Press on November 29, 2017.
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27/01/2016
Media coverage of PSE UK findings
The Poverty and Social Exclusion research has received extensive coverage in the media. Details of the main articles in the press and interviews on radio/tv to date are listed below, including, where available, links. Many of these articles and interviews provide good summaries of key aspects of the research. See, for examples: ‘The resistible rise of mass poverty’ (Tribune, March 6-9, 2015),for an overall summary of key findings and Thinking Allowed with Laurie Taylor for a discussion with Joanna Mack on the measurement of poverty (20 May, 2015.Category:
