• Questionnaire Design
• Survey Piloting
• Computer-Assisted Personal Interview (CAPI) development
• Sampling Methodologies
• Focus Groups
• Survey Project Management
• Large Quantitative and Qualitative Surveys
• Large Fieldwork (face to face and telephone)
• Data Analysis using SPSS, STATA and NVIVO
• Reporting and Presentation

Our most recent surveys include;

the FP7 MYPLACE UK Survey in Coventry and Nuneaton in the West Midlands. We have completed almost 1,200 45 minute face-to-face interviews with young people aged 16-25.

we are leading the FP7 MYWEB project that is exploring the feasibility of a pan-European longitudinal survey to provide policy-makers and researchers with a better understanding of children and young people’s wellbeing.

we are designing a rail passenger survey as part of a Technology Strategy Board funded project called Rail Incident Manager.

the ‘Legal Highs’ survey in nightclubs in Manchester involved interviewing approximately 1,500 clubbers on their experience of legal highs.

Selected Projects:

2024 – 2027 EU Horizon Europe LEARN project (101132531)

• International comparative longitudinal data analysis
• Linked survey and administrative data analysis

2022-2027 EU Horizon Europe GUIDEPREP project (101078945)

• International longitudinal survey infrastructure development

2020 – 2025 EU Horizon 2020 COORDINATE project (101008589)

• International pilot survey of child wellbeing questionnaire
• Development of international community of researchers focussing on child wellbeing
• International mobility and capacity building of quantitative researchers examining child wellbeing

2018 – 2021 EU Horizon 2020 MiCreate project (822664)

• Questionnaire design
• Field data collection
• Data analysis and reporting

2017 – 2019 EU Horizon 2020 ECDP project (777449)

• Research design of a pan-European longitudinal survey of child wellbeing
• Questionnaire design
• Fieldwork plan
• Sample design
• Ethical framework

2013 – 2015 EU FP7 MYWEB project (SSH FP7-613368)

• Feasibility of a pan-European longitudinal survey to provide policy-makers and researchers with a better understanding of children and young people’s wellbeing.
• Delphi study of experts across Europe
• Development of child wellbeing questions for 7 and 8 year olds, including cognitive interviewing

2011 – 2015 EU FP7 MYPLACE project (SSH FP7-266831)

• Coordination of questionnaire survey fieldwork in 15 European Countries
• Focus groups of young people
• Semi-structured interviews of young people