Speakers: Sierra Mesplie-Cowan and Debbie Collins, National Centre for Social Research, and Chris Charman, Independent HR Consultant
Abstract
In this seminar, National Centre for Social Research researchers, Sierra Mesplie-Cowan and Debbie Collins, and independent HR consultant, Chris Charman, will share findings from a Survey Futures project that is exploring the post-pandemic role of survey interviewers.
The seminar will present findings based on discussions with individuals responsible for face-to-face survey data collection capacity at UK-based survey organisations, which explored:
- the ways in which the role of the face-to-face fieldworker is changing in response to societal, commercial, technological and methodological trends
- identify the key skills and attributes needed by the face-to-face fieldworker today and how this is likely to change in the future
- identify the implications for sourcing and retaining skilled face-to-face fieldworkers.
This seminar forms part of a wider stakeholder engagement exercise.
Keywords: Survey Futures, interviewer role, survey data collection, skill sets, industry trends, workforce preparation.
About the speakers
Sierra Mesplie-Cowan is a Senior Survey Methodologist within the National Centre for Social Research Methodology and Innovation Hub.
She is an experienced methodologist, having worked within government, academia, and now the third sector.
In previous roles, Sierra managed large-scale surveys on patient experience, at the CQC, and a number of longitudinal surveys at CLS UCL.
In her current role, she advises on methodological best practices within social surveys and is interested in the application of UX practices to survey research and applying this knowledge to a number of projects.
Debbie Collins leads the National Centre for Social Research Methodology and Innovation Hub, which is home to an inter-methodological team, working on a wide range of research projects.
She is an experienced survey methodologist, specialising in survey design, questionnaire development and testing.
Debbie is also an experienced trainer in survey research design, questionnaire design and pretesting methods and is an author and editor of several books and journal articles.
Chris Charman is a Human Resources and Reward expert who supports organisations in the development of strategies and policies for the effective management of their people.
In a 25 year career with Willis Towers Watson and Mercer he has worked with public, private and not-for-profit organisation on such varied topics as job architecture and design, job evaluation, pay structure models, incentives and gender pay.
At the heart of his work is helping organisations take better, evidential decisions in the space of people performance, cost and risk.
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