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Survey Project Manager
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Vendors Involved:0Niccolò is a Survey Project Manager at European Social Survey (ESS) Headquarters, based at City, University of London. He leads the Survey Operations work package for ESS since June 2020, after having joined the team in June 2018 as Research Assistant. The ESS is a rigorous comparative biennial survey of changing attitudes and values in over 30 European countries. Prior to moving to City, Niccolò graduated in Sociology and Social Research within the Double Degree Master’s Program between Tilburg University and University of Trento and he completed a student traineeship at the Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market (ROA) at Maastricht University School of Business and Economics. Niccolò's main research interests include the design/adaptation of surveys based on online/mixed-mode approaches, response rate enhancement strategies, questionnaire design and a range of topics related to labour sociology and social inequalities.
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Research Manager
Data Projects Involved:1Vendors Involved:0Lorna Ryan joined City University of London in May 2008 as a Research Manager for the European Social Survey Infrastructure Preparatory Phase. Previously she was a Senior Researcher at National University of Ireland Galway (2004-2006) and a Development Centre Research Manager (social science) at Dublin Institute of Technology (2000-2003). She has been involved in EU social and research programmes (ESF & Framework Programmes) since 1994 in research, management and gender expert capacities. She gained her PhD (Sociology) from the University of Kent and LLM (International Intellectual Property Law) from Brunel University. She is a registered data protection practitioner (Certified Practitioner - Data Protection (PC-DP) and PC-GDPR). She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK. She was a member of Senate Research Ethics Committee (SREC) from 2008, Deputy Chair (2017 - 2019) and Acting Chair for the academic year 2019-2020.
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ESS Deputy Director
Data Projects Involved:1Vendors Involved:0Dr Eric Harrison has been at City since October 2006 when he joined what is now European Social Survey Headquarters as a Research Fellow. He has held various responsibilities relating to the coordination of multiple EC Framework Programme projects, as well as pursuing research relating to survey methodology, social inequality and societal wellbeing. He became Deputy Director of the European Social Survey ERIC in 2014. Dr Harrison studied Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cambridge and subsequently spent eight years as Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Plymouth. In 2000 he moved to Nuffield College, Oxford where he completed a doctorate examining the working conditions of the self-employed. This used multiple national sample surveys to chart the different levels of job quality, job satisfaction, labour market insecurity and socio-political attitudes associated with different groups of self-employed workers, depending on their position in a hierarchy of employer-dependence. From 2004 to 2006 he was the assistant academic convenor of an EU-funded consortium developing the new European Socio-economic Classification (ESeC) for use by academics and statistical offices in the European Research Area.
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Senior Research Fellow
Data Projects Involved:1Vendors Involved:0Tim is a Senior Research Fellow at European Social Survey (ESS) Headquarters, based at City, University of London. He leads the Questionnaire Design and Fieldwork work packages for ESS, having joined the team in November 2019. The ESS is a rigorous comparative biennial survey of changing attitudes and values in over 30 European countries. Prior to moving to City, Tim was a Research Director at Kantar. Tim spent 15 years at Kantar, where he started his research career as a graduate trainee, after graduating with a BA in Geography and Sociology from the University of Sheffield. During his time at Kantar, he led on design and delivery of numerous social research projects, specialising in attitudinal research, questionnaire development, multi-country projects, and studies for regulatory bodies. Tim’s research interests include the design/adaptation of surveys based on online/mixed-mode approaches, use of mobile devices for online surveys/mobile-optimised design, item nonresponse, video interviewing, and a range of topics relating to questionnaire design. He also delivers lectures on questionnaire design and nonresponse as part of City’s Social Research Methods Masters module.
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Director
Data Projects Involved:1Vendors Involved:0Professor Rory Fitzgerald became Director of the European Social Survey (ESS) in 2013 having been a Senior Research Fellow at City, University of London since 2004. In November 2013, the UK and 14 other European governments established the European Social Survey as a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ESS ERIC) – an independent international research organisation hosted at City, University of London. ESS ERIC now has 27 Members (November 2021). Rory is the first Director of ESS ERIC and oversees the ESS Core Scientific Team (CST) and the ESS National Coordinators Forum. In addition to these committees he works closely with the General Assembly as well as the Scientific and Methods advisory boards. The ESS is a rigorous comparative biennial survey of changing attitudes and values in up to 34 European countries. With other members of the CST, he was awarded the Descartes Prize in 2005 for 'excellence in collaborative scientific research'. In 2016 the ESS was declared to be a landmark infrastructure by the European Strategy Forum for Research Infrastructures in Europe (ESFRI). There are more than 185,000 registered users of ESS data and almost 4,500 publications that analyse the data available online. Rory is an Associate Editor of the Survey Research Methods Journal.
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Dutch sociologist
Data Projects Involved:1Vendors Involved:0Born in Diessen, Thomassen obtained his MA in Sociology in 1968 at the Tilburg University, where in 1976 he also obtained his PhD in the Social Sciences.[4] In 1968 he started his academic career as assistant professor at the Tilburg University. After his graduation in 1977 he was appointed Professor of Political science at the University of Twente, where he served the rest of academic career. He was Dean of the faculty of Political science in the years 1985–87 and 1993–93. Over the years he has been Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan, Harvard University, Mannheim University, European University Institute and Australian National University.[4] In the years 1986–87 and 2002–03 he was fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (NIAS). Since 1991 he is member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.[4] His research interests include "Democratic theory, political representation, electoral research and legitimacy in the European Union."[5]
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Social psychologist
Data Projects Involved:1Vendors Involved:0After completing his master's degree in social psychology and group development at Columbia University and completing his rabbinical studies, Schwartz received his Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Michigan, and subsequently taught in the sociology department of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and in 1973 became a professor. From 1971 to 73, Schwartz was a visiting lecturer in the department of psychology at the Hebrew University. In 1979, Schwartz moved to Israel with his wife and three children. He joined the department of psychology at the Hebrew University, where he holds the post of Leon and Clara Sznajderman Professor Emeritus of Psychology. He is now retired, but continues his research activity, as well as developing and promoting his Basic Human Values Theory. During the 1970s and 1980s, Schwartz was following the studies of Geert Hofstede about human values and built upon them in his research on pro-social and altruistic behavior. His research has since included studies on the development and consequences of a range of behavioral attitudes and orientations, such as religious belief, political orientation and voting, social group relations, consumer behavior, as well as the conceptualization of human values across cultures. Schwartz is a fellow of the American Psychological Foundation and is a member of the American Sociological Foundation, European Association of Experimental Social Psychology, the Israel Psychological Association, the Society for Experimental Social Psychology, and the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. He is president of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology. He coordinates an international project in more than 70 countries that studies the antecedents and consequences of individual differences in value priorities and the relations of cultural dimensions of values to societal characteristics and policies. His value theory and instruments are part of the ongoing, biannual European Social Survey.
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Professor of Sociology
Data Projects Involved:1Vendors Involved:0My main research area is social stratification - including studies of educational inequality, the class structure, and social mobility. My interest in intergenerational processes also incorporates the study of children's well-being. I am also engaged in studies of ethnic stratification. I am the PI for Sweden in a comparative project on the integration of ethnic minority school children (CILS4EU), led by Frank Kalter, Universität Mannheim. As I am responsible for the Swedish Level-of-Living Survey (LNU) (Level-of-Living (LNU)), I have an interest in research in the level and distribution of welfare.
