[Students-l] Fwd. : [Air-L] MA/PhD opportunities in Sociology @ Essex

[M.J. Menou]

> Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 13:25:21 +0000
 > From: "Anderson, Ben" <benander at essex.ac.uk>
 > To: AoIR - <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
 > Subject: [Air-L] MA/PhD opportunities in Sociology @ Essex
>
> As part of our new UK Economic and Social Research Council Doctoral
> Training Centre we have a number of MA/MSc/Phd scholarships available
> for study across the social sciences at the University of Essex. In
> Sociology we're offering a number of training pathways including:
>
> ? Sociological Research ? Survey Methodology ? Longitudinal Social
> Research
>
> which include supervision in (amongst others)
>
> ? Economic sociology ? Science in society ? Survey methodology
>
> We would welcome applications from students interested in studying
> most aspects of socio-technical change through these pathways and
> approaches.
>
> We would especially welcome students interested in making use of: ?
> 'Understanding Society', the new UK 40,000-strong household
> longitudinal study (http://www.understandingsociety.org.uk/) and it's
> predecessor the British Household Panel Survey
> (http://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/survey/bhps). Together these datasets
> provide a unique longitudinal resource tracking the socio-ecomic
> circumstances and, more latterly, new media use of UK citizens over
> the last 20 years. Both of these surveys are/were lead by our
> colleagues at Essex's renowned Institute for Social and Economic
> Research (http://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/) to which our students have
> everyday access. ? two unique telephone call record datasets from the
> late 1990s collected by BT plc and licensed to the University of
> Essex for research purposes. The first contains records of all
> outgoing calls made by a sample of 100,000 households across the UK
> in each of October and March in 1995, 1996, 1997 and 1998. The second
> contains all outgoing and incoming calls made or received by a sample
> of c 400 households in 1998-2001 who were recruited to a 3 year
> longitudinal household panel survey which included detailed media use
> and a week-long time-use diary (survey data available at
> http://www.esds.ac.uk/findingData/snDescription.asp?sn=4607).
>
> For more info on available studentships and how to apply see
> http://www.essex.ac.uk/sociology/news_and_seminars/newsEvent.aspx?e_id=2852
>
>  Anyone wishing for more information on the call record datasets can
> contact me directly but please note that we do _not_ normally license
> their usage outside the University.
>
> regards -- Ben Anderson
>
> Sociology @ Essex
> http://www.essex.ac.uk/sociology/staff/profile.aspx?ID=118
>
> Centre for Research in Economic Sociology and Innovation
> http://cresi.essex.ac.uk/getperson?personID=1
>




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