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The European Social Survey is a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ESS ERIC) that provides cross-national data about public attitudes and behaviour. Based at City, University of London, ESS is an academically driven survey using the highest methodological standards. Every two years, up to 40,000 face-to-face interviews are conducted across Europe on a wide range of subjects.

05/06/2026

FORS - Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences – hosted by Université de Lausanne 🇨🇭 – is currently recruiting a new Head of Surveys. The successful candidate will lead a team of researchers and survey methodologists responsible for implementing major surveys, including the ESS. These teams are responsible for the full lifecycle of survey operations, from design and sampling to fieldwork, data quality management, and data dissemination. The deadline for applications is Monday 15 June.

04/06/2026

Last week we announced the award of a new €3.2m Horizon Europe project to consolidate, modernise and future-proof our survey. The work will include the introduction of new technologies, including AI tools, and efforts to expand our membership amongst non-participating countries. Funded by EU Science & Innovation 🇪🇺, ESS-Innovate will also ensure three national teams – Germany 🇩🇪, the Netherlands 🇳🇱 and Serbia 🇷🇸 – join our self-completion panel survey (ESS-CRONOS) for the first time.

03/06/2026

New research published by the International Journal of Sociology (Taylor & Francis) included analysis of our Round 11 (2023/24) data. Andrej Kirbiš, Maruša Lubej and Stefani Branilović (Univerza v Mariboru 🇸🇮) assessed whether there is a link between watching, reading, or listening to news about politics and current affairs with political participation and polarisation.

02/06/2026

Our next survey methods webinar taking place from 12-1pm (BST) on Tuesday 9 June will focus on rethinking disability measurements. Laura Tolland (Welsh Government 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿) and Lisa Rutherford (National Centre for Social Research 🇬🇧) will discuss efforts to offer viable alternatives to existing measurements of disability in surveys. This event will focus on how proposed questions were tested and compared to more traditional estimates of disability.

01/06/2026

An online event being held from 11am-12.30pm (CEST) on Tuesday 9 June will focus on creating and working with harmonised data. The interactive session marks the launch of a new online training course for data harmonisation created for the Infra4NextGen project, funded by EU Science & Innovation 🇪🇺. The team who developed these harmonised datasets from GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften 🇩🇪 will be online to answer your questions.

29/05/2026

There is still time to register for the Survey Futures International Conference being held at City St George’s, University of London 🇬🇧 on 17-18 June. The Conference marks the culmination of a three-year project funded by Economic and Social Research Council 🇬🇧 to provide research evidence and practical insights to inform the design and implementation of high-quality social surveys.

28/05/2026

Register to attend a methods webinar about rethinking disability measurements in surveys being held from 12-1pm (BST) on Tuesday 9 June. Laura Tolland (Welsh Government) and Lisa Rutherford (National Centre for Social Research) will discuss efforts to develop and test a suite of new survey questions to measure disability. Find out more about how the proposed questions were tested and compared to more conventional estimates of disability.

27/05/2026

We are delighted to announce the award of a new €3.2m Horizon Europe project to consolidate, modernise and future-proof our survey. The work will include the introduction of new technologies, including AI tools, and efforts to expand our membership amongst non-participating European Union member and candidate countries. Funded by EU Science & Innovation 🇪🇺, ESS-Innovate is a two-and-a-half-year project due to begin on 1 June 2026.

26/05/2026

New analysis of our data measuring the political participation of migrants is now available in the European Journal of Political Research (Cambridge Core). Read a summary of the research by Zeynep Mentesoglu Tardivo and Simona Guglielmi (Università degli Studi di Milano 🇮🇹) that was published by The Loop (European Consortium for Political Research 🇬🇧) last week. The analysis compared the likelihood of voting amongst native-born respondents, first- and second- generation immigrants across six rounds of our survey (2010-24).

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