Social research services

Tender description

This study will assess the impact of the European Social Survey on academia, policy-making and policy-makers, professional practitioners and other groups outside academia from 2001-2016. The study will be focused within each of the current ESS ERIC member and observer countries but should also reflect more generally on the pan-European level. The Impact Study will be focused on each of the current ESS ERIC Member and Observer countries. The purpose of the study will be to: — identify and study specific academic, policy and practice impacts arising from ESS data in each country; — study the mechanisms through which impact has been achieved through the use of data by organisations and individuals in each country; — identify the range of organisations/individuals who have made use of the ESS, and the ways in which the data have been used; — study the role of Think Tanks, and other intermediaries, as transmission routes through which ESS data may have influenced policy in countries; — through comparative activity across countries, identify best practice and lessons for impact generation in research infrastructures like the ESS; and — critically reflect upon the methods used to assess and identify research infrastructure impact.