The ANU Centre for Social Research and Methods has an active program of research into social research methods. Current areas of research include:

• Archiving and data standards
• Methods for undertaking surveys including:
  • Program of research supporting the development of Australia’s first national probability online panel: Life in Australia
  • Interviewer effects
  • Measurement of racism and discrimination
  • Use of Google trends data to measure political issue salience
  • New approaches to probability-based online data collection: Survey on wellbeing, health, and life in general
• Models
  • PolicyMod microsimulation model of the Australian tax-transfer system
  • Manning Cost-Benefit tool for undertaking analysis of criminal justice programs
  • Microsimulation model for projecting the Indigenous population and its regional distribution
• Small area estimation
• Evaluation methods

Edwards, B., & Biddle, N. (2020). Consent to data linkage: Experimental evidence from an online panel. In P. Lynn (Ed.), Advanced methods in longitudinal surveys. Wiley.

Supplemental information: Consent Forms