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Web links, including Cross-National Research Papers

This page contains web links that were not cited in the 2009 edition of the References to International Comparative Research (pp. 170–87), followed by information about Cross-National Research Papers. If you have come across works on the theory, methods or practice of international comparative research that you have found useful in your field of study and that are not referenced in International Comparative Research or in the Companion, please forward details to the author by email: L.Hantrais@lse.ac.uk and they will be added as appropriate.

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Chapter 1: Defining and mapping international comparative research

The links here follow the order of the references in Chapter 1. See also the links in Chapter 6 to organizations processing data relevant to policy research, and the links in Chapter 7 for information about social research funding.

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Roles

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco), Social Sciences and Humanities

International Labour Organization (ILO), Programmes and Projects

World Health Organization (WHO), Programmes and Projects

Council of Europe, Mission

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Mission

European Commission Research and Innovation, Social Sciences and Humanities, Mission

European Commission, Directorate General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion, Mission

European Science Foundation (ESF), Social Sciences

ESF, Social Sciences, EUROCORES Programmes

ESF, Humanities

ESF, Humanities, Completed Networks

ESF, Humanities in the European Research Area

European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, Mission

Chapter 3: Project design in international comparative research

Economic Development Initiatives (EDI), Survey Methods

European Social Survey (ESS), Methodology from Principles to Practice: Sampling designs

European Social Survey (ESS), Methodology from Principles to Practice: Sampling Strategy

Chapter 4: Defining and analysing concepts and contexts

European Social Survey (ESS), Contextual Data:

European Social Survey (2010) ESS Round 5 Translation Guidelines, Mannheim: European Social Survey GESIS

Chapter 5: Combining methods in international comparative research

COMParative methods for the Advancement of Systematic cross-case Analysis and Small-n Studies (COMPASSS)

European Social Survey (ESS), Mixed Mode Data Collection

Chapter 6: Research and policy in international settings

Council of Europe, Education and Cultural Cooperation

Council of Europe, Education, Social Policies

Council of Europe, Education, Youth

Council of Europe, Sport

European Commission, Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion, Evaluation and Impact Assessment

European Commission, Directorate General for Research and Innovation, Social Sciences and Humanities, Policy and Research

European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, Surveys

International Labour Organization (ILO) Statistics and Database

Mutual Information System on Social Protection / Social Security (MISSOC), information base

Mutual Information System on Social Protection of the Council of Europe (MISSCEO), Databasebr />http://www.socialcohesion.coe.int/MISSCEO/
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Policy Support

OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)

OECD, Statistics

Statistical Office of the European Communities, Eurostat, Policy Indicators and Statistics by Theme

United Nations Development Reports

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco), Statistics

World Health Organization (WHO), Data and Statistics

Chapter 7: Managing international comparative research

European funding agencies=
European Commission, Directorate General for Research and Innovation, Social Sciences and Humanities

European Commission, Researchers in Motion (Euraxess)

European Research Council (ERC) awards

European Science Foundation (ESF), Social Sciences

European Science Foundation (ESF), Humanities

European Science Foundation, ERA-NET Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA)

European Commission ERA-NET, New Opportunities for Research Funding Agency Co-operation in Europe (NORFACE

UK Research Office in Brussels (UKRO), funded by the UK Research Councils

Ethics, professional standards and project management
Association of Research Managers and Administrators (ARMA), Professional Development Framework

European Commission, Information Society Technologies (IST) Programme, Professional and ethical Codes for Socio-Economic Research in the Information Society

European Network of Research Ethics Committees (EUREC)

ESRC Research Ethics Framework (2010)

International Network of Research Management Societies (INORMS), Project Management and the Employment and Training of Project Managers

UK Research Integrity Office’s Code of Practice for Research

Cross-National Research Papers:

A full catalogue together with pdf versions of the papers from the last two of the seven series of Cross-National Research Papers can be found at www.xnat.org.uk

  • First Series: Doing Cross-National Research, 1985–89
  • First Series Special Issue: Franco-British Comparisons of Family and Employment Careers, 1989
  • Second Series: The Implications of 1992 for Social Policy, 1990–92
  • Third Series: Concepts and Contexts in International Comparisons, 1993–94
  • Fourth Series: Concepts and Contexts in International Comparisons of Family Policies in Europe, 1994–96
  • Fifth Series: Socio-Demographic Change, Social and Economic Policies in the European Union, 1999
  • Sixth Series: Improving Policy Responses and Outcomes to Socio-Economic Challenges: changing family structures, policy and practice, 2000–03
  • Seventh Series: European Cross-National Research and Policy, 2003–04
  • Seventh Series Special Issue: European Cross-National Research and Policy, 2005.


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