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European Research Centres at Essex

• The European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR)
• The Data-Archive
• The European Centre for Analysis in the Social Sciences (ECASS)
• QUALIDATA
• The Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER)
• SOCRATES/ERASMUS

The European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR)  is an independent, scholarly association representing European political scientists. It is a registered charity under British law and has its administrative base and headquarters housed within the Department of Government at the University of Essex, UK.  Activities include: organising workshops, round-tables, conferences, and summer schools, publishing journals, books, articles, and newsletters. In short, it creates the infrastructure essential for comparative research, training and cross-national cooperation.  The ECPR has close links with similar organisations such as the American Political Science Association (APSA), European national associations and the International Political Science Association (IPSA). 

The Data-Archive is a specialist national resource containing the largest collection of accessible computer readable data in the social sciences and humanities in the United Kingdom. Through these web pages it is also possible to search the catalogues of other national archives for computer readable data and to use the services of the UK Data Archive to acquire these data on your behalf.  

The European Centre for Analysis in the Social Sciences (ECASS) is an interdisciplinary research centre at the University of Essex within the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER). ECASS is a centre for comparative and longitudinal data analysis, which conducts and facilitates the empirical study of social and economic change by integrating longitudinal and cross-national European datasets, providing the support services required for their analyses, and acting as the host for major substantive research programmes. 

QUALIDATAor the ESRC Qualitative Data Archival Resource Centre was set up by the Department of Sociology at the University of Essex in 1994 to facilitate and document the archiving of qualitative data arising from research, whilst also drawing the research communities’ attention to its existence and potential.  

The Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER)specialises in the production and analysis of longitudinal data - evidence which tracks changes in the lives of the same individuals over time. The key advantage of longitudinal data over snapshot or ‘single moment in time’ information is that it allows researchers to analyse the dynamic links between individuals’ life events, living and employment conditions, behaviour and values over the lifecycle. ISER is a department of the University of Essex and is core-funded by the University and the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).  ISER incorporates the following centres: The ESRC Research Centre on Micro-social Change; The ESRC UK Longitudinal Studies Centre; The European Centre for Analysis in the Social Sciences.

SOCRATES/ERASMUS - Socrates – Erasmus is the European Community programme in the field of Higher Education.  Socrates- Erasmus aims to improve the quality and ‘European dimension’ of higher education through a broad range of activities: from students and teachers exchanges to joint development of curricula and other collaborative projects.

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