New EPG Initiative: Workshop on Surveys, Survey Experiments, and Field Experiments

[Aseem Prakash]

  

Workshop on Surveys, Survey Experiments, and Field Experiments

The Environmental Politics and Governance (EPG) network is pleased to announce a new initiative: a monthly online workshop for providing feedback on study designs and instruments for surveys, survey experiments, and field experiments.

Rationale

Public opinion and survey research are crucial pillars of the policy process across its various stages because they allow both policymakers and scholars to gauge public reaction to policy options, instruments, and their implementation. In recent years, with the rise of the behavioral social sciences, there has been a proliferation of surveys and survey-embedded experiments (as evident in the annual EPG conferences and biweekly online seminars). In addition, there is an increased interest in field experiments to assess policy effectiveness.

For surveys as well as survey and field experiments, much of the scholarly heavy lifting takes place in the research and instrument design phase. The EPG will thus organize a monthly online workshop so that scholars can receive feedback on instrument drafts.

Logistics

We plan to convene the workshop once every month for 60 minutes, 17:00 – 18:00 CET. 

Every session will examine two projects. These sessions are scheduled for:

Session 1: December 10, 2025

Session 2: January 14, 2025

Session 3: February 18, 2025

Session 4: March 11, 2025

Session 5: April 8, 2025

Session 6: May 6, 2025

How to participate?

All are invited to attend this online event.  

If you want to present, please use this link to submit your proposal (400 - 500 words):  https://forms.gle/3CmhJysmD8b7HfHD6

Workshop organizers will allocate them to one of the available time slots. Allocation will proceed on a first come-first-served basis as well as an assessment of how innovative the proposal is and how credibly the author commits to presenting a fully developed draft. 

The plan is that the presenter will outline the key ideas for about 10 minutes, leaving 20 minutes for comments from the workshop organizers as well as the online audience. The process should be particularly helpful for emerging scholars, whether as presenters or in the audience, in terms of learning about the best practices of survey research and experiments.

Presenters must share their instrument draft along with a draft of the pre-registration document one week in advance.

Organizers

Sarah Anderson, UCSB

Liam Beiser-McGrath, LSE

Thomas Bernauer, ETH Zurich

Aseem Prakash, University of Washington, Seattle

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ASEEM PRAKASH
Professor, Department of Political Science
Walker Family Professor for the College of Arts and Sciences
Founding Director, UW Center for Environmental Politics
University of Washington, Seattle

aseemprakash.net