Field Topics

Suggested Field Topics

Lessons Learned Leading a Successful Research Organization
Session type: Panel/Discussion/Round Table
Examples:

  • Budgeting
  • Diversity and Inclusivity Initiatives at Your Shop
  • Managing and Sustaining Your Survey Organization
  • Working Within your Organization or University
  • Managing Clients and Client Satisfaction
  • Project Management Approach

The IRB & ME
Session type: Panel/Discussion/Round Table
Examples:

  • Interacting with the IRB
  • IRB Considerations and Challenges
  • Respondent Incentives

Attracting and Maintaining an Interviewer Workforce
Session type: Presentation
Examples:

  • Interviewer Hiring and Retention
  • Interviewer Quality Control
  • Interviewer Training
  • Interviewers: Who are they?
  • Managing Remote Interviewers
  • Handling Harassment of Interviewers by Respondents
  • How to train, manage, and maintain staff from different generations. Challenges/Benefits

Innovative Research Designs: Successes and Failures
Session type: Presentation
Examples:

  • Innovations in Administering Mail Surveys
  • Methods to Improve Data Collection Efficiency
  • Responsive and Adaptive Designs
  • Tailored Recruitment for Specialized Samples

Data Collection Challenges
Session type: Presentation
Examples:

  • New CATI Challenges
  • Longitudinal Data Collection Issues

Survey Methods 101
Session type: Presentation
Examples:

  • Community-Based Participatory Research
  • Evaluation Research
  • Mixed-Mode and Multi-Mode Study Design
  • Multi-Cultural and/or Multi-Language Research
  • Qualitative Data Collection
  • Questionnaire Design: improving data quality
  • Response Rates
  • Sample Design and Weighting
  • When enough is enough: Burning Bridges

Methods & Technology
Session type: Presentation
Examples:

  • What do you do when you’re blocked? Understanding Cell Phone avoidance technology
  • TCPA
  • Bots and Bogus respondents
  • AI Integrations
  • Methods: Last Resorts