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Centre for Scientific Community Opinion Polling and Evaluation
C-SCOPE Network

Who are we?

C‑SCOPE is led by Professor Peter Vickers and Dr Samantha Finnigan, who together provide strategic direction for the centre’s research, network development, and methodological oversight.

 

Professor Peter Vickers and Dr Samantha FinniganProfessor Vickers’ profile can be found here, and Dr Finnigan’s profile is available here.

C-SCOPE Advisory Board

  1. Naomi Oreskes (Professor of the History of Science and Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, USA)
  2. Steve Lewandowsky (Chair in Cognitive Psychology, Bristol, UK) — "Special Advisor for Methodology"
  3. Nick Allum (quantitative social scientist and Professor of Research Methodology, University of Essex, UK) — "Special Advisor for Methodology"
  4. Brandon Vaidyanathan (Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology, The Catholic University of America, USA) — "Special Advisor for Methodology"
  5. John H. Evans (Tata Chancellor's Chair in Social Sciences; Associate Dean of Social Sciences; Department of Sociology, UCSD, USA) — "Special Advisor for Methodology"
  6. Henry Taylor (Philosopher of Psychology, Birmingham, UK)
  7. Angela Woods (Director of the Institute for Medical Humanities, Durham, UK)
  8. Sanford Goldberg (Chester D. Tripp Professor in the Humanities, Northwestern, USA)
  9. Michael O'Rourke (Professor of Philosophy, Michigan State, USA)
  10. Peter Heslin (Professor and Data Science Specialist, Durham, UK)
  11. Alan Real (Director of Advanced Research Computing, Durham, UK)
  12. Mariann Hardey (Professor, Durham University Business School, UK)
  13. Mike Bath (Research Commercialisation and Exploitation, Durham University, UK)
  14. Kieran Fernandes (Associate Dean for Internationalisation, Durham University Business School, UK)
  15. Tarun Menon (Azim Premji University, Bangalore, India)
  16. Wei Wang (Tsinghua University, Beijing, China)
  17. Dave Sweet (MD, FRCP(C); "Clarity" Co-President and Co-Founder)
  18. Tom Lamb (JD; Entrepreneur; "Clarity" Co-President and Co-Founder)

Beta-Testing Group

C-SCOPE has a beta-testing group of 116 scientists. Every survey is initially tested by the core team (alpha testing), then by our Beta-Testing Group, before any full rollout across the entire network. In addition to testing the basic mechanics of the survey methodology, this also serves as a means to acquire all different kinds of potentially valuable feedback, prior to full rollout.