Caroline Roberts

Senior Lecturer and Researcher in the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Dr. Caroline Roberts is a Senior Lecturer and Researcher in the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland where she teaches MA courses on survey research methods and questionnaire design, and regularly gives specialist training in summer schools and short courses on related topics. She is also an affiliated Survey Methodologist at FORS, the Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences, and a Senior Visiting Fellow in the Department of Methodology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research interests in survey methodology relate to the measurement and reduction of different types of survey error. Her most recent research focuses on challenges relating to the implementation of digital data collection in high quality general population surveys, and ways to leverage generative AI in questionnaire design, evaluation and testing (in the context of the ESRC-funded ‘Survey Futures’ project, in collaboration with Patrick Sturgis and Thomas Robinson at the LSE, and Alice McGee at Verian Group). She is Chair of the Methods Advisory Board of the European Social Survey and was President of the European Survey Research Association from 2019-2021. 

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