#MeetTheTeam

👀 Curious about who's behind the screens?

Let us introduce the dedicated minds driving The Social Study forward!

Behind every questionnaire, dataset, and contractual paperwork is a team of researchers who bring this interuniversity and multidisciplinary project to life.

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🎉 Call for Early-Stage Researcher Awards – Update! 🎉

The Social Study is pleased to have received 16 applications for its Early-Stage Researcher Awards, offering one PhD researcher & one PhD graduate the chance to run their own survey -free of charge- using our panel of 5,000+ Belgian residents. 🧵

It's conference time! The Social Study is at the 11th Conference of the @esrasurvey.bsky.social #ESRA2025 in Utrecht this week 🤩

Amelie and Gert from the TSS team presented one paper each:
🐣 Early bird incentives
📲 SMS-reminders

Curious? More details in the thread ⤵️

☀️Are you enjoying the summer months by dreaming up future survey data collection plans? Interested in a representative sample of the Belgian population?

🏆Apply for our early-stage researchers award and win free survey time 👇

#PhDOpportunity #PhDGraduates #PhDResearch #Postdoc
#EarlyCareerResearch

Did you know that 22.8% of Belgians care for/provide support to family members who need help due to age, illness or disability?

A striking stat from a recent @reusilience.bsky.social paper by @bartovalzbeta.bsky.social @wvlancker.bsky.social powered by TSS data and proposed as ESS Rotating Module.

📣 New Working Paper by @bartovalzbeta.bsky.social and @wvlancker.bsky.social, proposing a Rotating Module on adult care responsibilities to be included in the European Social Survey (ESS).

💻 You can read the full working paper on the #rEUsilience website 👇
reusilience.eu/project-upda...

🏗️ Ever wondered how the Belgian probability panel was built?

✨ The Method Report of The Social Study has been released ✨

Have a read 👉 thesocialstudy.be/2025/06/27/t...

The report is joint work by Amelie Van Pottelberge @audreyvdleene.bsky.social Gert Thielemans Celine Wuyts Raïssa Grieten 🙌

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"There are no more excuses for political scientists and news media to work with poor samples. The new sample of The Social Study shows how it can be done."

Opinion piece by TSS initiator @swyngedouwm.bsky.social

👉 www.sampol.be/2025/05/the-...

📢 Call for survey proposals

Looking to collect quality survey data in Belgium?

👉The Social Study, a probability panel of 5,000 respondents, is accepting survey proposals. Run your own survey from just €15/respondent for a 5-minute questionnaire - full panel or random subsample options available.
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📢 Happy to launch the TSS early-stage researcher awards !

🏆Two awards available for one PhD researcher and one PhD graduate to field their own survey free of charge using The Social Study’s panel of over 5,000 Belgian residents

#surveyresearch #panelresearch #earlycareerresearchers #academicsky

The Social Study is very pleased to have been awarded a new grant from FNRS (Infrastructure & Large Equipment) for the period 2025-2029 🎉

This funding will allow us to sustain and enhance The Social Study as an infrastructure. We want to warmly thank the F.R.S. - FNRS for the ongoing support!

🛣️ This week, we were in Hasselt (uhasselt.bsky.social) showcasing our project and its possibilities.

👉 Interested in survey research? Let's connect! We can tailor an event to meet your needs, face-to-face or online.

📩 Contact us to schedule a personalized session!

#surveyresearch #panelresearch

Fan of surveys and survey experiments, consider using the Belgian probability panel *The Social Study*, up to 5,500 panelists (smaller samples also possible) are waiting for your research 🤓

thesocialstudy.be/website-for-...

[reminder]

📣The Social Study opens a call for questionnaire proposals to be fielded among 2000 French-speakers in Belgium.

⏱️Apply by February 10

📢 Unique opportunity!

We have space for a 10-15 min questionnaire for 2000 French-speaking panelists for our mid-April 2025 survey

📨 Submit your 5+ min questionnaire by Feb 10th

💸The Social Study for the last time at a reduced price (€5/resp for 5 min)

👉Submit here forms.gle/xtqoUnH5E3Mg...

The Belgian online probability panel The Social Study offers you many possibilities ✨

📨 Submit your questions to our 5000+ panelists (also experiments!)
🆓Save time in your survey by enjoying our large database of core variables readily available
🔎Make use of our open access data

❓Do you conduct surveys as part of your research?

🙋Consider The Social Study to field your own survey among a sample of 5000+ Belgian residents

🎓A joint project from all 10 Belgian universities, by academics for academics!