Published date: 10 May 2017

Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.


Closing: 13 June 2017

Contract summary

Industry

  • Public-opinion polling services - 79320000

Location of contract

EX4 4QH

Value of contract

£0 to £150,000

Procurement reference

20170510150019-53042

Published date

10 May 2017

Closing date

13 June 2017

Contract start date

14 June 2017

Contract end date

15 June 2017

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The project will field nationally representative public opinion surveys research in at least 8 European countries to measure the prevalence and correlates of misperceptions about immigration, vaccination, and climate change. This work package is necessary to assessing the extent and variation of public misperceptions in Europe, as previously indicated, on three specific issue areas that cover distinct policy domains: immigration (politics), vaccines and vaccination (health), and climate change (science). By looking at misperceptions across Europe, it is possible to examine a much richer set of potential individual and institutional level factors that may limit or exacerbate the spread of misperceptions, and give us a better understanding of the contextual factors that condition receptivity to corrective messages. But just as importantly, it provides an opportunity to collect public opinion data on issues that pose potential risk to the health and wellbeing of the EU as an institution and to European populations more generally.
More specifically, this work package will use survey research to ask Europeans their factual beliefs and opinions about issues where there are likely to misperceptions of significant consequence (politics, health, and science). Additional survey questions will be used to collect data about factors that might be related to misperceptions- everything from demographics (e.g. education) to political variables (e.g. ideology or partisan identification) to well-validated psychological constructs (e.g., need for cognition, need to evaluate, or openness) to everyday behaviour (media consumption). With these data, it will be possible to start examining the prevalence of misperceptions overall, as well as how they vary across different segments of the population.

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About the buyer

Contact name

Emma Raddon

Address

Northcote House
Exeter
EX4 4QH
ENG

Telephone

+44 1392726000

Email

e.raddon@exeter.ac.uk

Website

www.exeter.ac.uk