What data does ESDS Qualidata support?
ESDS Qualidata acquires data created during the course of qualitative research across a wide range of social science disciplines. Data supported include: in-depth and semi-structured interviews; focus groups; field notes and observations; documents and photographs. The service provides access to classic post-war studies of British society including: • Peter Townsend’s collection featuring studies on poverty and the life of older people, Family Life of Old People (1955), The Last Refuge (1959) and Poverty in the UK (1979) • Paul Thompson’s collection comprising the major life history interview study The Edwardians (1975) • Stan Cohen’s Folk Devils and Moral Panics (1967) focusing on the genesis and development of the ‘moral panic’ • Dennis Marsden’s and Brian Jackson’s research papers including their data for Education and the Working Class (1962) • John H. Goldthorpe et al. The Affluent Worker (1962) undertaken to test the thesis of working class embourgeoisement Data are selected acco
