According to the regulations of the European Values Study, institutions are EVS partners and the entrance of a new partner requires a voting procedure to be held during the General Assembly.

In the last General Assembly, which took place in Skopje on 6th March, Ukrainian partner’s entry was voted in unanimously.

The EVS warmly welcomes the Kyiv School of Economics as a new associate partner of EVS in Ukraine and Tymofii Brik as the EVS National Program Director and member of the EVS Council of the Program Directors.

Tymofii Brik is the Rector of the University of the Kyiv School of Economics since 2022. He has been working at the Kyiv School of Economics since 2018. Over the years, he has held the positions of Head of Sociological Research at the KSE Institute and Vice President for International Relations at the university. Since 2018, Brik has been teaching and conducting research in the field of sociology (sociology of religion, social research methods, network analysis, identities). Since 2021, he has been the national coordinator of the European Social Survey (ESS) in Ukraine. 

In partnership with the World Values Survey Association, UCL, and the Behavioural Insights Team, the Policy Institute at King’s College London invite esteemed researchers and academics to our one-day international conference on “(De)Polarisation in Values, Attitudes, and Beliefs: Comparative Perspectives”. 

This event aims to foster a deep exploration of the evolving dynamics of cultural, political, and social divides, and their potential implications for global societies.

Date: Thursday, April 11, 10:00–18:30

Location: Bush House, 30 Aldwych, London WC2B 6LE

Keynote Speakers:

• Professor Christian Welzel, Professor of Political Culture at Leuphana University and President of the World Values Survey Association 
• Professor Pippa Norris, Paul F. McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics at Harvard University and Vice President of the World Values Survey Association

Panelists:

• David Halpern, President of the Behavioural Insights Team and Visiting Professor at the Policy Institute, King’s College London
• Professor Anand Menon, Professor of European Politics and Foreign Affairs, King’s College London
• Professor Paula Surridge, Professor of Political Sociology, University of Bristol

Chaired by:
Professor Bobby Duffy, Director of the Policy Institute, King’s College London 

Increasingly, there is real concern about cultural, political and social divides, and their potential implications for how we live well together, both within and across nations.

How connected we feel to others, our faith in institutions, the health of democracy, and the personalisation of politics are just some of the issues being addressed by current research. In this conference, we aim to bring together international perspectives to explore how theories of polarisation and their applications in empirical work are evolving in a comparative perspective. 

The day will feature parallel sessions that cover 34 papers from leading and early career researchers who are carrying out new work on polarisation, built around key themes such as identity politics, political partisanship and the role of religion and the media. Session chairs include Professor Helen Mason, Dr Roberto Foa, Professor David Voas, and Dr Vera Lomazzi, who will be joined by many more leading academics.

The conference will provide an opportunity to share and highlight the broad and varied research currently being undertaken to track how values, attitudes and beliefs are either coming together or growing apart across the world.

The conference is supported by the Economic and Social Research Council.

Don’t miss this opportunity to engage with cutting-edge research and contribute to the global discourse on (de)polarisation. For more information visit https://www.uk-values.org/conference .

Register your attendance here (registration is free of charge).

An updated version of the EVS Bibliography is now online. 

It includes 3.600 entries:

2.034 Journal Articles

385 Books

785 Book Chapters

85 Conference Papers

71 Dissertations

64 Master’s Theses

156 Working Papers

20 Miscellaneous (Newspapers etc.)

Is your EVS publication not in the EVS Bibliography?

Please send us an email at evs.bibliography@gesis.org with the bibliographic information on your publication (title, author(s), year of publication, journal or publisher, online resources). Also include information on the specific EVS data that you used, preferably by giving the title and the DOI of the dataset. If you can offer additional information on variable names, countries and time points, we would appreciate.

Information about the bibliographic citation of EVS data can be found here.

The European Values Study and the World Values Survey Association signed a cooperation agreement for the next joint survey wave in European countries. Both organizations will aim to carry out the joint EVS/WVS survey in Europe during 2026-2027. The joint EVS/WVS survey will take place as a part of the 8 th wave of the WVS scheduled to take place worldwide in 2024-2026, and the 6 th wave of the EVS scheduled to take place in Europe in 2026-2028.

Acknowledging the added value of the EVS/WVS joint surveys and datasets for the data users, and realizing the advantages for the research teams in both networks, the following key principles of the future cooperation are proposed. 
To maximize the benefits for the data-users, the EVS and the WVSA shall aim at and explore jointly how to:

• Expand the geographical coverage of EVS and WVS surveys in Europe.
• Increase the joint core questionnaire (overlapping variables) to be surveyed by the EVS and the WVSA in Europe.
• Facilitate harmonization of the socioeconomic and demographic variables.
• Increase the amount of survey data by allowing split sample models (or conducting two non-conflicting timewise and funding-wise surveys) in Europe where possible.
• Facilitate cooperation on data cleaning and publication of joint dataset and related deliverables.

To maximize the efficiency of cooperation for the survey teams, the EVS and the WVSA shall aim at and explore jointly how to:

• Ensure regular, smooth communication and information exchange between the EVS and WVSA teams in countries where EVS and WVS have different National Program Directors/ Principal Investigators.
• Avoid open competition over funding in the same country by introducing coordination of fundraising effort, altering the surveys timing or introducing mediation between the Principal Investigators (PIs) if necessary.
• Ensure proper acknowledgement of all invested efforts from both EVS and WVSA, and presentation of the surveys conducted within the framework of this agreement as “joint EVS/WVS surveys in Europe”.

The Joint Liaison Committee (JLC) will ensure the coordination between data collection in Europe and the rest of the world and will cooperate as equal partners in the following activities:

• Preparation and submission of joint funding applications in countries where EVS and WVS have different National Program Directors/ Principal Investigators.
• Discussion and consultancy regarding sampling, sampling design, applied methodological guidelines, questionnaire translation, etc., subject to the minimum standards set out by the EVS.
• Jointly approve the wording and order of the items in the common core of the questionnaire.
• Transparency of all procedures and regular information exchange.
• Joint data collection of EVS and WVS national teams in those countries where the two organizations have separate PIs, while these PIs retain their status within the EVS and WVS, respectively.
• Cooperative resolution of any conflicts or disputes arising in this process.

It is expected that, similar to the previous waves, the two questionnaires will consist of joint items that are common to both and unique items that are specific to either the EVS or WVS questionnaire. The joint items define the Common Core of both questionnaires, while the unique items constitute the Separate Parts of the EVS and WVS questionnaires. Under the premises of this agreement, it is in the interest of both the EVS and WVS to take all meaningful efforts to maximize the Common Core relative to the Separate Parts. The Common Core will be agreed upon by the end of October 2023.
In addition, the EVS questionnaire will include a Separate Part of unique items that are not used by the WVS. Analogously, the unique items of the WVS’s Separate Part will be fielded only in the other parts of the world. Amid the differences in the wave timelines, the WVS will have the WVS-8 questionnaire ready in late 2023; the EVS will have their questionnaire ready in 2025.

To build cooperation and understanding, the JLC will explore opportunities for common future activities of mutual interests linking all members of the EVS and WVS communities, such as considering organizing joint panels, conferences and workshops, outreach, reports, publications, and publicity. Regular communications will usually be electronic and members of the JLC will be invited to participate in major organizational events, planning meetings, and workshops from 2024 to 2028, and information about any Calls for Papers for any conference panels, seminar events, or academic workshops sharing findings will be disseminated among members of the EVS and WVSA networks, to promote mutual cooperation and understanding.

For more information about the next waves of EVS and WVS and any questions about the cooperation agreement, please, contact  secretariat.evs@gmail.com and/or wvsa.secretariat@gmail.com.

During the General Assembly of the European Survey Research Association, held in Milan on 18 July 2023, Vera Lomazzi, Secretary of the Executive Committee, has been eleceted President.

The new ESRA board 2023-2025 is composed as follows:

President: Vera Lomazzi (University of Bergamo, Italy)

Vice President: Alexander Wenz (University of Mannheim, Germany)

Conference Chair: Daniel Seddig (University of Cologne, Germany)

Vice Conference Chair: Angelo Moretti (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)

General Secretary: Alessandra Gaia (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy)

Treasurer: Emily Gilbert (London Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime, UK)

Committee Member – Communication: Carina Cornesse (DIW Berlin, Germany)

Committee Member – Education: Olga Maslovskaya (University of Southampton, UK)

Committee Member – Podcasts: Daniil Lebedev (Independent Researcher)

Committee Member – Awards: Stephanie Steinmetz (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)

Committee Member – Constitutional Affairs): Tom W. Smith (NORC at the University of Chicago, USA)

Committee Member – GDPR Compliance, Membership: Michael Bergmann (Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy, Munich, Germany)

Committee Member: René Bautista (NORC at the University of Chicago, USA)

Committee Member: Trent D. Buskirk (Bowling Green State University, USA)

Committee Member: Pablo Cabrera Alvarez (University of Essex, UK)

Committee Member: Mengyao Hu (University of Michigan, USA)

Committee Member: Alisú Schoua-Glusberg (Research Support Services Inc., USA)

Committee Member: Vera Toepoel (Statistics Netherlands, The Netherlands)

Editor of Survey Research Methods: Ulrich Kohler (University of Potsdam, Germany)