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Notes for Cathie Marsh

Talk:Cathie Marsh

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20640861

http://www.ncrm.ac.uk/about/

Cathie Marsh, who died of breast cancer in 1993 at the tragically early age of 41, was a gifted social scientist who deservedly belongs in the pantheon of social and survey research. She was equally at home in sociological debate, empirical research and statistical modelling.

I first met her when she was a PhD student at Cambridge and attending the SSRC Survey Unit Summer School in Survey Methods at Reading University in 1974. She could turn her hand to anything (including organising a bar where there wasn't one before) and was not afraid of "getting her hands dirty".

The Unit was looking for a new research trainee and had just advertised a Research Assistant post, for which I encouraged Cathie to apply, and to which she was duly appointed. At the Unit she worked on a range of projects with myself (Quality of Life survey, computing, SPSS, commissioning fieldwork) John Utting (multipurpose survey, statistics) and Jim Ring (statistical modelling)..

When SSRC closed the Unit in 1976 she moved to Cambridge as Lecturer in Social and Political Sciences and in 1989 to the Centre for Census and Survey Research at Manchester, which is now named after her as the Cathie Marsh Institute for Social Research.

John Hall, previously Senior Research Fellow, Survey Unit, (UK) Social Science Research Council (1970 - 76)

In April 1970 the then Social Science Research Council (SSRC) set up its Survey Unit with the late Dr Mark Abrams as (part-time) Director. The Unit was “attached to, but not of, the LSE” for computing and sundry other purposes. Its brief was to offer advice and assistance in survey methods to academics and others doing surveys on public funds. As well as conducting surveys for SSRC and its committees, it also had a watching brief on computing in the social sciences and an internal research programme to develop survey measures of Quality of Life. Amid great controversy, SSRC closed the unit in 1976 and all staff were made redundant.

Gillian Raab

http://sls.lscs.ac.uk/about/the-sls-team/prof-gillian-raab/

Violet Cane

http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/cane/index.html

http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/History/2history.html

Joan Robinson

http://www.uvm.edu/~wgibson/book.pdf