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Education
- Ph.D in Social Research Methods, The London School of Economics and Political Science
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Date: 2019 - 2023
- Supervisors: Patrick Sturgis and Jouni Kuha
- Thesis: When survey science met web tracking: a theoretical and practical framework for understanding web tracking data.
- MSc. in Survey Methods for Social Research, University of Essex - With Distinction (86)
- Location: Colchester, United Kingdom
- Date: 2018 - 2019
- Thesis: Answering web surveys with images: an experiment
David Lockwood Prize - Best dissertation in the Department of Sociology
- BS in Political and Administration Science, Universitat Pompeu Fabra - 2:1
Work experience
- Researcher Assistant, The Alan Turing Institute
- Date: May 2022 - Present
- Design and analysis of a nationally representative survey about british citizen’s opinions about AI
- Researcher Assistant, School of Economic Social and Political Science - University of Southampton
- Date: Sept. 2020 - Present
- Wrote two reports about 1) best strategies to maximise participation rates in online surveys and 2) the utility of probability-based online panels.
- Researcher, Research and Expertise Centre for Survey Methodology (RECSM) - Universitat Pompeu Fabra
- Date: Jul. 2017 - Present
- Estimated and reported the measurement quality of ESS’s round 8 experimental questions.
- Conceived, planed, collected, analysed, and disseminated research projects in collaboration with the online fieldwork company Netquest.
- Tested the feasibility of asking respondents to answer survey questions with images, voice memos and emojis in the context of mobile web surveys.
- Authored a report about the efficacy of using encouragement messages to improve data quality in the context of the cross-national online survey panel (CRONOS).
- Disseminated research results through academic and non-academic publications, as well as professional and academic conferences (e.g. ESOMAR, ESRA).
- Research Officer, Institute for Social and Economic Reseaerch (ISER) - University of Essex
- Date: Oct. 2019 - Sept. 2019
- Assessed the design effects of European Social Survey (ESS)’s sampling approach in more than 30 countries.
- Computed the ESS’s design weights and created the sample design data files for rounds 7 to 9.
- Junior Researcher, Research and Expertise Centre for Survey Methodology (RECSM) - Universitat Pompeu Fabra
- Date: Oct. 2016 - Jul. 2017
- Estimated the measurement quality of slider scales versus traditional radio button ones in the context of the Norwegian Citizen Panel.
- Studied how Millennials differ from older generations in terms of survey participation using information from 1,570,301 panellists of an opt-in online panel in eight countries (Europe, Latin America, and North America).
Research Stays
- University of Mannheim, German Internet Panel
- Date: Apr. 2019 / Jul. 2019
- Designed, implemented, and analysed a survey experiment testing the impact of asking participants to answer open-ended questions with images, instead of with text, on several data quality indicators.
Publications
Peer-reviewed publications (12)
Michaud, A., Bosch, O.J. & Sauger, N. Can Survey Scales Affect What People Report as A Fair Income? Evidence From the Cross-National Probability-Based Online Panel CRONOS. Soc Just Res (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11211-023-00410-0
Torcal, M., Carty, E., Comellas, J. M., Bosch, O. J., Thomson, Z., & Serani, D. (2023). The dynamics of political and affective polarisation: Datasets for Spain, Portugal, Italy, Argentina, and Chile (2019-2022). Data in Brief: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2023.109219
Bosch, O.J., Revilla, M. (2022) When survey science met web tracking: presenting an error framework for metered data. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society), 1-29: https://doi.org/10.1111/rssa.12956
Bosch, O.J., Revilla, M., Qureshi, D.D. & Höhne, J.K. (2022) A new experiment on the use of images to answer web survey questions. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society), 1–26. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/rssa.12856
Bosch, O. J., & Revilla, M. (2022). The challenges of using digital trace data to measure online behaviors: lessons from a study combining surveys and metered data to investigate affective polarization.In SAGE Research Methods Cases. https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781529603644
Bosch, O. J., & Revilla, M. The quality of survey questions in Spain: a cross-national comparison. Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas, 175: 3-26.
Bosch, O. J., & Revilla, M. Using emojis in mobile web surveys for Millennials? A study in Spain and Mexico. Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology, 1-23.
Revilla, M., Couper, M. P., Bosch, O. J., & Asensio, M. (2020). Testing the use of voice input in a smartphone web survey. Social Science Computer Review, 38(2), 207-224.
Bosch, O. J., Revilla, M., & Paura, E. (2019). Do Millennials differ in terms of survey participation?. International Journal of Market Research, 61(4), 359-365.
Revilla, M., Bosch, O. J., & Weber, W. (2019). Unbalanced 3-Group Split-Ballot Multitrait–Multimethod Design?. Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 26(3), 437-447.
Bosch, O. J., Revilla, M., & Paura, E. (2019). Answering mobile surveys with images: an exploration using a computer vision API. Social Science Computer Review, 37(5), 669-683.
Bosch, O. J., Revilla, M., DeCastellarnau, A., & Weber, W. (2019). Measurement reliability, validity, and quality of slider versus radio button scales in an online probability-based panel in Norway. Social Science Computer Review, 37(1), 119-132.
Reports and Non Peer-reviewed publications
Ada Lovelace Institute and The Alan Turing Institute, How do people feel about AI? A nationally representative survey of public attitudes to artificial intelligence in Britain (2023) . Available at: https://adalovelaceinstitute.org/report/public-attitudes-ai
Bosch, Oriol & Lynn, Peter, 2021. "Methodological lessons from the pilot longitudinal survey on debt advice," ISER Working Paper Series 2021-03, Institute for Social and Economic Research.
Bosch, O.J., and M. Revilla (2021) When survey science met online tracking : presenting an error framework for metered data. http://hdl.handle.net/10230/46482
Bosch, O.J., Weber, W., and M. Revilla (2018) Improving web panel respondent behaviour: The effect of encouragement messages throughout the course of the survey. Deliverable 7.12of the SERISS project funded under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme GA No: 654221. Available at:
Research Projects
Talks
July 18, 2023
Short Course at European Survey Research Association (ESRA) conference, Milan, Italy
July 18, 2023
Talks at European Survey Research Association (ESRA) conference, Milan, Italy
May 09, 2023
Conference at 78th American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) conference, Philadelphia, USA
July 13, 2022
Invited lecture at Attest, London, UK
July 08, 2022
Invited lecture at Summer Institute in Computational Social Sciences - Oxford, Oxford, UK
May 13, 2022
Conference at 77th American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) conference, Chicago, USA
May 12, 2022
Conference at 77th American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) conference, Chicago, USA
September 12, 2021
Invited Talk at Seminar series in Statistic at Örebro University School of Business (Sweden), Sweden (Online)
September 11, 2021
Invited Talk at Institue of Social and Economic Research (ISER) Method Research Group seminar series, Online
March 01, 2021
Workshop at 2nd Mobile Apps and Sensors in Surveys (MASS) Workshop, Utrecht, Netherlands (online)
September 11, 2020
Conference at 20th General Online Research (GOR) conference, Berlin, Germany (online)
July 17, 2019
Conference at 8th Conference of the European Survey Research Association (ESRA), Zagreb, Croatia
July 17, 2019
Conference at 8th Conference of the European Survey Research Association (ESRA), Zagreb, Croatia
September 20, 2018
Congress at 1st Spanish European Social Survey Congress, Madrid, Spain
March 22, 2018
Workshop at 5th Workshop on Political Behaviour and Public Opinion (JCPOP), Barcelona, Spain
March 01, 2018
Conference at 20th General Online Research (GOR) conference, Cologne, Germany
September 11, 2017
Conference at 70th conference of the European Society of Opinion and Marketing Research (ESOMAR), Amsterdam, The Netherlands
July 15, 2017
Conference at 7th conference of the European Survey Research Association (ESRA), Lisbon, Portugal
Teaching
- Invited lecturer, Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science, University of Oxford
- Course: Survey research in the digital age: Online Nonprobability Surveys and Post-Stratification
- Academic years: 2021-2022
- Graduate Teaching Assistant, The London School of Economics and Political Science
- Course: Survey Methodology
- Academic years: 2022-2023 / 2021 - 2022
- Graduate Teaching Assistant, The London School of Economics and Political Science
- Course: Intermediate Quantitative Analysis
- Academic years: 2021-2022
- Dissertation Adviser, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
- Role: MSc dissertation quant adviser
- Academic years: 2021 - 2022 / 2020 - 2021
- Teaching Assistant, Barcelona Institute of International Studies (IBEI)
- Course: Questionnaire Design
- Academic years: / 2018 - 2019 / 2017 - 2018
Consultancy
- Wellcome Trust
- Date: 2021
- Analysed a two-wave cross-national survey in 113 countries about mental health and the impact of COVID on opinions about science.
- Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)
- Date: 2021
- Collaborated with healthcare practitioners to draft and launch a longitudinal survey of health and care workers for Social Care Wales, aimed at assessing the efficacy of an innovative training programme.
- MoneyHelper
- Date: 2019
- Evaluated and analysed a pilot longitudinal survey of people in debt in the UK (2,025 participants).
- Authored a report about the methodological lessons learned, aimed at identifying the best procedures to use on the new survey and providing estimates of the sample size that would be needed.
Academic Service and leadership
- Referee: Social Science Computer Review, Public Opinion Quarterly, Field Methods, Quality and Quantity, International Journal of Social Research Methodology, Survey Research Methods, Sociological Methods and Research, Electoral Studies, European Political Science Review, Journal of Media Psychology, Behaviour & Information Technology, AMC-CHI22, Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology, New Media and Society, Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science . See my Publons profile
- Conferences: Reviewer (GOR 2021/22, BigSurv 2020), Discussant (Doctoral Workshop Political & Social Sciences UPF 2020)
- PhD training
- Data for Data Scientists, Prof. K. Benoit
- Causal Inference for Observational and Experimental Studies, Dr. D. Hendry
- RECSM Summer School 18, UPF
- Social Networks, Prof. L. De Benedictis
- Social Media Research / Big Data 2, Dr. D. Nyhuis
- Social Media Research / Big Data 1, Dr. D. Pablo Barbera
- Machine Learning for Social Sciences, Dr. D. R. Wuest
- Causal Inference: Survey Experiments: Dr. T. Leeper
- RECSM Summer School 17, UPF
- Implementing High-Quality Web Surveys, Prof. K. L. Manfreda
- Probability Sampling Methods, Dr. T. Baghal
- Stata for Social Sciences, Dr. J. Guma
- DataCamp
- Intermediate Python for Data Science
- Intro to Python for Data Science
Languages
- English (Full professional proficiency)
- Catalan (Native)
- Spanish (Native)
Computer Skills
- Advanced: R, STATA, LISREL, Jrule, Microsoft Office
- Medium: SPSS, MPlus, AMOS, LaTeX
- Basic: Python, SQL
