YouGov-Cambridge Spring Symposium: Public Trust in Banking – The Politics of Recovery
The next major YouGov event is a half-day conference in partnership with the Guardian on how to restore public trust in banking. See here for details of the programme, speakers and forthcoming YouGov report on “Trust in Banking”.
March 8, 2013
Question-wording and green levies
In support of the Masters Degree Programme in Environmental Policy at Cambridge University, YouGov-Cambridge conducted a split-sample experiment testing support for the idea of paying more on energy bills to help the environment, and to what extent this support is affected when respondents are asked to think in annual, monthly or weekly timescales.
March 7, 2013
Poll: Tolerant Britain? Faith symbols welcome at work, but not the burka
YouGov-Cambridge research on attitudes to religious dress in the workplace shows overwhelming public support for the freedom to wear items like a small crucifix or kippah in the workplace, but not for the burka, even in a work environment with no hands-on physical or public facing responsibilities.
February 20, 2013
Comment: Mind the AQIM Hype: Facts and Public Fears Are at Odds Over a Changing Al Qaeda
It’s an irony that a number of those factors now upping public fears and putting al Qaeda back on the front page are also factors that indicate a creeping decline for al Qaeda as the kind of globe-trotting bogeyman we once feared.
February 5, 2013
Poll: No public consensus on extreme weather links to climate change
YouGov-Cambridge polling in Britain and the United States shows lacking public consensus on the assertion that extreme weather events are linked to the effects of man-made climate change, with strong conservative opposition in the US and significant British uncertainty towards the claim.
January 30, 2013