The Sibling Postcard Exercise

This dataset is the written text of 'postcards' submitted to researchers at the Open University and London South Bank University by the public as part of an annual week-long Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) 'Festival of Social Science' public engagement series of events. The postcard exercise ran from 7-16 March 2008, where people were invited to write about their sisters and brothers. They could either complete an electronic postcard via a website (advertised through leaflets, email lists, chat groups, on the research team's email signatures), or a paper postcard at displays in offices, schools, public libraries, care homes and voluntary organisations.