The Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research

Angela Dale's Colloquium

Thursday 24 June 2010

Martin Harris Centre, University of Manchester

A day to honour Professor Angela Dale on the occasion of her retirement after over 30 years of dedicated service to the Social Sciences.

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Programme

09.45 – 10.15 Registration and refreshments
   
10.15 – 10.30 Welcoming remarks
Colette Fagan, School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester
   
10.30 – 11.45

Session 1: Ethnicity
Chair: James Nazroo, Director of CCSR

Speakers:

1. Jo Lindley, University of Surrey
Economic evidence on ethnicity: What we know and what we don’t know? (PDF)

2. Clare Holdsworth, Keele University
Pioneering the analysis of census and survey data on ethnic groups (PDF)

3. Ludi Simpson
Ethnicity, population and change (PDF)

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11.45 – 12.00 Refreshments
   
12.00 – 1.15 Session 2: Methods
Chair: Mark Brown, CCSR

Speakers:

1. Chris Skinner, University of Southampton
Funded methods (PDF)

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2. Jane Elliott, Institute of Education, University of London

Narratives of social mobility: combining qualitative and quantitative data from the 1958 British Birth Cohort Study (PDF)

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3. Jennifer Mason, University of Manchester
Methodological dialogues and creative tensions

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1.15 – 2.00 Lunch
   
2.00 – 3.15 Session 3: Resources
Chair: Jo Wathan, CCSR

Speakers:

1. John Pullinger, Chair of UK Data Forum
Confidentiality and access: friends or enemies?

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2. Paul Norman, University of Leeds
Investigating relationships between migration and health using area, interaction and microdata (PDF)

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3. Mark Elliot, University of Manchester
Privacy, confidentiality and disclosure: conflicts and resolutions (PDF)

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3.15 – 3.30 Refreshments
   
3.30 – 4.45 Session 4: Women’s Employment
Chair: Leen Vandecasteele, CCSR

Speakers:

1. Jill Rubery, Manchester Business School
Women and labour market segmentation (PDF)

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2. Jackie Scott, Cambridge University
Women's employment: Changing lives and new challenges (PDF)

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3. Colette Fagan, University of Manchester
Gender, job content and working conditions in Europe (PDF)

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4.45 – 5.00 Closing remarks
Peter Elias, University of Warwick
   
University of Manchester CCSR