Registration in the Wolfson Research Institute (WRI)
(coffee and tea will be available)

Rooms will be available from 14.00 and the registration desk will be manned from that time, in case public transport means that some people will arrive early.

Welcome and introduction (WRI)
Ray Hudson, Director, Wolfson Research Institute
Angela Dale, Director, ESRC Research Methods Programme

Professor Bob Allison, Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Health, University of Durham

Plenary session (WRI)

Doing policy-relevant research to address inequalities in health: what are the issues?

Margaret Whitehead, W. H. Duncan Professor of Public Health, University of Liverpool

Meet for pre-dinner drinks (Waterside Restaurant, Holliday Building)

Introduction to the format of day two: three parallel sessions with three papers in each, each paper with 30 minutes for presentation and 15 minutes for discussion. (Ebbsworth Building (EB) D004)

(1) Understandings of the role of genetics in health and well-being outcomes (EB D004)

(1.1)

The role of genetic and environmental effects over the lifecourse
Andrew Pickles, Joint Chair in Epidemiology & Social Statistics, University of Manchester

(1.2)

Using qualitative and quantitative methods to research people's understanding of family histories of heart disease
Kate Hunt, Senior Research Scientist, MRC Unit Glasgow

(2) Methods of measuring socio-spatial effects on health (EB D009)

(2.1)

Understanding the relationship between health inequalities and place – the role of research on lay expertise

Jennie Popay, Professor of Sociology and Public Health, Lancaster University

(2.2)

Investigating the absolute and relative income hypothesis: problems of analysis and measurement
Kelvyn Jones and Min-Hua Jen, School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol

(3) Intervention studies:
Why do we use randomised control trials to assess the effect of interventions? What are the practical issues in running an effective trial? What are the ethical issues? What role is there for qualitative methods? (EB D010)

(3.1)

The role of RCTs in establishing the effectiveness of surgical interventions

Janet Powell, Medical Director, University Hospitals, Coventry and Warwickshire

(3.2)

The role of qualitative methods in RCTs

Rona Campbell, Senior Lecturer in Social Medicine, University of Bristol

Coffee

(1) Understandings of the role of genetics in health and well-being outcomes (EB D004)

(1.3)

Translating Genetic Disease

Anne Kerr, Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of York

(2) Methods of measuring socio-spatial effects on health (EB D009)

(2.3)

Crossing levels - the relationships between household and neighbourhood social exclusion
Emma Uprichard, Lecturer in Research Methods, University of Durham

(3) Intervention studies:
Why do we use randomised control trials to assess the effect of interventions? What are the practical issues in running an effective trial? What are the ethical issues? What role is there for qualitative methods? (EB D010)

(3.3)

The role of statistics in RCT ethics

Jane Hutton, Reader in Medical Statistics, University of Warwick

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