Researching 'place' (2)
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Date: Wednesday 19th July
Venue: Room C, Bernard Sunley Building
Time: 2.00-5.30
Title: Methodological issues in understanding the role of place
Session Programme
Chair: Harvey Goldstein, University of Bristol
The two afternoon sessions will concentrate on analysis issues. Speakers will identify some of the approaches to identifying the explanatory role played by place and the implications this has for policy formulation. These sessions will aim to engage both statisticians and non-statisticians.
Speakers from the morning session will be asked to take part in a discussion over the methods in sessions 3 and 4, following the presentations.
| 2.00-3.30 | Session 3 The role of multilevel modelling in explaining the role of place Kelvyn Jones, University of Bristol Ed Fieldhouse, University of Manchester Kelvyn Jones will explain how multilevel modelling can help to establish the role of place in understanding individual outcomes such as unemployment or health. Ed Fieldhouse will provide some research based examples. A discussion, involving presenters during the morning session, will be led by Adam Tickell, University of Bristol |
| 3.30-4.00 | Coffee/tea |
| 4.00-5.30 | Session 4 Causality issues in attributing the role of place Charles Manski, Northwestern University Simon Burgess, University of Bristol How do we understand the causal effect of neighbourhood on the individuals living in that neighbourhood?. Simon Burgess will outline some of the issues and the implications that they have for policy formulation. Charles Manski will then outline ‘the Reflection Problem’: does the mirror (neighbourhood) cause the person’s behaviour or reflect it? Discussion, involving presenters from the morning session, will be led by Adam Tickell, University of Bristol. |
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