Research Methods Festival Programme

Programme for: Friday 2nd July am

Venue: See conference programme

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Causality (FULL)

This session is now fully booked

10:00 - 12:45

Chair: Mike Savage, University of Manchester

This session will take the form of an inter-disciplinary debate with contributions from economics, sociology, statistics and social policy. Questions will include:

   What do we mean by causality?
   What evidence is required to establish causality?
   How helpful is the concept of causality in the social sciences?

Contributors include:

Causality: A consulting and collaborating statisticians perspective

Andrew Pickles, University of Manchester (Slides)

Causality
Peter Hedström, Nuffield College, Oxford

Contingent Realism and Causality

Malcolm Williams, University of Plymouth (Discussion paper - Five Questions about causality)

Causality as Conundrum

Martyn Hammersley, Open University

Causality

John Ermisch, University of Essex

Richard Bartholomew, DfES, Children and Families

Each speaker will have up to ten minutes to set out their views on the above questions. We will ask for short contributions to be available beforehand so participants can download them from the web.

The debate will then be open to the floor.

Resources