Spring 2010 Seminar Series

The joint Centre for Census and Survey Research, Institute for Social Change and Social Statistics Seminar Series. Invited experts in quantitative methods and social statistics will explain their latest research on aspects of individual and social change and methods of measurement.

The joint seminar programme will be of interest to all members of CCSR as well as to many others in the University and outside. Seminars are held on Tuesdays from 4pm - 5.30pm on the second floor of the Arthur Lewis Building (2nd Floor - 2.16 Boardroom). Tea and coffee is available from 3.45pm.

All are welcome and no booking is necessary. Queries to 0161-275-4721. See www.ccsr.ac.uk/seminars/ for up to date details.

A poster showing all the seminars in this series is available as a PDF. CCSR also runs an informal lunchtime seminar series.

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19th Jan: Living Standards During Previous Recessions.
Dr. Luke Sibieta, Institute for Fiscal Studies. This seminar not in Arthur Lewis, but will take place in Bridgeford St 1.69.

26th Jan: Chinese in the British Labour Market: Using SARs to Capture Intra-Ethnic Differences.
Dr. Sin Yi Cheung, Department of Sociology, University of Birmingham.

2nd Feb: Policy Evaluation and Randomised Trials.
Dr. Stephen Morris, Policy Studies Institute.

9th Feb: Latent Class Models: Recent Developments.
Professor Jeroen Vermunt, Department of Methodology and Statistics, Tilburg University, the Netherlands.

16th Feb: Strategy for Modelling Non-random Missing Data Mechanisms in Longitudinal Studies Using Bayesian Methods: Application to Income Data from the Millennium : Cohort Study.
Dr. Alexina Mason, Imperial College London.

23rd Feb: Immigrants in German Politics: Diversity in Mainstream Institutions.
Professor Karen Schoenwaelder, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen, Germany.

2nd Mar: The Effect of Recession in the UK on Family Employment: Welfare Reform, Male Unemployment and Wives' (and Partners') Employment Response.

Dr. Susan Harkness, University of Bath. Slides

9th Mar: Redefining the Political.
Professor Stephen Coleman, Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds.

16th Mar: Including Social Network Information In Geographical Analysis: Some Multilevel Approaches
Dr. Mark Tranmer CCSR & Mitchell Centre for Social Network Analysis.

23rd Mar: The National Congregations Study in Switzerland: First Results.
Professor Jörg Stolz, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

30th Mar: Attitudes towards Gender Roles.
Dr. Damon Berridge, University of Lancaster.

6th April: The Intergenerational Transmission of Cultural Capital.
Dr Alice Sullivan, Institute of Education, University of London.

Details, slides and papers from the previous series' are still available: Autumn 2009, Summer 2009, Spring 2009, Autumn 2008, Spring 2008, Autumn 2007, Spring 2007, Autumn 2006, Spring 2006, Autumn 2005, Spring 2005, Autumn 2004, Spring 2004, Autumn 2003 or the current series.