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BSPS Day meeting – Demography of London
British Society for Population Studies (BSPS) Day meeting on the Demography of London 7th July 2010 , City Hall, London Agenda 10.30am Registration and tea/coffee 11am Welcome and introduction to historical session 11.10am Romola Davenport – Death and the metropolitan migrant: mortality of young adults in eighteenth and nineteenth century London 11.45am [...]
Census Programme workshop on spatial and social classification, Leeds, 8 June 2010
The Census Programme are holding a workshop on ‘Spatial and Social Clasification’ at the School of Geography, University of Leeds. The event will take place on Tuesday 8th of June, 2010. Booking and further information are available at: http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/news/eventdetail.asp?id=2455 The classification of places and people has become an increasingly popular activity from the perspective of [...]
Anglo-Irish Population Conference 12-13 MAY 2010
ANGLO-IRISH POPULATION CONFERENCE 12-13 MAY 2010 Contemporary Labour Migration: National and International Perspectives Hosted by NUI Galway under the auspices of the Population Geography Research Group of the RGS-IBG and Population Commission of the International Geographical Union Papers are invited for an Anglo-Irish population conference on Labour Migration. Whilst there is a focus on Ireland and [...]
UCL Global Migration Symposia: Globalisation and Cosmopolitan Citizenship
The first event in a new high-profile series at University College London, the UCL Global Migration Symposia, organised by the UCL Global Migration Network, is to take place on 10th March 2010. The first event is entitled: Globalisation and Cosmopolitan Citizenship: Migrating Bodies, Practices and Ideas and will be given by Professor Peggy Levitt of [...]
Advances in Spatial Analysis & e-Social Science
UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) is running a free one day conference on Tuesday 13th April which will feature the work of group on projects associated with research funded by various UK research councils. The conference is free but you have to register. It is also the day before the UK’s annual conference [...]
Migrant transnationalism, integration and place – call for papers (RGS-IBG 2010)
We would like to invite abstracts for papers to be presented at a panel we propose for inclusion in the 2010 conference of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG). The panel theme is migrant transnationalism, integration and place. MIGRANT TRANSNATIONALISM, INTEGRATION AND PLACE SESSION ABSTRACT: This session aims to explore the intersections between migrants’ transnational [...]
Event: ONS Changes to Mid Year Estimates – Adding it all up.
The British Society for Population Studies (BSPS) are holding two workshops regarding the ONS Changes to Mid Year Estimates. One event is at the University of Leeds, and one is at the Local Government Association (LGA) in London. The workshops will take place in Leeds on the 7th of January and in London on the [...]
ESRC Seminar Series ‘Challenges in neighbourhood effects research: does it really matter where you live and what are the implications for policy?’
The forthcoming ESRC Seminar Series ‘Challenges in neighbourhood effects research: does it really matter where you live and what are the implications for policy?’ is organised jointly by the Centre of Housing Research, University of St Andrews, Department of Urban Studies, University of Glasgow and CCSR, University of Manchester. The first seminar, ‘Neighbourhood Effects: Theory [...]
Teaching quantitative methods: the challenge and how to meet it
The Royal Statistical Society are hosting a workshop on developing undergraduate quantitative methods teaching in sociology, social policy, politics and international relations, social anthropology and other social science subjects beyond economics and psychology. It will take place on Friday 23rd October at the Royal Statistical Society, Errol St, London from 09.30 to 16.30. Those speaking [...]
Census: 2011 and beyond. Meeting 21 Oct 2009
The Royal Statistical Society (RSS) is hosting a meeting on the topic of the UK census. The meeting is taking place on Wednesday 21 October 2009 (1400-1700 hrs), at the RSS, 12 Errol St, London EC1Y 8LX. For details see the flyer here.