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ESRC Seminar Series: Time-Space and Life-Course, September 2009
The ESRC seminar series on ‘Time-Space and Life-Course’ has reached Seminar 5, which is entitled: ‘Tools for the future: exploring the temporal and spatial ordering of daily life‘ takes place on Monday the 14th of September 2009. The event is to be held at Newcastle University.
More details here
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ESRC Research Seminar Series: Understanding the Migrant Experience
The Centre for Migration Policy Research (CMPR) at Swansea University has been awarded funding by the ESRC to host a series of one-day seminars which aim to increase understanding of the migrant experience.
The first seminar in the series was held in April and explored the links between micro-level understanding of ‘the migrant experience’ and macro-level [...]
Britain’s population time-bomb: The challenges and opportunities of an ageing society
The Royal Geographical Society (RGS), on Tuesday 16 June at 19.00, are hosting a discussion entitled:
“Britain’s population time-bomb: The challenges and opportunities of an ageing society”
Britain’s 17 million baby boomers are fast approaching retirement age, with over 65’s now outnumbering under 16’s for the first time. What are the challenges and opportunities that this presents [...]
PGRG Conference: Remaking migration theory: intersections and cross-fertilisations
PGRG Conference: Remaking migration theory: intersections and cross-fertilisations
13th -14th May 2009, jointly hosted by the University of Brighton and University of Sussex
A two-day international conference of the Population Geography Research Group of the RGS-IBG
Call for Papers and Registration Form
Conference Programme
This conference aims to explore the many ways in which different, yet possibly interconnected, forms of [...]
Family Resources Survey user meeting
Family Resources Survey user meeting
Thursday 30 April 2009
Royal Statistical Society, London
This meeting will provide a forum for data users and producers to meet and discuss new developments and exchange information about the Family Resources Survey.
The meeting is free to attend and lunch is provided. For more details and to book a place please go to [...]
CMPR Seminar: ‘Is there a ‘migrant experience?’
Centre for Migration Policy Research (CMPR) Seminar
‘Is there a ‘migrant experience?’
Swansea University on Tuesday 21st April from 9.30-5pm
The Centre for Migration Policy Research (CMPR) at Swansea University has recently been awarded an ESRC grant to host a series of one-day seminars which aim to increase understanding of the migrant experience (details attached). The idea for [...]
Poverty and Reproductive Health in Poor Countries: Issues, Measurement & Evidence
BSPS day meeting – Sponsored in collaboration with the ESRC
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Poverty and Reproductive Health in Poor Countries: Issues, Measurement & Evidence
Venue: New Academic Building (NABL09), LSE
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Friday 29th May, 2009
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Background
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The burden of out-of-pocket expenditure related to reproductive health service
use remains largely unexplored in poor country contexts. The knock-on effect of
poverty on reproductive health is difficult to quantify [...]
Meeting on Migration Statistics: Interim Report
 Migration Statistics: Interim Report
 A meeting to discuss the interim findings of a review by the UK  Statistics Authority on improvements to migration statistics will be  held at the Royal Statistical Society, 12 Errol Street, London, EC1Y 8LX  on 22nd April 2009, 2pm-4pm (coffee and registration from 1.30pm).
 Please email: authority.enquiries@statistics.gsi.gov.uk to reserve your  place – attendance is free but places [...]
BSPS meeting: Health & mortality using record linkage data in the UK
BSPS day meeting: Health and mortality using record linkage data in the UK
 LG03, New Academic Building, London School of Economics
14th May 2009
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Programme
10.30 Registration and Coffee
11.00 Introduction by the Chair
11.10 Marital history and mortality using ONS Longitudinal Study data, Emily Grundy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
 3.50 Final questions and comments
4.00 End of meeting
3.10 Associations between [...]
Challenging the ‘Parallel Lives’ Myth: Race, Sociology, Statistics and Politics
Challenging the ‘Parallel Lives’ Myth: Race, Sociology, Statistics and Politics
Wednesday May 13 th 2009 10.30 -16.00
London School of Economics
Room LG01, New Academic Building, Lincoln’s Inn Fields
The BSA Race and Ethnicity Study Group and the BSPS are taking the opportunity of the publication of ‘Sleepwalking to Segregation’? Challenging myths about race and immigration by Nissa Finney [...]