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Archive for 'Workshops / Training' Category

7 billion debate and seminar on 31st October

By Adam Dennett - Last updated: Tuesday, October 25, 2011

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Showcasing UK Administrative Data: Innovative Research Methods and Modes of Access

By Adam Dennett - Last updated: Friday, June 24, 2011

TweetThe ESRC’s Administrative Data Liaison Service will be holding a one day conference to highlight the power of administrative data using examples of current or completed research. The event will also provide an opportunity to explore the future for administrative data as a research resource, including new and developing mechanisms for accessing data. I am [...]

Open data workshop – University of Nottingham

By Adam Dennett - Last updated: Friday, May 20, 2011

Tweet## Open Government: Open Data,  Open Source and Open Standards [http://punkish.org/opengov/index.html] You are invited to attend a workshop titled [Open Government: Open Data, Open Source and Open Standards][og] organized jointly by [Dr. Hanif Rahemtulla][hr], Horizon Digital Economy Research and [Puneet Kishor][pk], Creative Commons. The workshop will be held in conjunction with the annual [Open Source [...]

FREE Open Data Master Classes

By Adam Dennett - Last updated: Tuesday, April 26, 2011

TweetFollowing the unprecedented success of the first series, Horizon Digital Economy Research, Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), OS GeoVation in partnership with Esri UK and The National Institute of Continuing Adult Education (Niace) is proud to announce a second series of FREE one-day Open Data Master Classes. These classes will reach a wide cross section [...]

BSPS sponsored workshops

By Adam Dennett - Last updated: Monday, February 14, 2011

TweetA two-day part-BSPS funded interdisciplinary workshop on childbearing and evolutionary theory will take place in St John’s College, Oxford between March 31st and April 1st 2011. BSPS members are cordially invited to apply to participate. There are a limited number of places available. Registration is free but participants will be expected to pay for travel, [...]

LSE Health reproductive morbidity and poverty seminar – call for papers

By Daniel James Lewis - Last updated: Friday, June 18, 2010

TweetLSE Health is hosting a ESRC-funded seminar on ‘Reproductive morbidity and poverty’ on the 6th of November, 2010. They invite the submission of abstracts from now, with the deadline on the 31st of July. Poverty reduction is a core target in the international development agenda. Reproductive morbidities include physical disorders such as fistula and infertility, [...]

BSPS Day meeting – Demography of London

By Dr Pablo Mateos - Last updated: Thursday, June 10, 2010

TweetBritish 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              [...]

SHIP Advanced Training Workshop – 6th-10th April 2010

By Daniel James Lewis - Last updated: Friday, December 11, 2009

TweetThe Scottish Health Informatics Programme (SHIP) are hosting a training workshop from 6-10 April 2010 at the University of St. Andrews on the topic of “Advanced Analysis of Linked Health Data“. This is an intensive five-day course on the theory and practice of analysis of large sets of linked health or social data at an [...]

Workshop: Exploring population and health trends – the ONS Longitudinal Study

By Daniel James Lewis - Last updated: Thursday, December 3, 2009

TweetThe University of Surrey are hosting a workshop on the ONS longitudinal study specifically geared towards exploring population and health trends. Workshop: Exploring population and health trends – the ONS Longitudinal Study Time: 14.00-16.30 Date: Friday, 22 January 2010 Venue: Room 46AD03, The University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH The Office for National Statistics [...]

Workshop: Exploring population and health trends – the ONS Longitudinal Study

By Daniel James Lewis - Last updated: Wednesday, October 21, 2009

TweetWorkshop details: Time: 14.00-16.30 Date: Friday, 22 January 2010 Venue: Room 46AD03, The University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH The Office for National Statistics Longitudinal Study (LS) offers a 1% sample of the population of England and Wales. It draws its data from each Census (1971, 1981, 1991 and 2001 so far), linking the [...]