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Challenging ‘Parallel Lives’ on Radio 4

By Pablo Mateos - Last updated: Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Ludi Simpson and Tariq Modood on Radio 4 on Challenging the ‘Parallel Lives’ Myth: Race, Sociology, Statistics and Politics
 
The first fifteen minutes of last week’s Thinking Allowed on Radio 4 is based on Nissa Finney and Ludi Simpson “‘Sleepwalking to segregation’?”. Listen to the interview with Ludi Simpson and Tariq Modood. If you’re like to read [...]

Census data workshop: migration & Longitudinal Study

By Pablo Mateos - Last updated: Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Census data workshop: using migration data and the ONS Longitudinal Study
Southend, 26 June
Time: 10.30-16.00 (10.00 registration and refreshments)
Date: Friday, 26 June 2009
Place: University of Essex, Southend Campus, Elmer Approach, Southend-on-
Sea, SS1 1LW
Booking and information:
http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/news/eventdetail.asp?id=2175
This workshop will include an introduction to the data services offered by
Census.ac.uk and is aimed at those studying or working in the [...]

Challenging the ‘Parallel Lives’ Myth: Race, Sociology, Statistics and Politics

By Pablo Mateos - Last updated: Thursday, March 12, 2009

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 [...]

Census workshop: health and ethnicity

By Pablo Mateos - Last updated: Thursday, February 26, 2009

Census workshop: health and ethnicity – using Samples of Anonymised Records and ONS Longitudinal Study
Time: 10.00-15.45
Date: Thursday, 16 April 2009
Place: Level 3A/3B, Main Building, City University, Northampton Square,
London, EC1V 0HB
Booking: http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/news/eventdetail.asp?id=2174
Rachel Stuchbury, Julian Buxton and Christopher Marshall from the Centre for
Longitudinal Study Information and User Support (CelSIUS) will introduce the
Office for National Statistics Longitudinal Study, [...]

Conference on Migration, Community and Ethnicity

By Pablo Mateos - Last updated: Friday, February 20, 2009

Conference on Migration, Community and Ethnicity
University of Manchester, 2 April 2009
Bookings are now open for a one-day conference on Migration, Community and Ethnicity on Thursday 2 April 2009 at the University of Manchester. There is an excellent programme of topics and speakers:
Rob Ford, CCSR
British attitudes towards immigrants and ethnic minorities: education, generational change and the [...]

RGS Session: Migration, Mixing and Ethnic Integration

By Pablo Mateos - Last updated: Friday, February 6, 2009

CALL FOR PAPERS
Migration, Mixing and Ethnic Integration
A session of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Annual Conference
Manchester, 26-28th August 2009
Sponsored by the Population Geography Research Group and the ESRC Understanding Population Trends and Processes (UPTAP) programme
To offer a paper to the session, submit your details (name, institution, email address) and an abstract (max. 250 words) [...]