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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 [...]

Family Resources Survey user meeting

By Pablo Mateos - Last updated: Monday, April 20, 2009

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 [...]

Poverty and Reproductive Health in Poor Countries: Issues, Measurement & Evidence

By Pablo Mateos - Last updated: Monday, April 20, 2009

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 [...]

BSPS meeting: Health & mortality using record linkage data in the UK

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

BSPS day meeting: Health and mortality using record linkage data in the UK
 LG03, New Academic Building, London School of Economics
14th  May 2009
 

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 [...]

‘The Multi-disciplinary Toolkit for Global Ageing’ – Univ. of Oxford

By Pablo Mateos - Last updated: Friday, February 27, 2009

Oxford Institute of Ageing Spring School
‘The Multi-disciplinary Toolkit for Global Ageing’
University of Oxford
19-23 April 2009
Deadline for registrations: 2 April 2009
Download the updated brochure here:
http://www.ageing.ox.ac.uk/system/files/SpringSchoolBrochure2009.pdf
This four day school will address concepts and tools in demography, bio-demography, bio-medical research and practice, economics, sociology, health and policy. Special emphasis will be placed on developing methodological skills, both from [...]

Reader/Soc. Sci. for Medical Humanities – Univ. Durham

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

Reader/Soc. Sci. for Medical Humanities – Geography – University of Durham
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The Centre for Medical Humanities and the Department of Geography seek to appoint a Reader in Social Science for Medical Humanities from 1st September 2009 or as soon as possible thereafter. S/he will be based for the first four years in the Centre for Medical [...]

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 and Workshop – Exploiting Existing Data for Health Research

By Pablo Mateos - Last updated: Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Exploiting Existing Data for Health Research
International Conference, 17-19 September 2009
Training Workshop, 12-16 September 2009   Â
University of St Andrews – Organised by the Scottish Health Informatics Programme (SHIP)
International Conference
In 2007 SHIP hosted the first ‘Exploiting Existing Data for Health Research’ conference at the University of St Andrews.  Designed  for researchers and practitioners interested in record linkage and [...]

Well-being and Place – Int’l Conference, Durham

By Pablo Mateos - Last updated: Thursday, February 19, 2009

Well-being and Place: an International Conference

7th -9th April 2009, Durham University, United Kingdom
*Places are still available at this conference- registration deadline extended to 28th February 2009*
Keynote speakers
Andrew Simms, Policy Director, New Economics Foundation
Professor Tim Blackman, Director, Wolfson Research Institute, Durham University
Overview
Over the last ten years the targets of policy have expanded beyond the purely material [...]