Please attend if you are interested in research in Cuba, and circulate
as widely as you can, please. For background, see Radical Statistics
issue 87 pages 4-7. thanks, Ludi Simpson.
Social research in Cuba
Sonia Catasus Cervera
Senior Professor, University of Havana, and President of the Cuban
Population Studies Society (SOCUESPO)
Tuesday 20 September 2005
2:00-3:00 Royal Statistical Society
12 Errol Street, London EC1Y 8LX (http://www.rss.org.uk/PDF/RSSmap.pdf)
Cuban social research takes place in University departments, independent
social research institutes, and government ministries. Investment in
education has provided Cuba with many specialised researchers working on
priorities of social and economic development. The historical, economic
and political events that occurred in Cuba during the course of the 20th
century have been decisive for the social development the country,
shaped also by an economic and political blockade led by the United
States government.
Professor Sonia Catasus Cervera will discuss the organisation of social
research in Cuba in general, and touch on her own research on the
development of demographic trends as affected by the economic and social
transformations of the past 50 years in Cuba. She is in Britain at the
invitation of the British Society for Population Studies.
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