We’re pleased to invite you to these seminars arranged by SRA Cymru:
1. Free evening seminar – Update from Public Policy Institute Wales (PPIW)
The Public Policy Institute for Wales (PPIW) was established in January 2014. It aims to improve the lives of the people of Wales by providing Welsh Government Ministers with authoritative independent analysis and advice. The PPIW undertakes two interrelated lines of work; working for the Welsh Government and our research into What Works in Tackling Poverty: The Welsh link to the ‘What Works’ network. This evening seminar will provide an overview and update on their work. An audience Q&A and discussion will follow the presentation.
Speaker: Professor Steven Martin, Cardiff Business School
16 March, 5 – 6.30pm, Cardiff University
Booking: http://the-sra.org.uk/event-registration/?ee=255
2. Afternoon seminar – The Millennium Cohort Study
The Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) is a world-renowned national longitudinal birth cohort study that follows the lives of 19,000 babies born in the UK in 2000–2001. This event will provide an overview of the MCS and its findings, with a specific focus on Wales. MCS covers diverse topics including parenting; childcare; school choice; child behaviour and cognitive development; health; parents’ employment and education; income and poverty; housing, neighbourhood and residential mobility; and social capital and ethnicity.
Speakers include Professor Emla Fitzsimons (UCL), Professor Chris Taylor (Cardiff University) and Richard Thurston (Welsh Government). An audience Q&A and discussion will follow each presentation.
14 April, 12.30 – 4pm, Cardiff University
Entrance to this event costs £15.
Booking: http://the-sra.org.uk/event-registration/?ee=256
3. Free evening seminar - Third Time Lucky? Measuring more than GDP
There is increasing interest in measuring well-being and progress more widely than by the national economic accounts. The ONS’s Measuring National Well-being programme and developments by the Welsh Government are exemplars in going ‘beyond GDP’. However, the many current initiatives on this front form the ‘second wave’ of attempts to usurp GDP, recalling the social indicators movement in the 1960s as the ‘first wave’. We add in Sir John Sinclair’s Statistical Account of Scotland from the 1790s to reinforce the point that measuring things differently is not enough: new measures will have to be used in government, business and everyday life. Refreshments will be available on arrival. The presentation will begin at 17:00, followed by Q&A.
Speaker: Paul Allin, Visiting professor, Department of Mathematics, Imperial College.
19 May, 4.30 – 6pm, Welsh Government, Cardiff
Booking: http://the-sra.org.uk/event-registration/?ee=253
With best regards
SRA Cymru
The Social Research Association
www.the-sra.org.uk
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