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Apologies for the repost. A limited number of free places are now available for students, low income and voluntary sector workers. Please email Nigel De Noronha for more details: [log in to unmask] Is Britain Pulling Apart? The 2014 Radical Statistics conference Saturday 8th March 2014, 9am – 5pm, Mechanics Institute, Manchester, 103 Princess Street, Manchester, M1 6DD Topics and speakers include: Is Britain Pulling Apart? Findings from the analysis of social distance. Speaker: Paul Lambert, University of Stirling. Discussant: David Byrne, University of Durham. ’White flight’? Evidence from the 2011 Census, and the threat to neighbourhood ethnicity and migration data beyond 2011. Speaker: Nissa Finney, University of Manchester. Hungry in the UK? Speakers: Kingsley Purdam, Elizabeth Garratt Glass and Aneez Esmail, University of Manchester. A living wage rather than a fair wage: trade union politics and the rise of inequality. Speaker: Roger Seifert, Wolverhampton Business School . Is the relative measure of child poverty a help or a hindrance? Speaker: Graham Whitham, Save the Children. The impact of austerity on gender equality. Speaker: Claire Annesley, University of Manchester. White working class? Speaker: Dan Silver, Social Action Research Foundation. Why are all the political parties bent on austerity and why is it wrong? Speaker: Larry Brownstein. The changing geography of the private rented sector in England. Speaker: Nigel de Noronha, University of Manchester. Post Crash economics Society, University of Manchester. Inequalities in well-being in later life. Speaker: James Nazroo, University of Manchester. For more information and registration: http://www.radstats.org.uk/conference/man2014/ You may leave the list at any time by sending the command SIGNOFF allstat to [log in to unmask], leaving the subject line blank.