Quick reminder about the annual conference, with some
accommodation info at the end
:-)
Lee
Radical Statistics Group Annual Conference & AGM
Saturday 26th February 2005
Central Methodist Hall, Oldham Street, Manchester
(close to Manchester Piccadilly)
1 day conference on
Global Poverty and Inequality
The conference presents various methods for obtaining valid
measures for global poverty, health and mortality. With due regard
for reliability, the selected data is used to examine the extent and
implications of inequity. The conference also attempts to identify
the underlying processes that frustrate efforts to monitor and
improve global well-being. The aim is to improve our
understanding, an important step for achieving a fairer world.
Main Speakers:
DAVE GORDON Global child poverty.
ROY CARR-HILL Measuring the living conditions among the poor:
how useful are the available statistics?
KATH MOSER Global convergence in mortality 1950-2000?
PETER EDWARD The ethical poverty line as a tool to measure
global absolute poverty.
PETER HARDSTAFF The UK Government: being economical with
the truth about economics.
JACQUI MACKAY Working conditions and poverty in banana
production.
Short talks/discussion:
LUDI SIMPSON Statistics in Cuba, links with Britain.
JAY GINN 9/11 - Is the official story true?
Conference fees:
Student / unwaged £10 Waged current subscribers £15
New or lapsed subscribers £20 (the £20 includes introductory one
year subscription to the Radical Statistics Journal)
For more info and travel info see:
http://www.radstats.org.uk/conference2005.htm
To register the booking form can be downloaded at:
http://www.radstats.org.uk/conf2005/Confbookingform2005.pdf
Please also consider joining us for any of the following planned
social events:
- Friday night gathering from 7:30pm Marble Arch pub, 73 Rochdale
Road
- Saturday evening meal 5:30pm Sweet Mandarin, 19 Copperas
Street (off High Street in Northern Quarter)
- Sunday: canal-side walk starting in city centre finishing at the
Lowry
For accommodation relatively cheap city centre hotels are:
Merchants Hotel http://www.s-h-systems.co.uk/a10822.html
Monroe's Hotel http://www.4hotels.co.uk/uk/manchester53430.html
Or the Manchester Youth Hostel is in the city centre area at Potato
Wharf http://www.yha.org.uk/hostel/hostelpages/194.html
Alternatively I live a student hall of residence which is a 40mins bus
ride from the city centre, it is has a limited no of rooms to available
(the cost is v cheap, but you have to bring your own bedding/sleeping bag).
Please email me on
[log in to unmask] for the costs and I will
provide the contact details for the hall manager.
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Lee Emma Williamson
PhD student
Centre for Census and Survey Research
CCSR
Crawford House
University of Manchester
Web: www.ccsr.ac.uk/staff/lee.htm
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