ESDS Government events


Health surveys user meeting



The full programme for the annual Health Surveys User Meeting, to be held at the Royal Statistical Society on 5 July 2011, is now available.



There will be updates from a number of the health survey teams and research papers on the following topics (plus more):



·         Alcohol

·         Mental Health

·         Health in later life

·         Data Linkage

·         Cardio-vascular disease

·         Survival and mortality



To view the programme and book a place please go to www.ccsr.ac.uk/esds/events/2011-07-05/<http://www.ccsr.ac.uk/esds/events/2011-07-05/>. The meeting is free to attend and lunch will be provided.



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A European workshop to introduce the EU Survey of Income and Living Conditions and the EU Labour Force Survey data



Thursday 4 August - Friday 5 August 2011

University of Manchester



A two-day workshop organised by ESDS Government at the University of Manchester and

GESIS at the Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Mannheim. This workshop will give an introduction to the cross-national comparative EU-SILC and EU-LFS data. There is a registration fee of £110 (£55 for students).


For more information and to book a place please go to www.ccsr.ac.uk/esds/events/2011-08-04/<http://www.ccsr.ac.uk/esds/events/2011-08-04/>
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SARs events

Census 2011: impact and potential

You are invited to attend a two-day conference at the University of Manchester on 7-8 July 2011.

This event has been convened by the ESRC Census Programme and the Royal Statistical Society Census Study Group and will showcase the research potential of the 2011 Census data in advance of its release to the research community in 2013. The full range of aggregate and microdata census outputs will be discussed, as well as new delivery systems for the data.
Plenary speakers include Paul Boyle (Chief Executive, ESRC), Glen Watson (Director, 2011 Census, ONS), Sharon Stern (Assistant Division Chief for the American Community Survey, US Census Bureau) and Roma Chappell (Head of Beyond 2011 Programme, ONS). There will also be speakers from all Census.ac.uk Data Support Units and other census data experts and researchers.
The cost of this event is £75 which includes lunch and refreshments on both days and the conference dinner on the first night (day rate £40; conference dinner £20). Participants will need to book their own hotel and travel.
For more information and booking please go to http://www.ccsr.ac.uk/sars/conference2011/
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methods@manchester events

The Impact Agenda - an ESRC-funded seminar series

Seminar 3: The interaction between academic knowledge producers and government organisations

Monday 4 July 2011
Royal Statistical Society, Errol Street, London

There are well established, long term relationships between UK academic and government organisations. However, the relationship between academic and non-academic organisations may be becoming even more crucial. The Research Excellence Framework (REF), which will assess the quality of research in UK higher education institutions, sets as one of its assessment criteria the wider impact of research.

In this seminar presentations will take the form of a dialogue between an academic who is involved in knowledge transfer, and a corresponding non-academic from a partner in a commissioning government department/agency.

Each speaker will give a 15 minute presentation to set the scene; the facilitator will then open this up for questions, discussion from the audience and the speakers will respond and, in so doing, provide more detail and develop this issues more fully.

To view the programme and book a place please go to http://www.methods.manchester.ac.uk/impact/seminar3/



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