The Scottish Social Survey Network seminar series will include 10 seminars held over the period 2007-2010, usually 2 per semester. Seminars will ordinarily run for 2 hours and feature two related papers (one applied substantive paper and one with a methodological focus in a similar field).

Seminars will ordinarily be held on Thursdays 3-5pm. Usual dates for the seminars will be January, May, September and December.

 

Seminar summary:

Next seminar:

 

Seminar 10: Thursday 25th March 2010, University of Stirling, 4.00 - 5.15 pm

Department of Applied Social Science, University of Stirling

Room 3S15, Colin Bell Building (tea/coffee from 1545hrs)

(see map and directions)

 

Marital Status Transitions and Women’s Time on Domestic Labor in Australia and the United Kingdom: A Multiprocess, Multilevel Approach   Michele Haynes Institute for Social Science Research, The University of Queensland, Australia.   Abstract

 

Listing of previous seminars (with downloadable files when available):

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Seminar 1: Thursday 3rd May 2007, University of Stirling, 3-5pm

Room 2V1 Cottrell Building, Department of Applied Social Science

(directions to campus / campus map)

 

Talk 1:	Scottish Social Survey Data: Past, Present and Future Dr Vernon Gayle, University of Stirling
Talk 2:	Researching Scotland's Demography Professor Robert Wright, University of Strathclyde

 

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Seminar 2: Thursday 6th September 2007, University of Stirling, 3-5pm

Iris Murdoch Building, Department of Applied Social Science

(directions to campus / campus map)

 

Talk 1:	Professor Lindsay Paterson, University of Edinburgh Civic Values and Social Mobility (abstract)
Talk 2:	Dr Gary Pollock, Manchester Metropolitan University Holistic trajectories: Applications of multiple sequence analysis (ppt slides)

Seminar 2 was incorporated as a special symposium within the Social Stratification Research Seminar 2007 meeting.

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Seminar 3: Thursday 24th January 2008, University of Stirling, 3-5pm

Iris Murdoch Building, Department of Applied Social Science

(directions to campus / campus map)

 

Talk 1:	Scotland's Large Scale Surveys   - Mairi MacAskill (Scottish Household Survey) (ppt / pdf)   - Ian Máté (Scottish House Conditions Survey) (ppt / pdf)   - Beth MacMaster (Scottish Crime and Justice Survey) (ppt / pdf)   - Julie Ramsay (Scottish Health Survey) (ppt / pdf)   - Karren Friel (Labour Force Survey) (ppt / pdf)
Talk 2:	Survey harmonisation in Scotland - An overview of the theoretical and the practical (ppt / pdf)  - Janette Purbrick, Office of the Chief Statistician at the                              Scottish Government

 

• Seminar 3 featured a panel presentation on 5 major social surveys supported by the Scottish Government, and an outline paper on approaches to harmonisation in social surveys in Scotland. Janette Purbrick's talk on harmonisation included notes of details for further consultation on the process of harmonisation of surveys in Scotland (see the slides).

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Seminar 4: Thursday 1st May 2008, University of Edinburgh, 3-5pm

Room S1, 7 George Square (Psychology)

( Directions to the Univ. Edinburgh / Edinburgh campus Map )

 

Talk 1:	Working Fathers in Western Europe: Earning and Caring (ppt / pdf, c)   - Dr Alison Smith (University of Edinburgh)
Talk 2:	Using Matching Techniques with Pooled Cross-Sectional Data (ppt / pdf, c)  - Dr Paul Norris (University of Edinburgh)

 

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Affiliated Seminar: Thursday 23rd October 2008, University of Stirling, 4-5pm

Colin Bell Building (Dept. Applied Social Science)

 

Profesor Harry Ganzeboom Professor of Sociology and Social Research Methodology, Free University of Amsterdam will deliver a seminar reviewing his international research in the areas of social stratification, education and occupations.

 

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Seminar 5: Thursday 20th November 2008, Napier University, 3-5pm

 

Riady Lecture Theatre, Craiglockhart Campus, Napier University, Edinburgh

(219 Colinton Road, Edinburgh, EH14 1DJ; see map and directions)

Hosted by Employment Research Institute, Napier University

Talk 1:	Professor Ron McQuaid and Dr Robert Raeside, Employment Research Institute, Napier University Working for Families: Developing and Analysing a Large Dataset for Evaluation Slides: ppt; colour pdf; b/w pdf
Talk 2:	Paul Bradshaw, Scottish Centre for Social Research New Developments in the Growing Up in Scotland (GUS) Study

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Seminar 6: Thursday 8th January 2009, University of Stirling, 3-5pm

Iris Murdoch Building

Department of Applied Social Science, University of Stirling

 

Talk 1:	The Scottish Longitudinal Study Lin Hattersley Project Manager, Scottish Longitudinal Study General Register Office for Scotland
Talk 2:	The Effect of Neighbourhood Housing Tenure Mix on Labour Market Outcomes: A Longitudinal Perspective Dr Maarten van Ham and Dr David Manley Slides: ppt; colour pdf ; b/w pdf Link: Full paper in Journal of Economic Geography School of Geography and Geosciences and Centre for Housing Research, University of St Andrews

 

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Seminar 7: Thursday 4th June 2009, University of Stirling, 3-5pm

Department of Applied Social Science, University of Stirling

Room 3S15, Colin Bell Building

(see map and directions)

 

Talk 1:	Gender Segregation in Occupations Dr Bob Blackburn and Dr Girts Racko Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge Slides ( pdf / ppt); Text (pdf) Some further links on this work: press release; news reports (Daily Telegraph; WorkingMums; CZ radio)
Talk 2:	'Escape from Poverty' and Occupations Dr Paul Lambert Department of Applied Social Science, University of Stirling Slides (ppt / pdf); Text of related paper (pdf)

 

Seminar 8: Friday 27th November 2009, University of Stirling, 3-5pm

Department of Applied Social Science, University of Stirling

Room 3S15, Colin Bell Building

(see map and directions)

 

Talk 1:	Multilevel Event History Modelling of Birth Intervals Prof. Fiona Steele Centre for Multilevel Modelling, University of Bristol Talk slides: ppt / pdf
Talk 2:	The relationship between fertility and migration in Africa Ligaya Batten, Centre for Population Studies, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya Talk slides: ppt / pdf

Seminar 9: Thursday 28th January 2010, University of Stirling, 3-5pm

Department of Applied Social Science, University of Stirling

Room 3S15, Colin Bell Building (tea/coffee from 1430hrs)

(see map and directions)

 

Bookings for this seminar are not necessary but please contact paul.lambert@stirling.ac.uk if further information is needed.

Those attending this research seminar might also be interested in a preceding 'Expert Workshop' on the topic of 'Data on Ethnicity in Social Survey Research', which is being run by the DAMES research node - see its workshop pages.

Future seminars: Call for expressions of interest

We are keen to hear from colleagues within the network who would like to present a paper to one of the seminars, and/or who would like to suggest their institution for hosting one of the meetings.

Usually the seminars will take place on Thursday afternoons in January, May, September and December - but there is some flexibility.