Session Outline
The UPTAP initiative is designed to improve our understanding of demographic trends and processes that affect society and the population through secondary data analysis (i.e. analysis of existing data sets collected for some other particular purpose). The key objective is to ‘build capacity’ in secondary analysis and to promote the use of large-scale social science data sets, adding value to the ESRC’s investments in such data sets.
The initiative primarily involves those at an early stage in their research careers or mid-career researchers. Currently, there are four Postdoctoral Fellowships (PFs), six mid-career Research Fellowships (RFs), one User Fellowship (UF), three Large Research Grants (LRGs) and seven Small Research Grants (SRGs). At the moment, about three quarters of the research projects are underway.
The purpose of this inaugural meeting is for participants to present short statements of their research questions, aims and objectives, methodologies and data sources (those who began on 1 October may have some initial results to present) so that knowledge of what their research projects are about is disseminated to others within the programme. It is an opportunity to find out what others are doing and to get to know one another. Moreover, it is an opportunity for any training requirements to be identified.
The following programme, organised thematically as far as possible, gives each project a 20 minute slot (15 minutes for presentation and 5 minutes for questions), and a 30 minute session has been timetabled at the end for general discussion. Facilities are available for powerpoint presentations or overhead transparencies.
All participants should email their presentations to me beforehand (j.c.h.stillwell@leeds.ac.uk) or bring them on CD or data stick. The presentations will be put on the UPTAP web site.
Programme: Thursday 30th March
11.30-12.30
Registration, Foyer School of Geography
12.30-1.30
Lunch, Foyer, School of Geography
1.30-1.40
Welcome, Geography Lecture Theatre, Geography East
The UPTAP programme
John Stillwell, Geography, University of Leeds
[view MS Powerpoint Presentation]
PF = Postdoctoral Fellowship; RF = Research Fellowship;
SRG = Small Research Grant; LRG = Large Research Grant
1.40-3.00 Session 1: Fertility, Motherhood, Childlessness and Childcare
(Chair: Paul Boyle, Geography and GeoSciences, St Andrews)
1.40-2.00
Understanding the effect of public policy on fertility; secondary data analysis (SRG)
Sarah Smith, Mike Brewer and Anita Ratcliffe (Economics, Bristol)
[Project Homepage]
[view MS Powerpoint Presentation]
2.00-2.20
Motherhood and Child Outcomes: the Consequences of the Timing of Motherhood and Mothers' Employment on Child Outcomes (LRG)
Kirstine Hansen, Denise Hawkes and Heather Joshi (Centre for Longitudinal Studies, Institute of Education)
[Project Homepage]
[view MS Powerpoint Presentation]
2.20-2.40
Delayed childbearing and childlessness in Britain: the 1958 and 1970 cohorts compared (PF)
Roona Simpson (Centre for Research on Families and Relationships, Edinburgh)
[Project Homepage]
[view MS Powerpoint Presentation]
2.40-3.00
Intergenerational Contributions to Childcare Across Europe (PF)
Alison Smith (Social Policy, Edinburgh)
[Project Homepage]
[view MS Powerpoint Presentation]
3.00-3.30
Tea and cake, Foyer, School of Geography
3.30-5.30
Session 2: Health, Well-being, Employment and Demographic Change (Chair: Phil Rees, Geography, Leeds)
3.30-3.50
Does stepparenting influence mental health? (RSG)
Paul Boyle, Elspeth Graham, (Geography and Geosciences, St Andrews), Vernon Gayle (Applied Social Science, Stirling) and Ali Zohoor (Social Dimensions of Health Institute, Dundee)
[Project Homepage]
3.50-4.10
How does employment affect cardiovascular risk? A life-course approach in the 1958 cohort (RF)
Claudia Thomas (Centre for Pediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCL)
[Project Homepage]
[view MS Powerpoint Presentation]
4.10-4.30
Living arrangements, health and well-being: a European perspective (SRG)
Harriet Young and Emily Grundy (Centre for Population Studies, LSHTM)
[Project Homepage]
[view MS Powerpoint Presentation]
4.30-4.50
Exploring geographies of happiness and well-being in Britain (RF)
Dimitris Ballas (Geography, Sheffield)
[Project Homepage]
[view MS Powerpoint Presentation]
4.50-5.10
The micro-geography of demographic change, 1991-2001 (SRG)
Paul Norman (Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research, Manchester)
[Project Homepage]
[view MS Powerpoint Presentation]
5.10-5.30
The Changing Residential Patterns of the UK, 1991-2001 (PF)
Dan Vickers (Geography, Leeds)
[Project Homepage]
[view MS Powerpoint Presentation]
6.00ish
Reception in Foyer, School of Geography
7.30ish
Meal at Brios in The Light
Programme: Friday 31st March
9.20-11.50 Session 3: Identity, Ethnicity, Segregation, Religiosity, Political and Social Values
(Chair: Debbie Phillips, Geography, Leeds)
9.20-9.40
Being a Muslim in Europe: attitudes and experiences (LRG)
Saffron Karlsen and James Nazroo (Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL)
[Project Homepage]
[view MS Powerpoint Presentation]
9.40-10.00
Socio-economic position and political support of the BMEs in Britain, 1971-2004 (SRG)
Yaojun Li and Anthony Heath (Sociology, Birmingham)
[Project Homepage]
[view MS Powerpoint Presentation]
10.00-10.20
Trends in gender and ethnic occupational segregation in England and Wales: longitudinal evidence (R)
Daniel Guinea-Martin (LS Development Team, ONS)
[Project Homepage]
[view MS Powerpoint Presentation]
10.20-10.40
A dying creed? The demographic contradictions of liberal capitalism (SRG)
Eric Kaufmann (Politics and Sociology, Birkbeck)
[Project Homepage]
[view MS Powerpoint Presentation]
10.40-11.00
The making of social values: social attitudes and social change (RF)
Paula Surridge (Sociology, Bristol)
[Project Homepage]
[view MS Powerpoint Presentation]
11.00-11.20
Social and political trust: a longitudinal and comparative perspective (LRG)
Patrick Sturgis, Nick Allum and Roger Patulny (Sociology, Surrey)
[Project Homepage]
[view MS Powerpoint Presentation]
11.20-11.50
Coffee (Foyer, School of Geography)
11.50-1.00 Session 4: Mobility and Education
(Chair: John Stillwell, Geography, Leeds)
11.50-12.10
Links between internal migration, commuting and inter-household relationships (SRG)
Oliver Duke-Williams (Geography, Leeds)
[Project Homepage]
[view MS Powerpoint Presentation]
12.10-12.30
The impact of educational qualifications on trends in leisure activities (PF)
Shu-Li Cheng (Centre for Research on Innovation and Competition, Manchester)
[Project Homepage]
[view MS Powerpoint Presentation]
12.30-1.00
Open session
1.00-2.00
Lunch, Foyer, School of Geography
2.00-4.00
Meeting for Advisory Committee, Room 1.36, School of Geography
UPTAP participants unable to attend
Ernestina Coast (Social Policy, LSE)
Currently cohabiting: relationship attitudes, intentions and behaviour (RF)
[Project Homepage]
Gopalakrishnan Netuveli (Primary Care and Social Medicine, Imperial)
Treating longitudinal data as longitudinal: comparing models to describe employment status and health trajectories in British Household Panel Survey (RF)
[Project Homepage]
Michelle Jackson (Sociology, Oxford)
Investigating inequalities in educational attainment (RF)
[Project Homepage]
Location
Details of location are to be found on the School of geography web site at:
http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/info/school/contact.html
Registration will be in the foyer of the Main Building. The Geography Lecture Theatre will be in Geography East Building.
Accommodation
Some rooms have been provisionally reserved at Devonshire Hall (B&B Standard Single Room £26). Devonshire is within a 15-20 minute walking distance of the School of Geography. Details at www.universallyleeds.co.uk/devonshirehall
There are local hotels ranging from
Cliff Lawn Hotel, (http://www.clifflawn-hotel.co.uk/main.asp)
44-45 Cliff Road,
Leeds,
West Yorkshire,
LS6 2ET,
Tel: 0113 2785442, (B&B Single from £56)
to Weetwood Hall Hotel & Conference Centre
(http://www.weetwood.co.uk/upgrade_flash.html)
Otley Road,
Leeds,
LS16 5PS
Tel: 0113 2306000, (B&B Single Room £95).
Try http://www.yell.com/ucs/HomePageAction.do for further information on accommodation.
Please let me know by Monday 6 March (j.c.h.stillwell@leeds.ac.uk) if you would like to reserve one of the rooms in Devonshire or whether you will be making your own accommodation arrangements.
