ESRC Events

ISIRC 2012

In September 2012, TSRC will be hosting the 4th International Social Research Conference at the University of Birmingham. The call for papers is now open. Papers are welcome on all aspects of the voluntary sector/civil society/social entrepreneurship.

2012 International Convention on Science, Education and Medicine in Sport

The 2012 International Convention on Science, Education and Medicine in Sport is the 2012 Olympic Games' associated scientific convention, taking place in Glasgow just before the Opening Ceremonies.

Engaged-research-led teaching

Engaged-research-led teaching is teaching which enables students to learn about how practically useful management knowledge is developed and employed through research that engages actively with stakeholders.

VSSN Day Conference

The next VSSN day conference will be hosted by the Third Sector Research Centre at the University of Birmingham.

AHRC/ESRC Religion and Society Programme Faith Debates

Debating the latest research on religion in public life

Genomics in Society: facts, fictions and cultures

Registration is now open for the EGN 2012 conference 'Genomics In Society: Facts Fictions and Cultures'.

Centre for Sport, Leisure and Tourism Research London Showcase

Join us in the centre of London for a half day event to network with the Centre’s experienced research staff and to find out more about our current innovative research projects.

“Leading Professionals” Centre for Professional Service Firms, Cass Business School Academic Conference

The academic conference, which represents an unprecedented gathering of leading scholars in the field of leadership and professional organisations, will explore the distinctive challenges of leadership in professional organisations.

“Leading Professionals”, Centre for Professional Service Firms, Cass Business School Doctoral Masterclass

The doctoral masterclass will bring together a small group of promising PhD students conducting relevant research, with leading scholars in the field of leadership and professional organisations who are presenting at the conference.

AHRC/ESRC Religion and Society Programme Faith Debates

Debating the latest research on religion in public life

Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy Summer School

This five day school is aimed at PhD students in Political Science and Economics, interested in diverse topics in Political Economics

Social networking below the radar: social media or action media?

This event culminates the series of Beyond the Radar events. We invite those who have been involved in the BTR11 project, as well as anyone interested in below the radar, to evaluate the lessons of social media activity.

WISERD Conference 2012: Devolution, Place and Change

The theme of WISERD's third annual conference is 'Devolution, Place and Change'.

Strengthening civil society through social media

Can social networking help strengthen the influence of civil society groups?This discussion will be held by Globalnet21. The panel to include Joe Taylor, NATCAN and David Wilcox, Social Reporter.

IFS Post-Budget Briefing 2012

Chancellor George Osborne will deliver his next Budget on Wednesday 21 March. On Thursday 22 March the Institute for Fiscal Studies will be holding a lunchtime briefing at The Venue, University of London Union. The presentation will provide an opportunity to hear a considered view of the Chancellor's announcements from Institute staff.

Multi-stakeholder Engaged Business Research: Handling stakeholder interactions - practical mechanisms and challenges

The practical challenges of engaged business research increase dramatically as the number and range of stakeholders increases.

AHRC/ESRC Religion and Society Programme Faith Debates

Debating the latest research on religion in public life

Amateur arts and civil society

Civil society organisations have been increasingly in the spotlight of policymakers over the past decade as Government looks to civil society to provide solutions to a range of social and economic problems, from a local to national scale.

Small-scale Engaged Business Research: Handling stakeholder interactions - practical mechanisms and challenges

Building upon conceptual models of engaged business research, this workshop will involve discussion of the practical mechanisms for such research.

Oxford Science Festival: The Gatsby Foundation & SKOPE one-day seminar

Vocational education and the Sciences: where are we?

Introducing the International Time Series databanks

This half-day course, which will run from 14.00-16.30, is aimed at researchers and teaching staff from the social sciences, and will provide an in-depth guide to the resources available through ESDS International.

Digital Social Research: A Forum for Policy and Practice

e-Science was fostered by public initiatives, such as funding Digital Social Research and other research programmes, and it has been sustained through a variety of transformations, not only as a means for maintaining the competitiveness of research in Britain, but also to improve the power of research on critical global challenges, from ageing to climate change.

Secondary analysis of qualitative data: opportunities

This full-day workshop will take place from 10.00 to 16.00 on 13 March at University House, Unversity of Leeds. It offers training in the method and practice of secondary analysis of qualitative data.

Social Science and Digital Research: Interdisciplinary Insights

We invite the submission of abstracts for an academic symposium to be held at the University of Oxford on 12 March 2012, entitled 'Social Science and Digital Research: Interdisciplinary Insights'

Marrying scale and responsiveness

The next in a series of policy seminars from TSRC and the Economic and Social Research Council, this seminar will explore service delivery by third sector organisations. It will be held in association with ACEVO.

Genomics Policy and Research Forum - Robert Cook-Deegan Public Lecture

"ConSequences: Some implications of DNA sequencing technology"

AHRC/ESRC Religion and Society Programme Faith Debates

Debating the latest research on religion in public life

Mixed methods and narrative research: Resources for secondary data analysis from the 1958 British Birth Cohort Study

The aim of this workshop is to introduce researchers to some of the more qualitative elements of the 1958 British Birth Cohort Study, also known as the National Child Development Study.

Introduction to business microdata: using the Secure Data Service

Managing Environmental Change at the Rural-Urban Fringe

A conference to disseminate the findings of the research project.

Introduction to business microdata: using the Secure Data Service

The Secure Data Service (SDS) now makes available secure access to business microdata collected by the Office for National Statistics, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, and other government agencies. This workshop is designed for new and intending users of data and will introduce researchers to the range of business data and survey areas.

Longitudinal, Mixed Methods and Action Research

The fourth in a series of seminars organised by Dr Laura Camfield and Dr Richard Palmer-Jones from DEV, University of East Anglia.

Social influences and charitable giving

Individuals' decisions about how much to give and which charities to give to are affected by the behaviour of other people around them and the communities they live in.

ESRC Genomics Policy and Research Forum Seminar

The Outbreak Narrative: Disease Emergence and the Obscured Geography of Poverty - Accounts of newly surfacing diseases appeared in scientific publications and the mainstream media in the West with increasing frequency following the introduction of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in the mid-1980s.

AHRC/ESRC Religion and Society Programme Faith Debates

Debating the latest research on religion in public life

Lost in translation? Understanding policy genesis: the example of the ‘Big Society’

This seminar explores the benefits of a translation approach, discussing key elements of the Big Society to illustrate what processes, issues, and difficulties arise through policy translation.

Webinar: Introducing ESDS data

A one hour webinar supporting the Secondary Data Analysis Initiative.

AHRC/ESRC Religion and Society Programme Faith Debates

Debating the latest research on religion in public life

Myths and Realities: A series of public debates - Sustainable Lifestyles: Great Theory, Impossible Practice

This series of debates will look at significant public and social issues, challenge some of the common myths and assumptions we make, and show the role social science plays to explain what is happening and point the way to solutions.

IFS Green Budget 2012

The IFS Green Budget 2012 will analyse the issues and challenges facing Chancellor George Osborne as he prepares for the coalition Government's spring Budget. For the first time it will be produced in collaboration with Oxford Economics and will be launched at Senate House on 1st February 2012.

Understanding Society: Introductory Workshop

Supporting the ESRC Secondary Data Analysis Initiative - This half-day workshop is designed for researchers who want to maximise the research value of the new Understanding Society dataset, also known as the UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS).

Everything Must Go

The Waste of the World are holding a two day exhibition featuring workshops, short films and talks

IFS public economics lectures

The Institute for Fiscal Studies is holding a day of talks on issues in public economics of interest to undergraduates in economics and related disciplines.

Crime surveys user meeting

This meeting, organised by the Economic and Social Data Service, will provide a forum for data users and producers to meet and discuss new developments and exchange information about the UK crime surveys.

Big Society – A Critical Reappraisal

The seminar will aim to undertake a critical reappraisal of the Big Society.

Transitions to Sustainability: The Case of UK Food Security

The UK food system is not sustainable in that it is beset by vulnerabilities and lacks the resilience to overcome these

The Role of Older Citizens in Community Building

A seminar jointly organised by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), Northumbria University and the Institute for Volunteering Research (IVR) entitled ‘The Role of Older Citizens in Community Building’.

Millennium Cohort Study: MCS4 Introductory Workshop

The Centre for Longitudinal Studies will be holding a one-day introductory workshop on the Millennium Cohort Study: MCS4, focusing on the data from the survey carried out when the study children were aged seven years.

Bridging the Gap Between Research, Policy and Practice

“Knowledge brokers” are intermediaries whose role is to promote the use of academic research by non-academics, including policymakers, professionals, charitable organisations, business, industry and the general public.

The MRC National Survey of Health and Development Workshop for the Social Scientists

The MRC Unit for Lifelong Healthy Aging (LHA) will be holding a series of workshops on the MRC National Survey for Health and Development (NSHD). The NSHD is the longest running birth cohort in Britain and celebrated its 65th birthday in March 2011.

The Price of Civilization: Economics and Ethics After the Fall

The world economy remains in a precarious state after the global recession - where quick fixes were implemented instead of sustainable solutions to systemic problems.

Early Childhood Health & Development

This seminar presents findings on the magnitude of socioeconomic inequalities in early child health and development.

Looking back, looking forward: celebrating six years of the Research Information Network

A presentation and reception to celebrate RIN's achievements over the past six years, and to explore some of the work in the next phase.

Pornified? Complicating debates about the 'sexualisation of culture': An international conference

Here at the Institute of Education, University of London we are currently in the process of organising a conference entitled “Pornified: Complicating debates about the 'sexualisation of culture'

CRFR 10th anniversary national conference

CRFR 10th Anniversary National Conference Influencing society: the role of social research. This one day conference explores the role of social science in influencing policy, practice, public and wider debates about issues in contemporary society.

Introduction to Understanding Society - the UK Household Longitudinal Study

This lunchtime seminar will provide an essential overview of the Understanding Society survey and its content, data access, data structure and documentation. It will be of interest to anyone who is planning to access and use the new Understanding Society data for their research.

Introduction to BHPS using Stata

This course is aimed at new users of the BHPS or those who have so far made use only of simpler aspects of the data.

Herd Behaviour and Keeping up with the Joneses

Herd behaviour is very often natural and individually rational, but it has the potential to be disastrous for the group.

Welfare markets and household income protection in England and Scotland

A presentation of the main findings on middle income households and the ways they secure their income against particular risks (eg unemployment, sickness, need for long-term care), plan for the future (eg pensions) and consider foreseeable expenses (eg children in higher education).

Invitation to Networking Event - Secondary Data Analysis Initiative

Are you interested in attending a networking event to support the launch of ESRC’s new £10.8 million Secondary Data Analysis Initiative?

Understanding the tipping point of urban conflict in the global south

Understanding the tipping point of conflict in the global south: lessons for post-riot Britain?

Who should run the countryside?

Festival of Social Science fringe event. (Suitable for people with a specific interest and some knowledge of the topic)

Project MINA : Migration, nutrition and ageing across the lifecourse in Bangladeshi families - a Photo Exhibition

The MINA project investigates migration, nutrition and ageing using an intergenerational and transnational approach incorporating multidisciplinary methodologies.

UK Economic performance since 1997: How bad was Labour?

A commonly held view is that the performance of the UK economy after 1997 was poor and that the UK's current economic problems are largely the consequence of Labour's bad economic policies.

National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) Autumn School 2011

The National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) will be holding its seventh residential training event for early career researchers.

Festival of Social Science events on 5 November 2011