Events

ISER hosts seminars, conferences, training and workshops throughout the year.

Past events

1,287 events

Seminar

JESS Seminar: Income effects on children’s life satisfaction: longitudinal evidence for England

Date and time: 14 June 2017, 12:00pm–1:00pm
Location: 2N2.4.16, ISER Large Seminar Room
Presented by: Gundi Knies, ISER

Seminar Cancelled

JESS Seminar: CANCELLED/POSTPONED (Growing) Up in smoke? Maternal pre- and post-natal behaviours and child development

Date and time: 7 June 2017, 12:00pm–1:00pm
Location: 2N2.4.16, ISER Large Seminar Room
Presented by: Sarah Cattan, UCL and IFS (joint with Gabriella Conti and Francesca Salvati)

Seminar

JESS Seminar: IVF, multiple births and birth quality: analysis of a reform in Sweden

Date and time: 31 May 2017, 12:00pm–1:00pm
Location: 2N2.4.16 (ISER Large Seminar Room)
Presented by: Hanna Muhlrad (Gothenburg) and Sonia Bhalotra (ISER)

Seminar

JESS seminar: Ex-ante evaluation of business failure prediction: an index approach

Date and time: 24 May 2017, 12:00pm–1:00pm
Location: Large Seminar Room: 2N2.4.16
Presented by: Marialuisa Restaino, University of Salerno

Seminar

Monday Afternoon Seminar: Title tbc

Date and time: 22 May 2017, 3:00pm–4:30pm
Location: 2N2.4.16 - ISER Seminar room
Presented by: Kristiina Huttunen, Aalto University/UCL

Seminar

JESS seminar: Portfolio Selection via Hybrid Graphical Least Square Estimation

Date and time: 10 May 2017, 12:00pm–1:00pm
Location: Large Seminar Room (2N2.4.16)
Presented by: Hongsheng Dai, Department of Mathematics, University of Essex

Workshop

MiSoC Workshop on Parental Beliefs, Information and Investments

Date and time: 8–9 May 2017, 10:00am–4:00pm
Location: Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex, Colchester, UK
Presented by: Orazio Attanasio (University College London) and Flavio Cunha (Rice University).

Conference

Launch of Understanding Society Epigenetic Data

Date and time: 27 April 2017, 9:00am–3:00pm
Location: Royal Society for Public Health, 28 Portland Place, London, W1B 1AD
Presented by: Professor Michaela Benzeval, Professor Meena Kumari, Professor Marcus Pembrey, Emeritus Professor of Paediatric Genetics, Great Ormond Street, Institute of Child Health and Bristol University and others

Seminar

JESS Seminar: C-reactive protein, antidepressant use, and trajectories of psychological distress in UKHLS

Date and time: 26 April 2017, 12:00pm–1:00pm
Location: Large Seminar Room (2N2.4.16)
Presented by: Amanda Hughes (ISER)

Training

Webinar: Introduction to using administration data for education research

Date and time: 20 April 2017, 2:00pm–3:00pm
Location: online

Meeting

5th Annual UK Causal Inference Meeting (UK-CIM)

Date and time: 4–7 April 2017, 8:00am–12:28pm
Location: Essex Business School
Presented by: Fabrizia Mealli (University of Florence) and Elizabeth Stuart (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health)

Seminar

Contact Time with Patients – Does it Make A Difference? Professor Fiona Nolan at the Health Research Group

Date and time: 22 March 2017, 2:30pm–3:30pm
Location: Seminar Room, Social Sciences Building
Presented by: Professor Fiona Nolan

Seminar

JESS Seminar: The Geography of Linguistic Diversity and the Provision of Public GoodsJoseph Gomes

Date and time: 22 March 2017, 1:00pm–2:00pm
Location: 2N2.4.16 - Large Seminar Room
Presented by: Joseph Gomes, Navarra

Seminar

Monday Afternoon Seminar: ‘The Accuracy and Utility of Non-Probability Sample Surveys’

Date and time: 20 March 2017, 4:00pm
Location: 2N2.4.16 - ISER Seminar room
Presented by: Joseph Sakshaug, University of Manchester

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JESS Seminar: Birth in Times of War – An investigation of health, mortality and social class using historical clinical records

Date and time: 15 March 2017, 1:00pm–2:00pm
Location: 2N2.4.16 - Large Seminar Room
Presented by: Nadine Geiger LMU Munich

Conference

Understanding Society Biomarker Conference

Date and time: 15 March 2017, 9:00am–5:00pm
Location: The Royal Institute of British Architects, 66 Portland Place, London, W1B 1AD
Presented by: See programme for full list of presenters

Seminar

Monday Afternoon Seminar: Title TBC

Date and time: 13 March 2017, 6:12pm
Location: 2N2.4.16 - ISER Seminar room
Presented by: Jérôme Adda, Bocconi

Workshop

Understanding Society Masterclass Combining Sociology and Biology

Date and time: 13 March 2017, 9:45am–4:30pm
Location: RIBA 66 Portland Place London W1B 1AD
Presented by: Professor Teresa Seeman

Seminar

JESS Seminar TBC (Sonia Bhalotra/Paul Fisher)

Date and time: 8 March 2017, 1:00pm–2:00pm
Location: 2N2.4.16 - ISER Seminar Room
Presented by: Sonia Bhalotra/Paul Fisher, ISER

Seminar

Monday Afternoon Seminar: Head Start and the distribution of long term education and labor market outcomes

Date and time: 6 March 2017, 6:09pm–6:09pm
Location: ISER Common Room
Presented by: Edwin Leuven , University of Oslo