Events

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

Past events

1,287 events

Seminar

Occupational Change in Britain and Germany

Date and time: 21 January 2009, 1:00pm–2:00pm
Presented by: Simonetta Longhi and Malcolm Brynin, ISER

Seminar

Does ethnic diversity erode trust?: Putnam’s ‘hunkering-down’ thesis reconsidered

Date and time: 19 January 2009, 4:00pm
Presented by: Patrick Sturgis (Southampton Statistical Science Research Institute, University of Southampton) Co-authors: Ian Brunton-Smith, and Sanna Read, Nick Allum

Seminar

A Meta Analysis of the Preference Reversal Phenomenon

Date and time: 12 January 2009, 4:00pm
Presented by: Peter Moffatt (University of East Anglia) Co-author: Nicholas Bardsley

Seminar Cancelled

The long-term impacts of selection by ability: Evidence from the Aberdeen Children of the 1950s

Date and time: 17 December 2008, 1:00pm–2:00pm
Presented by: Emilia Del Bono (ISER)

Seminar

Hither or Thither? Migration Patterns among UK Graduates and the implications for Regional Economic Disparities <strong>Tuesday Seminar </strong>

Date and time: 9 December 2008, 4:00pm–5:00pm
Presented by: Maria Abreu (Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge) Co-authors: Michael Kitson, Philip David Wales

Seminar

The Three Rs: The Scope for Literacy and Numeracy Policies to Raise Achievement

Date and time: 1 December 2008, 4:00pm–5:00pm
Presented by: Sandra McNally (London School of Economics)

Seminar

Multi-process Event-History Analysis of Internal Migration and Leaving the Parental Home using the BHPS: How the Social Capital Mediates?

Date and time: 26 November 2008, 1:00pm
Presented by: Sergi Vidal (ECASS visitor, Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

Seminar

Primary and secondary effects in the explanation of immigrants’ disadvantage in education

Date and time: 24 November 2008, 4:00pm–5:00pm
Presented by: Hector Cebolla Boado (Department of Sociology II, Universidad Nacional de EducaciÛn a Distancia ñ Spain)

Seminar

Social tourism – the potential role of holidays in reducing social exclusion

Date and time: 20 November 2008, 4:00pm
Presented by: <strong>Special Thursday Policy Seminar </strong> Lynn Minnaert (Centre for Tourism Research, University of Westminster)

Seminar

How and Why the Dynamics od Poverty Differ across European Countries

Date and time: 19 November 2008, 1:00pm
Presented by: Giacomo Damioli (ISER)

Seminar

The importance of being present: The influence of ‘absent’ parents and ‘present’ step-parents on children’s educational attainment.

Date and time: 10 November 2008, 4:00pm
Presented by: Janne O. Jonsson (Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University ñ Sweden)

Seminar

Part-Time Employment, Non-Participation, and Life Satisfaction of Mothers in Germany

Date and time: 5 November 2008, 1:00pm
Presented by: Eva Berger (ISER visitor, DIW, Berlin)

Seminar

Longitudinal Evidence on the Impact of Victimisation on Labour Market Outcomes and General Well-Being

Date and time: 27 October 2008, 4:00pm
Presented by: Steve Stillman (MOTU Economic and Public Policy Research ñ New Zealand)

Seminar

The route to take-up: raising incentives or lowering barriers?

Date and time: 22 October 2008, 12:00pm
Presented by: Francesca Zantomio (ISER)

Seminar

God and the Unmoved Mover: Partisan Change, Social Identity, and Growth Models

Date and time: 15 October 2008, 12:00pm
Presented by: Thomas Scotto, Department of Government

Meeting

Understanding Society: The UK Household Longitudinal Study launch

Date and time: 13 October 2008, 5:00pm

Seminar

A genetic basis for trust? Using twin design to study the origin of individual differences in trust

Date and time: 6 October 2008, 3:00pm
Presented by: Sanna Read (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London)

Seminar

Right-Wing Extremist Attitudes: Intergenerational Transmission and Socioeconomic Channels

Date and time: 1 October 2008, 12:00pm
Presented by: Thomas Siedler (DIW, Berlin)

Seminar

Competition between labour market and social participation: Evidence from the Netherlands and Great Britain (co-authors: Didier Fouarge and Trudie Schils)

Date and time: 30 September 2008, 3:00pm
Presented by: Ronald Dekker (Department Economics of Innovation, Delft University of Technology - the Netherlands)

Seminar

The hazards of partnership dissolution in Britain: a comparison of second and first marriages

Date and time: 17 September 2008, 12:00pm
Presented by: Lavinia Parisi (ISER)