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Building Capacity for Secondary Data Analysis

UPTAP Seminar, Local Government Association, London, 28 November, 2006. Building Capacity for Secondary Data Analysis. Overview of UPTAP. First UPTAP call for proposals and project commissioning (£2 million) during summer 2005

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Building Capacity for Secondary Data Analysis

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  1. UPTAP Seminar, Local Government Association, London, 28 November, 2006 Building Capacity for Secondary Data Analysis

  2. Overview of UPTAP • First UPTAP call for proposals and project commissioning (£2 million) during summer 2005 • Four year programme with aim of “Capacity Building for Secondary Data Analysis” • Some projects began in Oct 2005 and Coordinator appointed from Nov 2005 • Inaugural conference for researchers in Mar 2006 • Programme extended (£1.5 million) in autumn 2006: User Fellowships and Round 2 (Ethnicity)

  3. Principal objectives of UPTAP • To build capacity in secondary data analysis amongst early-stage and mid-career researchers • To encourage the use and exploitation of large-scale national data sets, thereby adding value to the ESRC’s investment in their collection, preservation and promotion • Toimprove our understanding of demographic and social change in the UK • To disseminate knowledgeand use of secondary analysis through and beyond the social science community

  4. Links with other ESRC initiatives • ESRC National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) • ESRC Research Methods Programme • ESRC Researcher Development Initiative • ESRC Census Programme • ESRC National Centre for e-Social Science (NCeSS)

  5. Initial UPTAP awards • 4 Postdoctoral Fellowships • 6 Mid-career Research Fellowships • 1 User Fellowship • 7 Small Research Grants • 3 Large Projects (with linked studentships) • Currently, 21 projects involving 31 researchers

  6. Disciplines represented epidemiology; economics; geography; politics; primary care and social medicine; public health; sociology; social policy • Organisations represented Universities: Birkbeck; Birmingham; Bristol; Dundee; Edinburgh; Imperial; Institute of Education; Leeds; LSE; LSHTM; Manchester; Oxford; St Andrews; Sheffield; Stirling; Surrey; UCL Other: ONS

  7. THEMES • Demographic change - residential change • Fertility - motherhood - childlessness • Living arrangements - childcare • Cohabitation - mobility • Health - wellbeing - employment • Education • Identity - ethnicity - segregation • Social and political values See flyer for details

  8. Main British & European Data Sources Used Family Resources Survey (FRS) General Household Survey (GHS) Health Survey for England (HSE) Home Office Citizenship Survey (HOCS) Labour Force Survey (LFS) Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) Multinational Time Use Study (MTUS) ‘Muslims in Europe’ (ME) study National Child Development Survey (NCDS) National Survey of Ethnic Minorities (NSEM) ONS Longitudinal Study (LS) Mid-year Population Estimates Vital Statistics (VS) Youth Cohort Study (YCS) British Cohort Study (BCS) British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) British Election Study (BES) British Social Attitudes (BSA) Survey Census of Population (CAS, SMS, SWS, STS) Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS) International English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) ‘Ethnic Minority Psychiatric Illness Rates in the Community’ (EMPIRIC) study European Community Household Panel (ECHP) European Social Survey (ESS) European Values Survey (EVS) Family Expenditure Survey (FES)

  9. Importance of collaboration and communication beyond the academic sector • UPTAP web site • UPTAP Communications Strategy • UPTAP User Fellowships - Provides the opportunity for a early-stage/mid-career researcher in a user organisation to work on secondary data within an academic centre of excellence with the help of an academic mentor

  10. Today’s programme 1Policy Impacts on Fertility and Maternal Employment • Understanding the effect of public policy on fertility Sarah Smith (University of Bristol) • Comparing early maternal employment in the UK and US: evidence from the first sweeps of the UK Millennium Cohort Study and the US Early Childhood Longitudinal Study Denise Hawkes (Institute of Education) 2 Relevance of Understanding Population Trends and Processes • UPTAP from an ESRC perspective Ian Diamond (Chief Executive, ESRC) • Policy relevance of UPTAP John Pullinger (Chair of UPTAP Steering Group) 12.30 Lunch

  11. Afternoon session 3 Policy Implications of Changing Deprivation, Well-being and Ethnic Participation • The micro-geography of UK demographic change 1991-2001 Phase 2: Changing area deprivation Paul Norman (School of Geography, University of Leeds) • Exploring geographies of happiness in Britain and the implications for public policy Dimitris Ballas (Department of Geography, University of Sheffield) • Labour market trajectories of minority ethnic groups in Britain: 1972-2005 Yaojun Li (Department of Sociology, Birmingham University) and Anthony Heath (Department of Sociology, Oxford University) 3.30 Close

  12. UPTAP Co-ordinator John Stillwell School of Geography University of Leeds Leeds LS2 9JT Email: j.c.h.stillwell@leeds.ac.uk

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