Mobile Apps and Sensors in Surveys (MASS) Workshop Keynote: The Promise of Activity Space Approaches: Urban/Rural Comparisons and Implications for Research on Context
The Mobile Apps and Sensors in Surveys (MASS) workshop together with the National Centre for Research Methods is very excited to host the keynote by Kathleen Cagney (University of Michigan). You can join the event in person at the University of Manchester or online for free but registration is required.
Characteristics of the places where we age have profound consequences for our ability to adapt to change and maintain independence. Novel social science theory and data collection can bring insight into the content and structure of older adult lives. The Chicago Health and Activity Space in Real Time (CHART) study provides one example of the use of novel technology to address fundamental questions in urban sociology and the life course. CHART employs innovative smartphone-based methods for the identification of older adults’ activity spaces. Analyses from 450 adults from ten Chicago neighborhoods who carried smartphones for GPS tracking and Ecological Momentary Assessments over seven days are used to assess, for instance, how the span, characteristics, and experiences of activity spaces vary across socioeconomic status and racial/ethnic groups. Applicability and extensions of this approach to rural contexts, with pilot data from the Appalachian region of North Carolina, will be described.
Kathleen Cagney was named the Director of the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research effective September 1, 2021. Professor Cagney's work examines social inequality and its relationship to health with a focus on neighborhood, race, and aging, and the life course. She has developed a series of papers on neighborhood social capital and its relationship to outcomes such as self-rated health, asthma prevalence, physical activity, and mortality during the 1995 Chicago heatwave. She also focuses on the validity of such measures and the development of new neighborhood-based metrics that reflect the perceptions and experiences of older residents. She holds research professorships in ISR's Survey Research Center and Population Studies Center.
Attendance:
I?n person: This will take place in AMBS which is building number 29 on the interactive map
O?nline: You will be sent the joining instructions 24 hours before the event.
Travel and Contact Information
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Room 3.006 a/b
Aliiance Manchester Business School
Booth Street West
