Cathie Marsh Institute Research Symposium
| Dates: | 7 July 2017 |
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| Times: | 14:00 - 16:45 |
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| What is it: | Symposium |
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| Organiser: | Cathie Marsh Institute for Social Research |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, Alumni, Current University students |
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Putting Social and Political Research into Action
The Cathie Marsh Institute for Social Research (CMI) is a centre of excellence in quantitative social science. Our first annual Research Showcase event, ‘Putting Social and Political Research into Action’ will highlight the wide range of impact and social engagement activities that have been generated through Institute research.
The first part of the showcase will focus on our two main strands of research into social inequality and citizen participation. James Nazroo will talk about the difficulties in achieving meaningful impact for research into inequalities and Stephen Ashe and Wendy Olsen will highlight how CMI research has and is being used in addressing problems of ethnic and gender inequality in the UK. Ed Fieldhouse, Chris Prosser and Rob Ford will then reveal how the data from the British Election Study (BES) and the BBC election results service helped to provide key insights into the 2017 General Election. The second half of the showcase shifts the focus to CMI’s impact in advancing social science methods training and data capacity building in the UK. Jackie Carter and Vanessa Higgins will demonstrate how CMI hosted programmes such as Qstep and the UK Data service (UKDS) are advancing data literacy and analytical research skills, within and beyond academe. Finally, Mark Elliot will round off the day by explaining how the UK Anonymisation Network is allowing the commercial, public and academic sectors to make to make more principled decisions about data sharing and protection and thereby to leverage valuable new sources of information to inform social and economic policy and business decision making.
Schedule:
2.00-2.10 Welcome and Introduction
2.10 -2.40 James Nazroo, Stephen Ashe, and Wendy Olsen ‘Pursuing research excellence and impact in the field of inequalities: what is possible and how do we achieve it?’
2.40 -3.30 Ed Fieldhouse, Chris Prosser and Rob Ford ‘How the election was won and how the British Election Study helped tell the story’
3.30 – 3.45 Coffee Break
3.45 – 4.15 Jackie Carter and Vanessa Higgins ‘Data – the Lifeblood of Empirical Research: Developing Researcher Impact through data skills training
4.15 – 4.45 Mark Elliott ‘Building the UK anonymisation network: an impact success story’
Travel and Contact Information
Find event
Kanaris Lecture Theatre
Manchester Museum
Oxford Road
Manchester
Phone: 0161-2752648
Email: museum@manchester.ac.uk
