Past events
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Social Statistics Seminars: Prof. Juho Härkönen, (European University Institute)
14:00 - 15:30 7 May 2024
Professor Juho Härkönen, (European University Institute) will be presenting "Perinatal health in educational attainment: individual and population level relevance" (joint work with Marco Cozzani, Niko Eskelinen and Matti Lindberg) Abstract Numerous studies have shown that perinatal health can have long-term effects on educational attainment,...
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Social Statistics Seminars: Prof. Benjamin Lauderdale, (University College London)
14:00 - 15:30 14 May 2024
Professor Benjamin Lauderdale, (University College London) will be presenting "Polarization over the Priority of Political Problems". Abstract: What drives ideological division about political problems? When prioritising which problems are most in need of redress, voters might disagree about the severity of individual outcomes that constitute...
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Social Statistics Seminar Series - Andrew Bell
14:00 - 15:30 15 October 2024
Intersectional Multilevel Analysis of Individual Heterogeneity and Discriminatory Accuracy (MAIHDA) - what is it, and how can it be extended for longitudinal data? The intersectional Multilevel Analysis of Individual Heterogeneity and Discriminatory Accuracy (MAIHDA) approach is gaining prominence in health sciences and beyond, as a robust quantitative...
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Social Statistics Seminar Series - Lorraine Dearden
14:00 - 15:30 12 November 2024
The impact of violence on partnered women’s labour market outcomes: evidence from Australia Longitudinal survey data measuring domestic violence (DV) is very rare which makes looking at the short- and medium-term impact of the economic implications of DV in a reliable way difficult. One exception is the paper by Adams-Prassl, Huttunen, Nix and...
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Social Statistics Seminar Series
14:00 - 15:30 26 November 2024
Friedrich Geiecke Assistant Professor of Computational Social Science, London School of Economics Conversations at Scale: Robust AI-led Interviews with a Simple Open-Source Platform (joint with Xavier Jaravel) The advent of large language models (LLMs) provides an opportunity to conduct qualitative interviews at a large scale, with thousands...
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Mitchell Centre Seminar Series
16:00 - 17:30 12 February 2025
Filip Agneessens. University of Manchester. Mechanisms reinforcing and countering religious segregation in schools: Network processes involving friendship and dislike ties. In many social settings, subgroups emerge which are characterized by positive ties inside the subgroup and negative ties between these subgroups. In school settings, these...
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Social Statistics Seminar Series - Matthew Wallace
14:00 - 15:30 12 February 2025
Please join us for the first Social Statistics Seminar of the year on Wednesday 12th February at 2pm. This seminar will be in person, so please join us for coffee and cake. Zoom link is also available. Matthew Wallace Reader in Social Inequality, University of Salford Title: International migration, mortality, and national life expectancy International...
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Mitchell Centre Seminar Series
16:00 - 17:30 19 February 2025
Edmund Chattoe-Brown. University of Leicester. Processes and Theories: Can Agent-Based Modelling Contribute to Our Understanding of Social Networks? Proverbially, to the person who only has a hammer, everything they encounter begins to look like a nail. Even if this is so, it is not that helpful unless we can find something other than a hammer...
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Mitchell Centre Seminar Series
16:00 - 17:30 26 February 2025
Milena Tsvetkova London School of Economics. Social networks affect redistribution decisions and polarization. Most people dislike inequality, yet large disparities in income and wealth remain remarkably high in many democratic countries. One possible explanation is that people’s social networks affect their perception of inequality and consequently,...
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Mitchell Centre Seminar Series
16:00 - 17:30 5 March 2025
Nick Crossley University of Manchester. Dr Hoor is unwell and so this weeks seminar has been changed. Nick Crossley has kindly agreed to step in. The Social Structure of Punk in North-West England In this presentation I take a preliminary look at a network of punk gigs in Liverpool and Manchester, linked by the bands who played at them and...
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