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Programme and Presentations

Measuring segregation workshop

Tuesday 10th – Wednesday 11th February, 2009

School of Geographical Scienity Road, Bristol, BS8 1SS

Hosted by the Bristol Institute of Pubic Affairs (Centre for Market and Public Organisation and Centre for Multilevel Modelling)

Sponsored by the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) in conjunction with the South West Branch of the Regional Studies Association and the Quantitative Methods Research Group of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG).

 

Programme and Presentations

Session 1: Measurement and Inference

Paper 1.1: What should an index of segregation measure? (Powerpoint)
Rebecca Allen, Institute of Education, University of London

Paper 1.2: More reliable inference for segregation indices (pdf)
Frank Windmeijer, CMPO, University of Bristol

Session 2: Thinking Geographically

Paper 2.1: Geographical ways of looking at segregation   (Powerpoint)
Rich Harris, School of Geographical Sciences & CMPO, University of Bristol

Paper 2.2: Exploring Segregation using neighbourhood patterns and geodemographics (Powerpoint)
Dan Vickers, Social and Spatial Inequalities Research Group, University of Sheffield

Paper 2.3: Mapping financial exclusion: an historical overview of research and policy
Sharon Collard, Personal Finance Research Centre, University of Bristol

Session 3: A Focus on Schools

Paper 3.1: Investigating ethnic segregation in schools: a model-based approach (pdf)
Rebecca Pillinger, Centre for Multilevel Modelling, University of Bristol

Paper 3.2: Polarisation or integration in England's schools: watching the process of segregation
Simon Burgess and Jack Worth, CMPO, University of Bristol

Session 4: New Data, New Opportunities

Paper 4.1: Beyond indices of residential segregation, bringing geography in  (pdf) (Research article)
Ron Johnston, School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol

Paper 4.2:  Introduction to ADMIN  (Powerpoint)
Anna Vignoles, ADMIN, Institute of Education, Universityof London

Keynote paper: Innovative proxies for estimating differences in the current levels of assimilation, segregation and upward social mobility of minority communities based on administrative data  (pdf)
Richard Webber, Kings College, University of London & OriginsInfo

Session 5: ‘Hands on’ session (Haggett Lab., Geographical Sciences)

Practical 5.1: Profiling of the public (External link)
Alex Singleton, SPLINT, UCL & Chair, QMRG

Practical 5.2: Introduction to Geographically Weighted Regression  (pdf) (data)
Rich Harris, School of Geographical Sciences & CMPO, University of Bristol

Practical 5.3: Using multilevel modelling to model segregation  (pdf) (data1) (data2)
Rebecca Pillinger, Centre for Multilevel Modelling, University of Bristol