Government Social Research
Welcome to the December GSR bulletin.
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GSR people - GCSR announced previously that Teresa Williams had been appointed as Deputy Director of GSRU. Sue Duncan is pleased to tell you that Siobhan Campbell has now been appointed to take on Teresa's former job as Senior Principal Research Officer (G6).
GES/GSR conference - over 160 delegates attended a joint conference with the Government Economic Service at the Treasury to discuss economists and social researchers working together.
Scottish Executive Social Research host seminar: Innovative methods: the role of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in Government Social Research.
GSR conference 2006 - reports now published:
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Scottish Executive publish:
Department for Education and Skills publish:
Department of Trade and Industry publish:
Department for Communities and Local Government publish:
Closing date - 5 January 2007: ONS detailed consultation on ethnic group, national identity, religion and language, as part of preparations for the next Census in 2011
Closing date for applications - 4pm on Tuesday 9 January 2007: ESRC invitation to submit proposals for the scientific leadership of the UK Household Longitudinal Study
Closing date 19 January 2007 - Call for evidence: Research Councils UK (RCUK) analysis of the costs of peer review of research proposals, both to institutions and the research councils. Details and access to all the documents
Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) publish the State of the Cities Database (SOCD) and the State of the English Cities thematic reports - SOCD provides access to the updated data that underpins the analysis contained in State of the English Cities Report (SOCR), published in March 2006.
The Statistics and Registration Service Bill - introduced in the Commons on 21 November 2006, published on 22 November 2006.
HM Treasury publish Independence for statistics: the Government response
Claremont Graduate University Stauffer Symposium "What constitutes credible evidence in evaluation and applied research?" - summary of the proceedings of 19 August 2006 now published - this event included a lively debate on the pros and cons of randomised controlled trials, together with videos of selected presentations and panel discussions on both experimental and non-experimental ways of 'building credibility'.
Mathematica publish semimonthly update
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National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling publish Moving beyond traditional cash measures of economic well-being: including indirect benefits and indirect taxes - this study of the UK and Australia includes health, education and housing indirect benefits and a range of indirect taxes, and suggests that in both countries indirect benefits are not as progressive in their incidence as direct benefits, but are nonetheless unambiguously pro-poor.
Intute: Social Sciences Podcast - first broadcast in a pilot series of twelve. Each programme features Social Science related information news, an interview with a Social Science information provider and a selection of the new resources added to Intute: Social Sciences. If you have any social science related news or websites that you would like to see featured, contact paul.ayres@bristol.ac.uk. Intute are also keen to receive feedback at this address.
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Wishing you all a very Happy Christmas
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