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Bulletin: March 2008

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Welcome to this Government Social Research bulletin.

Please use the links below to navigate to sections of interest to you.

On this page:

• Continuing professional development
• GSR research outputs
• Other research outputs
• Other news
• Website of the month

Visit the Homepage and Research news pages for more recent items.

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Continuing Professional Development

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GSR Seminar Series

• GSR Seminar series (Word) - Developing for the Senior Civil Service 11 March 2008 - Are you a grade 7 or 6 equivalent in GSR looking to develop yourself for a future post in the Senior Civil Service (SCS)? If so, this seminar is for you. For the seminar to launch the new Rapid Evidence Assessment toolkit, booking opens on 17 March.

GSR in-service Fast Stream 2008

• GSR in-service Fast Stream 2008 - Applications are now being accepted, from existing GSR members only, for places on the 2008 GSR in-service Fast Stream. Closing date for completed applications is 14 April 2008.
  

GSRU course schedule

• GSRU course schedule (Word) - Booking is now open for GSR courses for 2007/08. Book early, as places are allocated on a first come, first serve basis.

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GSR research outputs

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Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)

• DWP reports:
  • Mothers’ participation in paid work: the role of ‘mini-jobs’
  • Local Authority Omnibus Wave Fifteen
  • Pathways to Work from incapacity benefits: A study of experience and use of the Job Preparation Premium
  • Qualitative research exploring the Pathways to Work sanctions regime
  • Child Support Agency client insight research
  • The effectiveness of European Social Fund Objective 3 Global Grants in increasing the employability of the most disadvantaged

Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA)

• NISRA reports:
  • Scoping study on Homophobia in the Northern Ireland Further Education Sector
  • Study of Racism in the Further Education Sector: Attitudes and Behaviours
  • Labour Force Survey Northern Ireland
  • Northern Ireland Manufacturing Sales and Exports Survey
• Family Resources Survey Reports
• Continuous Household Survey Bulletin 2006/07

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Other research outputs

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Sustainable Development Research Network (SDRN)

• A report on Health & the Environment Workshop - This SDRN Expert Scoping Workshop took place in Edinburgh on 21-22 February 2008. The workshop brought together some of the UK's leading experts on health and the environment to discuss how SDRN could best contribute to this important research area.

Commons Work and Pensions Committee

• The best start in life? Alleviating deprivation, improving social mobility, and eradicating child poverty

PLOS (Public Library of Science) Medicine

• Initial severity and antidepressant benefits: a meta-analysis of data submitted to the Food and Drug Administration - Examines all available data on the drugs, including results from clinical trials that the manufacturers chose not to publish at the time. The trials compared the effect on patients taking the drugs with those given a placebo or sugar pill. Concludes that patients had improved but those on placebo improved just as much as those on the drugs.

Institute for Social and Economic Research at University of Essex (ISER)

• Taking the long view: the ISER report - The annual report of ISER which incorporates the ESRC Research Centre on Micro-Social Change and the ESRC United Kingdom Longitudinal Studies Centre.

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Other news

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ESRC

• New funding by Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) for two new research centres

The Scientist

• 19 February 2008: How to teach research ethics - Two scientists, neither bioethicists, describe the best course they've ever taught. Requires free registration to access.

MRS Fellowship

• Call for nominations for MRS Fellowship - deadline for nominations is 31 March 2008. Fellows and Full Members may nominate candidates.

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Website of the Month

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Policy Hub

• Policy Hub was owned and managed by GSR until last month when it transferred to the National School of Government. Under their management it continues with its aim to promote strategic thinking and improve policy making and delivery across government. It endeavours to provide users with access to a range of perspectives on policy matters and as such there is a natural fit with the overall aims of the National School itself.

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