Understanding Population Understanding Population Trends and Processes: Trends and Processes:

Overview and PlansOverview and Plans

RRB Directors Group Meeting, Medical Research Council, London, 5 October 2006

• UPTAP projects commissioned during summer 2005

• Some projects began in October 2005• Coordinator commenced duties in November

2005• First Advisory Committee meeting in March 2006• Inaugural conference for researchers in March

2006 • Four year programme

OverviewOverview

Primary aims of UPTAPPrimary aims of UPTAP

• To build capacity in secondary data analysis • To promote the use of large-scale social science

data sets, both qualitative and quantitative • To improve our understanding of demographic

trends and processes which affect society • To collaborate and communicate with user

(policy-making) communities beyond the academic sector

• To build capacity in secondary data analysis amongst new and mid-career researchers

• To spread knowledge and use of secondary analysis through and beyond the social science community

• To add value to the ESRC investments in the collection, preservation and promotion of large-scale national data sets by encouraging their use and exploitation

• in the longer term, to maximize the knowledge gained about demographic and social change from secondary data analysis

Principal objectives of UPTAPPrincipal objectives of UPTAP

• ESRC National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM)

• ESRC Research Methods Programme

• ESRC Researcher Development Initiative

• ESRC Census Programme

• ESRC National Centre for e-Social Science (NCeSS)

Links with other ESRC initiativesLinks with other ESRC initiatives

• 4 Postdoctoral Fellowships• 6 Mid-career Research Fellowships• 1 User Fellowship• 7 Small Research Grants• 3 Large Projects (with linked studentships)

• Currently, 21 projects involving 31 researchers

Initial UPTAP awardsInitial UPTAP awards

• Disciplines Disciplines represented epidemiology; economics; geography; politics; primary care and social medicine; public health; sociology; social policy

• OrganisationsOrganisations representedUniversities: Birkbeck; Birmingham; Bristol; Dundee; Edinburgh; Imperial; Institute of Education; Leeds; LSE; LSHTM; Manchester; Oxford; St Andrews; Sheffield; Stirling; Surrey; UCL

Other: ONS

• 1 October 2005 Saffron Karlsen and James Nazroo; Yaojun Li and Anthony Heath; Paul Norman

• 1 November 2005Roona Simpson; Eric Kaufmann

• 1 January 2006Ernestina Coast; Shu-Li Cheng; Dan Vickers; Dimitris

Ballas; Daniel Guinea-Martin; Kirstine Hansen, Heather Joshi and Denise Hawkes; Sarah Smith and Mike Brewer; Harriet Young and Emily Grundy

• 1 February 2006Paula Surridge

• 1 March 2006Patrick Sturgis and Nick Allum

Those projects already underwayThose projects already underway

• 1 June 2006Paul Boyle, Vernon Gayle, Elspeth Grahamand Ali Zohoor

• 1 August 2006 Alison Smith; Oliver Duke-Williams

• 1 October 2006Michelle Jackson; Gopalakrishnan Netuveli

One project yet to commenceOne project yet to commence

• 1 May 2007Claudia Thomas

THEMESTHEMES

• Demographic change - residential change

• Fertility - motherhood - childlessness• Living arrangements - childcare• Cohabitation - mobility• Health - wellbeing - employment• Education• Identity - ethnicity - segregation• Social and political values

See flyer for details

British Cohort Study (BCS)British Household Panel Survey

(BHPS) British Election Study (BES) British Social Attitudes (BSA)

Survey Census of Population (CAS, SMS,

SWS, STS) Economic and Social Data Service

(ESDS) International English Longitudinal Study of

Ageing (ELSA)‘Ethnic Minority Psychiatric Illness

Rates in the Community’ (EMPIRIC) study

European Community Household Panel (ECHP)

European Social Survey (ESS) European Values Survey (EVS) Family Expenditure Survey (FES)

Main British and European data sourcesMain British and European data sources

Family Resources Survey (FRS) General Household Survey (GHS) Health Survey for England (HSE) Home Office Citizenship Survey (HOCS)Labour Force Survey (LFS) Millennium Cohort Study (MCS)Multinational Time Use Study (MTUS)‘Muslims in Europe’ (ME) study National Child Development Survey (NCDS)National Survey of Ethnic Minorities (NSEM)ONS Longitudinal Study (LS) Mid-year Population Estimates Vital Statistics (VS)Youth Cohort Study (YCS)

• 13 UPTAP researchers taking various training courses – see circulated list prepared for ESRC Cross-Board Working Group on Quantitative Methods

• 7 UPTAP researchers to attend next ESRC Media and Communications Training Workshop

TrainingTraining

• UPTAP web site

• UPTAP Communications Strategy

- £50K

• UPTAP User Fellowships

- £300K

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UPTAP Communications StrategyUPTAP Communications Strategy

• Identify communications objectives: - Initially, raising awareness about the initiative and

opportunities for user involvement;- later on, dissemination of results of research to users

• Target user audiences: Central Government officers; MPs; local authority officers; regional administrators; those working in non-government administrative

organisations (e.g. NHS); others

Association of Census Distributors (ACD); Association of Geographical Information (AGI);Association for Research in the Voluntary and Community

Sector (ARVAC); Association of Public Health Observatories (APHO);Association of Regional Observatories (ARO); Audit Commission; British Society for Population Studies (BSPS); British Urban and Regional Information Systems Association

(BURISA); Central and Local Government Information Partnership (CLIP); Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG); General Register Office Scotland (GROS);Government Social Research Unit (GSRU);…………………. and so on

Creation of database of Creation of database of practitioner/user organisationspractitioner/user organisations

• UPTAP flyers (series)• Short articles about UPTAP in Newsletters (e.g. BURISA)• UPTAP Research Bulletins (series)

• Bespoke workshops for particular groups of users (e.g. MPs, civil servants, ..)

• UPTAP sessions within user conferences (e.g. LARIA, RSS, …)

• UPTAP launch seminar for policy-makers• Contribution to Social Science Week• Conference for practitioners (2008/09)

• These activities matched with parallel series of academic outputs: journal papers; book chapters; books; conferences; ….

Documentation and ParticipationDocumentation and Participation

• Call announced on 22 September 2006 with end-October deadline

• Opportunity for young/mid career researcher in user organisation to work on secondary data with academic in a centre of excellence

• Aims to enhance collaboration and build capacity• Funding covers salary costs for 6 months (or 12

months part-time) with max funding of £45K• Academic makes JeS application (guidelines

available) and provides mentoring • Aim is to fund 5 or 6 User Fellowships initially

UPTAP User FellowshipsUPTAP User Fellowships

• UPTAP Seminar for policy-makers on “Building “Building Capacity in Secondary Data Analysis”Capacity in Secondary Data Analysis” at LGA on 28 November 2006

• Call for Round 2 of UPTAPRound 2 of UPTAP funding (£1.2 million) with special focus on the theme of ‘ethnicity’

• Second ConferenceSecond Conference for UTAP participants at University of Leeds on 21-23 March 2007

• UPTAP Session at the BSPS Annual ConferenceBSPS Annual Conference at University of St Andrews in September 2007

• Workshops for users (plans in pipeline)• Participation in user conferences

Forthcoming UPTAP activitiesForthcoming UPTAP activities

UPTAP Co-ordinatorUPTAP Co-ordinator

John Stillwell John Stillwell

School of GeographySchool of Geography

University of Leeds University of Leeds

Leeds LS2 9JTLeeds LS2 9JT

Email: j.c.h.stillwell@leeds.ac.ukEmail: j.c.h.stillwell@leeds.ac.uk