Our events

Find out about upcoming events taking place in our Thematic Hub.

1. Seminars

Events are in chronological order starting from the latest.

Title	Speaker(s)	Institutional Affiliation	Date
Do you like school? Social class, gender, ethnicity and pupils’ educational enjoyment	Dr Sarah Stopforth	University of York	19 March 2024
The relative importance and dynamic interplay of agency and structure in educational trajectories	Dr Kaspar Burger	University of Luxembourg	20 February 2024
The role of exposure to neighborhood and school poverty in understanding educational attainment	Dr Jaap Nieuwenhuis	University of Groningen	23 January 2024
Investigating the relationship between research income and research excellence in education: Evidence from the REF2021-UoA23 data	Prof. Ellen Boeren	University of Glasgow	12 December 2023
Social inequality in political interest: What can schools do to remedy the gap?	Prof. Jan Germen Janmaat	UCL	14 November 2023
Over Thirty Years of Analysing Educational Data – Reflections on some lessons that I have learned	Prof. Vernon Gayle	University of Edinburgh	17 October 2023
Socioeconomic differences in teacher predicted vs. student achieved grades for ‎university admission	Prof. George Leckie	University of Bristol	21 June 2023
Inequality and class divides in parental transfers to young adults in the United States	Dr. Ginevra Floridi	University of Edinburgh	16 May 2023
The long road to university? School social composition and the transition to higher education in Ireland	Prof. Emer Smyth	ESRI Dublin	18 April 2023
The flexibilisation of employment relations and working conditions of secondary schoolteachers in England	Xavier Dumay and Marc Sarazin	UCLouvain (Xavier Dumay) and University of Edinburgh (Marc Sarazin)	28 March 2023
Understanding social inequalities in creative occupations: Social mobility, education and downward mobility	Dr Orian Brook	University of Edinburgh	17 February 2023
Primary and secondary school students' career aspirations and automation-related risks	Stephen Sowa	University of Edinburgh	6 December 2022
Reducing the gender gap in student motivational-affective factors in STEM: Exploring the role of interventions and teacher support	Kaley Lesperance	Technical University of Munich	8 November 2022
The Stark Realities of Transparent and Reproducible Statistically Orientated Social Science Research	Roxanne Connelly	University of Edinburgh	19 October 2022

2. AQRiE Data and Methods Talks

Events in a chronological order starting from the latest.

Title	Speaker(s)	Institutional affiliation	Date
AQRiE Data and Methods Talk Series: Session 3 ─ Intersectional Multilevel Analysis of Individual Heterogeneity and Discriminatory Accuracy (MAIHDA) ─ What is it, and how can it be extended for longitudinal data?	Dr Andrew Bell	University of Sheffield	21 May 2024
AQRiE Data and Methods Talks Series: Session 2 ─ An investigation of the effects of high intensity interval training (HIIT) and moderate intensity continuous training (MICT) on functional movement and neuromuscular adaptations in older adults	Professor David Williamson Shaffer	University of Wisconsin-Madison	23 April 2024
AQRiE Data and Methods Talks Series: Session 1 ‒ Modelling the interdependency of networks and place for the provision of social support	Paul Schuler	University of Edinburgh	7 November 2023

3. Workshops and Training Events

Events in a chronological order starting from the latest.

Title	Speaker(s)	Institutional affiliation	Date
Causal Inference (Tbc)	Dr Pablo Geraldo	University of Oxford	28 May 2024 (Tbc)
Quantitative Ethnography: Human Science in the Age of Big Data	David Williamson Shaffer	The University of Wisconsin - Madison	23 April 2024
Selected Advanced Topics in Multilevel Modelling Using MLwiN, R, or Stata‎	Prof. George Leckie	University of Bristol	20 June 2023
Introduction to R	Kaley Lesperance		23 and 29 November, 7 December 2022
Dos and Do nots of writing a quantitative article for publication	Prof. Colm Harmon	University of Edinburgh	11 March 2022

4. Conferences and Public Lectures

Events in a chronological order starting from the latest.

Title	Speaker(s)	Institutional affiliation	Date
Leverhulme Lecture on Class, culture, and barriers to mobility	Professor Annette Lareau	University of Pennsylvania	18 June 2024
Leverhulme Lecture on Quantitative ethnography: Human science in the age of big data	Professor David Williamson Shaffer	University of Wisconsin-Madison	23 April 2024
Transitions in youth today: The persistence of inequality and the promise of policy	Emeritus Professor Adam Gamoran	William T. Grant Foundation	6 September 2023
European Research Network on Transitions in Youth (TiY) Workshop 2023			6-8 Sep 2023
Improving the use of research evidence by policy makers and practitioners	Professor Adam Gamoran	William T. Grant Foundation	26 May 2022
From gender equality to household earnings equality: The role of women’s labour market outcomes across OECD Countries	Professor Richard Breen	University of Oxford	3 May 2022

This article was published on 22 Apr, 2024