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NILS Newsletter Issue 1 Jan 08

 

Future Events

 

Longitudinal Studies using the Census

ESRC Workshop Series

Wednesday 14 May 2008 @  10.00 – 16.15

NISRA Board Room, McAuley House, 2-14 Castle Street, Belfast, BT1 1SA

This workshop will include an introduction to the data services offered by Census.ac.uk and is aimed at users studying or working in the UK higher and further education sector, but is not limited to those already registered to use the census.

Presentations will be made by the 3 Longitudinal Study teams - England & Wales LS, Scottish LS (SLS) and the Northern Ireland LS (NILS).  To register please enter your details at http://census.ac.uk/MB/Belfast_May08.aspx

 

 

Past Events

 

Fuel Poverty, Climate and Mortality

DSD Seminar

Wednesday 23 January 2008 @ 12.30 – 14.00

Conference Room, James House, Gasworks Business Park

 

This seminar presented results relating to NILS project 001.  (See projects section for more details).  A copy of the presentation can be downloaded from here.

 

Changing Ageing Partnership Lunch-time Seminar

 

A lunch-time seminar on the NILS was hosted by the Changing Ageing Partnership on 1st November 2007 as part of their Research Seminar Programme 2007/8.  Presentations were given by NILS staff and Dr Dermot O´Reilly (QUB).  For further infromation on CAP see their website at http://www.changingageing.org/  You can download the presentations by NILS staff and Dr Dermot O´Reilly (QUB).

 

Call for applications for Research Funding

Calls for reserach proposals funded under the NILS Responsive Sceme have now closed.

Training

Training on the use of longitudinal data will also be arranged on a demand basis.  It is anticipated that training will be arranged to cover various areas of interest such as:

  • Stata (other analysis software training may be available subject to demand);
  • NILS Data; and
  • General longitudinal analysis.

To express an interest in training please send an email to nils.nisra@dfpni.gov.uk.  Other contact details can be found by clicking on Contact Us.  

Launch of the Northern Ireland Longitudinal Study

 

To announce the launch of the NILS, an information morning took place on Friday 8th December 2006 at the Belfast City Hospital, Postgraduate Centre.

 

A series of presentations were given on policy benefits, what the NILS is, how researchers can access the data and available funding.  Also presented were findings from four test research projects which have already been carried out on the datasets to demonstrate the power of the data. 

 

Please click on the various links below to download a copy of the presentations.

 

Topic

Presenter

Introduction

Dr Norman Caven (NISRA)

Longitudinal Studies: Research and Policy Benefits (To Be Added)

Prof. Paul Boyle (SLS)

Economic and Social Research Council

Prof. Ian Diamond (ESRC)

The NILS-mortality study a new tool for research.ppt (To Be Added)

Dr Dermot O’Reilly (QUB)

Explaining births to mothers of different ages.ppt

Prof. Ciaran O’Neill (UU)

Migration, Areas, and Social Change.ppt

Dr. Ian Shuttleworth (QUB)

Migration and Inequalities in Health.pdf

Dr. Michael Anye-Dyke Danes (ERINI)

NILS Responsive Scheme

Prof. Bob Stout (RDO)