The Social Research Association Annual Conference 'Putting Social Research in the Spotlight' takes place on Tuesday 6 December, at the British Library in London.
The LARIA/HSUG Winter Seminar is being held on Wednesday 7 December at Aston University. The event will encourage relationship building, joint working, and identification of priority work programmes across health and local government.
As the private rented sector plays an ever greater role in meeting housing needs the paucity of readily accessible data on it has become an increasingly serious issue for policy makers and practitioners; and with the government hitching affordable rents to private sector rents it has become an issue for providers of affordable rented housing too.
Speakers will explore the challenges faced and progress being made by producers of statisticsin reaching out to the wider public as well as professional users of statistics. The implicationsfor education and the professional social research and statistics community will also bediscussed.
The Open Data agenda presents both opportunities and potential concerns for the management, accessibility and use of analytical data. The outcome of the Cabinet Office consultation (running until 27 October) will set the future direction as to how the agenda progresses and so it is vital that users and producers of analytical data are both well informed of the opportunities and well positioned to shape the outcomes.
A once-a-year opportunity for data archivists to go behind the scenes and learn first hand from specialists at the UK Data Archive is happening on 13 and 14 October 2011.
Over two days participants will learn about the strategies and practices used in the Archive's daily work, with a focus on storing and sharing social science data, including microdata, aggregate, qualitative and historical data.
