Radical
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Radical Statistics
A Decade of Devolution:
How Does it Measure Up?
Annual Conference and AGM, 2008
Leith, Edinburgh, Saturday March 1st, 2008.
Programme
Speakers' presentations now available. Click on title. Photos below.
| TIME | PAPER / EVENT | PRESENTER |
| 9.30 | REGISTRATION | |
| 10.00 | Welcome | Troika |
| 10.10 | Poverty, Wealth and Place in Britain, 1968-2005 (PPT, 4.2 MB) | Eldin Fahmy |
| 10.40 | Attitudes Toward Bearing the Cost of Care in Later Life: Evidence from a Global Survey (PDF, 126 KB) | Hafiz T. A. Khan |
| 11.10 | COFFEE/TEA BREAK | |
| 11.30 | Levels and Internal Distribution of National & International Migration to Scotland: An Overview (PPT, 543 KB) | Nick Wright |
| 12.00 | Measuring Child Wellbeing in Scotland (PPT, 1 MB) | Samantha Coope & Ian Storrie |
| 12.30 | Scottish Social Survey Data, Past, Present and Future – Does Scotland Need its Own Data Strategy? (PPT, 165 KB) | Christopher Playford |
| 13.00 | LUNCH (catered sandwiches, etc) | |
| 13.45 | National Identities and Politics After Devolution (PPT, 388 KB) | Michael Rosie & Ross Bond |
| 14.15 | What Does the Scottish Public Think of Devolution So Far? Findings from the Scottish Social Attitudes Survey (PPT, 572 KB) | Rachel Ormston |
| 14.45 | COFFEE/TEA BREAK | |
| 15.00 | The Oversubsidized Periphery - Who Benefits? (PPT, 72 KB) | David Byrne |
| 15.30 | Discussant | Colin Clark |
| 16.00 | CONFERENCE CLOSE | |
| 16.00 | Radstats Annual General Meeting (all invited to stay) | |
| 17.00 | AGM CLOSE | |
| 20.00 | DINNER at Mamma Roma's |
Printable version with abstracts (PDF doc).
Photos
Delegates enjoy lunch in the community artists space.
Sunday walkers (in Edinburgh's New Town).
Walking along the Water of Leith (under Dean Bridge).
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