Workshops

Forthcoming conferences and workshops

Details of forthcoming events will be posted here as they are confirmed.

For a listing of forthcoming short courses please click here. 

Recent workshops and meetings

NCRM-BPS workshop on Analysing Developmental Change. Oxford, 31st August 2008.       

This workshop was run at St Catherine's College, Oxford, prior to  The British Psychological Society Conference (Developmental Section), and immediately after the EPS workshop on executive function in children. The aim of the course was to discuss new ways of approaching longitudinal data in developmental psychology.

The workshop was sponsored by the Lancaster-Warwick-Stirling node of the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM), in collaboration with the Developmental Psychology section of the British Psychological Society.

For further information including presentations from the day click here.

2nd July 2008 Mini-course on latent class and latent transition analysis 2nd July 2008

This half day course given at the 2008 Research Methods Festival at St. Catherine's College, Oxford provided an introduction to latent class analysis and methods for examining change over time, including latent transition analysis.

For the course notes and associated files, click here.

Lancaster-Warwick seminar for social scientists - Interpreting results from Statistical Modelling. London, 29 April 2008.

This one day research seminar was designed to provide a unique contemporary review of the ways in which coefficients and results from statistical models are used in social science research. Particular emphasis was placed on interpreting coefficients from statistical models, with examples drawn from both standard regression models and more complex generalised linear mixed models.

For further information and presentations from the seminar, click here.

Lancaster-Warwick workshop on composite likelihood methods. Warwick, 15-17 April 2008.

In many modern applications of statistical models, standard likelihood-based inference meets difficulties caused by high-dimensional interdependencies. Prominent application areas include the analysis of multivariate longitudinal and event-history data, spatial statistics, social network analysis, and bioinformatics. This international workshop aimed to review the state of art of composite likelihood inference, and to promote vigorous discussion of foundations, applications and future developments.

For further information click here.

The full list of participants, the programme, and abstracts with references can be found at http://go.warwick.ac.uk/complik2008 .

Lancaster-Warwick conference on methodology and analysis of criminal career data. London, 24 January, 2008.

This conference addressed recent developments of the analysis of criminal careers, it reviewed current work and aimed to identify future areas for research. Both criminological and methodological questions were addressed. A specific focus of the meeting was in typologies, trajectories and transitions and another theme related to the testing of theory through large criminal career datasets. The conference was held at the Royal Statistical Society and co-sponsored by the Lancaster-Warwick node of the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods and the European Society of Criminology.

More details including abstacts and presentations.

UCLA-Lancaster symposium on research methods for mixed data . Los Angeles, 17 March 2007.

The Lancaster-Warwick node of the National Centre for Research Methods organised a syposium at the University of California, Los Angeles to explore new methodologies for analysing mixed qualitative and quantitative social science data. Data modellers and qualitative researchers explored methods of gaining more from mixed method studies. A highlight of the symposium was a presentation by Harold Garfinkel, who developed the ethnomethodology tradition in American sociology.

More details including abstracts and presentations.

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