Primary aims of UPTAP

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2. Primary aims of UPTAP To build capacity in secondary data analysis (amongst new and mid-career researchers) To promote the use of large-scale social science data sets, both qualitative and quantitative (making better use of ESRC investments) To improve our understanding of the demographic trends and processes which affect society To collaborate and communicate with user (policy-making) communities beyond the academic sector

3. ESRC National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) ESRC Research Methods Programme ESRC Researcher Development Initiative ESRC Census Programme ESRC National Centre for e-Social Science (NCeSS) ESRC/AHRC Religion and Society Programme

4. Round 1 projects commissioned during summer 2005 Some projects began in October 2005 Coordinator started in November 2005 Four year programme Round 1 has involved 22 projects involving 34 researchers around the country Initial workshop for policy-makers at LGA in November 2006

5. Round 1 UPTAP awards 4 Postdoctoral Fellowships 6 Mid-career Research Fellowships 1 User Fellowship 8 Small Research Grants 3 Large Projects (with linked studentships) Plus 3 User Fellowships in 2006

6. Disciplines represented epidemiology; economics; geography; politics; primary care and social medicine; public health; sociology; social policy Organisations represented Universities: Birkbeck; Birmingham; Bristol; City; Dundee; Edinburgh; Imperial; Institute of Education; Leeds; LSE; LSHTM; Manchester; Newcastle; Oxford; St Andrews; Sheffield; Stirling; Surrey; UCL Other: Audiences London; Family Fund; ONS

8. THEMES Demographic change - residential change Fertility - motherhood - childlessness Living arrangements - childcare Cohabitation - mobility Health - wellbeing - employment Education Identity - ethnicity - segregation Social and political values

9. British Cohort Study (BCS) British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) British Election Study (BES) British Social Attitudes (BSA) Survey Census of Population (CAS, SMS, SWS, STS) Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS) International English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) �Ethnic Minority Psychiatric Illness Rates in the Community� (EMPIRIC) study European Community Household Panel (ECHP) European Social Survey (ESS) European Values Survey (EVS) Family Expenditure Survey (FES)

10. Summer 2006: ESRC decided to provide further �1.4 million to UPTAP for projects with special focus on the theme of �ethnicity� � Round 2 33 applications � 12 new projects announced in August, most of which have now begun: 8 small grants 2 large grants 1 Postdoctoral Fellowship 1 Research Fellowship

14. UPTAP web site UPTAP Communications Strategy - �50K UPTAP User Fellowships (Round 3) - �300K

19. Association of Census Distributors (ACD); Association of Geographical Information (AGI); Association for Research in the Voluntary and Community Sector (ARVAC); Association of Public Health Observatories (APHO); Association of Regional Observatories (ARO); Audit Commission; British Society for Population Studies (BSPS); British Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (BURISA); Central and Local Government Information Partnership (CLIP); Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG); General Register Office Scotland (GROS); Government Social Research Unit (GSRU); �������. and so on

21. Opportunity for early stage/mid career researcher in a user organisation to work on secondary data analysis with academic in a centre of excellence Aims to enhance collaboration and build capacity Should be some training involved Funding covers salary costs for 6 months (or 12 months part-time) with max funding of �50K Initial task is to find an academic supervisor Academic makes JeS application (guidelines provided) and provides mentoring (costs covered) Deliverables include presentations, papers for journals and Research Findings Two calls so far resulting in 4 projects

22. Current User Fellowships User Fellow: Daniel Guinea Martin, ONS Partner organisation: Institute of Education Project: �Trends in Gender and Ethnic Occupational Segregation in England and Wales: Longitudinal Evidence� Start date: 1 Jan 2006 Daniel using the LS to look at occupational segregation during the 1990s at both the aggregated and individual levels, allowing him to gain enhanced skills that, in his role as LS User Support Officer at ONS, will inform and add value to the use of the LS by others

23. User Fellow: Orian Brook, Audiences London Partner organisation: University of St Andrews Project: �Demographic Indicators of Cultural Consumption� Start data: 1 March 2007 Orian is doing secondary analysis of large data sets relating to consumption of the performing arts -administrative data collected when tickets are sold and is aiming to answer questions such as: - What are the best geodemographic and socio- economic predictors of arts attendance? - Do these vary by region, art form, location of venue, etc

24. User Fellow: Domenica Rasulo, ONS Partner organisation: City University Project: �Decomposition of changes in disability-free life expectancy by cause: England, 1991-2001� Start date: 1 April 2007 Domenica is aiming to identify the mortality and disability factors underlying the change in disability-free life expectancy observed in England in the decade 1991-2001, work which will help define priorities in the field of public health and improve the assessments of targeted health priorities

25. User Fellow: Mark Woolley, Family Fund Partner organisation: Newcastle University Project: �Understanding the unmet needs of families with severely disabled children� Start date: 1 October 2007 The Family Fund holds a national dataset of families with disabled children Mark is looking at whether the environment is as important as intrinsic impairment in terms of levels of participation in everyday life; i.e. would the same disabled child in a different environment have a different level of participation

26. February: UPTAP workshop with Scottish Government March: Commissioning of Round 3 UPTAP Fellowships � application deadline date is 22 January - details at www.uptap.net March: Young People�s Attitudes online opinion poll as part of ESRC Social Science Festival March: UPTAP researchers� conference in Leeds July: UPTAP day at the ESRC RM Festival on �Research Methods for Understanding Population Trends and Processes� July: Suite of papers at EAPS conference in Barcelona September: UPTAP/BURISA workshop in London

27. UPTAP Co-ordinator John Stillwell School of Geography University of Leeds Leeds LS2 9JT Email: j.c.h.stillwell@leeds.ac.uk

28. ASAPA new, international, peer-reviewed journal with a specific focus on the practical application of analytical principles and findings at different spatial scales ASAP concentrates on presenting the results of applications of GIS and quantitative modelling methods, including those commissioned or sponsored by public or private sector organizationsPapers welcome NOWASAP web sitehttp://www.springer.com/west/home?SGWID=4-102-70-173734904-0