Events

Conferences

The LSCS occasionally hosts short conferences designed to publicise the value of longitudinal analysis and methods in research. Information will be posted on this page as it becomes available.

Past conferences

Biennial SHIP Conference

The SHIP biennial conference "Exploiting Existing Data for Health Research" was held on 9th - 11th September 2011 at the University of St Andrews.
More information is available in the conference leaflet.
Registration is now closed.

The conference was preceded by a 5-day training workshop (4th to 8th September 2011). For more information, visit the Training page.

Conference "Exploiting Existing Data for Health Research"

This conference is organised by the University of St Andrews, and funded by the Wellcome Trust. The 3-day international conference(17th to 19th September 2009) was the second in the series, following a highly successful meeting in 2007. This conference included papers relating to five themes:
1. The value of record linkage in health research
2. Record linkage for health care improvement
3. Longitudinal record linkage
4. The methodological challenges of record linkage
5. Confidentiality, disclosure and ethical issues
Further information can be found in the conference leaflet
Registration is now closed.

The conference was preceded by a 5-day training workshop (12th to 16th September 2009). For more information, visit the Training page.

In September 2007, the LSCS hosted an international conference on "Exploiting Existing Data for Health Research", which attracted around 120 participants and 70 papers from a wide range of countries (New Zealand, Autralia, Canada, the USA and many European countries).

The first LSCS conference (The Long View: Longitudinal Studies in Scotland) attracted over 100 delegates and was held in February 2004.

External events

Scottish Longitudinal Study Seminar

On April 20 2010, a Scottish Longitudinal Study Seminar took place at the Scottish Government in Edinburgh, Victoria Quay, organised by the General Register Office for Scotland. The seminar comprised an introduction to the Scottish Longitudinal Study by SLS manager Claire Boag, presentation of three ongoing SLS studies by researchers, and discussion.

ESRC NCRM Seminar "The role of interviewers in ensuring quality in longitudinal surveys"

A one-day seminar on the role of interviewers in ensuring quality in longitudinal surveys was held at the Royal Society Edinburgh Foundation on February 20th 2008. The seminar included four invited speakers with a lot of time for discussion, in order to stimulate methodological research ideas and research activity in this area.
The seminar is an activity of the “Quality of Longitudinal Survey Data” network, which is funded by the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods under the Networks for Methodological Innovation programme. The partners in the network are ISER at the University of Essex, LSCS at the University of St Andrews and the Centre for Longitudinal Studies at the Institute of Education.
The focus of the seminar was on understanding the various ways in which interviewers can affect the quality of longitudinal surveys, and in particular those aspects which are unique to longitudinal surveys. A particular focus was on the effects of interviewer continuity – allocation of the same interviewer to a sample member over repeated waves – on measurement and on co-operation.

Scottish Social Survey Network seminar

The Scottish Social Survey Network organised a seminar on Thursday 3rd May 2007, at the University of Stirling. Dr Vernon Gayle (University of Stirling) delivered an overview paper entitled "Scottish Social Survey Data – Past, present and future". Professor Robert Wright (University of Strathclyde) delivered a paper entitled "Researching Scotland’s Demography". This was the first of ten seminars in the series that will run until 2010. More details can be found the website of the Scottish Social Survey Network.

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