Events
Conferences
The LSCS occasionally hosts short conferences designed to publicise the value of longitudinal analysis and methods in research.
Conference "Exploiting Existing Data for Health Research"
***Abstract deadline extended to June 15 2009***
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) is the second in the series, following a highly successful meeting in 2007. This conference will include 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, and registrations are taken online.
The conference is preceded by a 5-day training workshop (12th to 16th September 2009). For more information, visit the Training page.
Past conferences
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 January 21 2008, a Scottish Longitudinal Study Seminar took place in Edinburgh, Victoria Quay, organised by the General Register Office for Scotland. The seminar comprised an introduction to the Scottish Longitudinal Study by SLS director Paul Boyle, 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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