Held on Monday 10 October 2011
Seminar Series |
The Intrepid Researcher |
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Finding Secondary Data for Research Use in the Social Sciences and Humanities |
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Date: |
This event was held on Monday 10 October 2011 (3.00pm - 5.00pm) There are no further dates scheduled at present. |
| Duration: |
This seminar runs for 2 hours |
| Abstract: |
The availability of high quality secondary data is critical for many areas of research within the social sciences, and increasingly within the humanities as well. Moreover, in times of increased economic pressures, particularly on public funding, secondary data arguably become more important as traditional funding streams for the generation of 'new' data are squeezed or dry up. This tendency can already be seen with the Economic and Social Research Council who are placing greater emphasis on future researchers working with the data resources and via the data infrastructures that they have previously invested in. Taking these factors into consideration, this presentation will provide information on how researchers in the social sciences and humanities might start exploring the use of secondary data within their research. It will look at sources for data, access, quality and usability issues. It will investigate UK based and generated data, as well as international data resources, including data generated within the public sector, academic sector and private sector. |
| Who is it for? |
The series is open to all academics and PhD research students across the University. |
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Speaker:
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Professor Kevin Schurer In October 2010 Prof Schürer moved to the University of Leicester to take up the position of Pro-Vice Chancellor (Research and Enterprise). He also holds a Professorship in the Centre for English Local History at Leicester. Prior to this, following several years working as a member of the internationally-renowned Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, University of Cambridge, he moved to the University of Essex, holding a teaching position at the Department of History, and then as Director of the UK Data Archive in 2000, a position he held for ten years. He is an Academician of the Academy for the Social Sciences, a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) and the Royal Geographical Society, and a Senior Member of Wolfson College, Cambridge. He previously served as the UK representative for the European Strategy Forum for Research Infrastructure (ESFRI) working group in Social Science and Humanities, as President of the Council of European Social Science Data Archives and as President for the International Association for History and Computing. He is currently a member of the British Library’s Advisory Council, the Research Information Network Advisory Committee and several other the national and international committees. He recently completed a EC-funded project seeking to create a more fully-integrated social science data infrastructure across Europe, and currently holds a major award from the ESRC to create a standardised and harmonized version of the censuses for Great Britain for 1851 to 1911(the I-CeM project), working with a commercial partner to create one of the largest historical data resources in the world. His publications include Surveying the people (1992), The use of occupations in historical analysis (1992), A guide to historical data files in machine-readable form (1992); Victorian communities in census enumerator’s books (1996), and Changing family size in England and Wales. Place, class and demography, 1891-1911 (2001) as well as a number of chapter and journal articles. |
| Additional information: |
This seminar forms part of the Intrepid Researcher series. During this seminar the experts will speak for an hour followed by time for questions and discussion. This is also an opportunity to meet the speaker informally over tea and cakes at the end. |
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| Delegate places: |
Maximum 60 delegates |
| How to make your reservation: |
Please complete the online the Intrepid Researcher - Booking Form, submitting to the Staff Development Partnership. Booking conditions apply. |
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