INFORMATION & UPDATES Publications
Pathways to sustainable agriculture
This highlights some of the major findings from the STEPS Centre’s research on sustainable agriculture. It draws on four books, not previously available for open access, which address three themes central to understanding how pathways emerge in agriculture, and how sustainability, is or is not, generated. The three themes are: framing (how we understand agriculture and its roles in development), practice (how agriculture and agricultural research is carried out, and by whom) and governance (how agriculture is regulated and controlled). n Pathways to sustainable agriculture is a FreeBook free to download from the Routledge website For more information see:
www.routledge. com/posts/11542
INNOVATIVE NEW NETWORK WILL ‘REVOLUTIONISE’ HOW WE STUDY THE ECONOMY After economists and traditional economic models failed to predict the financial crash of 2008, many called for a rethink on how we study macroeconomics – the branch of economics that deals with how the wider economy behaves and which is concerned with issues such as economic growth, inflation, employment and financial stability. The ESRC has taken the lead and commissioned a new Network, ‘Rebuilding Macroeconomics’, which will be led by Dr Angus Armstrong, Director of Macroeconomics at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research. The £4.6-million Network will champion new interdisciplinary approaches to studying the macroeconomy, and investigate new methodologies which offer alternatives or complements to mainstream macroeconomic models. It will fund innovative new research initiatives and explore creative and fresh approaches and methods to studying the field.
Young People in the Labour Market
This book focuses on young people and the ways in which their working lives have changed between the 1980s recession and the recession of 2008/2009 and its aftermath. Drawing on data originally collected during the 1980s recession and comparing it to contemporary data drawn from the UK Household Longitudinal Study, the book explores the ways in which young people have adjusted to the changes, beginning by drawing attention to trends already emerging in the preceding two decades. n Young People in the Labour Market by Andy Furlong, John Goodwin, Sarah Hadfield, Stuart Hall, Kevin Lowden, Henrietta O’Connor, Réka Plugor. ISBN 9781138798069, (hardback), 176pp @ £90.00. For more information see: www.
routledge.com
The Network aims to transform the field of macroeconomics into one that is once again useful and relevant to policymakers and the public, asking and answering questions about economic issues affecting the real world and the people in it. The Network will also directly engage the public with macroeconomics, exploring relevant issues through an extensive out-reach programme ranging from ‘town hall’ style debates across the UK to a series of broadcast radio debates and podcasts. The Network will consist of between four and six ‘research hubs’, each of which will address a fundamental macroeconomics question. It will be led by a team of 25 world leading experts taken not only from different branches of economics, but also from psychology, anthropology, sociology, neuroscience, economic history, political science, biology and physics. To make sure that the research is relevant to current policy issues, the team of academics will work closely alongside senior policy makers, representatives from civil society groups, business organisations and the public. n
EVENTS 12 JULY
Health Studies User Conference 2017
The annual Health Studies User Conference, is organised by the UK Data Service in collaboration with NatCen Social Research. The conference will allow users to hear updates from the data producers on key UK cross-sectional health surveys and key UK longitudinal studies with health-related content.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/health- studies-user-conference-2017-tickets- 32916073863?aff=esrceventpage4949
31 JULY 2017-4 AUGUST
Encounters with big data: An introduction to using big data in the social sciences
This course run by the UK Data Service will introduce key concepts and discussions around using big data in the social sciences, and introduce attendees to Apache Hadoop, an open source framework for analysing big data. This course will focus on quantitative data and will not cover in any detail text, social media, audio or other forms of non- numeric data.
www.ukdataservice.ac.uk/ news-and-events/eventsitem/?id=4998
1 AUGUST
Best practice in licensing and governance for research data
This course introduces best practices in licensing and governance models for research data. The focus is on practical and efficient ways to get data assets for research through the pipeline from data creator to user. Ethical and legal issues will be covered so far as they apply to data, with real life examples from data collections available via the UK Data Service. Email:
booking@ukdataservice.ac.uk
14 SEPTEMBER
Liability v. innovation: unpacking key connections , Seminar 6
This seminar will examine the relationship between the regulation of research, and of innovative treatments and the effects on innovation. Issues to be addressed include the distinction between innovative treatment and research; the relative threat of tort law and regulation on innovation in research and whether the level of compensation to research subjects stifles innovation. www.eventbrite.
co.uk/e/liability-v-innovation-unpacking- key-connections-tickets-32412280002
SUMMER 2017 SOCIETY NOW 31 SPRING 2011
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