Seminar Series
Seminars are held on the first Thursday of the month 3pm - 4pm in the seminar rooms of 2 Priory Road. They are open to everyone, if you would like to attend please contact julia.carey@bristol.ac.uk.
Seminars in 2011
Date | Presenter | Institution | Title |
2nd June |
Nina Jacobs |
Bristol |
Young people's understandings of tobacco,alcohol and cannabis |
5th May |
Anna Vignoles &
John Jerrim
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Institute of Education |
"The use (and misuse) of statistics in understanding social mobility: an application to the cognitive development of high ability children from disadvantaged homes" |
3rd February |
Debbie Lawlor |
Bristol |
Gestational weight gain in a UK cohort: patterns, risk factors and associations with later mother and offspring health
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Seminars in 2010
Date | Presenter | Institution | Title |
7th October |
Peter Elias |
ESRC |
Long term strategy of longitudinal data at the ESRC |
2nd September |
Cathy Chittleborough |
Bristol |
Using factors measured in pregnancy to predict childhood outcomes.
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5th May |
Simon Burgess |
Bristol |
ALSPAC - Friendships Data |
7th April |
Michele Haynes |
The University of Queensland,Australia |
A Glimpse of Longitudinal Social Data in Australia and Two Studies relating to Physical Activity and Substance Abuse (PDF, 6kB)
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3rd March |
Roberto Melotti |
Bristol |
The timing of maternal depression and child cognitive outcome in ALSPAC: a life-course approach. |
3rd Feb |
Paul Clarke and Michael Spratt |
Bristol |
Using the ALSPAC Blitz to assess non-response bias. |
Seminars in 2009
Date | Presenter | Institution | Title |
2nd December |
Anna Vignoles and Claire Crawford |
Institute of Education |
The Great Divide: fixed vs. random effects in an education context |
4th November |
No Meeting |
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7th October |
Melissa Martinson |
Columbia Social Work School |
Health Across the Life Span in the United States and England. |
2nd September |
Laura Howe |
Social Medicine, Bristol |
Socioeconomic position and trajectories of growth and adiposity across childhood. (Office document, 1,070kB) (ppt 1,071kb) |
1st July |
George Davey-Smith |
ALSPAC |
Discussion on the paper. "Genetics and Social inquiry" by Jeremy Freese and Sara Shostak. (PDF, 161kB) |
2nd June |
Lynne Molloy |
ALSPAC |
Update on ALSPAC 17+ Clinic |
1st April |
Roberto Melotti |
Psychiatry, Bristol |
Associations between Risky Behavior and Socio-Economic status |
4th March |
Matt Hickman |
Bristol |
Data linkage / markers |
4th Feb |
Alan Emond, Richard Reading and Robin Haynes |
Bristol and University of East Anglia |
Neighbourhood modelling in ALSPAC |
Seminars in 2008
Seminars in 2007
Date | Presenter | Institution | Title |
July 10th |
David Lawson |
UCL |
Tracking Family Configuration in ALSPAC |
Sept 4th |
Ingrid Schoon |
City UL |
Risk, resilience and the intergenerational transmission of (dis)advantage |
Oct 2nd |
Barbara Maughan |
Institute of Psychiatry |
Influences on antisocial behaviour in adolescence |
Dec 4th |
Frank Windmeijer |
Bristol |
Instrumental Variables Estimation in Nonlinear Models |