Understanding Population Understanding Population Trends and Processes (UPTAP)Trends and Processes (UPTAP)

John Stillwell, UPTAP Coordinator

Introduction to the ONS/UPTAP Workshop,Lecture Room C, Murray Building,

University of Southampton, 19 December 2007

Primary aims of UPTAPPrimary aims of UPTAP

• To build capacity in secondary data analysis (amongst new and mid-career researchers)

• To promote the use of large-scale social science data sets, both qualitative and quantitative (making better use of ESRC investments)

• To improve our understanding of the demographic trends and processes which affect society

• To collaborate and communicate with user (policy-making) communities beyond the academic sector

• ESRC National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM)

• ESRC Research Methods Programme• ESRC Researcher Development Initiative• ESRC Census Programme• ESRC National Centre for e-Social

Science (NCeSS)• ESRC/AHRC Religion and Society

Programme

Links with other ESRC initiativesLinks with other ESRC initiatives

• Round 1 projects commissioned during summer 2005

• Some projects began in October 2005• Coordinator started in November 2005• Four year programme• Round 1 has involved 22 projects involving

34 researchers around the country• Initial workshop for policy-makers at LGA in

November 2006

OverviewOverview

Round 1 UPTAP awardsRound 1 UPTAP awards

• 4 Postdoctoral Fellowships• 6 Mid-career Research Fellowships• 1 User Fellowship• 8 Small Research Grants• 3 Large Projects (with linked studentships)

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• 3 User Fellowships in 2006

• Disciplines Disciplines represented epidemiology; economics; geography; politics; primary care and social medicine;

public health; sociology; social policy

• OrganisationsOrganisations representedUniversities: Birkbeck; Birmingham; Bristol; City; Dundee; Edinburgh; Imperial; Institute of Education; Leeds; LSE; LSHTM; Manchester; Newcastle; Oxford; St Andrews; Sheffield; Stirling; Surrey; UCL

Other: Audiences London; Family Fund; ONS

Round 1 Project TimelinesRound 1 Project TimelinesDecember 2007

THEMESTHEMES

• Demographic change - residential change

• Fertility - motherhood - childlessness• Living arrangements - childcare• Cohabitation - mobility• Health - wellbeing - employment• Education• Identity - ethnicity - segregation• Social and political values

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British Cohort Study (BCS)British Household Panel Survey

(BHPS) British Election Study (BES) British Social Attitudes (BSA)

Survey Census of Population (CAS, SMS,

SWS, STS) Economic and Social Data Service

(ESDS) International English Longitudinal Study of

Ageing (ELSA)‘Ethnic Minority Psychiatric Illness

Rates in the Community’ (EMPIRIC) study

European Community Household Panel (ECHP)

European Social Survey (ESS) European Values Survey (EVS) Family Expenditure Survey (FES)

Main British and European data sources usedMain British and European data sources used

Family Resources Survey (FRS) General Household Survey (GHS) Health Survey for England (HSE) Home Office Citizenship Survey (HOCS)Labour Force Survey (LFS) Millennium Cohort Study (MCS)Multinational Time Use Study (MTUS)‘Muslims in Europe’ (ME) study National Child Development Survey (NCDS)National Survey of Ethnic Minorities (NSEM)ONS Longitudinal Study (LS) Mid-year Population Estimates Vital Statistics (VS)Youth Cohort Study (YCS)

• Summer 2006: ESRC decided to provide further £1.4 million to UPTAP for projects with special focus on the theme of ‘ethnicity’ – Round 2

• 33 applications – 12 new projects announced in August, most of which have now begun:

8 small grants2 large grants1 Postdoctoral Fellowship 1 Research Fellowship

UPTAP Round 2UPTAP Round 2

PI Institution Type of award

Title

Ethnic Neighbourhoods and IntegrationEthnic Neighbourhoods and Integration

Zhiqiang Feng St Andrews Small grant

Neighbourhoods and the creation, stability and success of mixed ethnic unions

Nissa Finney Manchester

Research Fellowship

Ethnic Group Population Change and Integration: A Demographic Approach to Small Area Ethnic Geographies

Albert Sabater Manchester

Postdoctoral Fellowship

Estimating segregation and diversity of ethnic groups over time in England and Wales, 1991-2001

Lavinia Mitton Kent Small grant

‘Black Africans’ in Britain: Integration or Segregation

Antonia Simon Institute of Education

Small grant

Exploring the movement of people from different ethnic groups into or out of wards with high or low density of their own ethnic group

UPTAP Round 2 AwardsUPTAP Round 2 Awards

PI Institution Type of award

Title

Immigration and EmploymentImmigration and Employment

Marina Shapira

Edinburgh Small grant

Understanding the Labour Market Impact of Immigration in Britain

Ethnicity and HealthEthnicity and Health

Vanessa Higgins

Manchester

Small grant

Ethnic differences in diet, physical activity and obesity

Xuan-Mai Stafford

UCL, Manchester

Large grant

Racial Discrimination and Health: exploring the possible protective effects of ethnic identity

Ethnicity and CrimeEthnicity and Crime

Paula Kautt University Small grant

Ethnic Variation in Criminological Experiences: A Single and Multilevel Statistical Analysis of British Crime Survey Data, 2001-2006

Liz Twigg Portsmouth, Southampton

Small grant

Exploring the Goodhart thesis at the local scale: neighbourhood social heterogeneity and perceptions of quality of life in the British Crime Survey

UPTAP Round 2 AwardsUPTAP Round 2 Awards

Projections of Ethnic PopulationsProjections of Ethnic Populations

Sylvia Dubuc Oxford Small grant

Demographic characteristics and projections of ethnic minority and religious groups

Phil Rees Leeds Large grant

What happens when international migrants settle? Ethnic group population trends and projections for UK local areas under alternative scenarios

UPTAP Round 2 AwardsUPTAP Round 2 Awards

• UPTAP web site

• UPTAP Communications Strategy

- £50K

• UPTAP User Fellowships (Round 3)- £300K

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Association of Census Distributors (ACD); Association of Geographical Information (AGI);Association for Research in the Voluntary and Community

Sector (ARVAC); Association of Public Health Observatories (APHO);Association of Regional Observatories (ARO); Audit Commission; British Society for Population Studies (BSPS); British Urban and Regional Information Systems Association

(BURISA); Central and Local Government Information Partnership (CLIP); Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG); General Register Office Scotland (GROS);Government Social Research Unit (GSRU);…………………. and so on

Creation of database of Creation of database of practitioner/user organisationspractitioner/user organisations

UPTAP Research Findings

UPTAP Research FindingsUPTAP Research Findings

• Opportunity for early stage/mid career researcher in a user organisationuser organisation to work on secondary data analysis with academic in a centre of excellence

• Aims to enhance collaborationenhance collaboration and build capacitybuild capacity• Should be some trainingtraining involved• Funding covers salary costs for 6 monthssalary costs for 6 months (or 12

months part-time) with max funding of £50K• Initial task is to find an academic supervisor• Academic makes JeS application (guidelines

provided) and provides mentoring (costs covered)• DeliverablesDeliverables include presentations, papers for

journals and Research Findings• Two calls so far resulting in 4 projects4 projects

UPTAP User FellowshipsUPTAP User Fellowships

Current User FellowshipsCurrent User Fellowships• User Fellow:User Fellow: Daniel Guinea Martin, ONS• Partner organisation:Partner organisation: Institute of Education • Project:Project: “Trends in Gender and Ethnic Occupational

Segregation in England and Wales: Longitudinal Evidence”

• Start date:Start date: 1 Jan 2006• Daniel using the LS to look at occupational

segregation during the 1990s at both the aggregated and individual levels, allowing him to gain enhanced skills that, in his role as LS User Support Officer at ONS, will inform and add value to the use of the LS by others

• User Fellow:User Fellow: Orian Brook, Audiences London • Partner organisation:Partner organisation: University of St Andrews• Project:Project: “Demographic Indicators of Cultural

Consumption”• Start data:Start data: 1 March 2007 • Orian is doing secondary analysis of large data sets

relating to consumption of the performing arts -administrative data collected when tickets are sold and is aiming to answer questions such as:

- What are the best geodemographic and socio-economic predictors of arts attendance?

- Do these vary by region, art form, location of venue, etc

• User Fellow:User Fellow: Domenica Rasulo, ONS• Partner organisation:Partner organisation: City University • Project:Project: “Decomposition of changes in disability-free

life expectancy by cause: England, 1991-2001”• Start date:Start date: 1 April 2007 • Domenica is aiming to identify the mortality and

disability factors underlying the change in disability-free life expectancy observed in England in the decade 1991-2001, work which will help define priorities in the field of public health and improve the assessments of targeted health priorities

• User Fellow:User Fellow: Mark Woolley, Family Fund• Partner organisation:Partner organisation: Newcastle University • Project:Project: “Understanding the unmet needs of families

with severely disabled children”• Start date:Start date: 1 October 2007 • The Family Fund holds a national dataset of families

with disabled children • Mark is looking at whether the environment is as

important as intrinsic impairment in terms of levels of participation in everyday life; i.e. would the same disabled child in a different environment have a different level of participation

• February:February: UPTAP UPTAP workshop with Scottish Government workshop with Scottish Government • March:March: Commissioning Commissioning of Round 3 UPTAP Fellowships of Round 3 UPTAP Fellowships

– application deadline date is 22 January – application deadline date is 22 January - details at - details at www.uptap.net

• March:March: Young People’s Attitudes online opinion poll as Young People’s Attitudes online opinion poll as part of part of ESRC Social Science FestivalESRC Social Science Festival

• March:March: UPTAP UPTAP researchers’ conferenceresearchers’ conference in Leeds in Leeds• July:July: UPTAP day at the UPTAP day at the ESRC RM FestivalESRC RM Festival on on

‘Research Methods for Understanding Population ‘Research Methods for Understanding Population Trends and Processes’Trends and Processes’

• July:July: Suite of papers at Suite of papers at EAPS conferenceEAPS conference in Barcelona in Barcelona • September:September: UPTAP/BURISA workshopUPTAP/BURISA workshop in London in London

UPTAP activities in 2008UPTAP activities in 2008

UPTAP Co-ordinatorUPTAP Co-ordinator

John Stillwell John Stillwell

School of GeographySchool of Geography

University of Leeds University of Leeds

Leeds LS2 9JTLeeds LS2 9JT

Email: j.c.h.stillwell@leeds.ac.ukEmail: j.c.h.stillwell@leeds.ac.uk

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