Understanding Society will host a workshop, bringing together academics and researchers using longitudinal data to study different aspects of household/family formation and change.
The workshop will be at the British Academy on 29th November and will focus on new trends in household/family formation and change, and highlight areas where current data collection in Understanding Society could be improved to better capture household dynamics.
The morning focuses on family development and separation, and the afternoon looks at new family structures, with a final session discussing potential improvements to data collection on this topic.
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Provisional programme
09.30-10.00
Registration and refreshments
10.00-10.10
Welcome and introduction to the workshop
Michaela Benzeval, University of Essex
10.10-10.40
Family building in the UK: Insights from combining retrospective and panel data
Juliet Stone, University of Southampton
10.40-11.10
Family instability throughout childhood
Mike Brewer, University of Essex
11.10-11.40
Capturing fathers in family and household data collection: non-resident fathers
Sara Connolly, University of East Anglia and Margaret O’Brien, University College London
11.40-12.10
Discussion: family policy and research
Birgitta Rabe, University of Essex
12.15-13:15
Lunch
13.15-13.45
Living Apart Together
Rory Coulter, University of Cambridge
13.45-14.15
Young adults leaving and returning home: insights from BHPS and Understanding Society
Ann Berrington, University of Southampton
14.15-14.45
Discussion: new forms of families
Birgitta Rabe, University of Essex
14.45-15.45
Discussion: issues for longitudinal research and data collection: changes that could be introduced to the Understanding Society survey
Michaela Benzeval and Karon Gush, University of Essex
15.45-16.00
Next steps
Michaela Benzeval, University of Essex
16.00-close
Refreshments
For additional enquires please contact Jay James