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Political engagement in Britain: Taking back control?
Venue: Broadway House, Tothill Street, London, SW1H9NQ
Venue: Broadway House, Tothill Street, London, SW1H9NQ
Presented by: Amy Clair, Faye Sanders, Emma Hock
Venue: ONLINE
Loneliness is associated with elevated morbidity and mortality risks, and, consequently, it is increasingly recognized as an important public health issue. Migrants are known to be at a greater risk of loneliness than their counterparts without a migration background in the country of settlement. Typically, this is ascribed to the...
Presented by: Dr Thijs van den Broek (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Venue: The seminar will be held in person at 2N2.4.16 and online. Please contact the seminar organisers for the zoom call details at iserseminars@essex.ac.uk.
The labour market is conceived as largely a marketplace for labour; where agents transact their labour in exchange of pay. However, this is a rather simplistic and narrow view. On closer examination we know that the labour market is comprised of people from a very diverse socio-demographic background with different...
Presented by: Dr Theocharis Kromydas (University of Glasgow)
Venue: Online. Please contact iserseminars@essex.ac.uk for the zoom link.
Presented by: Ed Garratt OBE
Venue: The Hex, University of Essex & Zoom
The impact of temporary work has been studied extensively in the literature, but little is known about the implications of temporary work in the healthcare sector. In this paper, we investigate the impact of locum doctors on patients' satisfaction, prescription behaviours and emergency admissions using a unique dataset that matches...
Presented by: Dr Catia Nicodemo (University of Oxford)
Venue: The seminar will be held in person at 2N2.4.16 and online. Please contact the seminar organisers for the zoom call details at iserseminars@essex.ac.uk.
In many countries, migration patterns are the key determinant of population change. Accurate estimates of place-to-place population migration flows are essential for making population policy estimates or projections. However, there are many difficulties inherent to estimating migration flows: for example, countries may under-report migration, use different migration definitions, or have...
Presented by: Professor Peter W Smith (University of Southampton)
Venue: Online. Please contact iserseminars@essex.ac.uk for the zoom link.
“Understanding how the UK lives and changes over time is key to ensuring services like healthcare, transport and education best serve the public and that hardworking taxpayers’ money is spent wisely.’ Science Minister George Freeman
Join Danny Dorling and other experts to discuss our latest research showing the biological impact of poor housing on health
Machine Learning (ML) algorithms are powerful data-driven tools for approximating high-dimensional or non-linear nuisance functions and, among other things, handling sparsity. In this paper, we bring the power of ML algorithms (i.e., Lasso, classification and regression trees, and random forests) into statistical methods to estimate the impact of policy interventions...
Presented by: Dr Annalivia Polselli (University of Essex)
Venue: The seminar will be held in person at 2N2.4.16 and online. Please contact the seminar organisers for the zoom call details at iserseminars@essex.ac.uk.
Presented by: Amy Clair & Faye Sanders
Venue: Broadway House, London
Impact of renting vs outright ownership double that of being out of work vs employment
Effects reversible, emphasising role of housing policy in health improvement
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