“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
The internet has become a key arena of political debate, and fake news, bots, fabricated and manipulated content come with this trend. Initial evidence suggests that also online surveys are subject to politically motivated falsification. This research project focuses on identifying politically motivated survey falsification in existing online surveys and experimental settings. While...
Presented by: Zaza Zindel
Venue: Hybrid
New MiSoC research found a doubling in the chances of a pregnancy miscarrying or resulting in a stillbirth following a job loss
Venue: University of Vienna
Presented by: Dr Cara Booker and Dr Edith Aguirre
Venue: Online
Findings contradict predictions that disadvantaged children would be hardest hit – child mental health may have become more equal but worsened overall, say researchers
Professor Kumari is a world-renowned epidemiologist, working at the intersection of social science and biological science
Presented by: Anna Crisp
Venue: Hybrid: Silberrad Centre and Zoom
Anna Crispe from Suffolk County Council discusses health policy in the first of our seminar series in partnership with the Institute for Public Health and Wellbeing
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