Radical
Statistics
Radical Statistics
An Ageing Society:
Are we prepared?
Annual Conference and AGM, 2009
Oxford, Saturday March 7th, 2009.
Programme
Speakers' presentations now available. Click on title.
| TIME | PAPER / EVENT | PRESENTER |
| 9.30 | Registration | |
| 10.00 | Welcome | Geoffrey Rendle |
| 10.05 | The ideological use of demographic statistics | Bill Bytheway |
| 10.30 | The proposed Scottish Longitudinal Study of Ageing (SaLSA) | Jon Godwin |
| 10.55 | Discussion of papers & coffee break | Hafiz Khan, Chair |
| 11.30 | Using Governmental data records to understand characteristics and reasons for social care workers referrals to the POVA List in England and Wales | Shereen Hussein |
| 11.45 | Inequalities in later life health and well-being: are socio-economic and social support disadvantages offsetting or compounding factors? | Emily Grundy |
| 12.30 | Myths and statistics: An exploration of the assumptions connected to ethnicity and family support | Rosalind Willis |
| 12.35 | Discussion of papers | Susan Mallett, Chair |
| 12.50 | Lunch | |
| 13.35 | Ageing, ethnic diversity and myths of migration | Ludi Simpson |
| 14.00 | Rational policies and political rationality in policy for social care of older people? How far has the first been used to provide the foundation for the second: Some econometric evidence? | Bleddyn Davies |
| 14.25 | Plunging Pensions and the Credit Crunch | Jay Ginn |
| 14.50 | Discussion of papers & coffee break | Hafiz Khan, Chair |
| 15.20 | Don't waste your pension on ginkgo | Jackie Birks |
| 15.45 | Means and Ends | John Grimley Evans |
| 16.00 | Discussion of papers | |
| 16.10 | General comments | Bleddyn Davies |
| 16.30 | Radstats 2009 Annual General Meeting | |
| 17.45 | Close |
