Radical
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Joint Radical Statistics and British Society for Social Responsibility in Science (BSSRS) Conference
RADICAL STATISTICS 25th Anniversary Conference
Social Statistics and Social Movements in the 21st Century
Saturday 27 February 1999, 9.30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Old Lecture Theatre
London School of Economics
Houghton Street, London
SESSIONS INCLUDE
AUDREY WISE MP Statistics in Politics: a view from the back benches
HILARY WAINWRIGHT A Socialist Science Policy
JULIAN TUDOR HART Going for Gold: human biotechnical evidence as a successor to coal
IVAN TUROK Will Welfare to Work reduce Unemployment
RUTH LEVITAS Defining and Measuring Social Exclusion
LUDI SIMPSON Whos Missing from Statistics. A Review
JEFF EVANS, ALISON MACFARLANE, JOHN BIBBY and ROY CARR HILL Lessons and Laughs from the last 24.51 years
TIM LANG Food Policy and the UK Radical Science Movement 1975-2000: from local to global
PETER HARPER Techno Anthropology in the Home
CONFERENCE DETAILS
Cost for Radical Statistics members: £20 waged/£10 unwaged
Cost for non-members: £25 waged/£12.50 unwaged (For non-members the fee includes a years free membership of Radical Statistics)
Please complete a booking form and send with your cheque to Pete Latarche:
Radical Statistics, c/o 10 Ruskin Avenue, Heaton, Bradford BD9 6ER
Telephone Pete on 01274 482176 or e-mail pyotr@legend.co.uk for further information
Joint Radical Statistics and British Society for Social Responsibility in Science (BSSRS) Conference
Saturday 27 February 1999, 9.30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Old Lecture Theatre, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London
9.30 am Conference Registration and Welcome
RADICAL STATISTICS 25th Annual Conference
Social Statistics and Social Movements in the 21st Century
10.00 am 10.30 am Audrey Wise MP
Statistics in Politics: A View from the Back Benches
Audrey Wise, Labour MP for Preston, will talk about the role of statistics in politics in general and her experience as an MP and a member of the House of Commons Health Committee in particular.
10.30 am 11.00 am Julian Tudor Hart
Going for Gold: Human Biotechnical Evidence as a Successor to Coal
Julian Tudor Hart has worked for 30 years, as a GP in Glyncorrwg, a mining village in South Wales. He devised the Inverse Care Law in 1971 and has contributed substantially to clinical epidemiology and to the development of general practice. He has also been particularly interested in ways of reducing inequalities in health and of involving patients and medical workers together in the co-production of health.
Coffee and Tea with Biscuits
11.30 am 12.00 p.m. Ivan Turok
Will Welfare to Work Reduce Unemployment?
Welfare to Work has become a flagship policy of the Labour Government. Ivan will examine its rationale, consider why it has been well received in many quarters and offer an objective assessment of its prospects, drawing on recent research into the geography of the labour market and the latest official statistics on the performance of the New Deal in different areas.
12.00 p.m. 12.30 p.m. Ruth Levitas
Defining and Measuring Social Exclusion
Social exclusion is a very flexible concept susceptible to moral/authoritarian as well as egalitarian interpretations. Both definition and measurement of exclusion are consequently the subject of current controversy, while the nature of the social inclusion Labour will pursue will be revealed by the indicators chosen to monitor it. Ruth is author of The Inclusive Society? Social Exclusion and New Labour.
12.30 p.m. 1.00 p.m. Ludi Simpson
Whos Missing from Statistics. A Review
Ludi has recently completed a world survey of missing data. He is joint editor of the Radical Statistics book Statistics in Society with Danny Dorling.
1.00 p.m. 2.00 p.m. Sandwich Lunch with Drinks (LSEs finest!)
2.00 p.m. 2.30 p.m. Radical Statistics AGM: Troika elections, Web Site discussion and much more
2.30 p.m. 3.00 p.m. Jeff Evans, Alison Macfarlane, John Bibby and Roy Carr Hill
Lessons and Laughs from the last 24.51 Years
Jeff Evans has taught social statistics and research methods at Middlesex and the Open Universities. Co-editor of Demystifying Social Statistics. Engaged in research on mathematical thinking, emotion, and transfer to other practices. Alison Macfarlane has long been involved in the Radical Statistics Health Group and its publications. She is interested in the interface between health policy and the interpretation of official statistics. John Bibby has taught statistics at an old university, the Open University, and a new university. Now engaged in publishing, and popularising, maths and statistics. Roy Car-Hill has taught statistics, and done research in health and economics at Universities and the OECD. With experience in former Portuguese colonies in Africa, he is also currently involved in education for international development.
3.00 p.m. 3.30 p.m. Tea and Coffee with Biscuits
BSSRS CONFERENCE SESSION
3.30 p.m. 4.00 p.m. Hilary Wainwright
A Socialist Science Policy
Hilary Wainwright is Editor of Red Pepper. During the 1980s, she was prominent in the Combine Shop Stewards movement centred on the Lucas Plan.
4.00 p.m. 4.30 p.m. Tim Lang
Food Policy and the UK Radical Science Movement 1975-2000: From Local to Global?
Tim will look at the radical science movements gestation of the new food movement (in which he has been a foot soldier) from the 1970s to the present day.
4.30 p.m. 5.00 p.m. Peter Harper
Techno Anthropology in the Home.
Peter Harper is a senior staff member at the National Centre for Alternative Technology.
5.30 p.m. End of Conference. Adjourn to The George, 213 The Strand, London for drinks and convivial discussion in a pub frequented by Oliver Goldsmith and Samuel Johnson in the eighteenth century. At 6.30 there will be a hot two-course meal with meat and vegetarian options followed by sweets. Please order food in advance on the booking form below. Guests not attending the conference welcome.
Joint Radical Statistics and British Society for Social Responsibility in Science (BSSRS) Conference
Saturday 27 February 1999
CONFERENCE BOOKING FORM
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PAYMENT MUST BE MADE BEFORE THE CONFERENCE
Conference fee:
Radical Statistics members - £20 waged/£10 unwaged
Non-members - £25 waged/ £12.50 unwaged
(For non-members the fee includes a years free introductory membership of Radical Statistics this is only for people who are not currently members.)
The evening meal afterwards at the George, 213 The Strand (which was Oliver Goldsmiths and Sam Johnsons local), will cost another £10 per person, but must be booked on this form and paid in advance.
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Please send the completed booking form and your cheque made payable to RADICAL STATISTICS to:
Pete Latarche
10 Ruskin Avenue, Heaton, Bradford BD9 6ER
