Future UPTAP Activities

John Stillwell

Reporting Progress in 2007

• Last year (2005-06), projects reported in 2 six months blocks

• This year, one report to be completed for progress in 2007

• Submit in December 2007

• Add details of training

UPTAP Research Findings

Round 2 Commissioning

• UPTAP Round 2 call resulted in 32 applications as follows:

2 Postdoctoral Fellowships 6 Mid-career Fellowships15 Small Grants 9 Large Grants

• Commissioning meeting in May 2007

Workshop in 2007 atONS Centre of Demography

• Jonathan Swan (Head of Population Estimates and Electoral Statistics Unit, ONS) suggests:

“public session where the sets of UPTAP researchers might present their findings to the wider community and take questions/issues. If you and the ESRC did like this idea, we, that is the ONS Centre for Demography, may be able to host here in Titchfield, as we have a seminar room that can accommodate 100 people”.

• Date to be arranged - possibly September (not July or August)

BSPS Conference 2007• University of St. Andrews• Tuesday 11 - Thursday 13 September 2007 • Website conference pages at:

http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/BSPS/annualConference/2007.htm

• Provisional title plus abstract (up to 250 words) should be submitted by Tuesday 1 May 2007

• Please submit by email to John Stillwell • 90 minute sessions with three papers per session. • Maximum for an UPTAP strand would be 4 sessions, so

that's 12 papers as an absolute maximum • Enquiries: Anne Shepherd, BSPS Secretariat• Any suggestions for plenary speakers?

• So far papers offered by Boyle, Coast, Norman, Rasulo

UPTAP meeting for Round 2 Projects

• Sometime in Autumn 2007 but this will depend on the start dates of the projects commissioned

• Possibly to coincide with the next Advisory Committee

UPTAP User Fellowships (Round 3)

• Hopefully there will be another call for UPTAP User Fellowships during autumn 2007

• Will depend on availability of finance!

ESRC Media and Communications Training Workshop for UPTAP, 2007

• Centre for Economic Policy Research, London (date to be decided)

• Run by Romesh Vaitilingham (writer and media consultant, CEP, ESRC, RES, ISER), Wendy Barnaby (freelance writer and broadcaster; editor of Science and Public Affairs) and Alister Scott (TheKnowledgeBridge)

• Content includes: effective research dissemination; how the press works; stories and press releases; how TV and radio work; being interviewed

• Will send round an email asking for names of those interested

• Date will be announced

ESRC Festival of Social Science, 2008

• Likely to be in March 2008• Some additional funding available (max £2,000)• Activity funding application form (Guidelines available) to

be submitted by beginning of December 2007

- ESRC affiliation- Contact details- Activity details- Target audience- Activity type- Project summary (max. 200 words)- Cost breakdown

• ESRC prefer to have an organised bid from UPTAP rather than several bids from different projects

ESRC Research Methods Festival, 2008

• 30 June - 3 July 2008 • St Catherine’s College, Oxford• Organiser is Graham Crow (Deputy Director,

NCRM, Southampton)• Session volunteered on

"Secondary Data Analysis for Understanding Population Trends and Processes"

- based around a series of presentations from UPTAP researchers that highlight the secondary data research methods being used and involving User Fellows in particular

EAPS, Barcelona

• 9 - 12 July 2008 at Hotel Alimara

• I offered to convene a session on behalf of UPTAP but EAPS have their own convenors and are in the process of finalizing the main topics

• Call for Abstracts coming soon

• Would like a good representation of UPTAP papers even if we don’t all present in the same session

• Contact: Helga de Valk

Any other ideas?