SPRING LEARNING INSTITUTE MAY 2-­‐4 VANCOUVER, BC AGENDA Wednesday, May 2nd Introductory Statistics Bootcamp (Optional) Room 3000, Harbour Centre (SFU), 8:45 am-­‐ 4:30 pm Mike Marin, Department of Statistics and School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia Abstract: This workshop will provide a general overview of statistical methods and the concepts and principals that many statistical methods are based on. Focus will be on ideas and concepts, with mathematical details supressed. We will begin with a quick review of measures of location and variation, probability distributions and sampling distributions. These theoretical ideas will be contrasted with observed data and sample estimates of the aforementioned. This understanding will build a foundation for which most statistical inference techniques are based on (the idea of a sampling distribution and a standard error). Numerical and graphical summaries and tests for bivariate relationships will be reviewed. We will then move into a discussion of linear regression, which will serve as a base for understanding regression methods in general. While it may sometimes be more common to work with a dichotomous outcome variable, it is easier to build an understanding based on a continuous numeric outcome variable. From here we will build an understanding of the difference between an additive model and a multiplicative model. It is worth noting that an additive model is also referred to as a main effects model, as well as a ‘unitary approach’ in intersectionality. A multiplicative model is sometimes referred to as an interaction model, as well as ‘categorical’ in intersectionality. We will then move into a discussion of logistic regression, and how this is a generalization of the linear regression model. We will end our discussion with a review of the correct interpretation of an odds ratio, as well as how an odds ratio is interpreted in a multiplicative model. Presenter’s Biography: Mike Marin is an award-­‐winning Instructor in The School of Population and Public Health at The University of British Columbia. Mike has been teaching statistics and probability courses at UBC since 2005, and has a great passion for the subject. What makes his classes unique is his focus on ideas and concepts, rather than mathematical derivations. His lectures are aimed at the “applied researcher” and not the “theoretical statistician”. Before taking his course, he claims that there is a 95% probability that you will gain a new appreciation for statistics. After taking his course, he claims that he is 95% confident that you have a new appreciation for statistics. Upon completion of his course, you will understand the difference between these two statements. Mid-­‐morning Break (coffee, tea & pastries served) Diamond Room, Harbour Centre (SFU), 10:15 am-­‐ 10:30 am Lunch (assorted sandwiches, light dessert and mixed fruit platter served) Diamond Room, Harbour Centre (SFU), 12:00 pm-­‐ 1:00 pm Mid-­‐afternoon Break (coffee and tea) Diamond Room, Harbour Centre (SFU), 2:30 pm-­‐ 2:45 pm Introductory Remarks followed by dinner and public lecture by Dr. Lisa Bowleg Chapel Arts1, 6:00 pm-­‐ 9:00 pm Cash Bar “Once You’ve Blended the Cake, You Can’t Take the Parts Back to the Main Ingredients”: Intersectionality and Lessons about Sexual Minority Health from Research with U.S. Black Lesbians, Gays & Bisexuals Dr. Lisa Bowleg, Department of Community Health and Prevention at the School of Public Health of Drexel University Abstract: Grounded in Black U.S. feminist theory, intersectionality is a provocative and insightful theoretical framework for examining how multiple intersectionality social identities (e.g., race, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, gender, etc.) at the micro individual level of experience reveal interlocking systems of privilege and oppression (e.g., racism, sexism, heterosexism, classism, etc.) at the macro social-­‐structural level. Using mixed methods research conducted with samples of Black/African American lesbian and bisexual women, and gay and bisexual men in U.S. as a foundation, this presentation will: (1) highlight how samples of Black LGBs in the U.S. describe and experience intersectionality; and (2) discuss the theoretical and applied implications (and challenges) of intersectionality for understanding and responding to the health of sexual minorities. Presenter’s Biography: Lisa Bowleg, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Community Health and Prevention at the School of Public Health of Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA. Her academic accomplishments include an M.A. in Public Policy with a concentration in Women’s Studies and a Ph.D. in Applied Social Psychology from The George Washington University, Washington, DC. Her research, publications, and presentations focus on: (1) intersectionality, stress and resilience in the lives of Black, lesbian, gay bisexual and transgendered people; and (2) HIV prevention in Black heterosexual women and men. Qualitative and mixed methods research (i.e., qualitative and quantitative methods) are integral to her research. She is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Mixed Methods Research and was a working group member of the 2011 National Office of Behavioral Social Science Research report, Best Practices for Mixed Methods Research in the Health Sciences. Her most recent publications have focused on intersectionality relevant to Black heterosexual men and HIV prevention; intersectionality with Black lesbian and gay men, and a forthcoming article in the American Journal of Public Health entitled: The problem with the phrase "women and minorities": Intersectionality, an important theoretical framework for public health. She teaches graduate courses on qualitative research, and intersectionality and public health at the School of Public Health. She is also the Principal Investigator of a National Institutes of Health (NIH)-­‐funded mixed methods study of how structural factors, masculinity ideologies, and sexual scripts increase and reduce HIV risk in Black heterosexual men. She is also the Principal Investigator of The Opening Doors Program, an NIH-­‐funded training program designed to mentor undergraduate, MPH and MPH/MD students to pursue doctoral study and/or careers in health disparities research. Her most recent award is the 2008 Red Ribbon Award for Research from the Community Advisory Board of the Center for AIDS Research at the University of Pennsylvania. 1
Chapel Arts, 304 Dunlevy Avenue Vancouver She is also a member of the Behavioral and Social Consequences of HIV/AIDS Study Section of the National Institutes of Health, and a member of the American Public Health Association, the American Psychological Association (APA), and a former Chair of the APA’s Committee on Psychology and AIDS. Thursday, May 3rd Challenges and Opportunities: Using Quantitative Methods to Explore Intersectionality Room 3000, Harbour Centre (SFU), 9:00 am – 10:00 am Dr. Lisa Bowleg, Department of Community Health and Prevention at the School of Public Health of Drexel University Mid-­‐morning Break (coffee & tea served) Room 3000, Harbour Centre (SFU), 10:15 am-­‐10:30 am Group Discussion following talk Room 3000, Harbour Centre (SFU), 10:30am-­‐12:00pm Lunch Steamworks Restaurant2, 12:30p2m -­‐1:45pm Using Health datasets in Intersectionality and Quantitative Research: Examples from the Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) Room 3000, Harbour Centre (SFU), 2:00pm-­‐4:30pm Introduction to CCHS (2:00 pm– 2:30 pm) Setareh Rouhani, University of British Columbia An attempt to implement the intersectionality principles of 'multiplicativity' and 'multiple jeopardy' in quantitative health inequalities research (2:30 pm-­‐4:30 pm) Dr. Gerry Veenstra, Department of Sociology, University of British Columbia Abstract: An undergraduate student in my social determinants of health class introduced me to intersectionality theory some five or six years ago. A cursory review of the intersectionality literature intrigued me enough to apply for and gain access to the master file of the 2003 cycle of the Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) and then attempt to implement some intersectional principles in a quantitative investigation of health inequalities by race, class, gender and sexuality. I bumbled my way through the analyses, tried to understand and interpret what I'd done, 2 Steamworks Restaurant, 375 Water street, Vancouver 2
and th en, after lots of failed attempts, published the resultant paper in an open access journal. I still don't know, though, whether my analytical strategy truly makes sense from an intersectional perspective. In this talk I will 2
describe various aspects of the analytical st rategy -­‐ e.g., conducting an 'additive analysis' followed by a 'multiplicative analysis,' examining two-­‐way and three-­‐way interaction terms in hierarchically well-­‐organized logistic regression models, and calculating and visually depicting predicted values for additive and multiplicative models via the margins(means) command in Stata -­‐ and the suitability of the CCHS for implementing it. Presenter’s Bio: Gerry Veenstra is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. He is primarily interested in investigating the health implications of social inequalities: by class, by 'race' and ethnicity, and by intersections between gender, race and class (and sexual orientation, and nation of birth, etc.). He also dabbles on occasion in cultural sociology, specifically the class bases of cultural tastes and practices. Break and Dinner 4:30-­‐7:30pm (Dinner not provided) Carmen Aguirre's Blue Box The Cultch 8:00-­‐12:00pm3 Performance and Dialogue Blue Box investigates Carmen Aguirre's remarkable life as an underground revolutionary in Chile. It's a story of terror, romance, fear and abandon that takes us from the dangerous mountain passes of Chile to the perilous roller coasters of Hollywood; from an ardent love affair with a TV star, to a passionate love for a revolutionary political movement that strove to free and change an entire nation. Friday, May 4th Intersectionality and Quantitative Methods featuring Cross-­‐national Survey Data Room 1415, Harbour Centre (SFU), 8:45 am -­‐11:00 am Dr. Joshua Dubrow, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences (Online lecture via Skype) Mid-­‐morning Break (coffee & tea served) Room 1415, Harbour Centre (SFU), 9:45 am-­‐10:00 am Abstract: The following presentation is on the application of quantitative methods to the analysis of concepts and theories of intersectionality featuring cross-­‐national survey data, and is an expansion of two papers. The first paper, “How Can We Account for Intersectionality in Quantitative Analysis of Survey Data? Empirical Illustration for Central and Eastern Europe” (Dubrow 2008), built on the work of gender scholars on this topic to explore variants of intersectionality – unitary/additive, anti-­‐categorical, and multiplicative/categorical – and how to incorporate them into statistical models. The second paper, “Why Should Social Scientists Account for Intersectionality in Quantitative Analysis of Survey Data?” (Dubrow, forthcoming), explored conceptual and empirical reasons why 3
The Cultch, Vancouver East Cultural Centre, 1895 Venables Street, Vancouver BC social scientists should take intersectionality more into their work than is currently the case. In both papers, I advocate for the scientific exploration of intersectionality using survey data to test its theoretical propositions and improve its capacity for explaining human social life. In expanding the two papers, again featuring the European Social Survey (ESS), I discuss (a) types of intersectionality, (b) best practices for using cross-­‐national surveys with multiple survey waves, (c) best practices for employing statistical techniques to cross-­‐national surveys, and offer (d) an empirical demonstration of these techniques with intersections of gender, ethnicity and class as independent (explanatory) variables and a socio-­‐economic index as the dependent (outcome) variable. Presenter’s Biography: Joshua Kjerulf Dubrow received his PhD from The Ohio State University (OSU) in 2006, and is currently an Associate Professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology at the Polish Academy of Sciences (IFiS-­‐PAN); a Project Coordinator of Cross-­‐national Studies: Interdisciplinary Research and Training Program (CONSIRT), which is a collaborative endeavor that bridges OSU and PAN; and the Editorial Advisor for the journal, ASK: Research and Methods. His primary research interests on social stratification and political inequality have appeared in Social Forces, Party Politics, Polish Sociological Review and the International Journal of Sociology, among others. His current research is on political representation of the social structure and women in politics in Eastern Europe. Lunch Vancouver Art Gallery4 11:00 am-­‐ 12:30 pm Activity Group tour of Vancouver Art Gallery 12:30-­‐1:30pm Exhibit: Beat Nation -­‐ Art, Hip Hop and Aboriginal Culture Beat Nation reflects a generation of artists who juxtapose urban youth culture with Aboriginal identity in entirely innovative and unexpected ways. Using hip hop and other forms of popular culture, artists create surprising new cultural hybrids—in painting, sculpture, installation, performance and video—that reflect the changing demographics of Aboriginal people today. While this exhibition takes its starting point from hip hop, it branches out to include artists who use pop culture, graffiti, fashion and other signifiers of urban life in combination with more traditional forms of Aboriginal identity. Artists create unique cultural hybrids that include graffiti murals with Haida figures, sculptures carved out of skateboard decks, abstract paintings with form-­‐line design, live video remixes with Hollywood films, and hip hop performances in Aboriginal languages, to name a few. While focused on artists working along the West Coast, Beat Nation brings together artists from across the Americas and reveals the shared connections between those working in vastly different places. (Source: Vancouver Art Gallery) A CRITICAL RACE FAIRY TALE: Critical Race Quantitative Intersectionality, An Anti-­‐Racist Research Paradigm that Refuses to “Let the Numbers Speak for Themselves” Room 3000, Harbour Centre (SFU), 2:00 pm -­‐4:30pm Dr. Alejandro Covarrubias, UCLA Cézar E. Chavez Department of Chicana/o Studies Abstract: This presentation makes the case for an intersectional analysis of quantitative data that is grounded in Critical Race Theory (CRT) – Critical Race Quantitative Intersectionality (CRQI). Using examples of recent quantitative research guided by CRT, I articulate the utility and necessity for CRQI as a research paradigm that expands CRT’s explanatory, predictive and transformative potential when it comes to educational inquiry. Namely, I explore data that revisits the educational pipeline for Students of Color utilizing complex, multiple cross-­‐tabulations of race, class, gender and citizenship to examine the nuances of educational attainment for Chicanas/os, especially the unique experience of undocumented Mexican origin students and Chicano high school “push-­‐outs.” By defining and delineating the purpose and approach of CRQI, I hope to challenge a framing of quantitative research as primarily positivist and create new spaces within CRT educational inquiry that sees the value of quantitative research as an anti-­‐racist strategy. Presenter’s Biography Dr. Alejandro Covarrubias, the sixth child of Mexican Immigrants from Jalisco, grew up in Wilmington and La Puente, California. Dr. Covarrubias has extensive experience in community-­‐based research and community engagement projects. He was the founder and former Executive Director of Los Angeles Communities Advocating for Unity, Social Justice and Action (LA CAUSA), an East Los Angeles non-­‐profit that he developed into one of the leading producers of local and nationally recognized young leaders of color. His work with young adults and their families is widely recognized as a model for meaningful engagement of vulnerable populations in community transformation efforts, especially for those formerly pushed-­‐out of high school. Dr. Covarrubias’ research examines the philosophical foundations, pedagogical commitments, and networks of organizations that lead in intentionally engaging those most impacted by unjust relations of power. His research on the gendered experience of Chicano high school “push-­‐outs” draws from the critical race notion of intersectionality, finding that gender is an important factor in the educational experience and outcomes of males of color. Dr. Covarrubias’ quantitative intersectional analysis of educational achievement pushes our understanding of the Chicana/o educational pipeline to previously unexamined areas and offers an innovative methodology for quantitative intersectional analyses. Most recently, his examination of the unique identity threats faced by undocumented Mexican origin migrants documents the physiological impact of these contingencies in space. Mid-­‐afternoon Break (mixed fruit platter served) Room 3000, Harbour Centre (SFU), 3:15 pm -­‐3:30 pm Concluding Remarks and Wrap-­‐up Room 3000, Harbour Centre (SFU), 4:30 pm -­‐5:00 pm Moderator: Dr. Olena Hankivsky, School of Public Policy and Director of The Institute for Intersectionality Research and Policy, Simon Fraser University Google map to off-­‐site locations CHAPEL ARTS 304 Dunlevy Avenue Vancouver STEMWORKS BREWERY 375 Water Street Vancouver THE CULTCH, VANCOUVER EAST CULTURAL CENTRE 1895 Venables Street, Vancouver VANCOUVER ART GALLERY 750 Hornby Street Vancouver