Understanding Population
Trends and Processes (UPTAP)
John Stillwell, UPTAP Coordinator
Introduction to the ONS/UPTAP Workshop,
Lecture Room C, Murray Building,
University of Southampton,
19 December 2007
Primary aims of UPTAP
• To build capacity in secondary data analysis
(amongst new and mid-career researchers)
• To promote the use of large-scale social
science data sets, both qualitative and
quantitative (making better use of ESRC
investments)
• To improve our understanding of the
demographic trends and processes which affect
society
• To collaborate and communicate with user
(policy-making) communities beyond the
academic sector
Links with other ESRC initiatives
• ESRC National Centre for Research
Methods (NCRM)
• ESRC Research Methods Programme
• ESRC Researcher Development Initiative
• ESRC Census Programme
• ESRC National Centre for e-Social
Science (NCeSS)
• ESRC/AHRC Religion and Society
Programme
Overview
• Round 1 projects commissioned during
summer 2005
• Some projects began in October 2005
• Coordinator started in November 2005
• Four year programme
• Round 1 has involved 22 projects involving
34 researchers around the country
• Initial workshop for policy-makers at LGA in
November 2006
Round 1 UPTAP awards
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4 Postdoctoral Fellowships
6 Mid-career Research Fellowships
1 User Fellowship
8 Small Research Grants
3 Large Projects (with linked studentships)
Plus
• 3 User Fellowships in 2006
• Disciplines represented
epidemiology; economics; geography;
politics; primary care and social medicine;
public health; sociology; social policy
• Organisations represented
Universities: Birkbeck; Birmingham; Bristol;
City; Dundee; Edinburgh; Imperial; Institute of
Education; Leeds; LSE; LSHTM; Manchester;
Newcastle; Oxford; St Andrews; Sheffield;
Stirling; Surrey; UCL
Other: Audiences London; Family Fund; ONS
Round 1 Project Timelines
December 2007
THEMES
• Demographic change - residential
change
• Fertility - motherhood - childlessness
• Living arrangements - childcare
• Cohabitation - mobility
• Health - wellbeing - employment
• Education
• Identity - ethnicity - segregation
• Social and political values
See flyer for details
Main British and European data sources used
British Cohort Study (BCS)
British Household Panel Survey
(BHPS)
British Election Study (BES)
British Social Attitudes (BSA)
Survey
Census of Population (CAS, SMS,
SWS, STS)
Economic and Social Data Service
(ESDS) International
English Longitudinal Study of
Ageing (ELSA)
‘Ethnic Minority Psychiatric Illness
Rates in the Community’
(EMPIRIC) study
European Community Household
Panel (ECHP)
European Social Survey (ESS)
European Values Survey (EVS)
Family Expenditure Survey (FES)
Family Resources Survey (FRS)
General Household Survey (GHS)
Health Survey for England (HSE)
Home Office Citizenship Survey
(HOCS)
Labour Force Survey (LFS)
Millennium Cohort Study (MCS)
Multinational Time Use Study
(MTUS)
‘Muslims in Europe’ (ME) study
National Child Development
Survey (NCDS)
National Survey of Ethnic
Minorities (NSEM)
ONS Longitudinal Study (LS)
Mid-year Population Estimates
Vital Statistics (VS)
Youth Cohort Study (YCS)
UPTAP Round 2
• Summer 2006: ESRC decided to provide
further £1.4 million to UPTAP for projects with
special focus on the theme of ‘ethnicity’ –
Round 2
• 33 applications – 12 new projects announced in
August, most of which have now begun:
8 small grants
2 large grants
1 Postdoctoral Fellowship
1 Research Fellowship
UPTAP Round 2 Awards
PI
Institution
Type of award Title
Ethnic Neighbourhoods and Integration
Zhiqiang Feng
St Andrews
Small grant
Neighbourhoods and the creation,
stability and success of mixed ethnic
unions
Nissa Finney
Manchester
Research
Fellowship
Ethnic Group Population Change and
Integration: A Demographic Approach to
Small Area Ethnic Geographies
Albert Sabater
Manchester
Postdoctoral
Fellowship
Estimating segregation and diversity of
ethnic groups over time in England and
Wales, 1991-2001
Lavinia Mitton
Kent
Small grant
‘Black Africans’ in Britain: Integration or
Segregation
Antonia Simon
Institute of
Education
Small grant
Exploring the movement of people from
different ethnic groups into or out of
wards with high or low density of their
own ethnic group
UPTAP Round 2 Awards
PI
Institution
Type of award
Title
Immigration and Employment
Marina Shapira
Edinburgh
Small grant
Understanding the Labour Market Impact
of Immigration in Britain
Ethnicity and Health
Vanessa Higgins
Manchester
Small grant
Ethnic differences in diet, physical activity
and obesity
Xuan-Mai Stafford
UCL,
Manchester
Large grant
Racial Discrimination and Health:
exploring the possible protective effects of
ethnic identity
Ethnicity and Crime
Paula Kautt
University
Small grant
Ethnic Variation in Criminological
Experiences: A Single and Multilevel
Statistical Analysis of British Crime Survey
Data, 2001-2006
Liz Twigg
Portsmouth,
Southampton
Small grant
Exploring the Goodhart thesis at the local
scale: neighbourhood social heterogeneity
and perceptions of quality of life in the
British Crime Survey
UPTAP Round 2 Awards
Projections of Ethnic Populations
Sylvia Dubuc
Oxford
Small grant
Demographic characteristics and
projections of ethnic minority and
religious groups
Phil Rees
Leeds
Large grant
What happens when international
migrants settle? Ethnic group
population trends and projections for
UK local areas under alternative
scenarios
Importance of collaboration
and communication beyond
the academic sector
• UPTAP web site
• UPTAP Communications Strategy
- £50K
• UPTAP User Fellowships (Round 3)
- £300K
Home page: www.uptap.net
Outputs
and
News
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Number of UPTAP web site hits
March 2006 to mid-November
2007
Monthly Hits
2500
2000
1500
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500
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Source: Lycos Web Hosting, accessed on 17 November 2007
Creation of database of
practitioner/user organisations
Association of Census Distributors (ACD);
Association of Geographical Information (AGI);
Association for Research in the Voluntary and Community
Sector (ARVAC);
Association of Public Health Observatories (APHO);
Association of Regional Observatories (ARO);
Audit Commission;
British Society for Population Studies (BSPS);
British Urban and Regional Information Systems Association
(BURISA);
Central and Local Government Information Partnership (CLIP);
Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG);
General Register Office Scotland (GROS);
Government Social Research Unit (GSRU);
…………………. and so on
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UPTAP User Fellowships
• Opportunity for early stage/mid career researcher in
a user organisation to work on secondary data
analysis with academic in a centre of excellence
• Aims to enhance collaboration and build capacity
• Should be some training involved
• Funding covers salary costs for 6 months (or 12
months part-time) with max funding of £50K
• Initial task is to find an academic supervisor
• Academic makes JeS application (guidelines
provided) and provides mentoring (costs covered)
• Deliverables include presentations, papers for
journals and Research Findings
• Two calls so far resulting in 4 projects
Current User Fellowships
• User Fellow: Daniel Guinea Martin, ONS
• Partner organisation: Institute of Education
• Project: “Trends in Gender and Ethnic Occupational
Segregation in England and Wales: Longitudinal
Evidence”
• Start date: 1 Jan 2006
• Daniel using the LS to look at occupational
segregation during the 1990s at both the aggregated
and individual levels, allowing him to gain enhanced
skills that, in his role as LS User Support Officer at
ONS, will inform and add value to the use of the LS
by others
• User Fellow: Orian Brook, Audiences London
• Partner organisation: University of St Andrews
• Project: “Demographic Indicators of Cultural
Consumption”
• Start data: 1 March 2007
• Orian is doing secondary analysis of large data sets
relating to consumption of the performing arts administrative data collected when tickets are sold and
is aiming to answer questions such as:
- What are the best geodemographic and socioeconomic predictors of arts attendance?
- Do these vary by region, art form, location of
venue, etc
• User Fellow: Domenica Rasulo, ONS
• Partner organisation: City University
• Project: “Decomposition of changes in disability-free
life expectancy by cause: England, 1991-2001”
• Start date: 1 April 2007
• Domenica is aiming to identify the mortality and
disability factors underlying the change in disabilityfree life expectancy observed in England in the decade
1991-2001, work which will help define priorities in
the field of public health and improve the assessments
of targeted health priorities
• User Fellow: Mark Woolley, Family Fund
• Partner organisation: Newcastle University
• Project: “Understanding the unmet needs of families
with severely disabled children”
• Start date: 1 October 2007
• The Family Fund holds a national dataset of families
with disabled children
• Mark is looking at whether the environment is as
important as intrinsic impairment in terms of levels of
participation in everyday life; i.e. would the same
disabled child in a different environment have a
different level of participation
UPTAP activities in 2008
• February: UPTAP workshop with Scottish Government
• March: Commissioning of Round 3 UPTAP Fellowships
– application deadline date is 22 January
- details at www.uptap.net
• March: Young People’s Attitudes online opinion poll as
part of ESRC Social Science Festival
• March: UPTAP researchers’ conference in Leeds
• July: UPTAP day at the ESRC RM Festival on
‘Research Methods for Understanding Population
Trends and Processes’
• July: Suite of papers at EAPS conference in Barcelona
• September: UPTAP/BURISA workshop in London
UPTAP Co-ordinator
John Stillwell
School of Geography
University of Leeds
Leeds LS2 9JT
Email: j.c.h.stillwell@leeds.ac.uk
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