Making Equality Count: Irish and International Approaches to Measuring Equality and Discrimination

Venue: Main Conference Centre, Dublin Castle, Dublin 2

Date: 23/06/2010
Time: 8.45am - 5.30pm

This Research Conference is being jointly organised by the Equality Authority, the Economic and Social Research Institute, the UCD Geary Institute and the Central Statistics Office and is being co-funded by the European Union under the PROGRESS Programme, 2007-2013.

It will be of particular interest to academics, policymakers,
statisticians and equality bodies from Ireland and also from other EU countries.

Conference presentations will include:

'Age Discrimination: A Field Experiment'
Dr. Judy Rich, Principal Lecturer in Economics, Portsmouth Business School, University of Portsmouth.

'Racism and Colorism in Post Racial Societies'
Professor William Darity, Arts & Sciences Professor of Public Policy Studies and Professor of African and African American Studies and Economics at Duke University, North Carolina, USA.

'Assessing Unequal Treatment: Gender and Pay’
Professor Mary Gregory, University Lecturer in Economics at St. Hilda's College in the University of Oxford.

'The Social Psychology of Discrimination: Theory, Measurement, and Consequences'
Professor Miles Hewstone, Professor of Social Psychology and Fellow of New College in the University of Oxford.

‘Are Eamon and Eithne more employable than Hardeep and Heike? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Ireland’
Dr. Frances McGinnity, Senior Research Officer and joint programme coordinator of Equality Research at the Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin.

'Disability, Labour Force Status and Social Inclusion in Ireland'
Professor Brian Nolan, Professor of Public Policy, Department of Applied Social Studies, University College Dublin.


‘Discrimination in Ireland: Evidence from Self-Report Data’
Dr. Helen Russell, Associate Research Professor and joint programme coordinator of Equality Research at the Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin.

'Multiple Inequalities: Evidence from the 2006 Census’
Dr. Dorothy Watson, Associate Research Professor at the Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin.

If you would like to attend this conference, which is free of charge, please return the booking form (available to download below) by email to info@equality.ie by Friday 4th June 2010. Please ensure that you save the completed form as a Word 1997/2003 file, and include the words "Making Equality Count" in the subject line.

This conference is co-funded by the European Union under the PROGRESS Programme 2007-2013. ESRI Organisers are Helen Russell (Helen.Russell@esri.ie) and Fran McGinnity (Fran.McGinnity@esri.ie). 

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