Northern Ireland Longitudinal Study Research Forum
2010 Guest Lecture: Using Administrative Data to Aid Longitudinal Research

Professor Lorraine Dearden, Department of Quantitative Social Science, Institute of Education
When: 1.30pm Friday 22 October 2010
Where: Boardroom, NISRA, Castle Street, Belfast

The NILS Research Forum has been funded for three years by HSC R&D to provide an arena in which current researchers can discuss data issues, methodology and results; to demonstrate to the public and voluntary sectors the potential of the NILS; to develop the skills of existing users in the technical analysis of longitudinal data. Professor Dearden is Centre Director, ADMIN (Administrative Data: Methods, Inference and Network) and has published extensively using longitudinal data. The lecture should be of interest to academic researchers, policy analysts and those responsible for the provision of government data.

Speaker:
Professor Dearden
Lorraine Dearden is Professor of Economics and Social Statistics at the Institute of Education. She is a quantitative educational researcher specialising in evaluation methods and linked administrative and survey data. Her policy focus is on measuring school effectiveness and the determinants and effects of home environment, education policy and skills formation on child and adult outcomes. Lorraine co-authored an IFS report, Widening Participation in Higher Education: Analysis using Linked Administrative Data. This work was based on individual level data from the English National Pupil Database that were linked to records held by the Higher Education Statistics Agency.

Further information may be obtained at: http://www.ioe.ac.uk/staff/QSSE_9.html
In order to facilitate arrangements (sandwiches will be provided at 1.00pm), please RSVP to Sharon McKee at s.mckee@ulster.ac.uk