Interesting article about big data and politics in the follow-up to the elections:

"Digital targeting using machine-based learning could have huge implications for UK politics and elections of the future "

Dr Stella Chatzitheochari, a member of the Warwick Q-Step team, has had an article published in the April edition of the Sociology Journal. The article, Doubly Disadvantaged? Bullying Experiences among Disabled Children and Young People in England is co-authored by Dr Samantha Parsons and Professor Lucinda Platt.

Further details can be found at: http://soc.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/04/28/0038038515574813?papetoc.

Professor Tak Wing Chan, Co-Director of the Warwick Q-Step Centre, has had a paper published in the April edition (Volume 52) of the Demography Journal. The paper, Proximity of Couples to Parents: Influences of Gender, Labor Market, and Family, is co-authored by Professor John Ermisch.

Further details can be found at http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13524-015-0379-0.

Data Big and Small; Past, Present and Future: Monday 11 May 2015 - 16:00 - 18:00

As a part of the Warwick Festival of Social Sciences, Q-Step will be co-hosting an event that will consider the past present and future of data, big and small.

The event is aimed primarily at those wanting to learn more about big data in general as well as those wanting to learning more about different social science perspectives about big data. It will include a panel of leading Warwick scholars drawn from across social science disciplines. Rather than giving presentations, the Chair will introduce panellists and ask them to discuss a number of questions based on some of the key issues we have drawn out of our suite of work around big data. There will then be questions from the audience, which the panellists will be asked to discuss. This will be followed by our keynote speaker, Emer Coleman.

Those wishing to attend will need to book a place by completing the online registration form. Registration for the event will open shortly. Please contact the Q-Step team q-step@warwick.ac.uk if you are interested in attending or finding out more about the event.

Prof David Rhind’s presentation to the Social Research Association (December 2014), on whether social science is sufficiently engaged with the big data agenda.

http://the-sra.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/rhind-witherspoon.pdf