Working at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation

Research Careers in Different Contexts

2014 ESRC Research Methods Conference

Aleks Collingwood

Before JRF (1)

• Undergraduate – Anthropology and Statistics (OBU)

• Research Assistant (Anthropology/Nutrition Departments, OBU)

• Wan Smolbag (Community Educational Theatre, Vanuatu)

• Vanuatu National Population and

Housing Census 1999

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Before JRF (2)

• Office for National Statistics (ONS)– Child Health and Medical Research– Social Trends– ONS Longitudinal Study– Health– Ethnicity, Identity, Language and Religion

• MSc. Demography and Health (LSHTM)

• National Centre for Social Research (Natcen)– Longitudinal Study of Young People in England – Millenium Cohort Study

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About JRF

• JRF: background and aims

• Structure

• My role

• How we work

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Poverty

Place

Our Ageing Society

Project Management

• Monitoring Poverty and Social Exclusion (NPI)

• Living Standards in Later Life (IFS)

• Social Policy in a Cold Climate (LSE)

• The dynamics of diversity (CoDE)

• JRF DATA www.jrf.org.uk/data

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Advisory and User Groups

• ONS Ethnicity, Identity Language and Religion, 2011 Census Analysis Advisory Group

• ONS Census 2011 Analysis and Dissemination Advisory Group

• Family Resources Survey Users Group (NI)

• Index of Multiple Deprivation Advisory Group

• English Household Survey – Technical design

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Conferences/Talks

• Royal Statistical Society Annual Conference - How we ensure the media interprets our statistics correctly

• Social Research Association Annual Conference – Social Research in a Digital Age

• Housing Statistics Network Seminar – Housing in an Ageing Society

• House of Commons – Constituency data. Panel member. Chair Mark Easton

• Making research useful via visualisation – Alliance for Useful Evidence/Reuters

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Consultation responses

• ONS Census (Select Committee)

• Regional Household Statistics

• FRS Questionnaire Consultation

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Additional ongoing tasks

• Manage interns

• Keeping our internal data library up to date

• Tweeting/Blogging – Axing health statistics is penny wise, pound foolish, New Scientist– Fixing the Jobs Market a Must if We're to Overcome the Scourge of In-

work Poverty, Huffington Post – The cycle between work and the dole is trapping millions in poverty,

New Statesman– It's time for a new model of specialist housing for older people, The

Guardian

• Help/advise other organisations – eg Macmillan Cancer Support

Research careers in different contexts

Research Careers in Different Contexts

2014 ESRC Research Methods Conference

aleks.collingwood@jrf.org.uk

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