| 9.15-9.45 | Registration, coffee |
| 9.45-10.00 | Introductions from: | |
| Professor Alistair Ulph, Dean, Faculty of Humanities, UoM |
| Professor David Farrell, Head of School of Social Sciences, UoM |
| 10.00-11.20 | Social Statistics: within the discipline area |
| Chair: Professor David Farrell |
| Applying statistical methods to the analysis of longitudinal data |
| Professor Ian Plewis |
| Applying statistical methods to the analysis of social networks |
| Dr. Mark Tranmer |
| Applying statistical methods to estimating characteristics of small areas |
| Dr. Nikos Tzavidis |
| Applying statistical methods to issues of confidentiality and privacy |
| Dr. Mark Elliot |
| 11.20-11.40 | Refreshments |
| 11.40-13.00 | Social Statistics: within the university |
| Chair: Professor Alistair Ulph |
| Social statistics and medicine |
| Professor Andrew Pickles, Health Methodology, School of Medicine |
| Social statistics and mathematical statistics |
| Professor Jianxin Pan, School of Mathematics |
| Social statistics and education |
| Professor Daniel Muijs, School of Education |
| Social statistics and social change |
| Professor Ed Fieldhouse, Institute for Social Change |
| 13.00-14.00 | Lunch |
| 11.40-13.00 | Social Statistics: within the School of Social Sciences |
| Chair: Professor Angela Dale, Director, Centre for Census and Survey Research |
| Applying social statistics to ethnicity research |
| Professor James Nazroo, Sociology |
| Applying social statistics to demography |
| Dr. Nissa Finney, Centre for Census and Survey Research |
| Applying social statistics to the labour force |
| Dr. Ken Clark, Economics |
| Applying social statistics in a European contex |
| Dr. Vanessa Gash, Centre for Census and Survey Research |
| 15.20-15.40 | Refreshments |
| 15.40-16.10 | Social Statistics: a view from Australia |
| Chair: Professor Denise Osborn, Economics |
| Professor Ray Chambers, University of Wollongong (visiting UoM) |
| 16.10-17.10 | Social Statistics in the city |
| Using social statistics in a local authority context |
| Sarah Henry, Manchester City Council |
| Chair: Dr. Stephan Rudolfer, RSS Local Group |
| Using social statistics: a historical perspective |
| Professor Brian Robson, Centre for Urban Policy Studies, UoM |
| Chair: Mr. John Acaster, Manchester Statistical Society |
| 17.10-17.15 | Summing up |
| Professor Ian Plewis |