Criminology

Humphreys, L. and Cano, I., 2009. Racial bias in sentencing - a methodological review. European Society of Criminology Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia. 9 - 12 September 2009.

Liu, J., Francis, B. and Soothill, K., 2009. The study of escalation in criminal careers: (II) analyzing trajectories over time - a mixed model approach. American Society of Criminology Annual Conference, Philadelphia, USA. 4 - 7 November 2009.

Soothill, K., 2009. A window on the law: a historical study of the local media reporting of non-consensual sex crimes involving female victims aged 16 - 20 years (1860 - 1979). British Society of Criminology Conference, University of Glamorgan, Wales, UK. 30 June 2009.

Soothill, K., 2009. The risk of offending: when do ex-offenders become like non-offenders? ESDS Government Research Conference: Crime, Safety & Community, British Academy, London, UK. 18 November 2009.

Soothill, K., Francis, B. and Liu, J., 2009. The study of escalation in criminal careers: analysing escalation trajectories over time - a mixed methods approach. European Society of Criminology, Ljubljana, Slovenia. 9 - 12 September 2009.

Soothill, K. and Francis, B., 2009. When does the risk of recidivism decrease to that of non-offenders? European Society of Criminology Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia. 9 - 12 September 2009.

Francis, B., 2010. Identifying criminal typologies in the presence of outliers. Statistical Modelling and Inference Conference, Brisbane, Australia. 2 - 4 February 2010.

Francis, B., 2010. Statistical analysis of microdevelopmental data: using latent transition analysis to explore developmental sequences. Workshop on "Theorising and Measuring Developmental Change: the Microdevelopmental (Microgenetic) Approach", Goldsmiths College, London, UK. 11 - 12 September 2010.

Francis, B., 2010. Identifying criminal typologies in the presence of outliers: “mixture models, outliers and the EM algorithm” revisited. Statistical Modelling Advances for Social and Health Data, Royal Statistical Society, London, UK. 15 April 2010.

Francis, B., Liu, J. and Soothill, K., 2010. Specialisation and swirching in female offending. NCRM Research Methods Festival 2010, St. Catherine's College, Oxford, UK. 5 - 8 July 2010.

Francis, B., 2010. Criminal career specialisation for female offenders – a latent Markov approach. Seminar presentation at the Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 7 June 2010.

Francis, B. and Soothill, K., 2010. Retention and disclosure of old criminal records - data protection or protecting the public? Royal Statistical Society International Conference, Brighton, UK. September 2010.

Francis, B., Hargreaves, C. and Soothill, K., 2010. Changing patterns of sex offender specialization and recidivism. American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, San Francisco, USA. 17 - 20 November 2010.

Francis, B., Liu, J. and Soothill, K., 2010. Escalation in offending: a growth mixture modelling approach with two temporal scales. American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, San Francisco, USA. 17 - 20 November 2010.

Francis, B. and Soothill, K., 2010. Conceptualising recidivism for prediction and risk studies. The Open Society Foundation: Two-day Expert Meeting Focussed on Defining and Measuring Recidivism in South Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa. 29 - 30 November 2010.

Francis, B. and Soothill, K., 2010. Forty years of change in blackmail convictions. 47th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, San Diego, USA. 23 - 27 February 2010.

Francis, B. and Soothill, K., 2010. Policing and utilizing data. 47th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, San Diego, USA. 23 - 27 February 2010.

Francis, B. and Soothill, K., 2010. Thirty years of change in homicide in England and Wales. 10th Conference of the European Society of Criminology, Liége, Belgium. 8 - 11 September 2010.

Liu, J., 2010. A longitudinal study of escalation in crime seriousness. NCRM Research Methods Festival 2010, St. Catherine's College, Oxford, UK. 5 - 8 July 2010.

Liu, J., Francis, B., and Soothill, K., 2010. Escalation in offending: a growth mixture modelling approach with two temporal scales. American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, San Francisco, USA. 17 - 20 November 2010.

Sharples, S. and Francis, B., 2010. Joint developmental trajectories of victimisation and offending in young people. American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, San Francisco, USA. 17 - 20 November 2010.

Soothill, K., 2010. Sex offender recidivism. Seminar presentation at the Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK. 12 March 2010.

Soothill, K., 2010. Sex offender recidivism. British Criminology Conference, University of Leicester, UK. 11 – 14 July 2010.

Soothill, K. and Francis, B., 2010. Considering paradigms of crime reduction in different contexts. Towards a Coherent Strategy for Crime Reduction in South Africa Beyond 2010, Johannesburg, South Africa. 1 - 2 December 2010.

Soothill, K. and Francis, B., 2010. Probing sex offender recidivism studies. The Open Society Foundation: Two-day Expert Meeting Focussed on Defining and Measuring Recidivism in South Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa. 29 - 30 November 2010.

Soothill, K. and Francis, B., 2010. Sex offender recidivism: a reappraisal. American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, San Francisco, USA. 17 - 20 November 2010.

Soothill, K. and Francis, B., 2010. Keeping DNA profiles for innocent people. 47th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, San Diego, USA. 23 - 27 February 2010.

Wallace, S., Harris, D., Francis, B., Soothill, K. and Knight, R., 2010. Pathways to sexual dangerousness. American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, San Francisco, USA. 17 - 20 November 2010.

Francis, B., Hargreaves, C. and  Soothill, K., 2011. Disentangling the age, period and cohort effects on convictions for sexual offending. British Society of Criminology, Newcastle, UK.3 - 6 July 2011.

Francis, B., Walby, S. and Towers, J., 2011. Estimating lifetime prevalence of intimate violence – are the current lifetime estimates too low? American Society of Criminology, Washington DC, USA. 16 - 19 November 2011.

Francis, B., and Soothill, K., 2011. Homicide in England and Wales: which types of homicide are declining and which are not? 16th World Congress of the International Society for Criminology, Kobe, Japan. 5 - 9 August 2011.

Soothill, K. and Francis, B., 2011. White-collar offenders: a 35-year follow-up. 16th World Congress of the International Society for Criminology, Kobe, Japan. 5 - 9 August 2011.

Soothill, K., Humphreys, L. and Francis, B., 2011. Predicting reconviction for middle class offenders. Do predictors change with length of follow-up? European Society of Criminology Conference, Vilnius, Lithuania. 21 - 24 September 2011.

Soothill, K. and Francis, B., 2011. Long-term follow-up studies: worth waiting for? A case study of middle-class offenders. American Society of Criminology Conference, Washington DC, USA. 16 - 19 November 2011.

Soothill, K. and Francis, B., 2011. Considering paradigms of crime reduction in different contexts. British Society of Criminology Conference, Newcastle, UK. 3 - 6 July 2011.

Francis, B., Liu, J. and Soothill, K., 2012. Latent transition analysis and offending lifestyle specialisation in England and Wales. Statistics Norway (Statistisk sentralbyrå) Invited Seminar Series, Oslo, Norway. March 2012.

Francis, B. and Soothill, K., 2012. The mortality experience of middle-class offenders - a 35-year long-term follow-up. Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Conference, New York, USA. 13 - 17 March 2012.

Soothill, K., Francis, B. and Humphreys, L., 2012. A typology of middle-class offenders. Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Conference, New York, USA. 13 - 17 March 2012.

Books, book chapters and journal articles written by the Criminology Strand research team can be found here.

 

Educational and Employment Research

Gayle, V., 2009. Youth transitions – future direction for data, methods and theory. Opening Keynote Address, International Conference on Youth Transitions, Basel, Switzerland. 11 - 13 September 2009.

Gayle, V., 2009. Mr Bun the bake: what is the relationship between parental occupations and filial educational attainment? Social Surveys and Social Stratification Research Seminar, University of Stirling, UK. 3 December 2009.

Gayle, V., 2009. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - what is the relationship between parental occupations and filial educational attainment? Joint Empirical Social Science (JESS) Seminar Series, University of Essex, UK. 1 December 2009.

Gayle, V., 2010. Youth Transitions in the 21st Century – future directions for data, methods and theory. Centre for Population Change Seminar, Southampton, UK. 20 September 2010.

Gayle, V., Berridge, D. and Stott, D., 2010. Educational attitudes and social stratification: a multivariate analysis of the British Youth Panel. Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies Inaugural Conference, Clare College, Cambridge, UK. 22 - 24 September 2010.

Gayle, V., Berridge, D. and Stott, D., 2010. Social stratification and attitudes to education in contemporary Britain: a multivariate analysis of the British Youth Panel. Social Stratification Conference, Utrecht, the Neherlands. 8 - 10 September 2010.

Gayle,V. and Lambert, P., 2011. How useful are microclasses? An analysis of detailed parental occupational differences and their effects on filial school attainment in Britain. Social Stratification Conference, Stirling, UK. August 2011.

Gayle,V. and Lambert, P., 2011. An analysis of detailed parental occupational differences and their effects on children’s school attainment in Britain. International Sociological Association RC28 Spring Conference, University of Essex, UK. 13 - 16 April 2011.

Gayle,V. and Lambert, P., 2011. What is the relationship between parental occupations and filial educational attainment? The Gordon Square Seminar, Institute of Education, London, UK. March 2011.

Books, book chapters and journal articles written by the Educational and Employment Research Strand research team can be found here.

 

General Research Methods

Firth, D., 2009. Extended quasi-variances. ERCIM 2009 Conference on Computational Statistics, Limassol, Cyprus. 29 - 31 October 2009.

Firth, D., Cattelan, M. and Varin, C., 2009. Do journal rankings reflect research quality? Royal Statistical Society Conference, Edinburgh, UK. 7 - 11 September 2009.

Firth, D. and Turner, H., 2009. Tutorial on generalised nonlinear models in R. UseR! 2009 Conference, Rennes, France. 8 - 10 July 2009.

Turner, H. and Firth, D., 2009. Mixed Bradley-Terry Models. ERCIM 2009 Conference on Computational Statistics, Limassol, Cyprus. 29 - 31 October 2009.

Firth, D. and Turner, H., 2010. Extended Bradley-Terry models. 2nd Workshop on Psychometric Computing, Munich, Germany. 25 - 26 February 2010.

Francis, B., 2010. Latent class analysis methods and software. NCRM Research Methods Festival 2010, St. Catherine's College, Oxford, UK. 5 - 8 July 2010.

Firth, D., 2011. Quasi-variances and extensions. 26th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, plenary invited paper, Valencia, Spain. 11 - 15 July 2011.

Francis, B., 2011. What is latent class analysis? Presentation to the Social Research Association, Nuffield Foundation, London, UK. 12 January 2011.

Humphreys, L. and Penn, R., 2011. Innovative Methods in Visual Sociology. Qualitative Innovations in CAQDAS [QUIC] Geo-Referencing Seminar, University of Surrey, UK. April 2011.

Humphreys, L., Francis, B. and Penn, R., 2011. New methods in visual sociology - using web-based material and CAQDAS for social research. Workshop on ‘Visualisation and Visual Sociology - Beyond the Quantitative-Qualitative Divide’, North West Doctoral Training Centre, Lancaster University, UK. 30 September 2011.

Books, book chapters and journal articles written by the General Research Methods Strand research team can be found here.

 

Linked Research

Francis, B., Reissland, N.N., and Lincoln, K., 2011. Is there evidence of the development of fetal facial expressions? European Conference on Developmental Psychology, Bergen, Norway. 23 - 27 August 2011.

Books, book chapters and journal articles written by the Linked Research Strand research team can be found here.

 

Psychology

Lewis, C., 2009. What makes us human? The 5th Edinburgh Lectures Psychology 4 Students Event, Edinburgh, UK. 17 November 2009.

Lewis, C., 2009. The role of the father in child development. Engaging Fathers in Children's Services, London, UK. 23 April 2009.

Lewis, C., Oh, S., Koyasu, M., Ogawa, A., Huang, Z. and Carpendale, J., 2009. Why are cross-cultural comparisons so important for studying child development? The examples of executive function and "theory of mind". Child Development Studies in Great Britain, India and the Netherlands Symposium, Cambridge, UK. 21 - 24 September 2009.

Lewis, C., Shimmon, K., Solis-Trapala, I., Warburton, K., Harrison, A., Diggle, P.J. and Towse, J., 2009. Executive function as social interaction. Lifespan Development of Executive Control, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany. 7 - 8 May 2009.

Owen, L., Lewis, C. and Auty, S., 2009. Children’s implicit processing of brand placement in films: the role of conceptual fluency. Developmental Psychology Section of the British Psychological Society Annual Conference, Nottingham, UK. September 2009.

Solis-Trapala, I., 2009. Modelling cognitive performance in the young and the older. Seminar to the Mathematics and Statistics Department of the Open University, Milton Keynes, UK. December 2009.

Solis-Trapala, I., 2009. Modelling test performance on some components of executive function in early childhood. Departmental seminar, Institute of Education, University of London, UK. 3 June 2009.

Solis-Trapala, I., 2009. Statistical analysis of cognitive performance in children. Royal Statistical Society General Applications Section & RSS Merseyside local group invited talk, Merseyside, UK. April 2009.

Towse, A., Lewis, C., Francis, B., Shimmon, K. and Liu, J., 2009. Using latent transition analysis to examine cognitive development. Developing Statistical Modelling in the Social Sciences. Poster presented at NCRM Annual Conference, Bristol, UK.

Lewis, C., 2010. The role of the father in child development. Do fathers matter? Belfast & Londonderry, UK. 17 - 18 June 2010.

Lewis, C., 2010. Using microdeveleopmental (microgenetic) analysis to understand social factors in social development. Convenor of a Symposium at the Annual Conference of the Developmental Psychology Section of the British Psychological Society, Goldsmith’s, London, UK. September 2010.

Solis-Trapala, I., 2010. What is the statistical analysis of discrete outcomes in longitudinal studies. ESRC Research Methods Festival 2010, St. Catherine's College, Oxford, UK. 5 - 8 July 2010.

Stack, J. and Lewis, C., 2010. Social interaction and social competence in the ‘infant false belief’ task. Jean Piaget Society Annual Meeting, St Louis, USA. June 2010.

Lewis, C., Towse, A. and Francis, B., 2011. Modelling childhood development through latent transition models. Poster for the NCRM Annual Meeting, Guildford, UK. 13-14 January 2011.

Malone, S., Allen, M. and Lewis, C., 2011. How do children with autism learn words? Comparing social pragmatics and attentional salience. Poster at the Developmental Psychology Section of the British Psychological Society Annual Conference, Newcastle, UK. September 2011.

Malone, S., Allen, M. and Lewis, C., 2011. Is intention reading necessary when learning words in non-ostensive contexts? Developmental Psychology Section of the British Psychological Society Annual Conference, Newcastle, UK. September 2011.

Muldoon, K. and Lewis, C., 2011. How young children learn to reason correctly about set equivalence. Jean Piaget Society Annual Meeting, Berkeley, USA. June 2011.

Sarochvigsit, A. and Lewis, C., 2011. Children forgive an expert who errs whilst wearing a blindfold. Developmental Psychology Section of the British Psychological Society Annual Conference, Newcastle, UK. September 2011.

Stack, J. and Lewis, C., 2011. A developmental account of infant ‘belief-state’ reasoning. Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development, Budapest, Hungary. January 2011.

Stack, J. and Lewis, C., 2011. A developmental account of infant ‘belief-state’ reasoning: the effects of perceptual disengagement between 10 and 22 months. Poster at the Society for Research in Child Development Conference, Montreal, Canada. March 2011.

Stack, J. and Lewis, C., 2011. Reassessing 'infant false belief'. Convenor of a Symposium at the Society for Research in Child Development Conference, Montreal, Canada. April 2011.

Stack, J. and Lewis, C., 2011. ‘False belief’, reasoning in a true belief context: the role of a selection processor or perceptual engagement? Society for Research in Child Development Conference, Montreal, Canada. April 2011.

Books, book chapters and journal articles written by the Psychology Strand research team can be found here.

 

Sociology

Berridge, D. and Penn, R., 2009. Modelling attitudes towards gender roles in Britain with dropout. World Association of Public Opinion Research [WAPOR] Annual Conference on ‘Public Opinion and Survey Research in a Changing World’, Lausanne, Switzerland. 11 - 13 September 2009.

Francis, B., 2009. Random effects models and partially ranked preferences - examining changes in post-materialism over time. Challenges for Democracy in a Global Era: 59th Political Studies Association Annual Conference, Manchester University, UK. 7 - 9 April 2009.

Francis, B., Liu, J. and Soothill, K., 2009. The study of escalation in criminal careers: (I) conceptualizing escalation at the individual level. American Society of Criminology Annual Conference, Philadelphia, USA. 4 - 7 November 2009.

Francis, B. and Liu, J., 2009. Studying specialisation and escalation using the offenders index. ESDS Government Research Conference: Crime, Safety & Community, British Academy, London, UK. 18 November 2009.

Francis, B. and Soothill, K., 2009. Millions of threats to kill but only thousands of convictions? European Society of Criminology Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia. 9 - 12 September 2009.

Francis, B. and Soothill, K., 2009. Threats to kill and subsequent homicide: do dogs that bark also bite? British Society of Criminology Conference, University of Cardiff, Wales, UK. 30 June 2009.

Berridge, D. and Penn, R., 2010. Modelling attitudes to gender roles: an analysis of British Household Panel Study data incorporating dropout. Seminar presentation at the CCSR. University of Manchester, UK. March 2010.

Berridge, D., Penn, R. and Stott, D., 2010. Attitudes to gender roles: modelling repeated ordered categorical data subject to dropout. Royal Statistical Society 2010 International Conference, Brighton, UK. 13 - 17 September 2010.

Berridge, D., 2011. A joint model for ordered response and binary dropout processes in the Social Sciences. European Survey Research Association 4th Conference, Lausanne, Switzerland. 18 - 22 July 2011.

Berridge, D. and Penn, R., 2011. Gender attitudes: modelling bivariate repeated ordinal categorical data. Understanding Society / British Household Panel Study Conference, special session organized by the NCRM, Essex University, UK. 30 June - 1 July 2011.

Stott, D. and Berridge, D., 2011. A model for trivariate ordered response data in the Social Sciences. European Survey Research Association 4th Conference, Lausanne, Switzerland. 18 - 22 July 2011.

Chen, Y., 2011. Changing household dynamics: relations between husbands, wives and children in Britain since 1991. European Survey Research Association 4th Conference, Lausanne, Switzerland. 18 - 22 July 2011.

Francis, B., Dittrich, R. and Hatzinger, R., 2011. Modelling ranked survey data - a new approach accounting for covariates and latent heterogeneity. American Sociological Association Spring Meeting, Tilberg University, the Netherlands. 18 - 20 May 2011.

Penn, R., 2011. Changing attitudes to gender roles in Britain. European Survey Research Association 4th Conference, Lausanne, Switzerland. 18 - 22 July 2011.

Penn, R. and Berridge, D., 2011. Gender attitudes to gender roles in Britain between 1991 and 2007. Understanding Society / British Household Panel Study Conference, Essex University, UK. 30 June - 1 July 2011.

Penn, R. and Berridge, D., 2011. Modelling gender inequalities: a longitudinal analysis of repeated ordinal data. Social Stratification Conference, Stirling, UK. 31 August - 2 September 2011.

Books, book chapters and journal articles written by the Sociology Strand research team can be found here.

 

Spatio-temporal

Diggle, P.J., 2009. Spatial and longitudinal data-analysis. One week course for UK first-year PhD students in Statistics, Glasgow, UK. 31 August - 4 September 2009.

Diggle, P.J., Rowlingson, B. and Stanton, M., 2009. Empirical modelling of spatio-temporal variation in meningitis incidence. Third MERIT Meeting on Forecasting and Controlling Meningitis Epidemics in Sub-Saharan Africa, Niamey, Niger. 9 - 11 November 2009.

Kaimi, I. and Diggle, P.J., 2009. Analysing the spatio-temporal distribution of crime in Lancashire. PASCAL2 Workshop on Spatio-temporal Modelling, Edinburgh, UK. 12 - 14 October 2009.

Diggle, P.J., 2010. Model-based geostatistics with environmental and epidemiological applications. Pre-conference Workshop of the 8th International Conference on Geostatistics for Environmental Applications, University of Ghent, Belgium. 11 - 12 September 2010.

Diggle, P.J., 2010. Real time spatial surveillance. International Research Institute for Climate and Society Summer School, Columbia University, New York, USA. 24 May 2010.

Diggle, P.J., 2010. Real time spatial surveillance. Statistical Methods for Outbreak Detection Conference, Milton Keynes, UK. 19 May 2010.

Kaimi, I., 2010. Analysing the spatio-temporal distribution of crimes in Lancashire. NCRM Research Methods Festival 2010, St. Catherine's College, Oxford, UK. 5 - 8 July 2010.

Books, book chapters and journal articles written by the Spatio-Temporal Strand research team can be found here.

 

Teaching & e-Learning

Strand, S., 2009. In school factors and the White British-Black Caribbean attainment gap. American Educational Research Association 2009 Annual Meeting, San Diego, USA. 12 - 18 April 2009.

Strand, S., 2009. Race, sex, class and educational attainment at age 16: the case of White Working Class pupils. Institute of Education Quantitative Seminar Series, Institute of Education, University of London, UK. 17 June 2009.

Strand, S., 2009. Understanding and overcoming socio-economic causes for boys' underachievement. Engaging Boys in Education Conference, New Connaught Rooms, London, UK. 4 June 2009.

Strand, S., 2009. National research on pupil performance: what's the evidence regarding factors effecting attainment gaps? Southwark Local Authority Children's Services Professional Development Day, London, UK. 16 October 2009.

Strand, S., 2009. Race, sex, class and attainment at age 16: actually it's more complicated than that. International Conference on Narrowing the Attainment Gap, National College for School Leadership, Nottingham, UK. 19 - 21 April 2009.

Strand, S., 2009. Race, sex, class and educational attainment at age 16: the case of white working class pupils. Greater London Authority Conference on Socio-economic Status, Class and Education, University of London, Institute of Education, London, UK. 7 may 2009.

Strand, S., 2009. Race, sex, class and educational attainment at age 16: the case of white working class pupils. Birmingham Local Authority Raising the Achievement of White Working Class Pupils Conference, Birmingham, UK. 21 September 2009.

Strand, S., 2009. Race, sex, class and educational attainment at age 16: the case of white working class pupils. Annual Conference of the British Educational Research Association, University of Manchester, UK. 2 - 5 September 2009.

Strand, S., 2009. The life-chances of disadvantaged white working class boys and girls: progress to age 16. Keynote address to Buckinghamshire Children's & Young People's Service Senior Leaders, Missenden Abbey, Great Missenden, UK. 3 December 2009.

Strand, S., 2009. The limits of social class in explaining ethnic gaps in educational attainment. American Educational Research Association 2009 Annual Meeting, San Diego, USA. 12 - 18 April 2009.

Strand, S., 2009. Race, sex, class: what are the attainment gaps? Keynote address to the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) International Conference on Leadership for the 21st Century, National College for School Leadership, Nottingham, UK. 15 - 16 June 2009.

Strand, S., 2010. Banging your head on the ceiling: socio-economic factors and their relationship to differential attainment in Southwark primary schools. Southwark Primary Head Teachers' Conference, London Borough of Southwark, London, UK. 14 October 2010.

Strand, S., 2010. Equity issues in educational attainment: charting the territory. Secondary ITT and Partnership Plus Schools Network, University of East London, London, UK. 15 November 2010.

Strand, S., 2010. Identifying the gaps: what do recent national longitudinal studies tell us about equality and educational attainment? Hertfordshire County Council Children, Schools and Families Service Meeting, Hertfordshire County Council, UK. 5 October 2010.

Strand, S., 2010. Disadvantage, ethnicity, gender and educational attainment: the case of white working class pupils. British Educational Research Association, University of Warwick, UK. 1 - 4 September 2010.

Strand, S., 2010. Race, gender, class and education attainment: the case of white working class pupils. Harrow Children & Young Peoples' Service, Narrowing the Gap Network Day, Harrow, Middlesex, UK. 22 January 2010.

Strand, S., 2010. Race, sex, class and educational attainment. Invited lecture to the School of Education, Queen's University Belfast. Belfast, UK. 29 January 2010.

Strand, S., 2010. The role of school quality and ethic composition in understanding the educational success of Bangladeshi pupils in England. EARLI Educational Effectiveness SIG, University of Leuven, Belgium. 25 - 27 August 2010.

Strand, S., 2010. Creating a measure of socio-economic status (SES) from Local Authority data and SES ethnicity and attainment. BERA-LERN masterclass in Research Methods, London, UK. 15 March 2010.

Strand, S., 2010. Disadvantage, ethnicity, gender and attainment in Lambeth: the case of white working class pupils. Lambeth Children & Young Peoples' Service National Conference 'Raising the Achievement of White Working Class Pupils', London, UK. 27 January 2010.

Strand, S., 2010. Minority and ethnic status and resilience to deprivation: understanding the success of Bangladeshi students in England. International Congress on School Effectiveness and School Improvement, Kuala Lumpar, Malaysia. 5 - 8 January 2010.

Strand, S., 2010. Identifying the gaps: race, sex, class and educational achievement at age16. American Educational Research Association Conference, Denver Convention Center, Denver, USA. 1 - 4 May 2010.

Strand, S., 2010. What national longitudinal studies tell us about equity and education. Keynote address to London Borough of Barnet Children’s Service Conference ‘Schools Making a Difference and Changing Lives’, London, UK. 26 May 2010.

Strand, S., 2011. Making sense of statistics. London Educational Research Network (LERN) Masterclass in the Practical Use of Statistics, Islington Town Hall, London, UK. 18 January 2011.

Strand, S., 2011. School effects and equity gaps in educational attainment and progress at age 11. International Congress on School Effectiveness and School Improvement, Limassol, Cyprus. 4 - 7 January 2011.

Strand, S., 2011. Ethnic, gender and socio-economic gaps in achievement: the perils of ‘main effects’. Annual Conference of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), New Orleans, USA. 8 - 12 April 2011.

Strand, S., 2011. School effects and equity gaps in educational attainment and progress at age 11. Presentation to the Department for Education PLASC User Group (PLUG), Institute of Education, University of London, UK. 6 April 2011.

Strand, S., 2011. School effects and equity gaps in pupil's educational progress age 7-11. Annual Conference of the British Educational Research Association (BERA), Institute of Education, University of London, UK. 6 - 8 September 2011.

Books, book chapters and journal articles written by the Teaching & Learning Strand research team can be found here.