School of Social and Political Science

Content

Save the dates - Q-Step Seminar Series - Semester 2 - 2023-24 

Open to all - no booking required.

22 January - Candidate Capital and Self-Perceived Status in India, Poland, Sweden, and the UK (Dr Joe Greenwood-Hau)

Dr Joe Greenwood-Hau is a lecturer in Politics in the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh. His research sits at the intersection of political behaviour, political sociology, and political psychology, and currently focuses on how structural and perceived privilege relate to political participation and representation.

5 February - Later life precarity. What is it? Can we measure it? Is it useful? (Professor Alan Marshall)

Professor Alan Marshall is a Social Statistician by training who is now Professor of Social Research on Inequality based on the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh. His substantive research uses longitudinal data from social surveys in the UK and overseas to better understand the social and biological determinants of inequalities observed in health and wellbeing in later life. I have made methodological research contributions around the development of local estimates and projections of populations and of populations in poor health in collaboration with the UK's National statistical agencies and local authorities. 

19 February - Youth Transitions and Economic Activity: A Re-examination of NCDS data (Scott Oatley)

Scott Oatley is a graduate from the London School of Economics and the University of Oxford and is currently a final year ESRC funded PhD student in the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh. His PhD research uses a series of large and complex social survey data resources to provide a detailed longitudinal picture of the nature of transitions from education to work in the UK.

4 March - Systems of living arrangements in the United States: 1850-2021 (Dr Ginevra Floridi)

Dr Ginevra Floridi is a Lecturer in Sociology and Quantitative Methods at the School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh. Her research is in the field of social and family demography, with a focus on intergenerational family transfers and their relationship to inequality and social mobility. She is also interested in social policies related to population ageing, and the consequences of violence exposure for individuals and families.

18 March - Divided We Fall: Opposition Alliances in Autocratic Regimes (Ugur Ozdemir)

Dr Ugur Ozdemir is a Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Political Science at the School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh. His research interests cover comparative political behaviour, political psychology, bounded rationality, quantitative methods, positive political theory. He is a dedicated advocate of bridging the gap between theoretical modelling and empirical analysis. His previous work has appeared, among others, in International Studies Quarterly and Social Choice and Welfare.