Social Data Spring Conference 2023: Social Data, Public Policy and Inequalities

Organised by the UCL Social Data Institute

The Social Data Spring Conference 2023 is a dialogue space for scholars and practitioners to present their innovative work on using social data to study public policy and inequalities worldwide. The conference builds on the wide variety of scholarship produced by our colleagues in the UCL Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences and seeks to explore fresh and innovative ways in which scholars from various disciplines use different types of social data and methods to gauge and understand inequalities and public policy in both developed and developing countries.

This year our conference will take place on 15 March 2023, bringing together high-quality scholars and practitioners from different backgrounds and perspectives to discuss critical issues on data science, public policy, and inequalities. We will have the privilege to engage with speakers from the Inter-American Development Bank, the UK Parliament, the IFS, the LSE International Inequalities Institute, and the UCL Centre for Education Policy & Equalising Opportunities, among others.

Line-up:

Keynote speakers:

Carlos Scartascini: Head of the Development Research Group at the Research Department and Leader of the Behavioral Economics Group of the Inter-American Development Bank.
Georgina Sturge: Statistician at the House of Commons Library. Author of Bad Data, How Governments, Politicians, and the Rest of Us Get Misled by Numbers.

Academic presenters:

Francisco H. G. Ferreira: Amartya Sen Professor of Inequality Studies at the London School of Economics, where he is also Director of the International Inequalities Institute. Former Chief Economist for the Africa Region and Senior Adviser in the Research Department at the World Bank.
Imran Rasul: Professor of Economics, University College London. Director, ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy (CPP) at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), Co-director, James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Centre on Wealth Concentration, Inequality and the Economy at UCL Economics.
Ayona Datta: Professor of Urban Geography at University College London. Author of ‘City Bypassed’ and ‘City Forgotten’.
Jake Anders: Associate Professor and Deputy Director of the UCL Centre for Education Policy & Equalising Opportunities (CEPEO), University College London.

The conference will be in-person. Entry is free, and all are welcome. However, space is limited, so advance registration is required.

Please note a full agenda for the conference will be published soon.

Event Details:

Date: 15 March 2023

Time: 2 pm - 6 pm

Location: Taviton (16) Room 347, Taviton Street 14-16, University College London, London WC1H 0BW

Social Data Spring Conference 2023: Social Data and Inequalities