Data for Comparative European Socio-Economic Research:
Challenges, Opportunities and Constraints
12-13 September 2002
Wivenhoe House
University of Essex
Ruud Bless
Ruud Bless is an independent consultant on information systems and policy research; technical advisor for epidemiology of the Pompidou Group of the Council of Europe. Special interest: international cooperation in research about drug use and drug related problems. Today's presentation is based on the experience as coordinator of a project to harmonise population surveys on drugs prevalence across Europe for EMCDDA.
Saxon Brettell
Saxon Brettell is the Director of Cambridge Econometrics, an economic and industrial forecasting group, where he is responsible for the company's sub-regional and urban forecasting work He has undertaken work in the field of economic forecasting and modelling for the European Commission, and has undertaken a series of projects for Eurostat, the EU's statistical agency. He coordinated CE's work on the Urban Audit, a major project undertaken for DG XVI, the regional policy directorate of the European Commission, to measure the quality of life in 58 cities in Europe. He has developed a career as a private consultant in regional economics, particularly in the use of commercial software for forecasting of UK and European regions, and authored a spreadsheet-based package for local and regional modeling.
Max Craglia
Max Craglia is Senior Lecturer in Town & Regional Planning at the University of Sheffield. In the past, he coordinated a research programme funded by the European Science Foundation on Geographical Information Systems Data Integration and Data Base Design (GISDATA) and directed the European project on Methods for Access to Data and Metadata in Europe (1999-2000). He is currently coordinating another EU-funded project on Geographic Information Networks in Europe (2001-03). Much of his current research takes place within the context of the Sheffield Centre for Geographic Information and Spatial Analysis (SCGISA) of which he is the Director.Ian Diamond
Professor Ian Diamond is a Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of Southampton and former Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences. He researches on both methodological and substantive topics. He is currently a member of the UK Economic and Social Research Council and Chairman of its Research Resources Board. From January 2003, he will be the ESRC’s new Chief Executive and Deputy Chairman.
John Haisken-DeNew
John Haisken-DeNew is a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labour (IZA) in Bonn, Germany. After education at Carleton University and the University of Toronto, he worked for the Centre for Population Economics at the University of Mannheim and the World Bank in Washington and Bangladesh. He was head of the DELAPO computer network at the University of Munich and has been a senior researcher at the German Institute for Economic Research in Berlin since 1996./ His research interests include applied labour economics and econometrics.
Bjorn Henrichsen
Bjorn Henrichsen is Director of the Norwegian Social Science Data Services at the University of Bergen and President since 1997 of the Council of European Social Science Data Archives ( CESSDA). He is a Board Member of the International Federation of Data Organisations and a member of Central Coordination Team of the European Social Survey. He also acts as an Observer on the Standing Committee for the Social Sciences of the European Science Foundation, chairman of the Board of UNINETT ( the Norwegian Research Network), a member of the Board of Directors of Statistics Norway and a member of the Norwegian Council for Confidentiality in Public Administration
Roger Jowell
Professor Roger Jowell is Co-Director of CREST and co-founder and former director of the National Centre for Social Research, for which he is now International Director, Co-Director of the British Social Attitudes survey series; and Co-director of the British Election Studies from 1983 to 1997. He is currently Visiting Professor of Social Research, Department of Social Policy and Administration, London School of Economics and Coordinator and Principal Investigator for the European Social Survey.
Franz Kraus
Franz Kraus is a scientific officer in the EURODATA research archives of the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES). He has been centrally involved in numerous projects including the EUReporting project on the stocks of and access to Official Microdata in Europe, the COMPREG (Comparing Regions) project and the Cost of Social Security.
Dimiter Philipov is a Senior Research Scientist in the Data Laboratory at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany. He received his doctorate at the University for National and World Economics at the University of Sofia, Bulgaria.
Eric Marlier
Eric Marlier is an expert in social statistics and .Special Advisor to CEPS/INSTEAD. He was formerly the international scientific co-ordinator for Belgian Ministers Vande Lanotte and Vandenbroucke, and before that Formerly worked with Eurostat on the Eurobarometres and the European Communiuty Household Panel Study.
Ekkehard Mochmann
Ekkehard Mochmann is executive manager of the Central Archive for Empirical Social Research (ZA) at the University of Cologne and member of the board of directors of the German Social Science Infrastructure Institutes (GESIS). He is President of the International Federation of Data Organisations for the Social Sciences (IFDO), member of the steering committee of the European Consortium for Communication Research (ECCR), the German Association for Communications Research (DGKF) and the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES). Publications include topics on infrastructure building for socio-economic research, data protection, secondary analysis, computer strategies for communications analysis, information systems and social science data bases, transformation in Germany after 1945 and 1990 and on electoral research.
Gaston Schaber
Professor Gaston Schaber is founder and president of CEPS/INSTEAD in Luxembourg. He was professor of psychology at the State University of Liege, Belgium and First Counsellor at the Prime Minister's Office, Luxembourg until 1991.In addition to research professorships at several American Universities, he is currently Senior Center Associate of the University Center for International Studies, University of Pittsburgh. He is actively involved in promoting the development of a common European and transatlantic research infrastructure in the economic and social sciences, the development of systems of socio-economic reporting on Europe, and development of scientific co-operation ith Eastern countries in the framework of EU-programmes. He is presently developing with a CEPS/INSTEAD related Consortium of Universities from Europe and North America a “Graduate School for Comparative Public Policy, Analysis and Data” and, in the framework of the Trust Fund of the Luxembourg Government and the World Bank, a “Pilot Observatory for Poverty Reduction and Poverty Reduction Policies” in selected African Countries
Erwin K.Scheuch
Professor Dr. Erwin Scheuch is chairman of the Cologne Society for Social Research (KGS), and Ex-president of the International Institute for Sociology (IIS). Professor of Sociology at the University of Cologne since 1965 and ex-Director of the Central Archive for Empirical Social Research at the University of Cologne (ZA).
Kevin Schürer is Director of the UK Data Archive. He is a historian, who previously worked in the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, University of Cambridge, where he developed a number of interests in historical demography and the history of the family. He has worked on migration, household structure, and the application of computer techniques to historical research. He is currently working on the identification and measurement of patterns within the working life between the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century in England and Wales as part of an ESRC project on ‘The Future of Work: an historical perspective’. Mark Smith
Mark Smith is a lecturer in employment studies and a member of the European Work and Employment Research Centre, Manchester School of Management, University of Manchester Institute of Technology. He has research interests in atypical work, women's employment, working time, family friendly work and new working patterns. His work for the UMIST based co-ordinating team of the European Commission's Network of Experts on the Situation of Women in the Labour Market Network included comparative research on changing patterns of work and working time, the European employment rate, and the future prospects for women's employment. Other work has included research on labour market transitions and atypical work; the future European labour supply; innovative working time systems; the "state-of-the-art" research on women's employment; and atypical work and occupational segregation.
Marcia Freed Taylor
Marcia Taylor is co-ordinator of the NESSIE network and Director of the European Centre for Analysis in the Social Sciences within the Institute for Social and Economic Research at Essex. She was previously Director of Information and Development of the ESRC Research Centre on Miscro-social Change (now ISER) and expert consultant to the CEPS/INSTEAD. She was Deputy Director and Acting Director of the UK Data Archive until 1989. Her research interests lie in data dissemination, data documentation and research ethics.
