Making Equality Count - A Research Conference on 23 June 2010 in Dublin

The Research Conference 'Making Equality Count - Irish and International Approaches to Measuring Equality and Discrimination' is being jointly organised by the Equality Authority, the Economic and Social Research Institute,  the UCD Geary Institute and the Central Statistics Office and is being co-funded by the European Union under the PROGRESS Programme, 2007-2013.

It will be of particular interest to academics, policymakers, statisticians and equality bodies from Ireland and also from other EU countries.

If you would like to attend this conference, please return the attached booking form by email to info@equality.ie by Friday 4th June 2010. Please ensure that you save the completed booking form as a Word 1997/2003 file,and include the words "Making Equality Count" in the subject line.

The language of the conference will be English.

Conference presentations will include:

   'Racism and Colorism in Post Racial Societies'
   Professor William Darity,
   Arts & Sciences Professor of Public Policy Studies and Professor of
   African and African American Studies and Economics at Duke University,
   North Carolina, USA

   'Assessing Unequal Treatment: Gender and Pay’
   Professor Mary Gregory,
   University Lecturer in Economics at St. Hilda's College in the
   University of Oxford

   'The Social Psychology of Discrimination: Theory, Measurement, and
   Consequences'
   Professor Miles Hewstone,
   Professor of Social Psychology and Fellow of New College in the
   University of Oxford

   ‘Are Eamon and Ellen more employable than Hardeep and Heike? Evidence
   from a Field Experiment in Ireland.’
   Dr. Frances McGinnity,
   Senior Research Officer and joint programme coordinator of Equality
   Research at the Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin

   'Disability, Labour Force Status and Social Inclusion in Ireland'
   Professor Brian Nolan
   Professor of Public Policy, Department of Applied Social Studies,
   University College Dublin

    'Age Discrimination: A Field Experiment'
    Dr. Judy Rich,
   Principal Lecturer in  Economics, Portsmouth Business School, University
   of Portsmouth

   ‘Discrimination in Ireland: Evidence from Self-Report Data’
   Dr. Helen Russell,
   Associate Research Professor and  joint programme coordinator of
   Equality Research at the Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin

   'Multiple Inequalities: Evidence from the 2006 Census’
   Dr. Dorothy Watson,
   Associate Research Professor at the Economic and Social Research
   Institute, Dublin

Downloadable file

Making Equality Count - Booking form (Word, 106Kb)

 
This conference is co-funded by the European Union under the PROGRESS Programme 2007-2013