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November 5th, 2015

Departmental Seminar – Using mixed methods to explore ethnic differences in child pedestrian injury rates in London

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Estimated reading time: 5 minutes

Alasdair Jones

November 5th, 2015

Departmental Seminar – Using mixed methods to explore ethnic differences in child pedestrian injury rates in London

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Estimated reading time: 5 minutes

On Thursday 12th November 2015 we will be welcoming our next Department of Methodology Seminar Series speaker, Dr Rebecca Steinbach (Lecturer, Department of Social and Environmental Health Research, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine). As an alumnus of our department’s ‘Social Research Methods’ masters degree we are particularly pleased to have Rebecca come and speak about some of the methodological aspects of her recent work.  Please find the abstract for her talk and information for attending the seminar below.

There are well known links between area disadvantage and child pedestrian injury risk which indicate that more disadvantaged children face higher injury risks than their affluent counterparts. Recently, research has increasingly become concerned with ethnic inequalities in injury risk and some puzzling findings have been identified in London. ‘Black’ children in London have injury rates that are 50% higher than ‘White’ children, while ‘Asian’ children have lower pedestrian injury rates than any other ethnic group. Given that ‘Black’ children in London tend to live in more disadvantaged areas, it seems plausible that associations between ‘Black’ ethnicity and area disadvantage can explain why ‘Black’ children face higher injury risks. However, explorations have revealed that while living in a more affluent area protects ‘White’ and ‘Asian’ children from injury risk in London, this is not true for ‘Black’ children who face high risks across the city. This talk outlines a series of quantitative and qualitative investigations to try to explain these patterns.

Venue: LRB 4.02 (4th Floor, LSE Library – see here for campus map).
Date and time: Thursday 12 November 2015, 16:15 – 17:45.
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If you would like further information on the seminars, please email methodology.admin@lse.ac.uk.

If you could not attend this event you can listen to the podcast here

Dr Alasdair Jones is Assistant Professor in the Department of Methodology at LSE.

 

 

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