[Turing-Southampton] CPC Seminar - 04 October - Peter Davis

[Susan Davies]

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Dear All

The next Centre for Population Change seminar will be held on 04 October in building 54, room 8031 (8C), 15:00-16:00. Professor Peter Davis, from the University of Auckland, is going to give a talk entitled, 'SociaLab: A census-based simulation tool for public policy inquiry'.

After the talk, refreshments will be served in room 2041 on level 2 in Building 58.

Title: SociaLab: A census-based simulation tool for public policy inquiry

Abstract: It is usually neither practical nor ethical to conduct large-scale experiments in public policy with standard methodologies. One alternative for the prior testing of policy options is to use simulation, a prime contemporary example being climate change projections.
A tool - SociaLab - was developed for the counterfactual modelling of public policy drawing on longitudinal data from the New Zealand census and using microsimulation techniques. The seminar will outline the background, construction and counterfactual modelling results from the tool.
SociaLab potentially provides an open-source tool for deliberative inquiry in policy development. It has now been fully written up in Simulating Societal Change, co-authored with Roy Lay-Yee, and published by Springer in the series Computational Social Sciences.

Peter Davis is Honorary Professor in the Department of Statistics and Emeritus Professor in Population Health and Social Science at the University of Auckland. Earlier in his career, he was the founding director of the Centre of Methods and Policy Application in the Social Sciences (COMPASS) in the Faculty of Arts and before that a health and applied sociologist in the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences. He has an undergraduate degree from Southampton, Masters degrees in Sociology and in Statistics from the London School of Economics, and a PhD from Auckland.

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Many thanks
Kim

Kim Lipscombe
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