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NERIP's
website has been in existence for four years now and we feel that
this is time to give it a facelift. This month we are consulting
with people who currently use the site, and those who don't, about
the kinds of services we should be providing. Whether you are
familiar with the current site or not, we'd like to know what your
needs are from NERIP. If you would like to take part in a focus
group discussion in your part of the region to consider the
next developments for NERIP's window on the world, please let us
know by e-mailing this link. We are
also running an online survey for people to give their thoughts. You
can take part in the survey here.
We are
often asked if there is a library of research reports about the
region, especially research related to the development of strategy.
NERIP's on-line search engine, QandQ,
provides instant results to a keyword search of all material
published on the internet by eighteen academic research centres with
the North East's Universities. It's a more comprehensive resource
than any traditional library could be!
Jon
Carling, Head of NERIP
Tel: 0191 229
6331
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Equality and
Diversity in the North East - a Statistical
Profile
This report from Amy O'Donnell at
Northumbria University give a very comprehensive profile of the
numbers of people in different groups of the population in the
region, and the issues faced by each. This is the first in a suite
of reports to be produced for the North
East Equality and Diversity Board to help inform
and influence forthcoming regional strategies. The slides from
the launch event for this report, including presentations from Amy
and from David Darton, Director of Foresight at the Equality and
Human Rights Commission, can be found here.
National Employer Skills Survey
(NESS)
The National
Employers Skills Survey 2007 (NESS07) was commissioned by the
Learning and Skills Council
(LSC), the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS)
and the Sector Skills
Development Agency (SSDA) to provide comprehensive,
definitive and up-to-date information on the recruitment, skills and workforce
development issues and challenges facing employers in England. Nationally over 79,000
establishments provided information on their recruitment, skill
needs and training behaviour.
Within the North East, a total of 5,608 interviews were
conducted.
NESS07 is the fourth in the NESS series
(it was previously conducted in 2003, 2004 and 2005), and throughout this report the 2007 results are
compared with these earlier studies, particularly with the 2005 findings, in order to assess
how employers' skills needs and challenges are changing
over time.
Carbon Trajectories
As part of a piece of
work on "Carbon Trajectories" undertaken for the Regional Assembly,
AEA Technology have produced a spreadsheet model containing
projections and estimates of the region's greenhouse gas
emissions. The spreadsheet contains emissions data for the years
1990 (the baseline year for the Kyoto protocol), 2005, 2020 and
2050 and covers the full basket of greenhouse gases not just carbon
dioxide. Emissions data are provided for 20 different
sources and local authority estimates are available from the model.
For more details and access to the model contact david.mell@nerip.com .
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Census
Roadshow
The Office for
National Statistics continues to plan and prepare for the Census 2011. Consultation with users and other stakeholders is
important to the
programme and so they are
holding a series of roadshows in November, one of which takes place in
Durham. More details are
available here.
Regional Insights: "How regional policy is made: a
critical look at the role of think tanks"
The next seminar in the
Regional Insights series, held by the Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies at Newcastle University, will be this talk by
Professor Peter Wells of the Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research at
Sheffield Hallam University. This event is due to take place at
16.00 on Wednesday, November
5th. Further details about registration for this event will
be available from the CURDS
website during October.
NIHR (National Institute for Health
Research) and the future of health
research
A key challenge is to address real
patient and public need and develop new ways of translating the
findings and benefits of high quality applied health research into
better outcomes for patients. These findings then need to be
incorporated into routine clinical practice. NIHR has a key role in
clinical and applied health research. Professor Sally Davies, Director General
of Research & Development, Department of Health will address
these issues at this talk at 13.00 on 22nd October at
the Wolfson Research Institute, University of Durham, Stockton Campus.
For further information and to register for the event please
follow the link
Statistics User
Forum
The Royal Statistical Society's Annual Statistics User Forum
conference, entitled 'Transforming Official Statistics to Serve
Society' takes place in London on 12 November. More details are
here.
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Situations Vacant
(1)
Intelligence East Midlands, the Regional Observatory for
that part of the world, are looking for a coordinator on a one-year
secondment. More details here.
Situations Vacant
(2)
New Skills Consulting Ltd are looking to recruit a
Principal Research Consultant. More details on the job and how
to apply please are here. Candidates who learn
about this vacancy via the NERIP newsletter have until Friday 10th
October to apply.
BERR
Consultation
BERR is asking for views on the National Statistics
publication 'Regional Competitiveness & State of the Regions'.
This consultation has been launched to
determine how useful the
publication is to its readers,
and how it can be improved.
More details here. NERIP may well put
together a regional response to this consultation, and would be
interested to hear the views of others.
MOSAIC
Our colleagues at
Northumberland Infonet would be keen to know whether others in the
region have purchased MOSAIC household classification data from
Experian, to swap experiences. Please contact Myra Jamieson
(mjamieson@northumberland.gov.uk ) if you would be interested in sharing notes about how
you use this product.
Data
4nr
Communities and Local
Government (CLG) are consulting on the benefits of the Data for Neighbourhood Renewal
product. You can take part in the consultation by clicking
here.
Regional
Snapshot
The latest version of ONS's
Regional Snapshot is available here.
The Places
Community
The Places
Community is a section of
the CLG website which brings together a wide range of statistical
and geographic evidence around the concept of 'place'. The
Community's main aim is to enable a shared understanding of the
'facts', and so facilitate stronger and more effective collaboration
and partnership working on policies and programmes at local,
regional and national levels.
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An important part of information dissemination is
knowing who is interested in what. We invite all our readers to
become part of our network of contacts by allowing us to add you to
the Contacts Directory on our
website. To do this, either contact us directly (info@nerip.com) or, better still, sign-up to the Collaborative
Zone on our website. As well as giving you access to the forums in
the Regional Research Agenda (see above), when you sign-up we will
contact you to seek your permission to add your details to our
Contacts Directory. In line with our privacy policy, we will not put your details in the
on-line Contacts Directory unless you have given us permission to do
so.
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