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Wednesday, March 30, 2016
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Participants needed for online research study on suicide and nonsuicidal self-injury Researchers at Glasgow and Stirling University are developing a questionnaire to measure thoughts about suicide and nonsuicidal self-injury. Understanding these thoughts may help us to develop more effective treatments, differentiate suicide and nonsuicidal self-injury,...
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APPLICATION DEADLINE 31st May - THERE IS A CAP ON NUMBERS AND WE WILL CLOSE THE APPLICATION FORM WHEN THAT IS REACHED.There are now many publicly available datasets within the UK (such as those hosted by the UK Data Service) and across the world. These data have been collected with...
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Monday, March 28, 2016
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This one-day workshop will showcase opportunities for economic research that administrative data provides. The aim of the workshop is to promote wider engagement of economic researchers with the rich information available in administrative data, and to encourage innovative research that creates high-impact evidence. The workshop is organised by Dr...
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Friday, March 25, 2016
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Last updated: March 2016This is a working list of European Masters Programs in Behavioural Economics, Behavioural Science, Economics & Psychology and Decision Science. If you know of any programs that I have omitted please let me know. I don't describe programs in the...
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Liam Delaney, Michael Daly and I have a new article out in Social Science & Medicine called "Adolescent Psychological Distress, Unemployment, and the Great Recession: Evidence from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth 1997". The article is open access and builds on our previous...
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Wednesday, March 23, 2016
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Below is a selection of readings that are relevant to our workshop tomorrow (Thursday 24th March 2016) on mental health and work. See also the following post for readings on employment policy and well-being. Ayers (2012). Novel surveillance of psychological distress during the great recession. Journal of Affective Disorders Volume 142, Issues...
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Below is a selection of readings that are relevant to our workshop tomorrow (Thursday 24th March 2016) on mental health and work. Barr et al (2015). ‘First, do no harm’: are disability assessments associated with adverse trends in mental health? A longitudinal ecological study. J Epidemiol Community Health doi:10.1136/jech-2015-206209. AbstractBackground...
