Previous Events

Past Seminars

LINKS Open International Symposium - INVESTING IN EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT FOR PEACEFUL SOCIETIES:
23 May 2019, Riddel Hall

Further details and registration:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-open-international-symposium-registration-61643223541

The CHaRMS Annual Workshop took place on June 22nd 2018. Slides are below.

Session 1: Employee Wellbeing
 
Paddy Smith (Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development): “Health and wellbeing at work”
Lisa Wilson (Nevin Economic Research Institute): “Job security and wellbeing”
Owen Reidy (Irish Congress of Trade Unions): “Better work, better lives”
Mark Simpson (Ulster University) “Welfare and wellbeing in the 21st century social security system”
 
Session 2: Population Studies
 
Gaia Narciso (Trinity College Dublin): “The deep roots of Rebellion: Evidence from the Irish Revolution”
Chris Colvin (Queen’s University Belfast): “Scarring and Selection in the Great Irish Famine”
 
Session 3: Health and Wellbeing
 
Olinda Santin (Queen's University Belfast): "'Cancer Care and Coping: An Online Resource"

Liam McCorry (HealthyKidz)


Keynote: Professor Liam Delaney, AIB Chair of Behavioural Economics (University College Dublin)
 
"Self-Control, Health, & Public Policy"
 
http://www.ucd.ie/geary/aboutus/people/liamdelaney/

Raising breastfeeding rates – a societal issue and a public health responsibility

Dr Amy Brown, Stranmillis College 6-7pm, October 9th 2017

Further Details and Registration

Quantitative and Statistical Methodology Forum

Dr Finian Bannon, "Comparing population-based international cancer survival estimates"

Wednesday 4th October 2017, 1300-1400
Centre of Public Health (Seminar Room 02 024, Level 2 of the ICSB building, Royal Victoria Hospital), Queen’s University Belfast


The talk will outline a method using funnel plots for comparing and presenting EUROCARE-5 population-based international survival estimates. Funnel plots will identify good and poor survival among 29 countries included in EUROCARE for a range of cancer sites. Issues considered will include: fixed or random effects models, data transformations, and winsorisation. Recommendations for assessing and presenting international survival variation will be given. Dr Bannon is a lecturer in medical statistics in the Centre of Public Health, Queen’s University Belfast. Previously, he worked in the Northern Ireland Cancer Registry and on the CONCORD-2 international cancer patient survival study.

Health Economics Association of Ireland Meeting

Monday September 18th 2017, 1230 - 1500

Weston Lecture Theatre, Riddel Hall, Queen's University Belfast


Schedule


1200-1230: Registration

1230-1235: Welcome


1235-1300: Paper 1 - Cost of conservative management in patients with end stage kidney disease who decline dialysis: lessons from a multi-centre observational study in the UK
(Presenter: Glenn Phair, Northern Ireland Clinical Trials Unit)

1300-1325: Paper 2 - The cost-effectiveness of preeclampsia prevention using universal aspirin versus screening test indicated aspirin in low risk women
(Presenter: James O'Mahony, Trinity College Dublin)

1325-1350: Paper 3 - The Economic Burden of Childhood Autism Spectrum Disorders in the Republic of Ireland
(Presenter: Aine Roddy, National University of Ireland Galway)



1350-1410: Break


1410-1435: Paper 4 - A Comparison of Static and Dynamic Models to Examine the Effect of Income Loss on Health during the Business Cycle
(Presenter: Fiona Kiernan, University College Dublin)


1435-1500: Paper 5 - The needs of the many VS the needs of the few: Is society willing to pay for stratified medicine?
(Presenter: Alan McMichael, Queen’s University Belfast)

Abstracts

CHaRMS Annual Workshop 2017

Program

8:30-900: Registration

9:00 - 9:05: Welcome

Session 1: Disability and the Labour Market, Chair: Duncan McVicar
9:05 – 9:25 Melanie Jones (Cardiff University), Disability and disability-related employment gaps
9:25 – 9:45 Anne Devlin (QUB), Why is disability prevalence so high in Northern Ireland?
9:45 – 10:05 Laura McCartney & Sean Fitzsimons (Disability Action), Hard at work: Employment and disability in NI
 
Session 2: Ageing, Chair: Declan French
10:05 – 10:25 Anne Nolan (ESRI- TILDA), Insurance and health in the older population
10:25 – 10:45 David Bell & Elaine Douglas (Stirling University - HAGIS), HAGIS In the field: Sample strategy & NHS health data response rates

10:45 - 11:15 Break
 
Session 3: Data and Policy, Chair: Mark McGovern
11:15 – 11:35 Sarah Gibney (Dept of Health - ROI), Healthy and positive ageing initiative
11:35 – 11:55 Mark McGovern (QUB), Long-term economic impacts of breastfeeding
11:55 – 12:15 Roger O'Sullivan (Institute of Public Health) Research translation and policy drivers in ageing
 
Keynote Speaker
12:15 – 13:00 David Canning (Harvard University) - Macroeconomic and Wealth Implications of Health Insurance

UKCRC Centres of Excellence Annual Conference

Royal College of Physicians, Regent’s Park, London, Thursday 29th June

http://www.fuse.ac.uk/events/ukcrcphrcoe2017conference/programme/

CHaRMS Seminar

Dr Iris Kesternich, University of Leuven

Early-life circumstances predict measures of trust among adults: Evidence from hunger episodes in Post-War Germany

Friday 19th May 2017, 3.30pm, QMS Lecture Theatre 

https://sites.google.com/site/kesternichiris/home

Abstract

Can a major shock in childhood permanently shape trust? We consider a hunger episode in Germany after WWII and construct a measure of hunger exposure from official data on caloric rations set monthly by the occupying forces providing regional and temporal variation. We correlate hunger exposure with measures of trust using data from a nationally representative sample of the German population. We show that individuals exposed to low caloric rations in childhood have significantly lower levels of trust as adults. This finding highlights that early-life experiences can have long-term effects in domains other than health, where such effects are well-documented. 

Health Economics Association of Ireland (HEAI) Meeting

Dublin (HIQA), May 10th 1130-1530

CHaRMS Seminar: Professor John Mullahy (Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

"Healthy Time: Concepts, Data, and Measures of Health Outcomes and Healthcare Quality"

24th March, QMS Lecture Theatre, Riddel Hall, 1530-1700

Abstract

The purposes of this paper are to describe some conceptual and empirical foundations of "healthy-time" measures of health outcomes or healthcare quality, and to explore how to expand the empirical opportunities for measuring such outcomes using U.S. national survey data. To these ends, the paper provides an overview of Grossman's seminal health production framework, surveys some of the healthy-time outcome/quality measures in use across a variety of contexts and applications, explores how data from the U.S. Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) might be used to develop ongoing healthy-time measures for U.S. samples, describes an econometric strategy for studying such outcomes, and presents estimates of regression models describing two sets of healthy-time outcome measures obtained from 2011 and 2012 MEPS data.

Bio

John Mullahy is Professor of Health Economics in the Department of Population Health Sciences, Affiliate Professor at the La Follette School of Public Affairs, Co-Director of the Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholars Program, and Co-Director of the NIMH training program in Health and Mental Health Economics, all at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is also Honorary Professor of Economics at NUI Galway and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He currently serves as Co-Editor of Health Economics and is a member of the editorial board of Health Services and Outcomes Research Methods and International Journal of Health Economics and Management. He was formerly Associate Editor of Journal of Health Economics and was previously guest editor on JRSS-A: Regional Science and Urban Economics: Empirical Economics and Economic Modeling.

CHaRMS roundtable workshop on research funding

24th March, Lecture Room 4, Riddel Hall, 1100-12:30

On March 24th CHaRMS (Centre for Health Research at the Management School) will be holding a roundtable workshop to discuss potential opportunities and collaborations for obtaining funding related to health research.  
 
The workshop will feature discussion by Professor John Mullahy (Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison). We will also have presentations from Dr Julie McCarroll from the Public Health Agency to provide an overview of current and prospective funding, and Postgraduate Research Support to provide an overview of  different research studentship funding available and application deadlines.

Further Details

Preferences for Health Conference and Data Workshop (EQ5D)

20 - 21st March, NUI Galway

Further Details

ADRC-NI Workshop
 
Department for Education – School Census and School Leavers Survey

24th February 2017

The Canada Rooms, Lanyon Building, Queens University

10.00 am – 12.00 noon

The function of the Administrative Data Research Network is to increase access to routine administrative datasets for approved projects by accredited researchers. One of the Departmental bodies that intend to provide data to the ADRC is the Department for Education (DE). 
 
The purpose of this workshop is:

  • To inform potential researchers about the School Census and School Leavers Survey datasets potentially available from the Department of Education;
 
  • To answer specific queries on  variables available on School Census and School Leavers Survey datasets and their potential for research;
 
How to Register:
 
To register your attendance, please contact Samantha Livingstone – email: samantha.livingstone@qub.ac.uk, by  Friday 20 January 2017 at the latest.

CHaRMS Seminar

Professor Ciaran O'Neill (QUB)

1600, BDO Library, Riddel Hall, February 22nd 2017

Title: Health preferences and insurance status in Ireland: preliminary results

Abstract

Knowledge Exchange Seminar Series (KESS) at Stormont

25th January 2017 1405

Professor Duncan McVicar (QUB) - Zero Hours Contracts, Job Quality and Impacts on
Workers

Aiming to encourage debate and improve understanding, KESS provides a forum to present and disseminate academic research findings in a straightforward format, on issues that are relevant to the Programme for Government. It seeks to bring the findings to the attention of key participants and decision-makers in the policy and law-making processes in Northern Ireland, such as MLAs and Assembly committees, as well as the wider public sector.

Duncan McVicar's policy brief is available here:

http://www.niassembly.gov.uk/globalassets/documents/raise/knowledge_exchange/briefing_papers/series6/mcvicar250117.pdf

CHaRMS Seminar - December 13th 2016

"Disparities in Consumer Health and Well-being: Research on the Role of Marketing"

Sonya Grier (American University – Kogod School of Business)

Tuesday December 13th, 16:00-17:00 Lecture Room 4, Queen’s Management School

Further Details

Seminar on Structural Equation Modelling in the Quantitative Methodological Forum

Friday 9th December 1300 - Centre of Public Health (Seminar Room 02 024, Level 2 of the ICSB building, Royal Victoria Hospital), Queen’s University Belfast

Dr Jianjun Tang

Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) is a statistical modelling technique that measures latent variables, i.e. those constructs that are known to exist but cannot be directly observed, and their relationships with observed variables within an integrated framework. It was first applied in psychological studies but has been extended to a wide range of fields including economics, behavioural sciences and public health. During the seminar, Dr Tang will introduce the basic principles of SEM, followed by two examples illustrating its applications in the area of public health.

Northern Ireland Longitudinal Study 10th Anniversary Event

Canada Room, Lanyon Building, Queen's University Belfast

5th December 2016

The Northern Ireland Longitudinal Study Research Support Unit (NILS-RSU) invites you to a celebration of the 10th Anniversary of the Northern Ireland Longitudinal Study (NILS) to be held at Queen’s University Belfast on December 5th 2016.
 
This unique dataset, established in 2006, and supported and funded by the NI Statistics and Research Agency, the Economic and Social Research Council and the Public Health Agency has grown rapidly over the past decade and now incorporates four Censuses as well as a wealth of information on births, deaths and migration events. Over 100 projects are in progress, or have been completed, with users drawn from NI, Great Britain, Continental Europe and the United States.
 
The day starts at 09:30 with registration followed by three introductory talks, and two morning sessions outlining the range of significant research that was made possible by the NILS.  The afternoon session looks forward to developments over the next five years and to the ways in which the NILS can continue to grow.  Lunch and tea/coffee are provided, with the event ending at 15:30.  Details of speakers and presentations are provided in the accompanying event programme.  We very much hope to see you there.  
 
Please RVSP to rsu.nisra@finance-ni.gov.uk

9th Annual Economics and Psychology Conference

Riddell Hall, Queen's University Belfast

25th November 2016

The ninth annual one day conference on Economics and Psychology will be held on November 25th in Queen's University Belfast, jointly organised by researchers at CHaRMS, ESRI, Stirling and UCD. The purpose of these sessions is to develop the link between Economics, Psychology, and cognate disciplines throughout Ireland. A special theme of these events is the implications of behavioural economics for public policy. For details of how to register (there is no registration fee), see here. The programme is below:

Venue: Weston Lecture Theatre, Teaching Block, Riddel Hall

830am - 850am: Registration

850am Welcome

9am to 10.40am: Behavioural Science and Policy Case Studies (Chair: David Comerford)

Katja Fells (RWI) "Behavioral Economics and Energy Conservation – A Systematic Review of Innovative Interventions and their Causal Effects”.
Nicole Andelic (QUB) "Debt advice is better delivered face-to-face than via telephone".
Thomas Conway (NUIG): "Investigating the effects of the Great Recession on the mental health of Irish third-level students."
Mark McGovern (QUB) "Disparities in Early Life Investments and Children’s Time Use".
Cathal FitzGerald (DCU) "Surprisingly Rational? The Case of 100% Mortgages in Ireland in 2005".

10.40am to 11am: Coffee

Venue: Lecture Room 1, Riddel Hall

11am to 1pm:  Measurement, Method, and Behavioural Science (Chair: Pete Lunn)

Carla Prentice (QUB): "Time Discounting as a Mediator of the Relationship between Financial Stress and Health".
Seda Erdem (Stirling): "Discrete Choice Experiments and Behavioural Economics".
Aine Ni Choisdealbha (ESRI) "Harnessing habitual behaviour in the laboratory: an experiment on how busy consumers respond to environmental information".
Robert Murphy (Stirling/Irish Department of Health): "QALY measurement: The influence of providing patient information on the general population’s valuation of ill-health".
Marek Bohacek (ESRI) "Investigating a central mechanism of economic decision making: the ability to trade-off incommensurate attributes".
Danny Campbell (Stirling): "Discrete Choice Experiments and Behavioural Economics".

1pm to 140pm: Lunch

Venue: Weston Lecture Theatre, Teaching Block, Riddel Hall

140pm to 320 pm: Regulation, Policy, and Behavioural Science (Chair: Liam Delaney)

Clare Delargy (BIT): "Behavioural Insights and Public Policy".
Michael Daly (Stirling): "Self-control, health, and public policy".
Maureen Maloney and Alma McCarthy (NUIG): "Automatic enrolment and employee risk:  An analysis using a bounded rationality framework".
Leonhard Lades (Stirling) "Self-control, well-being, and normative measures of welfare".
Karl Purcell and Laura Watts (IGEES). "Behavioural Economics and Irish policy".

320pm to 330pm: Coffee

330pm to 415pm: Keynote Speaker 1: Professor Muireann Quigley (Newcastle Law School) "Libertarian Paternalism & Nudging: On Alluring Concepts Public Policy".

415pm to 5pm: Keynote Speaker 2: Professor Michelle Baddeley (UCL) "Experts in a Policy World: Behavioural economic insights for improving expert advice to policy-makers and regulators".

Biennial Seminar on Improving People Performance in Healthcare: Managing Health Care Professionals in Extreme Jobs and a Changing Context

Queen's University Belfast

26th August 2016

Following an intensive interuniversity cooperation between King’s College London (KCL), Dublin City University (DCU), the Institute of Health Policy and Management (iBMG), Erasmus University Rotterdam, department of Human Resource Studies (HRS), Tilburg University, the Open Universiteit of the Netherlands (OUNL) and now Utrecht University and Queens University, we proudly announce the seminar on Improving People Performance in Healthcare: Managing health care professionals in extreme jobs and a changing context, which will be held at Queens University, location Belfast on Friday the 26th of August 2016.
 
During this seminar HRM researchers and practitioners will present and discuss their latest (research) findings on approaches for improving employee performance in health care by paying particular attention to the extreme jobs they possess and the constantly changing environment. The research will cover topics like strategic HRM, HR innovations in health care, leadership and HRM in changing contexts. We invite BOTH RESEARCHERS AND PRACTITIONERS to join this seminar and share ideas on this subject.
 
More details about the program can be found in the attachment.

Workshop on Methods for Missing Data

Room B04, 43 Gordon Square, Kings Cross, London WC1H 0PD
Birkbeck, University of London

15th and 16th September 2016

Summary of workshop

This workshop aims to:

• Provide an introduction to the issues raised by missing data with particular emphasis on missing
not at random;
• Briefly introduce ad-hoc methods and principled methods;
• Briefly introduce pattern mixture models;
• Introduce and discuss sample selection models;
• Illustrate the use of SemiParBIVProbit to deal with missing not at random;
• Case studies from DHS studies, ageing studies and cost effectiveness analyses.

Workshop timetable

Thursday 15 September

10:00-10:15 Introduction (ALL)
10:15-11:00 Missing Mechanisms, Ad-Hoc and Principled Methods (GH)
11:00-11:30 Introduction to Pattern Mixture Models (MG)
11:30-11:45 Break
11:45-12:45 Sample Selection Models and Variants: Part I (GM/RR)
12:45-14:00 Lunch
14:00-14:45 Sample Selection Models and Variants: Part II (GM/RR)
14:45-15:15 Introduction to R Package SemiParBIVProbit (GM/RR)
15:15-15:30 Break
15:30-16:30 Practicals with SemiParBIVProbit (ALL)
Friday 16 September
10:00-10:30 Missing data in ageing studies (MM)
10:30-11:00 Missing data in DHS studies (or South Africa work) (GH)
11:00-11:15 Break
11:15-11:45 Missing data in cost-effectiveness analyses (MG)
11:45-12:15 Designing survey to incorporate sample selection approaches (MM)
12:15-13:00 Interactive discussion (ALL)

Who will benefit and how

This workshop provides a practical introduction to the use of a very flexible class of sample selection models which can be useful to analysts and quantitative researchers whose analyses are affected by missing not at random. There will be plenty of opportunity for discussion with the course instructors on sample selection models (but not only) for analysing missing data, and help will be provided with interpreting results. Throughout, there will be a focus on the policy implications of missing data and potential solutions to this problem. The workshop will also be relevant for practitioners conducting surveys on topics which are likely to be affected by missing information, as we will discuss how to incorporate methods to adjust for data not missing at random into the way surveys are designed.

Prerequisites

Participants are expected to have some familiarity with R, as well as relevant statistical concepts such as linear regression.

Registration
The event is free but prior registration is required. To reserve a place, please contact Rosalba Radice r.radice@bbk.ac.uk and provide a brief explanation of your interest in the course and short CV.

Instructors

Rosalba Radice (Birkbeck, Department of Economics, Mathematics and Statistics)
http://www.ems.bbk.ac.uk/faculty/radice

Giampiero Marra (University College London, Department of Statistical Science)
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/statistics/people/giampieromarra

Manuel Gomes (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Department of Health Services Research and Policy)
http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/aboutus/people/gomes.manuel

Guy Harling (Harvard School of Public Health, Department of Global Health and Population)
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/guy-harling/

Mark McGovern (CHaRMS)
http://go.qub.ac.uk/MarkMcGovern

CHaRMS Launch Event

Weston Lecture Theatre, Teaching Block, Riddell Hall 4.00-5.30 pm

23rd September 2016

The Queen’s University Centre for HeAlth Research at the Management School (CHaRMS) are holding a launch event to introduce the work of the centre to policymakers and other researchers.  As part of this event, we will give an overview of the work being conducted in each of the Centre’s three main research streams, and discuss opportunities for collaboration within Queen’s and also with CHaRMS’ external collaborators. Invited speakers from Queen’s will present on two exciting new data initiatives (NICOLA and the ADRC-NI) and invited policy speakers will discuss the potential for engagement in Northern Ireland.
 
CHaRMS is an interdisciplinary research centre based at Queen’s Management School, Belfast. It aims to promote social, behavioural, and management science research into issues relating to health and other dimensions of human wellbeing. It focuses on 3 main themes: (1) health (2) employee wellbeing (3) population science. The Centre will bring together academic staff, graduate students, business leaders, and policymakers researching and practising in these areas from across the university, government, the private sector, policy institutions, and elsewhere.
 
The event programme will be :

  • Overview of research centre
  • CHaRMS research areas of interest
  • Potential new research data sources
    • Northern Ireland Cohort for Longitudinal Study of Ageing NICOLA
    • Administrative Data Research Centre for Northern Ireland (ADRC-NI)
  • Policy-relevant research
    • Anne Kilgallen, Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Dept of Health (NI)
    • Dr Janice Bailie, Assistant Director, HSC R&D Division, Public Health Agency

Refreshments will be provided after the event.
 
If you are interested in attending can you please inform us at declan.french@qub.ac.uk for catering purposes.