{"id":99,"date":"2016-12-01T15:11:24","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T15:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/educationandsociety\/?p=99"},"modified":"2017-01-10T15:17:07","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T15:17:07","slug":"lifelong-education-and-lifelong-social-mobility-research-using-birth-cohorts-data-spanning-75-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/educationandsociety\/2016\/12\/01\/lifelong-education-and-lifelong-social-mobility-research-using-birth-cohorts-data-spanning-75-years\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Lifelong education and lifelong social mobility: research using birth cohorts data spanning 75 years\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Research group meeting on <strong>Wednesday, 7 December, 1-2 pm, Conference Room 2.15 CMB<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lindsay Paterson, Professor of Education, will discuss the design of a new collaborative research project:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lindsay Paterson: \u2018Lifelong education and lifelong social mobility: research using birth cohorts data spanning 75 years\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I will describe the design of a project that compares three Scottish birth cohorts \u2013 people born in 1936, 1958 and 1970 \u2013 looking at their educational opportunities and their social mobility. The research questions are:<\/p>\n<p>(1) Has educational inequality diminished across the three cohorts, and, if so, is that mainly because the overall level of educational participation has risen?<\/p>\n<p>(2) Has social mobility been driven by changes in the occupational structure, rather than by changes in the strength of association of origins and destinations?<\/p>\n<p>(3) Do the answers to questions (1) and (2) vary across the life course?<\/p>\n<p>(4) Has the importance of adult education diminished in importance across these three cohorts, as the formal education system has expanded and become increasingly inclusive of all types of pupil?<\/p>\n<p>However, answering these will be for the future: all that I can describe at this stage is the research design. In particular, I will describe the process of getting access to the data for the 1936 cohort which is complex, and involves working closely with the National Records of Scotland.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research group meeting on Wednesday, 7 December, 1-2 pm, Conference Room 2.15 CMB Lindsay Paterson, Professor of Education, will discuss the design of a new collaborative research project: &nbsp; Lindsay Paterson: \u2018Lifelong education and lifelong social mobility: research using birth cohorts data spanning 75 years\u2019 I will describe the design of a project that compares&nbsp; &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/educationandsociety\/2016\/12\/01\/lifelong-education-and-lifelong-social-mobility-research-using-birth-cohorts-data-spanning-75-years\/\">&#8230;Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/educationandsociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/educationandsociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/educationandsociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/educationandsociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/educationandsociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/educationandsociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/educationandsociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions\/105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/educationandsociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/educationandsociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/educationandsociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}