Select Committee on Science and Technology Written Evidence


Annex A

LIST OF TOPICS FOR JOINT WORKING

ESRC GROWING OLDER RESEARCH PROGRAMME ON EXTENDING QUALITY LIFE

  DWP Minister, Malcolm Wicks, gave a keynote speech at ESRC's Growing Older Programme Closing Conference last December and results from the programme have actively fed into Departmental thinking.

CROSS COUNCIL PROGRAMME ON AGEING—THE NEW DYNAMICS OF AGEING

  DWP will actively engage with this programme, building on the Growing Older Programme mentioned above, and we are currently consulting with the Programme Director on formalising our involvement.

ESRC—NATIONAL CENTRE FOR RESEARCH METHODS

  DWP, together with the Government Chief Social Researcher, is engaging with this new centre particularly in respect of its agenda to cooperate with government on research methods and training.

NATIONAL DATASET STRATEGY

  This initiative is timely given the Department's advances in the use of administrative data. We shall be closely involved with the data strategy to help further shape the use of large scale surveys for analytical purposes.

LONGITUDINAL DATA AND COHORT STUDIES

  The Department has long been an active contributor to the various data collection initiatives established by or with the engagement of ESRC—BHPS, Millennium Cohort and in the past NCDS etc. Longitudinal data forms a very important part of DWP's analytical and policy making capability across the range of life cycle issues and we are continuing to discuss potential collaboration, including a Wealth and Assets survey.





 
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