Programme
Woburn House. All times are local to the conference.
Wednesday 14 April 2027
Registration, coffee and badge collection
Foyer
Inequality and political behaviour
Welcome from the conference chairs
Beveridge Hall
Inequality and political behaviour
Plenary I — Prof. Amara Okonjo-Reid, “Measuring what we owe each other”
Beveridge Hall
Inequality and political behaviour
Coffee
Foyer
Inequality and political behaviour
Parallel 1A · Wealth and mobility. Housing wealth and the reproduction of class in three tenure regimes (Lindqvist); Does the mobility gap close at the top? (Park & Oduya); Regional divergence in the UK after levelling-up (Ahmed)
Room 1.02
Inequality and political behaviour
Parallel 1B · Democratic trust. Local recourse and national cynicism (Vermeulen); Turnout after a referendum defeat (Costa); Confidence in courts across twenty-eight democracies (Bianchi)
Room 1.05
Inequality and political behaviour
Parallel 1C · Methods. Weighting non-probability panels for attitude research (Nakamura); Reproducibility in register-data studies (Sørensen); Participatory coding with community researchers (Mbeki & Hall)
Room G.11 · streamed
Inequality and political behaviour
Lunch
Garden Room
Inequality and political behaviour
Parallel 2A · Work and care. Unpaid care hours and the pension gap (Ferrand); Platform drivers' bargaining repertoires (Okoye); Four-day weeks in the public sector (Halvorsen)
Room 1.02
Inequality and political behaviour
Parallel 2B · Education. Tracking age and later earnings (Weber); First-in-family students and belonging (Ruiz); School closures and attainment, five years on (Devlin)
Room 1.05
Inequality and political behaviour
Parallel 2C · Digital life. Moderation regimes and civic speech (Tran); Recommender exposure and political sorting (Iwasaki lab); Local news deserts and municipal accountability (Boateng)
Room G.11 · streamed
Inequality and political behaviour
Tea
Foyer
Inequality and political behaviour
PhD colloquium — eight twelve-minute papers with senior-scholar feedback, in two rooms
Rooms 1.02 & 1.05
Inequality and political behaviour
Welcome reception, with a short address from the host faculty dean
Garden Room
Inequality and political behaviour
Thursday 15 April 2027
Coffee and poster mounting
Foyer
Migration, health and publishing
Plenary II — Prof. Hendrik Vasquez, “Thin trust”
Beveridge Hall
Migration, health and publishing
Parallel 3A · Migration. Dispersal policy and labour-market entry (Kowalski); Remittances as household insurance (Silva); Second-generation identity in three cities (Yilmaz)
Room 1.02
Migration, health and publishing
Parallel 3B · Health and policy. Welfare conditionality and mental health (O'Rourke); Loneliness across the life course (Grigoryan); Evaluating a cash-first homelessness pilot (Marsh)
Room 1.05
Migration, health and publishing
Parallel 3C · Inequality. Inheritance flows and the wealth ceiling (Dubois); Food insecurity measurement revisited (Nasser); Energy poverty and household strategy (Kaur)
Room G.11 · streamed
Migration, health and publishing
Lunch and poster session (32 posters, authors present)
Garden Room
Migration, health and publishing
Invited panel — Publishing social science in the age of preprints and platforms
Beveridge Hall
Migration, health and publishing
Tea
Foyer
Migration, health and publishing
Plenary III — Dr Leila Farouk, “Arrival cities”
Beveridge Hall
Migration, health and publishing
Track chairs' roundtable: emerging questions for 2028
Room 1.05
Migration, health and publishing
Gala dinner and Best Paper shortlist announcement
Bloomsbury Suite
Migration, health and publishing
Friday 16 April 2027
Parallel 4A · Political behaviour. Deliberative minipublics and policy uptake (Lehtinen); Protest participation and generational replacement (Amara); Party membership decline in Central Europe (Novák)
Room 1.02
Methods, awards and workshops
Parallel 4B · Work in progress. Six short papers, ten minutes each, with a discussant per pair
Room 1.05
Methods, awards and workshops
Coffee
Foyer
Methods, awards and workshops
Plenary IV — Prof. Junko Iwasaki, “Big data, small claims”
Beveridge Hall
Methods, awards and workshops
Awards, thanks and close; invitation to ICSS 2028 in Lisbon
Beveridge Hall
Methods, awards and workshops
Lunch
Garden Room
Methods, awards and workshops
Workshop A — Survey experiments that survive replication (three hours, 25 places)
Room 1.02
Methods, awards and workshops
Workshop B — Text-as-data for interview corpora (three hours, 25 places)
Room G.11
Methods, awards and workshops
Workshop C — Writing for policy audiences (two hours, 30 places)
Room 1.05
Methods, awards and workshops
Optional walking tour: Bloomsbury and the founding of British social research
Meet in foyer
Methods, awards and workshops