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Collaborative Analysis of Offenders’ Personal and Area-Based Social Exclusion

Principal Investigator – Dr Max Craglia formerly University of Sheffield
Contact – Dr Bridgette Wessels b.wessels @ sheffield.ac.uk
Website - http://www.shef.ac.uk/~scgisa/escience/home.htm

This project addressed two related social science research questions:

Are there measurable relationships between the characteristics of young people with difficulty, and the socio-economic and physical characteristics of the area they live in?
Are government policies addressing the multiple facets of social exclusion, including health, education, employment, and crime prevention, targeted in the areas that need them most, where young offenders live and most crimes are committed?

The key objectives were:

  • To demonstrate how grid technologies can be used to enhance the capacity to address substantive social science research questions
  • To produce a substantive research output based on the application
  • The development of grid technologies
  • To produce training output that can form part of a broader strategy aimed at demonstrating the application of grid technologies to the wider social science
  • To work collaboratively with computational scientists to build an interdisciplinary community of scientists who can carry forward and develop e-science within the social sciences

Presentations

P D F documentBuilding bridges between social science, grid, and geospatial communities: a reflection on practice
M. Craglia, Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, Italy
M. Griffiths, B. Wessels, A. Costello, University of Sheffield
1st International Conference on e-Social Science, Manchester, 22 - 24 June 2005

P D F documentSharing Techniques and Experience in a Collaborative e-Social Science Pilot Project
B. Wessels, R. Smith, University of Sheffield
M. Craglia, Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, Italy
1st International Conference on e-Social Science, Manchester, 22 - 24 June 2005

P D F documentCollaborative Analysis of Offenders' Personal and Area-Based Social Exclusion
M. Beaulieu, Y-H Kim, B. Wessels, University of Sheffield
NCeSS All Hands Meeting, Manchester, 5 – 6 July 2004

Publications

P D F documentBuilding bridges between social science, grid, and geospatial communities: a reflection on practice
M. Craglia, Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, Italy
M. Griffiths, B. Wessels, A. Costello, University of Sheffield
Published in the Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on e-Social Science, Manchester, 22 - 24 June 2005

P D F documentSharing Techniques and Experience in a Collaborative e-Social Science Pilot Project
B. Wessels, R. Smith, University of Sheffield
M. Craglia, Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, Italy
Published in the Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on e-Social Science, Manchester, 22 - 24 June 2005