Andy Turner's MoSeS Meeting 2008-09-02 Web Page @ School of Geography, University of Leeds

Introduction
- Web Page about the MoSeS Technical Meeting on 2008-04-29.
- Contents
People
Documentation
Agenda
1. ESRC Research Resources Board Mid October
  - Want a document highlighting main NCeSS/MoSeS achievements and potential.
2. How do we measure MoSeS node impact?
  - Policy practitioner uptake
  - Discipline impact
3. Sustainabilty
Notes
- Potential end users of MoSeS demographic modelling
  - 3 types of user
    - Public sector
      - Local and Regional Regeneration
        
        Ecotowns
        
        Where are we going to put them?
        
        What is their impact on services and other communities?
      - Health and Social Services
        
        All Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) are potentially interested in MoSeS demographic forecasts.
        
        Interest specifically in elderly population group as these have a high demand for health and social care services.
        
        Problems with getting data from PCTs on the supply side.
        
        There is perhaps useful experience in NCeSS in dealing with NHS
        
        Obesity eLab
        
        Dexter Canoy
        
        Very interested in agent based simulation
        
        DAMES
        
        Richard Sinnott
        
        Rob has a friend Monica Temple(?) working on emergency response to health planning
      - Education
        
        More interest at the other end of the age spectrum.
        
        Mark has a meeting with some HEFCE people in October about University/Student populations
        
        Schools
    - Private companies
      - Retailers
    - Service sector companies doing geodemographic work
      - Dr. Foster
        
        Marc Farr
        
        The fat map?
- Knowledge Transfer
  - ESRC Knowledge Transfer Partnerships
  - ESRC Follow-On Funding (FOF) Scheme
    - FAQ
    - Possibility to get subsidised involvement for a Primary Care Trust (PCT) or an organisation like Education Leeds
    - NCeSS hub prepared to help with this.
      - Rob to look/ask for further information and distribute.
  - Turning MoSeS into a Service
    - There is interest from planners in turning MoSeS into a service and this is harmonious with modelling and simulation research objectives
    - This synergy will help this activity be sustainable.
    - The practice should develop new research outputs which in turn can be put into practice...
  - Need to develop a business case
    - NCeSS Hub prepared to help
  - ESRC Centre for Simulation and Modelling
    - Something grander
  - Discussion with ESRC are wanted to consider sustainability options to make the most of the NCeSS programme/investment
  - 4 PHD students on related work
    - ?
    - René Jordan
    - GENESIS person
    - Canadian
- GENESIS
  - more research focussed than MoSeS.
  - Risk that MoSeS work does not get fully used in anything other than further research.
  - Simulating small areas
  - Agent based modelling
  - This will draw in the population data from MoSeS and potentially feedback into the various dynamic simulation model components e.g migration
    - How many empty residences are there in an area?
      - Are they available - rentable/up for sale?
- Sustainability
  - Overlaps with Knowledge Transfer
  - Academic development fund from the University of Leeds
    - More teaching focussed
    - Interdisciplinary Institutes
  - We could target specifically geography funding as well as e-Social Science funding.
- We need to have a good level of security and develop trust in this security with the users.
- How to deliver to the results?
  - There are issues to do with the derived data
    - What ae we allowed to give away?
    - This is somewhat a grey area.
    - Need for approved researcher status?
- National Data Strategy (NDS)
- How to make further inroads into the interested community.
- What else to go into the two pages?
  - Workflow of how someone gets some population data and visualisations
  - List High profile presentation/publication of MoSeS
    - AAG
    - BBC Radio 5
- EU Asia Grid
  - An exercise in transferring the modelling techniques of MoSeS.
  - It should be straightforward to run MoSeS on EGEE.
  - What is hard is to deal with the specific types of data.
- How easy is it to do demographic modelling for other countries?
  - There is a continuum from little or poor state provision/collection of demographic data to state collection that is far better that of the UK, for example Sweden, where there is a registration system.
- Miscellaneous
  - Geographical Magazine Article August by Mike Batty and Mark Birkin
Actions
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References
- Andy Turner's MoSeS Meeting Web Page

Andy Turner's MoSeS Meeting 2008-09-02 Web Page

Introduction

People

Documentation

Agenda

Notes

Actions

References

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