Moving On Up – Social Mobility and Social Research15 December 2009

Event overview

Plenary and workshop sessions will be held on the following subjects:

• Measuring social mobility - methodological approaches and challenges
• Factors affecting social mobility - including education and training, ethnicity, child poverty, employment and the role of the third sector
• Social mobility trends - how social mobility has changed over time and policies/initiatives which have caused it to increase or deteriorate
• Conceptual issues - including the relationship between social mobility, equalities and equal opportunities
• Different perspectives - the different data sets, research and policy approaches to measuring and addressing social mobility across Britain and Ireland
• The international perspective - comparative approaches to measuring social mobility and learning lessons from elsewhere