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2009
December 14th-15th	Youth Inequalities Conference Schedule Conference Presentations: Hanna Ayalon and Idit Livneh: Curriculum Implementation and Gender Differences in Mathematics Achievement: A Comparative Study Li Chunling: Expansion of Higher Education and Educational Inequality in China Robert E. Floden: Inequalities in the Preparation of Teachers: A Cross-National Perspective Colm Harmon: The Impact of Parental Income and Education on the Schooling of their Children Maciej Jakubowski: Income and test score inequalities Gerbert Kraaykamp and Natascha Notten: Parential Media Socialization Activities And Enrollment in Higher Education Gerald K. LeTendre and Mary Osif: Access to High Quality Instruction: Trans-National Trends and National Policy Initiatives Anne McDaniel and Claudia Buchmann: Gender Inequality in Higher Education: Trends and Prospects from a Cross-National Perspective Dorren McMahon and Carol Ann MacGregor: Caveat Lector: Problems with the Measurement of Educational Attainment in Cross-National Surveys Veruska Oppedisano and Gilberto Turati: What are the Causes of Educational Inequalities and of their Evolution over Time in Europe? Evidence from PISA Fabian Pfeffer: Equality and Quality in Education Péter Róbert, Dorren McMahon and Karen Robson: A Cross-National Comparison of the Forms of Capital on Student Achievement Karen Robson and Dorren McMahon: Becoming NEET in Europe: A Comparison of Predictors and Later-Life Outcomes Joanna Sikora: Ambitious Adolescents: Occupational Expectations and Attainment of Young Australians
December 11th-12th	ECSR Conference: Changing societies in the context of European Union enlargement, Paris.
November 20th	Where to Now? Migrant Communities and the University, at the Geary Institute.
November 9th	Education across the Life Course, A symposium of education research at the Geary Institute.
November 6th-7th	International workshop on Education in Adulthood and the Labour Market, IAB, Nuremberg
September 28th-30th	European Conference on Educational Research (ECER), Vienna: Theory and Evidence in European Educational Research. Dorren Mc Mahon will present “The Double Whammy: The Impact of Social Origins and School Systems on Educational Transitions in Europe and the USA”. Péter Róbert will present “Participation and Non-participation of Adults in Formal Education and Training: A Cross-national Comparison”.
September 14th-16th	Both Péter Róbert and Veruska Oppedisano will attend the PISA Research Conference. Kiel. Péter will present “Immigrant Student Investigation in PISA 2006: A Call for a More Nuanced Examination” a paper co-authored with Steve Song. Veruska will present a paper on “Private School Quality: a Cross Country Comparison”.
September 10th-12th	Veruska Oppedisano will present: “Private School Quality: a cross country comparison” at the European Association Labour Economists, Annual Conference, Tallinn.
September 10th-12th	EU FP6 Lifelong Learning 2010 project meeting, Nottingham.
August 3rd-6th	ISA RC28 Summer 2009 Meeting: “Mobility and Inequality Intergenerational and Life Course Perspectives”, will take place at Yale University, New Haven.
July 7th	Ministerial launch of the Duke Engage Programme by Minister for Integration, John Curran, T.D. at the Geary Institute.
June 11th-13th	Equalsoc EDUC Research group Conference: Education, Social Mobility and Social Cohesion, Tallinn Estonia.
June-August	Visitors Professor Suzanne Shanahan (Duke University) and Professor Bill Tobin (North Carolina University of Law and Duke University) along with eight Duke University students visited Geary as part of the Duke Engage Programme in collaboration with Dr. Dorren Mc Mahon.
May 28th	Visit to the Geary Institute by Professor Laura O’Toole from the Sociology Department, Roanoke College, Virginia.
May 13th	Mary Doyle and Péter Róbert attended a Barnardos seminar to launch the report ‘Written Out, Written Off’. Presentations were made by Deirdre Purcell, Dr. Emer Smyth and Dr. Selina McCoy of the ESRI, Prof. Paul Connolly of Queens University, Belfast and Norah Gibbins of Barnardos.
April 24th-25th	Dorren Mc Mahon and Péter Róbert presented “Self-Perceptions of class: Evidence from cross-national surveys” at the Global Network on Inequality (GNI) Meeting 2009, Princeton.
April 20th-22nd	Steve Song presented “Educational Policy and Schooling Experience of Immigrant Children: A Case Study of the Irish Education System” at the Children and the European Union: Legal, Political and Research Perspectives Conference, University of Liverpool.
April 7th	Veruska Oppedisano presented "Private School quality: a cross country comparison” as part of the Geary Institute Behavioural Seminar Series 2008-2009 at the Geary Institute, UCD.
April 2nd-3rd	Veruska Oppedisano attended the IFS Residential Conference 2009: Education Policy in the 21st Century, Cambridge.
April 1st-7th	Professor Kathleen Kiernan and Professor John Hobcraft from the University of York visited the Geary Institute as guests of the Marie Curie project.
March 26th-27th	Péter Róbert presented “Intergenerational Mobility in Post-Socialist Societies” at the EQUALSOC EDUC/INCDIS Meeting on the Potential of the EU-SILC Intergenerational Module held at the ESRI, Dublin.
March 12th-14th	Péter Róbert presented “Social origin, school choice, and student performance” at the International Seminar on Education Markets, Geneva.
March 5th	Dorren Mc Mahon and Mary Doyle attended the International Women’s Day Conference: ‘Strengthening the Voices of Migrant Women’ hosted by AkiDwA and Women from Minorities Network at the Mansion House, Dawson Street, Dublin.
February 27th- March 6th	Dorren Mc Mahon visitor at the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University, Durham.
February 27th	Steve Song presented “Educational Policy and Schooling Experience of Immigrant Children: A Case Study of the Irish Education System” at Comparative Perspective on Immigration and Education Policy Class, Harvard Graduate School of Education.
February 20th-22nd	Péter Róbert and Dorren Mc Mahon presented “The Double Whammy: The Impact of Social Origins and School Systems on Educational Transitions in Europe and the USA” at the 2009 The Sociology of Education Association (SEA) Conference: ‘Moving up or Moving out? Social Inequality in Educational Transitions’, Asilomar, California.
February 2nd	The members of the Marie Curie Excellence project “Youth Inequalities” were delighted to welcome Dr. Veruska Oppedisano of the University of Turin; and Mary Doyle to the project.
2008
October 29th	Steve Song presented “Mixed Methods Inquiry: Theory and Practice in the Field of Social Science” as part of the Centre for Behaviour and Health Qualitative Research Methods Seminar Series, at the Geary Institute, UCD.
October 7th	Dorren Mc Mahon and Steve Song presented “Immigrant Student Education in Ireland: The Emergence of Segregated Schooling” at the Immigration Workshop, University of Chicago, Chicago.
September 5th-8th	RC25 Conference in Barcelona. Dorren Mc Mahon and Carol Ann MacGregor (Princeton) presented Measuring Vocational and ‘Second Chance’ Educational Attainment in Cross-National Surveys: A Comparison of the European Community Household Panel and the Luxembourg Income Study”.
August 6th-9th	RC28 Conference at Stanford University in California. Karen Robson presented “Mental Health and Income among Post-16 students in the United Kingdom: The Role of Social Background”.
August-September	The members of the Marie Curie Excellence project “Youth Inequalities” were delighted to welcome Carol Ann MacGregor from Princeton University as a visitor. Sh e will be working alongside Dorren Mc Mahon on various projects.
July 21st-24th	Steve Song attended the 4th Annual International Mixed Methods Conference at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.
July 2008	Dorren Mac Mahon sat on the PhD defence committee at the Department of Sociology, Harvard for student Zoua Vang.
July 9th-11th	8th International Socio-Economic Panel User Conference at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung - Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB).
June 30th- July 3rd	ESRC Research Methods Festival at St. Catherine's College Oxford. Karen Robson presented: “Software for data management: The contribution of Stata”. Colm Harmon and Liam Delaney from the Geary Institute also presented.
June 9th-13th	ESF-LiU Conference: The Transfer of Resources across generations: Family, income, human capital and children's wellbeing. Karen Robson presented “Changes in Family Structure and the Well-being of British Children: The Role of Family Social Capital as a Moderator”.
May 15th-18th	RC28 Conference at the European University Institute in Florence. Peter Robert presented “Educational segregation and educational achievement. A comparative analysis of PISA and TIMSS data” while also chairing a session “Classes and status in comparison”. Karen Robson presented “A Cross National Comparison of the Forms of Capital on Student Achievement” with Dorren Mc Mahon.
May 2nd	Karen Robson attended the BHPS: British Household Panel Survey User Group meeting at the Royal Statistical Society (Errol Street, London, EC1Y 8LX).
April 11th-12th	Equalsoc conference Berlin. Dorren Mc Mahon and Péter Róbert attended.
February 21st-24th	Dorren Mc Mahon and Karen Robson presenting papers at the Global Network on Inequality (GNI) Mini-Conference, New York. Dorren presented a paper on Cross-national differences in the returns to skills. Karen presented “Becoming NEET in Europe: A Comparison of Predictors and Later-Life Outcomes”. Dorren presented a paper on the integration of Irish immigrants at the Eastern Sociological Society (ESS) Conference in New York. She also chaired a session on cross-national studies
February 15th-20th	Dorren Mc Mahon visitor at the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University, Durham.
February 5th	The members of the Marie Curie Excellence project “Youth Inequalities” are delighted to welcome Professor Péter Róbert from Eötvös Lóránd University and TÁRKI Social Research Center, Budapest to the project.

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