Library Researchers' Series
Supporting the below United Nations Sustainable Development Goals:支持以下聯合國可持續發展目標：支持以下联合国可持续发展目标：
About the Webinar:
Professor Cameron Campbell (SOCS) and Professor James Lee (SOSC) lead a research group that works on population, family and social history via construction and analysis of historical datasets from archival records. Cameron Campbell will tell the story of their decades of experience constructing, analyzing, and sharing their datasets. He will share their experience with data management issues including data entry and organization, ownership and sharing, public release and more.
For background, audience members may read the recent paper (click here) with James Lee in Historical Life Course Studies, Historical Chinese Microdata. 40 Years of Dataset Construction by the Lee-Campbell Research Group
About the Speaker:
Cameron Campbell is Professor in the Division of Social Science at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and director of the Quantitative Social Analysis undergraduate program. His research focuses on stratification and inequality, especially in China and in comparative perspective. With other members of the Lee-Campbell group, he is conducting a study of the Qing civil service and the careers of civil officials by construction and analysis of a database of personnel records of office holders that currently covers the period 1830 to 1912. He also participates in other Lee-Campbell Group projects related to the study of the origins of educational elites in China from the Qing to the present by construction and analysis of large databases. He earned his PhD at the University of Pennsylvania and his Bachelor's Degree at Caltech. In 2017, he was named a Changjiang Scholar by the PRC Ministry of Education, with an appointment at Central China Normal University. He was named a Guggenheim Fellow in 2004.
Registration: https://library.ust.hk/ce/event/7383
- The Zoom meeting ID will be sent to registrants at 5pm, 1 day before the session.
- 1.0 hours will be counted toward the course requirement of IDPO 6770, PDEV 6770A, PDEV 6770C, PDEV 6770D and PDEV6770E.
For inquiry, please contact lbrs@ust.hk