This conference will focus on the use of MAIHDA – Multilevel Analysis of Individual Heterogeneity and Discriminatory Accuracy – as a method for uncovering and understanding intersectional inequalities . MAIHDA has become widely used, both in social epidemiology where it was first proposed, and in other disciplines across the social sciences, and has been described as a gold-standard approach for quantitative evaluation of inequalities. The approach has been extended to consider causal effects, longitudinal data, spatial data, and more. There have also been a number of critiques of the method, considering both its statistical properties and its relationship with intersectional theory.

This conference will explore those issues, showcasing methodological advances and extensions of MAIHDA, advanced applications, and consideration and critique of MAIHDA and its goals. The conference will bring together academics from a range of substantive disciplines to think more deeply about the method and what it does and does not achieve. It will be of interest to researchers interested in quantitative approaches to intersectionality and multiplicative social inequalities. There will be poster presentations for those who wish to present their own MAIHDA (or MAIHDA-related) work.

The keynote speaker for the conference will be Dr Clare Evans at the University of Oregon, who first conceived of MAIHDA in her 2015 doctoral dissertation, and has been central to its development and application since then.

If you would like to present a poster please email y.gao@sheffield.ac.uk along with a +200 word abstract.