About Social Statistics
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Social Statistics – the newest discipline area within the School of Social Sciences and one of very few such groupings in the UK – has an academic staff of over twenty (including five Professors) and a large complement of PhD students through its close relationship with the Centre for Census and Survey Research (CCSR). All the academic staff are also members of either CCSR or the Institute for Social Change.
We offer a Masters degree in Social Research Methods and Statistics and we are recognised by the Economic and Social Research Council as a research training outlet. We also offer, in conjunction with CCSR, more than thirty different short courses in statistical and survey methods and in the application of statistical packages to substantive problems. We are developing our undergraduate teaching as part of the School’s programmes.
The focus of our research activity, supported by flourishing research groups, is on the development and application of statistical methods for longitudinal and multilevel data, the quality of longitudinal survey data, social networks, problems of statistical disclosure and confidentiality, and small area estimation.
The social statistics discipline area is one of three statistics groupings in the university and we have close links to our colleagues in the schools of mathematics and medicine.