Dr Gindo Tampubolon

I am on research leave in spring 2009 at the Harvard School of Public Health. My works are broadly in the area of social change. First, I have an ESRC grant [Tampubolon: PI, Mike Savage: Co-PI] to investigate social mobility in Britain over the last quarter of the century using latent growth models. This involves modelling dynamics of inter and intra-generational social class mobility. Additionally, there is an element of inter-cohort as well due to my use of two British cohorts: the National Child Development Study 1958 and the British Cohort Study 1970.

Another extension to standard social mobility study, besides investigating mobility intra-generationally, is to include factors prior to labour market entry which is done within a life course perspective.

Another area of my work draws ideas from the social network analysis. This has been fruitfully applied in the investigation of knowledge growth in some clinical innovations over the last 30 years. I intend to keep working on this separate area of innovation.

• Social mobility and the middle classes: latent growth models of class careers. (Tampubolon: PI, Mike Savage: co-PI). Funded by the ESRC.
• Ethnicity and health (James Nazroo: PI, Tampubolon: co-PI). Funded by the Newham Council.

Publications Database

Tampubolon, G. 2007. ‘Capitalist crises, social capital and the distribution of well-being.’ Paper presented at the Brooks World Poverty Institute Conference. Manchester 2–4 July.

Tampubolon, G. ‘Omnivorousness and voraciousness in cultural consumption in Britain 2001-2004.’ Sociological Review. Under review.

Tampubolon. G. 2007. ‘Revisiting omnivores in America circa 1990s: The exclusiveness of omnivores?’ Poetics. Forthcoming.

Tampubolon, G. 2007. ‘Distinction in Britain, 2001-2004? Unpacking homology and the aesthetics of the popular class.’ European Societies.

Mina, A. Ramlogan, R. Tampubolon, G. and Metcalfe. S. 2007. ‘Mapping evolutionary trajectories: Applications to the growth and transformation of medical knowledge.’ Research Policy.

Savage, M., Tampubolon, G. and Warde, A. 2007. ‘Social networks and social capital.’ In T. Blokland and M. Savage. (Eds.) Social Capital on the Ground. Ashgate.

Ramlogan, R., Mina, A. and Tampubolon, G. and Metcalfe. S. 2006. ‘Networks of knowledge: The distributed nature of medical innovation.’ Scientometrics.

Phd Students

I am interested in supervising research students working on mid-sized (about ten thousand nodes) social networks, applications of non-linear panel models in social change, and applications of sequence analysis in social sciences in general.
I supervise and advise PhD students on:

• Elite and QUANGOs in the UK. Dave Griffiths, Sociology.
• Dynamics of innovation in the Portuguese automotive industry. Joana Almodovar, Manchester Business School.
• Citizenship and political participation in Europe: analysis using the European Social Survey. Necla Acik-toprak. The Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research (CCSR)
• Geography and Cultural Capital, Paul Widdop, CCSR

Talk at CCSR, 8 April 2008