Our people
More about the researchers, lecturers and support staff that make up our Social Statistics department.
Teaching and research staff
Dr Nikita Basov
Senior Lecturer in Network Analysis
Research specialisms: social networks, semantic networks, material networks; meaning; knowledge structures; mixed methods; social and cultural mechanisms.
Alice Bloom
Research Associate
Dr Mark Brown
Reader
Research specialisms: demography and survey methods.
Dr Jennifer Buckley
Research Associate
Dr Alexandru Cernat
Senior Lecturer
Research specialisms: survey methodology, new forms of data, longitudinal data analysis, latent variable modelling.
Prof Jackie Carter
Professor of Statistical Literacy, Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences
Research specialisms: data literacy, statistical literacy, experiential learning.
Dr Georgia Chatzi
Research Associate
Research specialisms: social and health inequalities, ageing and well-being, missing data and advanced quantitative methods.
Dr Rihab Dahab
Research Associate
Prof Angela Dale
Professor Emerita
Jill Ebrey
Research specialisms: ethnographic research, community, local cultural policy, participatory research methods, inequalities, social practices, ageing societies and policy.
Prof Mark Elliot
Professor of Data Science
Research specialisms: privacy, anonymisation, synthetic data, environmental attitudes and behaviours, fathering, data science methodology.
Dr Eduardo Fé
Senior Lecturer in Social Statistics
Research specialisms: causal Inference, microeconometrics, retirement and old age, experimental economics/psychology.
Dr Tina Hannemann
Lecturer in Social Statistics
Research specialisms: mortality, morbidity and health, fertility and family formation processes, survey design and survival analysis.
Prof Todd Hartman
Professor of Quantitative Social Science
Research specialisms: computational social science; survey and experimental design, political psychology (attitudes and belief systems; authoritarianism).
Dr Vanessa Higgins
Senior Research Fellow
Research specialisation: data literacy, data services, survey research, obesity, health inequalities.
Dr Yinxuan Huang
Research Associate
Dr Jools Kasmire
Research Associate
Research specialisation: computational social science, text-mining, synthetic data and agent-based modelling.
Dr Tatjana Kecojevic
Lecturer in Social Statistics
Dr Jihye Kim
Lecturer in Social Statistics
Research specialisms: employment, child labour, youth labour, South Asia, gender, international development, Bayesian statistics.
Dr Sook Kim
Lecturer in Social Statistics
Dr Sarah King-Hele
Research Fellow
Research specialisation: data literacy, survey research, personal religiosity.
Dr Ioana Macoveciuc
Lecturer in Social Statistics
Research specialisms: forensic anthropology, human identification, evidence admissibility, data science and the criminal justice system, quantitative methodologies.
Dr Diarmuid McDonnell
Research Associate
Dr Robert Meckin
Lecturer in Social Statistics
Research specialisation: Science and society, emerging technologies, responsible innovation, interdisciplinarity, qualitative and creative methodologies.
Dr Kathrin Morosow
Lecturer in Social Statistics
Research specialisms: family demography, social policy, inequality, labour market outcomes.
Prof Wendy Olsen
Professor of Socio-Economics, Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences
Research specialisms: socio-economics, employment, social institutions, gender, South Asia, time-use research.
Prof Maria Pampaka
Senior Research Fellow
Dr Diego Perez Ruiz
Teaching Associate
Prof Ian Plewis
Emeritus Professor
Dr Kingsley Purdam
Reader
Dr Simon Rudkin
Senior Lecturer in Data Science
Research specialisms: data science, topological data analysis, welfare, policy evaluation.
Dr Diego Pérez Ruiz
Lecturer in Social Statistics
Prof Natalie Shlomo
Professor of Social Statistics, Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences
Research specialisms: survey statistics, survey methodology.
Dr Nick Shryane
Lecturer in Social Statistics
Research specialisms: measurement modelling; psychometrics; latent factor analysis; latent class analysis; structural equation modelling; growth modelling.
Dr Duncan Smith
Honorary Research Fellow
Dr Yan Wang
Lecturer in Social Statistics
Research specialisms: political communication, public opinion, social welfare, causal inference, data science.
Dr Arkadiusz Wisniowski
Professor of Social Statistics and Demography
Research specialisms: migration and mobility, modelling and forecasting, time series, Bayesian methods, opinion polls, ageing.
Dr George Wood
Lecturer in Social Statistics
Research specialisms: causal inference, computational social science, policy evaluation, social inequality.
Dr Nan Zhang
Senior Lecturer in Medical Sociology and Social Gerontology
Research specialisms: ageing, health inequality, intergenerational relationships, life course theory, China and Chinese diasporas.