Social Statistics staff in the School of Social Sciences

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

Lecturer in Social Statistics

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 Fellow

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.


Prof Philip Leifeld

Professor of Social Statistics


Dr Diarmuid McDonnell
Research Associate


Dr Robert Meckin
Senior 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
Professor


Dr Diego Perez Ruiz
Lecturer in Social Statistics


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
Senior 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 Jiyao Sun

Teaching Associate


Dr Yan Wang
Lecturer in Social Statistics

Research specialisms: political communication, public opinion, social welfare, causal inference, data science.


Prof Arkadiusz Wisniowski
Professor of Social Statistics and Demography

Research specialisms: migration and mobility, modelling and forecasting, time series, Bayesian methods, opinion polls, ageing.


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.