PhD Supervisors and PhD Research Areas

Mark Elliot: Confidentiality; privacy and disclosure; Relationships and relationship structures; Quantitative Criminology; The measurement of risk; Citizenship models of the information society; cross-disciplinary Computer and Social Science

Ed Fieldhouse: Inequalities in political and civic engagement; Geography of voting and turnout; Political integration of immigrants and minorities; Election campaigning

Vanessa Gash: Economic sociology; Comparative industrial relations; Empirical Employment Studies; Household Structures and Family Formation; Poverty and welfare states

Wendy Olsen: Employment Strategies of Poorer Workers; Gender and Pay in European Countries; Self-Employment as a Way to Manage Time Flexibly (Time Use Study); Statistical Ways to do Gender Evaluation; Microfinance and Its Evolution; Mothers and 'Young Lives' in India; Causality and Causal Heterogeneity

Mark Tranmer: Social Network Analysis; Social Network and geographical variations in social outcomes; Statistical Models for social networks; Multilevel models in Geographical Analysis. Combining Data. Statistical Analysis with Realistically Complex Models. Civic engagement.