PhD Supervisors and PhD Research Areas
Tarani Chandola: Social determinants of health and health inequalities; work stress and health; longitudinal cohort data studies.
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.
Johan Koskinen: Social network analysis; boundary specification issues, sampling on networks and missing data in networks; competing models for accounting for network dependency; social influence and selection models; Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods (theory and application); multilevel models; Bayesian analysis for social science.
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.
James Nazroo: Inequalities and health inequalities; ethnicity and race; ageing; comparative methods and mixed methods.
Ian Plewis: Design and analysis of longitudinal studies; data quality; multilevel modelling; changes through the life course; educational inequalities.
Kingsley Purdam: Public consultation; governance and citizen engagement; behaviour change, evidence and policy making.
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.