Professor Angela Dale
CCSR Director

Room  G29
CCSR
School of Social Sciences
Kantorovich Building
Humanities Bridgeford Street
University of Manchester
MANCHESTER, M13 9PL
	

Angela Dale is Professor of Quantitative Social Research at the University of Manchester and was the founding Director of the Centre for Census and Survey Research. She was Director of the ESRC’s Research Methods Programme from 2002-8 and is currently heading one of the 'value-added' arms of the new Economic and Social Data Service - that responsible for large-scale government surveys. She is also Director of a new University initiative, Methods@Manchester.

She is an Academician of the Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences (AcSS) and was awarded an OBE for services to social science in the 2006 New Year Honours List.

Current Research Projects

• Ethnic differences in employment patterns: gender and generational change: www.ccsr.ac.uk/rschproj/ethnic.htm
• Ethnic differences in diet, physical activity and obesity

Research interests

• women's employment, with particular respect to ethnic differences and strategies for combining work and family life
• the role of qualifications in women's careers
• household formation, change and diversity
• secondary analysis of survey and census microdata and issues around data release

Recent Publications

Ahmed, S. and Dale, A. (2008) Pakistani and Bangladeshi Women’s Labour Market Participation - CCSR Paper 2008-01
Dale, A. (2006). "Quality in Social Research." International Journal of Social Research Methodology 9(2): 79-82.
Dale, A. (2006). "Quality issues with survey research." International Journal of Social Research Methodology 9(2): 143-158.
Dale, A. (2009) ‘Family and employment: ethnic differences across the life course’ in R. Crompton et al (eds) Gender Inequalities in the 21st Century: New Barriers and Continuing Constraints, Edward Elgar
Dale, A. (2009) Comment on Current Debates in Methodology in Twenty-First Century Society, Vol. 4, 2, pp.119-22
Dale, A. and Ahmed, S. (2008) Migration, marriage and employment amongst Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi residents in the UK - CCSR Paper 2008-02
Dale, A., J. Lindley, et al. (2006). "Ethnic differences in women's employment: the changing role of qualifications." Oxford Economic Papers 58(2): 351-378.
Dale, A., Lindley, J. and Dex, S. (2006) A life-course perspective on ethnic differences in women’s economic activity in Britain, European Sociological Review, 2006 22: 459-476;
Dale, A., J. Lindley, et al. (2008). Ethnic differences in women’s labour market activity. Women and Employment, eds. J. Scott, S. Dex and H. Joshi. Cheltenham, Edward Elgar.
Dale, A., J. Wathan, V. Higgins (2008). The Secondary Analysis of Quantitative Data Sources. The Sage Handbook of Social Research Methods, eds. P. Alasuutari, L. Bickman and J. Brannen. London, SAGE: 520-535.
Higgins, V. and Dale, A (2009) Ethnic Differences in Physical Activity and Obesity - CCSR Paper 2009-05
Lindley, J., A. Dale, et al. (2006). "Ethnic Differences in Women's Employment: The changing role of qualifications." Oxford Economic Papers 58(2): 351-378.