Professor Ian Plewis

Professor of Social Statistics

Tel: 0161 306 6952
Fax: 0161 275 4722
ian.plewis@manchester.ac.uk

Room G30
CCSR
School of Social Sciences
Humanities Bridgeford Street
University of Manchester
MANCHESTER
M13 9PL

Ian Plewis joined CCSR as Professor of Social Statistics in September 2007 having previously worked at the Centre for Longitudinal Studies, Institute of Education, University of London since 1999 where he was Professor of Longitudinal Research Methods in Education and where he now holds a visiting professorship. He is currently Chair of the Social Statistics Section of the Royal Statistical Society and is a Fellow of the Centre for Multilevel Modelling, University of Bristol.

Current projects:

• Predicting and Preventing Non-Response in Cohort Studies

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• International Centre for Life Course Studies in Society and Health (ICLS)
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Research Interests

• The design and analysis of longitudinal studies.
• Multilevel modelling as applied to longitudinal data.
• Non-response, missing data and measurement error.
• Educational inequalities.

 

Recently completed projects:

• Changing Economic Circumstances in Childhood and their Effects on Subsequent Educational and other Outcomes (funded by Department for Work and Pensions).

Publications

Plewis, I., Hawkes, D. "Modelling non-response in the National Child Development Study." Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A 169, no. 3(2006) : 479-491.
Plewis, I., Fielding, A. "What is multi-level modelling for? A critical response to Gorard." British Journal of Educational Studies 51, no. 4(2003) : 408-419.
Plewis, I. "Modelling impact heterogeneity." Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A 165, no. 1(2002) : 31-38.
Plewis, I. "Explanatory models for relating growth processes." Multivariate Behavioral Research 36, no. 2(2001) : 207-226.