Dr Jo Wathan
Research Fellow

Tel: 0161 275 4262
Fax: +44 (0) 161 275 4722
Email: Jo.Wathan@manchester.ac.uk

 	Room  G17
	CCSR
	School of Social Sciences
	Kantorovich Building
	Humanities Bridgeford Street
	University of Manchester
	MANCHESTER
	M13 9PL
	

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Jo Wathan joined CCSR in 1995 to under an ESRC studentship to work on the gendered division of paid labour between 1975 and 1996.  After a spell working in the School of Economic Studies at the University of Manchester undertaking a range of administrative, IT and demonstrator tasks she returned to CCSR and worked as a researcher on the Alternative Household Classifications project. More recently she has written material for teaching quantitative methods with the SARs as part of the Contemporary and Historical Census Collection Project (CHCC).

At present her time is spent supporting large social datasets. These are the Samples of Anonymised Records (SARs)and the large-scale government datasets. The latter is work done under the auspices of the Economic and Social Data Service.

Queries about the SARs can be directed to sars-helpdesk@man.ac.uk.

Current Research Projects

• Microdata, Research Facilities and Work Practice in the UK Social Science Community, July 2008 - June 2009

Research Interests

• Gender and employment
• Household composition and household change
• Quantitative methods (especially secondary analysis of government datasets)
• The census

Teaching

• SPSS for Social Scientists
• Survey Research
• Introduction to Stata

Recent Publications

Keith Cole, Wathan, J., Louise Corti. "The Provision of Access to Quantitative Data for Secondary Analysis." In The Sage Handbook of Online Research Methods, ed. Nigel Fielding, Raymond M. Lee, Grant Blank, 365-384.Sage, 2008.
Dale, A., Wathan, J., Higgins, V. "Secondary Analysis of Quantitative Data Sources." In The Sage Handbook of Social Research Methods, ed. Pertti Alasuutari, Leonard Bickman, Julia Brannen, 520-535.Sage, 2008.
Wathan, J. Labour Market Research using Census Microdata, International Symposium on Population Census and Microdata Archives. 2005. Hosei University.
Wathan, J. The Role of CCSR in the Dissemination of UK Census Microdata, International Symposium on Population Census and Microdata Archives. 2005. Hosei University.
Wathan, J. "What makes the Census a Unique Count." In A Guide to the 2001 Census: Essential Information for Gaining Business Advantage, ed. Dugmore, K. Moy, C., London: TSO, 2004.
Wathan, J., L See, M Gould, Carter, J., H Durham, M Brown, L Russell. "Learning and Teaching Online with the UK Census." Journal of Geography in Higher Education 28(2)(2004) : 229-245.
Wathan, J., S Decent, S Brown. "Mathematical Modelling in Higher Education Social Research." Mathematical Scientist 29(2004) : 67-76.
Wathan, J., Clare Holdsworth, R Leeser. "Alternative Household Classifications for the 2001 Census." Environment and Planning A 36(6)(2004) : 1101-1123.