Dr Mark Tranmer
Senior Lecturer

CCSR & Mitchell Centre for Social Network Analysis

Social Statistics

School of Social Sciences

University of Manchester

Tel: 0161 275 4744
Fax: +44 (0) 161 275 4722
Mark.Tranmer "at" manchester.ac.uk

Room: G15, Humanities Bridgeford Street Building

As from Sept 1st 2011, I am also Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the School of Applied Social Science, University of Stirling.

ESRC NCeSS programme node : “e-STAT –NCeSS quantitative node”: Sept 2009 - Aug 2012. Mark Tranmer is a co-investigator. The principal investigators are based in Bristol and Southampton. The research programme includes a project on Social Networks in Multilevel structures. ( slides from recent team meeting )

International Collaborative Network: "Multilevel Network Modelling Group": October 2009 - September 2012. Funded by the Leverhulme trust. Involves a team from the following universities: Indiana (US), Groningen (NL), Melbourne (AUS), Paris-Dauphine (FR), Lugano (CH), Nortwestern (US), as well as Oxford and Manchester in the UK. Mark Tranmer is Principal Investigator.  [ project guide, march 2010 (.pdf) ; project website ]

Bilateral Australia: The Role Of Households, Neighbourhoods And Networks In Social Statistics, August 2008 - July 2011. Jointly funded by ESRC and the Australian Research Council (ARC). Mark Tranmer is Principal investigator in the UK. Also involves a team from the University of Wollongong, Australia.

Forthcoming Seminars

29th February 2012 4pm: Department of Applied Social Sciences, University of Stirling: "Modelling network dependencies at both the individual level and the organisational level: an example based on data for French oncology researchers."

29th February 2012 5.30pm: Behaviour and Evolution Research group, University of Stirling: "Investigating Jackdaw feeding behaviour with statistical models."

2nd May 2012: Department of Quantitative Social Science, Institute of Education, London, 12:00 - 13:00. "Multiple Membership Models for Social Network and Group Dependencies: An Empirical Study of the Adolescent Health Dataset".

Recent Seminars

15th March 2011: Half Day Meeting at the Royal Statistical Society on "Social Network Analysis: State of the art and new developments". I gave a talk on "Random Effects Models for Social Network and Group Dependencies". The slides are here. Please email me if you want to cite from them.

6th October 2011: Department of Applied Social Sciences, University of Stirling. Common Room 3S15, Colin Bell Building, 16:00 - 17:00. "Multilevel Models and Social Network Analysis."

Other talks

14th October 2010: What is multilevel modelling? methods@manchester series. Slides/Audio/Summary click here

Research Interests

I have two main research interests, the methodological development and substantive application of:

• Multilevel Modelling
• Social Network Analysis

These two interests are inter-related - for example social and geographical variations in socio-economic or health variables, ego-networks, networks in organisational structures, statistical models for social networks, and also involve other aspects of research I am interested in, such as methods for combining data and microsimulation. Other research interests include: complex survey analysis, longitudinal data analysis.

In 2007 I co-founded the Manchester Social Networks Group (MSNG) with Nick Crossley, and in April 2010 this evolved to the Mitchell Centre for Social Network Analysis.

Here are my slides on Statistical Models for Social Networks. These were presented at a special social networks day, as part of the methods@manchester programme.

Research Collaboration outside SoSS includes:

Department of Mathematics, University of Manchester

Department of Applied Social Sciences, University of Stirling

Centre for Statistical and Survey Methodology, University of Wollongong Australia

The Social Networks Group (Melnet), University of Melbourne, Australia

Department of Geography, Univ. Sheffield

East Manchester New Deal for Communities

Centre for Multilevel Modelling, University of Bristol

University of Southampton

PhD Supervision

Geographical Variations in Suicide; A social network analysis of governance structrures in New East Manchester (CASE studentship); Differential group effects in multilevel models (joint SoSS / Maths studentship); The diversification of family forms, the intensification of employment and social disadvantage: Understanding individual vulnerability in Europe.

Teaching

materials for introduction to R course * 1st February 2012 * download zipped folder here

John Fox: The R Commander: A Basic-Statistics Graphical User Interface to R

 

MSc modules: Multilevel Modelling; Social Network Analysis.

I have also previousy taught Longitudinal Data Analysis and Design and Analysis of Complex Surveys as MSc course modules.

External courses - including those taught on international basis:

Multilevel Modelling; Social Network Analysis; Data Reduction and Classification.

Recent Publications

Tranmer M, Steel D, and Browne W (2011) Multiple Membership Models for Social Network and Group Dependencies. Submitted to Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (Series A), December 2011. Available here as a working paper for the Centre for Statistical and Survey Methodology, University of Wollongong.

Steel D and Tranmer M (2011) Measuring and Analysing Homogeneity of Geographical Areas for a Categorical Variable. Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice. Volume 5, No. 4, Dec 2011.

Purdam K and Tranmer M (2011) Helping Values and Civic Engagement in Context. European Societies. [accepted: to appear in 2012]

Ballas D and Tranmer M (2011) Happy People or Happy Places?: A multilevel modeling approach to the analysis of happiness and well-Being. To appear in International Regional Science Review. doi: 10.1177/0160017611403737

de Miguel Luken and Tranmer M (2010) A multilevel analysis of the personal support networks of immigrants to Spain. Social Networks volume 32, issue 4, pages 253-262. doi:10.1016/j.socnet.2010.03.002

Fieldhouse E, Tranmer M and Russell A (2007) Something about young people or something about elections? Electoral participation of young people in Europe : evidence from a multilevel analysis of the European Social Survey. European Journal of Political Research Vol 46, pp797-822.

Cutts, D Fieldhouse, E, Purdam K, Steel D, Tranmer M (2007) Voter Turnout in British South Asian Communities at the 2001 General Election. British Journal of Politics and International Relations. Volume 9, Issue 3, pp 396-412

Steel D, Tranmer M and Holt D (2006) Unravelling ecological analysis. Journal of Applied Mathematics and Decision Sciences (18 pages).

Tranmer M, Pickles A, Fieldhouse E, Elliot M, Dale A, Brown M, Martin D, Steel D and Gardiner C (2005) Microdata for small areas. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (A) 168, part 1, pp29-49.

Simpson L and Tranmer M (2005) Combining sample and census data in small area estimates: iterative proportional fitting with standard software. The professional geographer, 57 (2), p222-234.

Steel D, Tranmer M, and Holt D (2003) Analysis combining survey and geographically aggregated data. in the Analysis of survey data, Eds. C. Skinner and R. Chambers. John Wiley: New York.

Tranmer M and Steel D (2001) Ignoring a level in a multilevel model: evidence from UK census data. Environment and Planning (A), Vol 33, pp 941-948.

Tranmer M and Steel D (2001) Using census data to investigate scale effects. In Scale Effects and GIS, Ed N. Tate and P. Atkinson. John Wiley. pages 105-122.

Martin D, Nolan A and Tranmer M (2001) The application of zone design methodology to the 2001 UK Census. Environment and Planning (A) 33, 1949-1962.

Fieldhouse E and Tranmer M (2001) Concentration effects, spatial mismatch or neighbourhood selection? Exploring labour market and neighbourhood variations in male unemployment risk using census microdata from Great Britain. Geographical Analysis Vol. 33 No. 4 353-369.

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Simpson, L., Purdam, K., Tajar, A., Fieldhouse, E A., Gavalas, V S., Tranmer, M., Pritchard, J, Dorling, D. Ethnic minority populations and the labour market: an analysis of the 1991 and 2001 Census. DWP.
Purdam, K., Tranmer, M. 2008. Help in Context: A Multilevel Analysis of the European Social Survey. In CINEFOGO. Stockholm.
Cutts, D., Fieldhouse, E A., Purdam, K., D. Steel, Tranmer, M. "Voter Turnout in British South Asian Communities at the 2001 General Election." British Journal of Politics and International Relations 9 (3)(2007) : 396-412.
Fieldhouse, E A., Tranmer, M., Russell, A. "Something about young people or something about elections?Electoral participation of young people in Europe: Evidence from a multilevel analysis of the European Social Survey." European Journal of Political Research 46: (6)(2007) : 797?822. DOI:10.1111/j.1475-6765.2007.00713.x
Steel, D, Tranmer, M., Holt, D. "Unravelling ecological analysis." Journal of Applied Mathematics and Decision Sciences 2006(2006) .
Simpson, L., Tranmer, M. "Combining sample and census data in small area estimates: Iterative Proportional Fitting with standard software." Professional Geographer 57(2)(2005) : 222-234.
Tranmer, M., Pickles, A R., Fieldhouse, E A., Elliot, M J., Dale, A., Brown, M S., Martin, D, Steel, D.G, Gardiner, C. "Proposals for Small Area Microdata." Journal of the Royal Statistical Society series A 168(1)(2005) : 29-49. DOI:10.1111/j.1467-985X.2004.00334.x
Tranmer, M., L Simpson. "Small area estimation by Iterative Proportional Fitting, combining reliable marginal totals with approximate estimates of local interactions." the Professional Geographer(2004) .
Tranmer, M., D Steel, D Holt. "Analysis combining survey and geographically aggregated data." In Analysis of survey data, ed. Skinner, C. Chambers, R., 323-343.John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2003.
Tranmer, M., L Simpson, D Steel, A Pickles, G Davies. "Extending Census Tables for Local Areas by Combining Aggregate and Individual Level Data." Journal of Official Statistics(2003) .
Tranmer, M., Dale, A., Fieldhouse, E A., D Steel. "Exploring population structure with census data." In Methodology and epistemology of multilevel models, ed. Courgeau, D., Kluwer, 2003.
Tranmer, M., D Steel. "Ignoring a level in a multilevel model: evidence from UK census data." Environment and Planning (A) 33(2001) : 941-948.
Tranmer, M., D Steel. "Using census data to investigate scale effects." In Scale Effects and GIS, ed. Tate, N. Atkinson, P., 105-122.John Wiley, 2001.
Tranmer, M., Fieldhouse, E A. "Concentration effects, spatial mismatch or residualisation?" Geographical Analysis 33(4)(2001) : 353-369.
Tranmer, M., D Martin, A Nolan. "The application of zone design methodology to the 2001 UK Census." Environment and Planning A 33(2001) : 1949-1962.
Fieldhouse, E A., Tranmer, M. "Concentration effects, spatial mismatch or neighbourhood selection? Exploring labour market and neighbourhood variations in male unemployment risk using census microdata from Great Britain." Geographical Analysis 33(4)(2001) : 353-369.
Fieldhouse, E A., Tranmer, M., D Steel. Exploring small area population structure with census data, Methodology and Epistemology of Multilevel Analysis. Ed. Courgeau, D. 2001. Kluwer, Dordrecht, the Netherlands.
Elliot, M J., Tranmer, M., Fieldhouse, E A., Dale, A., M Brown. Small Area Microdata, CCSR Occasional Paper. Vol. no 20. 2000.
Tranmer, M., D Steel. "Using census data to investigate the causes of the ecological fallacy." Environment & Planning A 30(1998) : 817-831.
Tranmer, M., D Holt, D Steel. 1997. Targets of Inference and Methods of Analysis in Multi-Level Populations. In Paper presented at an RSS half day meeting on Small Area Estimation and the Ecological Fallacy.
Tranmer, M., D Holt, D Steel. 1997. Approaches to ecological regression. In Paper presented at the ISI 51st session.
Tranmer, M., D Holt, D Steel. 1997. Logistic regression analysis with aggregate data: tackling the ecological fallacy. In Paper presented at the American Statistical Association Conference.
F Creed, B Tomenson, P Anthony, Tranmer, M. "Predicting length of stay in psychiatry." Psychological Medicine 27(1997) : 961-966.
N Wrigley, D Holt, D Steel, Tranmer, M. "Spatial modelling and the Ecological Fallacy." In GIS and Spatial Modelling, ed. Longley, P. Batty, M., Cambridge: GeoInformation International, 1996.
D Holt, D Steel, Tranmer, M. 1996. Analysing and adjusting aggregation effects in ecological regression. In Proceedings of the INED Conference on the Spatial analysis of Biodemographic Data.
D Steel, D Holt, Tranmer, M. "Making unit-level inferences from aggregate data." Survey Methodology 22, 1(1996) : 3-15.
D Holt, D Steel, Tranmer, M., N Wrigley. "Aggregation and ecological effects in geographically based data." Geographical Analysis 28, 3(1996) : 244-262.
D Holt, D Steel, Tranmer, M. "Area homogeneity and the modifiable areal unit problem." Geographical Systems 3(1996) : 181-200.
Tranmer, M., D Steel, D Holt. 1994. Modelling and Adjusting Aggregation Effects. In Proceedings of the US Bureau of the Census Annual Research Conference382-408.