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Dr Mark Tranmer
Senior Lecturer
Tel: 0161 275 4744
Fax: +44 (0) 161 275 4722
Mark.Tranmer "at" manchester.ac.uk
Room: G15, Humanities Bridgeford Street Building
Current Research Projects
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.
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 to be carried out by Mark Tranmer and Jon Rasbash.
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. (MNMG pdf).
Recent Research Project
Help In Context: A Multilevel Analysis of the European Social Survey, 2007 - June 2009. Funded by ESRC. Mark Tranmer is co-investigator.
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.
I am contact person for the Manchester Social Networks Group (MSNG), which I co-founded with Nick Crossley and other colleagues at Manchester in 2007.
Research Collaboration outside SoSS includes:
Department of Mathematics, University of Manchester
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
Property crime; Uptake of postgraduate education; Governance (CASE studentship); Differential group effects in multilevel models (joint SoSS / Maths studentship); Social Network Analysis; The diversification of family forms, the intensification of employment and social disadvantage: Understanding individual vulnerability in Europe.
Teaching
data for SNA course: flobusiness.txt
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
Fieldhouse, E., Tranmer, M., Russell, A. (In Press 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.
Purdam, K, Tranmer, M. (2008 forthcoming) Help in Context CCSR Working Paper.
Ballas, D, Tranmer, M. (2008) Happy places, happy households or happy people? A multi-level modelling approach to the analysis of happiness and well-being Centre for Health and Well Being.
De Miguel, V, Tranmer, M. (2008) A multilevel analysis of the personal networks of immigrants to Spain Applications of Social Networks Conference.
Purdam, K, Tranmer, M. (2008) Help in context: a multilevel analysis of the European Social Survey CINEFOGO.
Tranmer, M. (2008) Combining UK census data in a multilevel model Combining data session of the ESRC Research Methods Festival.
Tranmer, M. (2008) Combining census microdata and aggregate data in a multilevel model International conference on census microdata.
Tranmer, M. (2008) Invited Keynote Speaker - Multilevel analysis of happiness: does it make sense? ASEARC Conference.
Tranmer, M., Koskinen, J (2008) Network Effects in Multilevel Analysis Methods and Statistics Section of the Sunbelt International Conference on Social Network Analysis.
Tranmer, M., Purdam, K (2008) Approaches to Secondary Comparative Analysis ESRC, Real Life Methods Workshop.
Tranmer, M., Purdam, K (2008) Help in context: a multilevel analysis of the European Social Survey Conference on Contemporary European Perspectives on Volunteering.
Simpson, L., Purdam, K, Tajar, A, Fieldhouse, E., Gavalas, V, Tranmer, M., Pritchard, J, Dorling, D., The Department of Work and Pensions (2006) Ethnic minority populations and the labour market: an analysis of the 1991 and 2001 Census.. London,.
Steel, D. G., Tranmer, M., Holt, D. (2006) Unravelling ecological analysis Journal of Mathematics and Decision Sciences Article id; 38358. 18
Simpson, L., Tranmer, M. (2005) Combining sample and census data in small area estimates: Iterative Proportional Fitting with standard software Professional Geographer 57. 222-234
Tranmer, M., Pickles, A., Fieldhouse, E., Elliot, M. J., Dale, A., Brown, M., Martin, D., Steel, D. G., Gardiner, C. (2005) The Case for Small Area Microdata Journal of the Royal Statistical Society series A 168. 29-49
Steel, D. G., Tranmer, M., Holt, D., Skinner, C., Chambers, R. (2003) Analysis combining survey and geographically aggregated data New York, , John Wiley.
Holdsworth, C., Voas, D, Tranmer, M. (2002) Leaving home in Spain: when, where and why? Regional Studies 36. 989-1004
Tranmer, M., Dale, A., Fieldhouse, E., Steel, D. G. (2002) Exploring population structure with census data , , Kluwer Press.
Tranmer, M., Steel, D. G., Fieldhouse, E., Courgeau, D (2002) Exploring small area population structure with census data Dordrecht, Netherlands, , Kluwer Academic Press.
Fieldhouse, E., 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 33. 353-369
Martin, D., Nolan, A., Tranmer, M. (2001) The application of zone design methodology to the 2001 UK Census Environment and Planning A 33. 1949-1962
Tranmer, M., Steel, D. G. (2001) Ignoring a level in a multilevel model: evidence from UK census data Environment and Planning A 33. 941-948
Tranmer, M., Steel, D. G., Tate, N., Atkinson, P. (2001) Using census data to investigate scale effects London, , Wiley.
Tranmer, M., Fieldhouse, E., Elliot, M., Dale, A., Brown, M. (2000) Small Area Microdata.
Tranmer, M., Steel, D. G. (1998) Using census data to investigate the causes of the ecological fallacy Environment and Planning A 30. 817-831
Creed, F., Tomenson, B., Anthony, P., Tranmer, M. (1997) Predicting length of stay in psychiatry Psychological Medicine 27. 961-966
Holt, D., Steel, D. G., Tranmer, M. (1996) Area homogeneity and the modifiable areal unit problem Journal of Geographical Systems 3. 181-200
Holt, D., Steel, D. G., Tranmer, M., Wrigley, N. (1996) Aggegation and ecological effects in geographical based data Journal of Geographical Analysis 28. 244-262
Steel, D. G., Holt, D., Tranmer, M. (1996) Making unit-level inferences from aggregate data Journal of Survey Methodology 22. 3-15
Wrigley, N., Holt, D., Steel, D. G., Tranmer, M., Longley, P. A., Batty, M. (1996) Spatial modelling and the ecological fallacy Cambridge, , GeoInformation International.