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University of Manchester

Dr Mark Elliot
Senior Research Fellow/PGR Director

Tel: 0161 275 4257
Fax: +44 (0) 161 275 4722
M.Elliot@manchester.ac.uk 

Room  G27A
CCSR
School of Social Sciences
Kantorovich Building
Humanities Bridgeford Street
University of Manchester
MANCHESTER, M13 9PL

Mark Elliot has worked at the Centre for Census and Survey Research(CCSR) since 1996, mainly in the field of statistical confidentiality, founding the international recognised Confidentiality and Privacy Research Group (CAPRI) in 2002, and has managed numerous research projects within CAPRI remit. In 2005 he became Director of CCSR. He is one of the key international researchers in the field of Statistical Disclosure and has an extensive portfolio of research grants and publications in the field.

Dr Elliot has extensive experience in collaboration with non-academic partners, particularly with national statistical agencies (e.g. Office for National Statistics, US Bureau of the Census, Australian Bureau of Statistics) where he has been a key influence on disclosure control methodology used in censuses and surveys and where the SUDA software developed in collaboration with colleagues in Computer Science in Manchester is currently employed.

Aside from Confidentiality, Privacy and Disclosure his research interests include Psychology and Sociology of Personal Relationships and Social Network Analysis.


Current Research Projects

 

Research interests


Confidentiality, Privacy and Disclosure

The Psychology and Sociology of Personal Relationships
Cognitive Science
Knowledge and Data Engineering

Current projects

Clinical e-science farmework

A scoping study for the establishment of the Data Monitoring Service

 

Publications

Duncan, G, Elliot, M., Salazar, J (In prepartion, 2009) Statistical Confidentiality New York, , Springer.
Purdam, K, Elliot, M., McCullagh, K (forthcoming 2008) Confidentiality and Privacy for the 21st Century London, , Ashgate Press.
Purdam, K., Elliot, M. (forthcoming 2007) A Case Study of the Impact of Statistical Disclosure Control on Data Quality in the Individual UK Samples of Anonymised Records Environment and Planning A.
Elliot, M., Purdam, K, Smith, D (2008) Secure Patient Record Data: Statistical Disclosure Control for Grid Based Data Access Biomedical Informatics 41. 58-64
Elliot, M., Haglin, J, Mayes, K, Manning, A, Feo, J, Gurd, JR, Keane, J (2008) Factors affecting the performance of parallel mining of minimal unique itemsets on diverse architectures Concurrency and computation: practice and experience CPE1379.
Elliot, M., Purdam, K, Smith, D (2008) Statistical Disclosure Control Architectures for Patient Records in Biomedical Information Systems Biomedical Informatics 41. 58-64
Smith, D, Elliot, M. (2008) A Measure of disclosure Risk for Tables of Counts Transactions in Data Privacy 1. 34-52
Elliot, M., Purdam, K, Smith, D. (2007 in press) Statistical Disclosure Control Architectures for Patient Records in Biomedical Information Systems Journal of Biomedical Informatics.
Elliot, M. (2007) Confidentiality, Privacy and Disclosure in health data: a 20th century problem needing a 21st century solution? International conference on Exploiting Existing Data For Health Research.
Elliot, M., Longhurst, J (2007) Using targeted perturbation of microdata to protect against intelligent linkage Proceedings of UNECE international conference on Data Confidentiality.
Elliot, M., Smith,D (2007) A measure of Disclosure risk for tables of Counts Proceedings of UNECE international conference on Data Confidentiality.
Purdam, K, Elliot, M. (2007) A case study of the statistical disclosure control on data quality in the individual samples of anonymised records Environment and Planning A 39. 1101-1118
Purdam, K, Elliot, M. (2007) Data Quality and Utility Environment and Planning A. 1-25
Watt, L, Elliot, M., Olsen, W. (2007) Marriage versus Cohabitation: a Comparison of the Attitudes towards Relationships held by Individuals in these Different Relationship Forms Conference on Family Research.
Elliot, M., Mayes, K, Manning, A, Haglin, D, Gurd, JR (2006) A computational method for solving the combinatorial explosiveness of the special uniques detection problem Proceedings of Privacy in Statistical databases.
Elliot, M., Purdam, K, Smith, D. (2006) Patient Record Data: Disclosure Control for Grid Based Data Access Proceedings of National centre for e-social Science Conference.
Mayes, K, Elliot, M., Manning, A, Haglin, D, Gurd, JR (2006) A distributed search infrastructure for Statistical Disclosure Control Grid National centre for e-social Science Conference.
Watt, L, Elliot, M., Fenwick, K, Olsen, W. (2006) Attitudes Towards Relationships within the 18-30 Age Group British Sociological Association.
Elliot, M. (2005) Developments in Statistical Disclosure Control Census: Present and Future.
Elliot, M. (2005) The Clinical e-Science Framework: An example of remote data access CS-Statistics Workshop on Privacy and Confidentiality.
Elliot, M. (2005) Statistical Confidentiality Confidentiality and ethical issues in the scientific usage of clinical and administrative data.
Elliot, M. (2005) An Overview of Statistical Disclosure Control RSS Social Statistics Committee Conference on Linking Survey and Administrative Data and Statistical Disclosure Control.
Elliot, M. (2005) Assessment of disclosure risk for hierarchical microdata file.
Elliot, M., Manning, A, Mayes, K, Bane (2005) M.SUDA: a program of identifying and grading special uniques UNECE worksession of statistical confidentiality.
Elliot, M., Purdam, K (2005) Disclosure Control and Data Quality International Statistical Institute.
Elliot, M., Purdam, K, Pickles, S, Smith, D. (2005) Disclosure risk and grid computing UK e-Science All Hands Meeting.
Elliot, M., Purdam, K, Smith, D. (2005) Confidentiality Data Access via the Grid: an outline of the issues and possible solutions First International Conference on e-Social Science.
Elliot, M., Purdam, K, Smith, D. (2005) Data Monitoring, grid computing and Confidentiality International Symposium on Confidentiality and Privacy.
Purdam, K, Elliot, M., Smith, D. (2005) Social survey data, disclosure control and the development of the grid computing New Review of Information Networking 10. 161-176
Purdam, K, Elliot, M. J. (2005) The Impact of Statistical Disclosure Control on Data Quality ISI Research Conference.
Smith, D., Elliot, M. (2005) An Experiment in Naive Bayesian Record Linkage 55th Session of the International Statistical Institute.
Smith, D., Elliot, M. (2005) Aspects of naive Bayesian Record Linkage CCSR Occasional Paper.
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
Elliot, M. J. (2004) Statistical Disclosure Control New York, , Elsevier.
Elliot, M., Manning, A (2004) A Special Uniques Analysis of the Labour Force Survey.
Elliot, M., Manning, A, Purdam, K, Smith, D. (2004) Confidentiality and the Grid 1st National E-Social Science Centre.
Elliot, M., Pickles, A., Purdam, K, Smith, D. (2004) The Disclosure Risk Issues posed by the Grid 1st National e-Social Science Centre all hands meeting.
Purdam, K, Mackey, E, Elliot, M. (2004) The Regulation of the Personal Policy Studies 25. 267-282
Smith, D., Elliot, M. (2004) Assessing Attribution Risk in Population Data International Conference of the Royal Statistical Society.
Elliot, M. J. (2003) Using DIS to calibrate the special uniques algorithm UNECE International Conference on Statistical Confidentiality.
Elliot, M., Manning, A (2003) A Special Uniques Analysis on the 1991 SARs.
Elliot, M., Purdam, K (2003) Data Quality and Disclosure Control International Statistics Institute Conference.
Elliot, M., Smith, D. (2003) The IDRAPN project, Specification of Software.
Elliot, M., Smith, D. (2003) The IDRAPN project, Empirical Work.
Elliot, M., Smith, D. (2003) A measure of risk for Aggregate Data.
Elliot, M., Smith, D., Mackey, E (2003) Disclosure Control for Neighbourhood Statistics Workshop on threats and opportunities for Labour Market Statistics.
Manning, A, Elliot, M. J. (2003) Applying disclosure control to temporal data Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology Research.
Purdam, K, Elliot, M., Cole, K., Schurer, K, Beedham, H, Hewitt, T (2003) Confidentiality and disclosure risks associated with Grid enabling datasets.
Purdam, K, Elliot, M. J. (2003) Analysis of Information Loss as a Case Study from a UK Survey Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology Conference (FCSM) Research Conference.
Purdam, K, Elliot, M. J. (2003) Data Quality and Disclosure Control ISI Conference.
Purdam, K, Mackey, E, Elliot, M. J., Isaias, P (2003) Personal Data and Privacy International Association for the Information Society.
Purdam, K, Mackey, E, Elliot, M. J. (2003) Whose Data Is It? Privacy, Data Value and the 2001 UK Census British Sociology Association.
Elliot, M. (2002) New Data, New Opportunities Research Methods Program Workshop: 'Combining data: using advanced technology to enhance social science resources.
Elliot, M. (2002) An examination of the disclosure associated with the Labour Force Survey.
Elliot, M. J. (2002) The use of high performance computing in the detection of risky records International Conference of the Royal Statistical Society.
Elliot, M. J., Zayatz, L et al (2002) Disclosure Risk Assessment New York, , Elsevier.
Elliot, M. J., Domingo-Ferrer (2002) Integrating File and Record Level Disclosure Risk Assessment ,.
Elliot, M. J., Domingo-Ferrer, J (2002) 'Linking file and record level risk assessment' ,.
Elliot, M. J., Manning, A, Ford, R.W. (2002) A Computational Algorithm for Handling the Special Uniques Problem Internation Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge Base Systems 10. 493-509
Purdam, K, Elliot, M. J. (2002) An Evaluation of the availability of public data sources which could be used for identification purposes - A Europe wide perspective - CASC Report.
Skinner, C., Elliot, M. J. (2002) A Measure of Disclosure Risk for Microdata Royal Statistical Society B 64. 855-867
Elliot, M. (2001) An interim report examining the disclosure associated with the Labour Force Survey.
Elliot, M. (2001) An initial assessment of the disclosure risk impact of adding the NOMIS geographical identifier to the Labour Force Survey.
Elliot, M. J. (2001) 'Data Intrusion Simulation: Advances and a Vision for the Future of Disclosure Control.' Statistical Journal of the United Nations 17. 1-9
Elliot, M. J. (2001) Data Intrusion Simulation: Advances and a Vision for the future of Disclosure Control UNECE Conference on Statistical Confidentiality.
Elliot, M. J. (2001) Integrated file level and record level disclosure risk assessment ARMRADS Workshop on Statistical Confidentiality.
Dale, A., Elliot, M. (2001) Proposals for the 2001 SARs: an assessment of disclosure risk.
Dale, A., Elliot, M. J. (2001) Proposals for the 2001 SARs: an assessment of disclosure risk Journal of the Royal Statistical Society series A 164. 427-448
Elliot, M., Manning, A (2001) The Identification of Special Uniques GSS Methodology Conference.
Skinner, C., Elliot, M. (2001) A Measure of Disclosure Risk for Microdata.
Elliot, M. (2000) Applying the Data Intrusion Simulation Methodology to assess the disclosure risk impact of SDL technology on a microdata file.
Elliot, M. J. (2000) DIS: A New Approach to the Measurement of Statistical Disclosure Risk Risk Management: An International Journal 2. 39-48
Elliot, M. J. (2000) Applying the Data Intrusion Simulation methodology to assess the disclosure risk impact of SDL techniques on a microdata file..
Dale, A., Elliot, M. J. (2000) Proposals for 2001 SARs: An assessment of disclosure risk. Manchester, University of Manchester.
Tranmer, M., Fieldhouse, E., Elliot, M., Dale, A., Brown, M. (2000) Small Area Microdata.
Elliot, M. (1999) New Approaches to Statistical Disclosure Risk International Conference of the Royal Statistical Society.
Elliot, M. (1999) Disclosure Risk Assessment International Workshop Optimising Data Utility within a Framework of Confidentiality.
Elliot, M. J. (1999) DIS: Data Intrusion Simulation - a method of estimating the worst case disclosre risk for a microdata file Washington, , Bureau of the Census.
Elliot, M. J., Dale, A. (1999) Scenarios of attack: the data intruders perspective on statistical disclosure risk Netherlands Official Statistics 14. 6-10
Elliot, M. (1998) DIS: Data Intrusion simulation - a method of estimating the worst case disclosure risk for a microdata file International Symposium on Linked Employee-employer records.
Elliot, M., Dale, A. (1998) Approaches to assessing disclosure risk with microdata GSS Workshop on Disclosure and Disclosure Control.
Elliot, M., Dale, A. (1998) Disclosure Risk for Microdata.
Elliot, M., Skinner, C., Dale, A. (1998) Special Uniques, Random Uniques and Sticky Populations 1st International Conference on Statistical Data Protection.
Elliot, M. J., Skinner, C. J., Dale, A. (1998) Special Uniques, Random Uniques, and Sticky Populations: Some Counterintuitive Effects of Geographical Detail on Disclosure Risk Research in Official Statistics 1. 53-68
Elliot, M. J. (1996) Attacks on Confidentiality using the Sample of Anonymised Records: an analysis Proeedings of the third international seminar on statistical confidentiality. Bled, October 2000.
Elliot, M. J., Bull, H. T., Pulford, C. I., Shadbolt, N. R., Smith, W. (1995) Constructive Knowledge Engineering Knowledge Based Systems 8,5. 259-267

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