Dr. Mark Tranmer

Biography

Mark Tranmer joined the School of Social & Political Sciences in July 2016 as a Professor of Quantitative Social Science. Before this, from 1999 until June 2016, he was based at the University of Manchester in the Social Statistics Group, where he led the Statistical Modelling Group. He is a member of the executive committee of the Mitchell Centre for Social Network Analysis and the Cathie Marsh Institute for Social Research (CMIST). He completed his PhD in Social Statistics at the University of Southampton in 1999 and has studied statistics at BSc and MSc levels at Sheffield University. His methodological research focuses on multilevel modelling, developing approaches to combine individual and aggregate data to assess variations in social, political, and health variables. He is particularly interested in developing multilevel approaches that analyze the relationship between individual attributes and those in their social network. His substantive applications of these methods cover a wide range of areas including education, health inequalities, crime, civic engagement, and variations in health behaviors across Europe. He leads the Glasgow Quantitative Methods Group (GQMG) which aims to promote the interdisciplinary use of quantitative methods in research and teaching. Mark has taught statistical methods at both academic and non-academic levels and has supervised around 14 PhD students in various social and political science topics.

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