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Staff and their research interests
Cara Booker, BS BA MPH PhD Southern
California (Senior Research Officer)
Life course epidemiology including
stressful events, coping, labour force
status transitions, psychological
well-being and health
Mike Brewer, MSc Bristol, MA Cambridge
(Professor)
Inequality and poverty evaluation of labour
market programmes; welcome reforms in
the design of personal tax; tax credit and
income support systems
Mark Bryan, MSc Warwick, PhD Essex
(Chief Research Officer)
Determination of hours of work; hours
constraints and related job mobility; trade
unions; determinants and effects of
training; effects of minimum wages on
training; applied econometrics
Malcolm Brynin, BSc London, MA
Reading, PhD City (Principal Research
Officer)
Education and training, particularly
the impact of family background; impact
of information and communication
technologies on domestic lifestyles; health,
lifestyle and aspirations of young people;
cultural and family influences on voting
and political values
Nick Buck, BA PhD Kent (Professor and
Deputy Director of ISER)
Impact of economic change and public
policy on social inequality and patterns
of household formation; labour market
marginality and multiple deprivation; impact
of territorial inequality on social processes;
social polarisation in global cities
Jon Burton, BA MA PhD Essex
(Research Fellow)
Survey methodology and survey
participation; the measurement of party
identification and voting/non-voting
Emilia Del Bono, BA Siena, MPhil PhD
Oxford (Senior Research Officer)
Labour economics; applied economics;
household economics
John Ermisch, BA Wisconsin, MA PhD
Kansas, FBA (Professor)
Economics of the family, economic
analysis of household formation and
housing economics; interactions between
demographic and economic behaviour
Maria Iacovou, BSc MSc PhD London
(Chief Research Officer)
Links between family structure and policy,
within Britain and in Europe; lives and
income of young people; transition to
adulthood; household dynamics; female
labour supply, fertility and family formation;
effects of family structure on educational
and labour market outcomes
Annette Jäckle, Diplom Betriebswirtin
(FH) Regensburg, MSc PhD Essex
(Research Fellow)
Methodological aspects of longitudinal
surveys, especially data collection
methods, measurement error and
non-response
Olena Kaminska, BA Kyiv-Mohyia, MA
Conneticut, PhD Nebraska-Lincoln (Survey
Statistician)
Survey methods, particularly on sampling,
non-response and measurement errors
and the interaction in cross-sectional,
longitudinal and comparative surveys
Yvonne Kelly, BSc PhD Liverpool
(Professor)
Inequalities in health and development
in children and young people; early life
influences on health throughout the life
course; pathways and causal processes in
physical health, social and emotional well
being and cognitive function
Gundi Knies, BA Free University Berlin,
MA LSE, PhD Bristol (Senior Research
Officer)
Linking large-scale longitudinal survey
data with external data sources; analysis
of neighbourhood effects
Heather Laurie, BA PhD Essex (Senior
Researcher and Director of ISER)
Women’s labour market participation;
internal household dynamics; distribution
of household resources; social
stratification and the social construction of
gender; use of multiple methods in social
research; qualitative and quantitative data;
computer-assisted analysis of qualitative
data; survey methodology
Horacio Levy, BA UNICAMP, MSc PhD
Barcelona (Senior Research Officer)
Building and using tax benefit
microsimulation models in developed and
developing countries; distributional effects
of taxes and social policies; child poverty
Simonetta Longhi, PhD Vrije (Senior
Research Officer)
Labour market analysis and regional
economics; wage inequality; regional wage
and unemployment disparities; impact of
factor mobility on host regions and on
regional disparities; migration; applied
econometrics
Renee Luthra, BA Austin, MA PhD UCLA
(Senior Research Officer)
International migration; immigrant
integration; social stratification
Peter Lynn, BSc London, MSc Sheffield
Hallam (Professor)
Survey data collection methodology
including population definitions, sample
design, sampling frames, questionnaire
design, prevention and analysis of
non-response, data collection mode
effects, measurement error and other
survey errors, weighting, complex standard
errors, survey quality framework; use and
abuse of survey data
Stephanie McFall, BA Bloomington,
MA PhD North Carolina (Senior Research
Fellow)
Social gerontology; prevention and
management of chronic conditions;
preventive health behaviour; survey
research methods
Alita Nandi, BSc Calcutta, MA New Delhi,
MA PhD Ohio (Senior Research Officer)
Empirical research in labour economics;
family economics; economics of education
Cheti Nicoletti, MA Louvain la Neuve,
PhD Florence (Chief Research Officer)
Panel data; duration models; non-sampling
problems; censored, grouped and
incomplete data; causal interference;
empirical labour economics
Steve Pudney, BSc Leicester, MSc LSE
(Professor)
Microeconomics; tax-benefit policy;
poverty; labour economics; economics
of crime and drugs
Birgitta Rabe, BA MA PhD Free
University Berlin (Senior Research Officer)
Data linkage; institutions and labour
markets; occupational pensions and job
mobility; determinants and outcomes of
internal migration
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