Quantitative Social Science

Applying quantitative methods to inform policy on education, health, labour markets, human development and child/adult wellbeing.

Centre Director: Professor John Jerrim

Quantitative Social Science (QSS) is an interdisciplinary group of 18 academics and researchers with expertise in economics, sociology, psychology, social statistics, survey methods and data collection, and techniques of policy evaluation.

Our mission

Design and deliver world-class undergraduate and postgraduate education in all aspects of quantitative social science
Undertake world-class social science research which is both academically renowned and policy-relevant.

Our staff

We work closely with colleagues in our department, especially from the Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS) and Cohort and Longitudinal Studies Enhancement Resources (CLOSER), colleagues throughout UCL, particularly in the Departments of Economics and Politics, the Institute of Child Health and the International Centre for Life Course Studies in Society and Health (ICLS), as well as other leading universities in Britain and throughout the world.

Centre Director

Professor John Jerrim - Professor of Education and Social Statistics, Director of QSS

Staff

Ozan Aksoy - Lecturer in Quantitative Social Science
Carla Aylmore - Project Officer (CTUR)
Professor Francesca Borgonovi - Professor of Economics of Education
Neus Bover Fonts - Teaching Fellow
Professor Alex Bryson - Professor of Quantitative Social Science
Kaspar Burger - Marie Curie Research Fellow
Stuart Campbell - Research Associate
Professor Tak Wing (Wing) Chan - Professor of Quantitative Social Science
Professor Lorraine Dearden - Professor of Economics and Social Statistics
Per Engzell - Associate Professor of Sociology
Francesca Foliano - Research Fellow
Professor Jonathan (J) Gershuny - Professor of Time Use, Co-Director of CTUR
Professor Kirstine Hansen - Professor of Social Policy
Teresa Harms - Research Associate (CTUR)
Silvan Häs - Marie Curie Research Fellow
Maria (Hedvig) Horvath - Lecturer in Economics
Andrew Jenkins - Associate Professor
Bilal Nasim - Research Data Scientist
Burak Sonmez - Lecturer (Teaching) in Quantitative Social Science
Tobias Rüttenauer - Lecturer in Quantitative Social Science
Sarah Sander - Research Associate (PARENTIME)
Professor Ingrid Schoon - Professor of Social Policy
Professor Almudena Sevilla - Professor of Economics and Time Use
Dominique (Nikki) Shure - Lecturer in Economics
Maria Sironi - Associate Professor in Quantitative Sociology
Professor Oriel Sullivan - Professor of Time Use, Co-Director of CTUR
Hannah Taylor - Research Associate
Margarita (Marga) Vega-Rapun - Research Associate (CTUR)
Pierre Walthery - Senior Research Associate (CTUR)
Bozena Wielgoszewska - Research Fellow
Dingeman Wiertz - Lecturer in Quantitative Social Science
David Wilkinson - Senior Research Officer
Laura Zieger - Marie Curie Research Fellow
Nadine Zwiener-Collins - Teaching Fellow.

Partners

QSS is a partner in the ESRC funded English Administrative Data Research Centre (ADRCE) in collaboration with the University of Southampton, Institute of Child Health at University College London, The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and the Institute for Fiscal Studies.

We are also a partner in the new IOE lead Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE).

QSS manages the collection and analysis of OECD's TALIS and PISA surveys for England in 2013 and 2015 respectively.

News

Two fifths of people have chronic pain by their 40s, with consequences for later life

Chronic pain is widespread among those in their mid-40s in Britain, with those who experience it more likely to report pain, poor health - including COVID-19 infection - and joblessness later in life, according to a new study by researchers at IOE and Dartmouth College, US.

02 Nov 2022

IOE academics elected as Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences

Professors Qing Gu and Alex Bryson join this year’s leading experts who have been made Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences.

01 Sep 2022

Significant wage disparities found between ethnic minorities and white counterparts

Significant differences exist in the earnings between white and ethnic minority workers who are colleagues in the same workplace, according to a new study co-led by UCL, Bayes Business School and the University of Cyprus.

09 Aug 2022

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