Our node is one of seven nodes funded under the National Centre for Research Methods initiative of the ESRC over two three-year periods -Phase 1 and Phase 2. We are a mix of statisticians, educationalists, psychologists, criminologists and sociologists who are interested in developing and promoting modern methods of statistical analysis to address topical and relevent social science problems. Our activities relate to developing and promoting quantitative methods in the social sciences, both in our research programme and in our training and capacity building programme.
Our research over both phases of the funding focuses on statistical methods for developmental processes and social change, and
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