Institute for Social Change - Academic Staff

	Marta Cantijoch - Research Associate Project: The Internet, electoral politics and citizen participation in global perspective Research interests: New media and political participation Political communication and electoral campaigns Citizen politics and attitudinal change. Room: 2.13G Telephone Number: 0161 30 66946 Email: marta.cantijoch@manchester.ac.uk -------------------------------------------------
	Dr David Cutts - PhD Programme Director and Research Fellow BSc,MA, MSc, Ph.D. Research Interests: Geographical and contextual effects in voting and attitudes Modelling voter preferences and behaviour Political engagement and particpation The liberal Democrats in the UK Room: 2.13D Telephone number: 0161 30 66921 Email: david.cutts@manchester.ac.uk -------------------------------------------------
	Dr Robert Ford - Hallsworth Research Fellow Research Interests: Racial attitudes and inter-group relations Public opinion research and methodology Partisan and electoral politics Room: 2.13P Telephone Number: 0161 27 53571 Email: rob.ford@manchester.ac.uk -------------------------------------------------
	Prof Ed Fieldhouse - ISC Director Research Interests: My main research interests are in the role of contextual effects on political and civic behaviour. My specific interest include: Geographical and contextual effects in voting and attitudes Political and civic engagement and participation Social Capital Methods for modelling political behavior Comparative studies of voter turnout Room: 2.13Z Telephone Number: 0161 27 54269 Email: socialchange@manchester.ac.uk -------------------------------------------------
	Prof Rachel Gibson - Assistant Director and Professor of Political Science Research Interests: New media, political parties and citizen participation The professionalisation of political campaigning Web linkage analysis and methodologies to map online political networks Design and analysis of social attitude surveys and election studies Room: 2.13N Telephone Number: 0161 30 66933 Email: rachel.gibson@manchester.ac.uk -------------------------------------------------
	Dr Jane Green - Research Fellow Research Interests: Research design Political behaviour Electoral behaviour Public opinion Party competition British electoral and party politics Ongoing projects; electoral evaluations of party and candidate competence (valence) and its consequences; elite and electoral ideological depolarization and polarization; spatial models and party competition; electoral turnout, experiments and social norms; political causes of electoral and social change; parties in opposition and government; the British Conservatives. Room: 2.13K Telephone Number: 0161 Email: jane.green@manchester.ac.uk -------------------------------------------------
	Prof Anthony Heath - Professor of Sociology Research Interests: Ethnic minority political integration Ethnic inequalities in education and the labour market Affirmative action policies Social cohesion Social mobility. Room: 2.13R Telephone Number: 0161 30 66943 Email: anthony.heath@manchester.ac.uk -------------------------------------------------
	Dr Laurence Lessard-Phillips - Research Associate Project: Social Complexity of Immigration and Diversity (SCID) Research Interests: Immigrant adaptation in a comparative perspective Ethnic inequalities in education and the labour market Social stratification and mobility Room: 2.13L Telephone Number: 0161 27 57672 Email: laurence.lessard-phillips@manchester.ac.uk -------------------------------------------------
	Prof Yaojun Li - Professor of Sociology Research Interests: Social mobility and social stratification Social and political capital Ethnicity and labour market position in Britain Cross-national comparison. Room: 2.13F Telephone Number: 0161 27 50274 Email: yaojun.li@manchester.ac.uk -------------------------------------------------
	Dr Siobhan McAndrew - Research Associate Research Interests: Religious funding and religiosity in Britain and Germany Rational choice history of the arts in Britain The economics of well-being Room: 2.13J Telephone Number: 0161 30 66901 Email: siobhan.mcandrew@manchester.ac.uk -------------------------------------------------
	Virginia Ros - Research Associate Project: Support and Opposition to Migration. A cross national comparison of the politicization of migraiton (SOM) Research Interests: Immigration and political behavior and public opinion about Spanish politics. Room: 2.13G Telephone Number: 0161 30 66946 Email: virginia.ros@manchester.ac.uk -------------------------------------------------

	Dr Nick Shryane - MSc in Social Change Course Director and Research Fellow Research Interests: The statistical modelling of complex psychosocial systems using latent variables. Room: 2.13M Telephone Number: 0161 27 50276 Email: nick.shryane@manchester.ac.uk -------------------------------------------------
	Dr Gindo Tampubolon - Research Fellow, BEng, MM, MSc, PhD Research Interests: Genetics, inequality and wellbeing (Medical Research Council-funded) Social mobility and the middle classes: latent growth models of class careers Room: 2.13E Telephone Number: 0161 30 66932 Email: gindo.tampubolon@manchester.ac.uk -------------------------------------------------
	Dr Huw Vasey - Research Associate Project: Social Complexity of Immigration and Diversity (SCID) Research Interests: Labour markets, working lives and the new economy International migration, mobility and social change Social complexity and the dynamics of knowledge Room:2.13Q Telephone Number: 0161 27 54903 Email: huw.vasey@manchester.ac.uk -------------------------------------------------
	Prof David Voas - Research Director and Simon Professor of Population Studies Research Interests: Religious change in modern societies National and international studies using census and survey data Methods for measuring diversity The global fertility transition. Room: 2.13T Telephone Number: 0161 27 54836 Email: voas@manchester.ac.uk -------------------------------------------------
	Paul Widdop - Research Associate Room: 2.13V Telephone Number: 0161 30 66955 Email: paul.widdop@manchester.ac.uk -------------------------------------------------

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