Curriculum Vitae
Education
1969
BA Economics (Cambridge)
1977
MSc Statistics (Birkbeck, London)
1985
MSc Social Anthropology, with distinction (London School of Economics)
1996
PhD Social Anthropology (London School of Economics)
Work History
1970 - 1974
Miscellaneous
1974 - 2006
Office for National Statistics (ONS – formerly Office for Population Censuses and Surveys, OPCS)
1974 - 1996
in Social Survey Division as successively Assistant Social Survey Officer (on Family Expenditure Survey)
Social Survey Officer, Senior Social Survey Officer, Principal Social Survey Officer (on ad hoc surveys)
Principal Social Survey Officer (heading SSD’s methodology unit)
Principal Social Survey Officer (responsible for analysis of 1991 Census Validation Survey, and for work on small area estimation)
1996 - 2006
in Methods Group as Principal Methodologist
Senior Principal Methodologist (leading a unit concerned with small area estimation, and other aspects of social and geographic modelling)
1999 - present
Associate of Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany.
1999 - 2002
member of property research team
2002 - 2004
design work on projects relating to social cohesion and kinship
2004 - 2008
coordinator of KASS (EU funded project coordinated by MPI Halle)
2011 - onwards
contract researcher working on kinship and affinity in Africa and Eurasia
2006 - 2010
University College London (UCL). Honorary Research Fellow, and lecturing anthropology research students on statistical methods.
International research, research management, and consultancy experience
1989 - 1991
10 months in Italy doing PhD fieldwork
1992 and 1994
2 weeks in Paraguay helping to design and analyse census post-enumeration survey
1997 - 1999
work on EU funded literacy project. Part of team responsible for designing and implementing secondary analysis of International Adult Literacy Survey.
1999
(January to December) co-director of Eurostat funded research project into small area estimation (undertaken jointly by ONS, Statistics Finland and associated university departments)
2000 - 2002
Four months anthropological fieldwork for MPI Halle on postsocialist property relations in rural Russia.
2001 - 2003
Originator and Coordinator of EURAREA, an EU-funded Fifth Framework research project involving academics and national statistical institutes in seven European countries.
2004 - 2008
Originator and Coordinator of KASS (Kinship and Social Security), an EU-funded Sixth Framework Project involving fieldwork and historical research in eight European countries
Teaching experience
Training junior research colleagues at OPCS and ONS.
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Two courses on quantitative methods, and some tutorial support
UCL:
2005-2010
teaching statistical methods to anthropology research students from UCL, SOAS, LSE, and Goldsmiths College.
Professional associations
Fellow, Royal Anthropological Institute.
Fellow, European Association of Social Anthropologists
Editorships
Member of editorial board of Europeanist Studies in Socio-cultural Anthropology and Ethnology (book series of the EASA Europeanist Network, published by LIT Verlag, Berlin)
Guest editor of January 2012 issue of Ethnologie Française – Parentés et paternités en Europe.