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Mailing address
Department of Quantitative Social Science
20 Bedford Way
London
WC1H 0AL
Phone: 020 7612 6654 Fax: 020 7612 6686
Email: fpsadmin@ioe.ac.uk

ESRC Quota Studentships

DoQSS has been allocated at least one of the five ESRC quota studentships offered by the Institute for entry in 2010-11. For further details go to our Study page by clicking the link below. more

Centres in our Department

Quantitative Social Science

Head of Department
Professor Dick Wiggins

DoQSS conducts of 'world-leading' multidisciplinary research which is typified by:

  • academic excellence in the application of quantitative methodology in education, human development and social science
  • to inform and influence policy, in order to develop and improve practice
  • the analysis of large and complex data

 All activities hold at their core the identification of critical evidence to address the nation's economic, social and educational well-being.

The Department consists of five Centres or clusters of  interlocking research activity, the Centre for the Economics of Education (CEE, jointly with LSE), the Centre for Research on the Wider Benefits of  Learning (WBL) , the  ESRC ADMIN Node (Economic and Social Research Council; Administrative Data, Methods, Inference and Network)  (jointly with CLS) under the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM), and the planned Centre for the Study of Life course Development (CLD).

In addition the Department hosts (under the direction of Professor Ingrid Schoon) a new international postdoctoral fellowship programme -PATHWAYS - for the comparative study of 'productive youth development' funded by the Jacobs Foundation. This venture involves a consortium of academic collaborators in the US, Finland, Germany, Sweden and the UK.

The Department hosts a range of exciting opportunities for postgraduate learning and progression. In particular, the MA/MSc in Economics of Education  and a new short course programme of training in quantitative methods, theories of the life course  and the use of administrative data. There are a thriving number of research students in the Department as well as post doctoral fellows, user fellows and early career researchers.

The Department was established in 2007 and now has over 30 academic, research and administrative staff with an annual turnover in excess of £2 million.