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Professor of Economic Sociology & Statistics Roger Penn
Sociology: Professor
Degree: B.A. Social and Political Sciences; MA Sociology; Ph.D. in Social and Political Science
Research Interests
My main substantive research interests lie in the field of economic sociology. I also have an interest in the application of social statistics to sociological data. Between 1985 and 1991 I was the co-ordinator of a team of sociologists and statisticians at Lancaster examining social change and economic life in contemporary Rochdale as part of the ESRC's National Initiative in this area. This research has involved two stages: the main research programme and then a smaller extension grant to enable the team to continue its integration of sociology and social statistics. Four research officers were employed on the project and I worked closely with them and Professor Richard Davies and Mr. Brian Francis from the Centre of Applied Statistics. The Lancaster team wrote two successive specialist software packages for the modelling of event histories and took a leading role in the publications from the Initiative. I co-edited books on trade unionism and on technical change and skill. I am also editing the Lancaster team's monograph on Rochdale.
I have also been involved in two other research projects recently. One involved a comparative study of technical change and working patterns in six paper mills in Finland and Britain in conjunction with Professor Kari Lilja of the Helsinki School of Economics. The other has involved a longitudinal analysis of ethnicity and career aspirations.
I have four research students currently working towards their doctorates. Their topics are diverse and I am happy to supervise any doctorate providing that it is committed to rigorous empirical analysis. I have close working links with the Centre for Applied Statistics at Lancaster and can act as a supervisor for the joint ESRC Social Science and Social Statistics awards. Furthermore, I have considerable expertise in historical analysis, case study approaches and participant observation. My general orientation is to define an important empirical question about the social world and then decide how it can be researched. I welcome doctoral students from outside the UK and also comparative research designs. Prospective students will get the best idea of my orientation to sociological research from my two monographs: Class, Power and Technology and Skilled Workers in the Class Structure. My main commitment as a supervisor is guidance with the literature, regular discussion and detailed comments on written work. I am particularly keen that postgraduate students write regularly and aim to publish their research.
NB: Ph.D. Theses Supervised. 1. Social Mobility and Socio-Political Values in Contemporary Egypt. 2. The Effects of Multinational Agribusinesses upon Social and Economic Relations in Contemporary Thailand. 3. Ethnicity, Training and Employment in Preston. 4. Fertility and Ethnicity amongst Pakistani Women in Britain. 5. New Forms of Production in British Manufacturing Industry. 6. Post-Fordism and Training Regimes in Contemporary Britain.
Please visit my web page in Mathematics and Statistics, and the web page of the Lancaster-Warwick ESRC Research Methods Node
Website concerning one current area of research - The Lancaster-Warwick ESRC Research Methods node - Developing statistical modelling in the social sciences.
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Roger Penn has 7 selected publication records listed on this webpage. Use links to access abstracts and full text where available. View all records to sort by date, type and title. For all ePrints records go to http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk
Penn, RD (2006) Social Change and Economic Life in Britain. Homeless Books, Faenza. ISBN 1-86220-162-5
Penn, Roger (2005) Il Paradosso del Lavoro Moderno nell' Inghilterra di Oggi. Sociologia del Lavoro, 100. pp. 238-252. ISSN 88-464-7268-3
Francis, Brian and Dittrich, Regina and Hatzinger, Reinhold and Penn, Roger D. (2002) Analysing partial ranks by using smoothed paired comparison methods:an investigation of value orientation in Europe. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C, 51 (3). pp. 319-336. ISSN 0035-9254
Penn, Roger (2002) Attitudes to ideal family size by ethnic/nationality group in Britain, France and Germany. Population Trends, 108 (1). pp. 49-58. ISSN 0307-4463
Penn, Roger (2001) Attitudes to ideal family size by ethnic/nationality group in Britain, France and Germany. In: Proceedings of the European population conference : Vayestolitto, the family federation on Finland. The Family Federation of Finland, Helsinki. ISBN 9529605714
Lambert, P. and Penn, Roger D. (2001) SOR models and ethnicity data in LIS and LES : a country by country report. Working Paper. IRISS at CEPS/INSTEAD, Luxembourg.
Penn, Roger (1999) The dynamics of decision-making in the sphere of skills' formation. Sociology, 33 (3). pp. 619-638. ISSN 1469-8684
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Room: Bowland North, B16
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