Making Sense of Data in the Media

About Alasdair RaeAndrew BellAneta PiekutMark TaylorTodd Hartman

Andrew Bell is a Lecturer at the Sheffield Methods Institute University of Sheffield. His research spans a wide range of social sciences and beyond with work on social inequalities segregation mental health education and more. He also investigates the performance of different quantitative methods for use in the social sciences with a focus on multilevel models. His twitter is @andrewjdbell. Todd Hartman is Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Social Sciences at the Sheffield Methods Institute. His research focuses on political psychology especially political attitudes and inter-group relations. He has extensive experience conducting surveys and experiments. His twitter is @tkhartman Aneta Piekut is a Lecturer at the Sheffield Methods Institute the University of Sheffield. Her research focuses on the relationship between ethnic diversity and social cohesion attitudes towards immigration and ethnic minorities as well as integration and socio-spatial segregation. She teaches undergraduate students how to design a survey do a mixed-methods research and how to replicate a scientific paper. Her twitter is @anetapiekut  Alasdair Rae is the founder of Automatic Knowledge Ltd a UK-based data and insights company focusing on spatial data analysis and the built environment. Prior to that he was a Professor of Urban Studies and Planning at the University of Sheffield. He is a Fellow of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society a recipient of the Royal Town Planning Institutes Sir Peter Hall award for Wider Engagement a former Commissioner of the UK2070 Commission and a winner of the Royal Statistical Societys Stat of the Year. His most recent academic work has focused on spatial analysis deprivation housing markets and megaregions and his work frequently appears in the national and international media. He has a PhD from the University of Liverpool an MA from The Ohio State University and a BA from the University of Strathclyde.  Mark Taylor is Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Methods (Sociology) at the Sheffield Methods Institute University of Sheffield and is AHRC Leadership Fellow (Creative Economy) until 2021. His research interests are in the sociology of culture: in consumption production and education and its relationship to inequality. He spends a lot of time visualising data and wrangling data into a shape where it can be visualised. His twitter is @markrt