Dr Patricio Troncoso

  • Honorary Research Fellow (School of Social & Political Sciences)

Biography

Dr Patricio Troncoso is a Research Fellow in Urban Studies at the School of Social and Political Sciences. Patricio is currently working in the “Understanding children’s lives and outcomes” strand of the ESRC-funded Scottish Centre for Administrative Data Research (SCADR).

Patricio is an applied statistician with a background in Sociology and Public Policy. His research focuses on a range of children’s outcomes and experiences, including educational inequalities in attainment, school behaviour and attendance, school value-added, social care and protection, mental health as well as social and emotional learning and development.

Before joining Urban Studies at the University of Glasgow in 2023, Patricio worked at I-SPHERE, Heriot-Watt University (2021-2023), as well as the University of Manchester (2016-2020) in the Manchester Institute of Education and the Department of Social Statistics, where he also gained his PhD in Social Statistics.

Research interests

  • Educational and social inequalities
  • School attainment
  • Child development
  • Child and family wellbeing and mental health
  • Child protection and social care
  • Randomised controlled trials methodology
  • Quantitative methods

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Research groups

  • Just Cities & Societies

Publications

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Jump to: 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2019 | 2016
Number of items: 17.

2024

Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893, Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092, Williamson, Lee and Celia, MacIntyre (2024) Understanding Exclusions in Scottish Secondary Schools. Project Report. ADR UK, Edinburgh. (doi: 10.7488/era/4812).

Purdam, Kingsley, Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893, Morales-Gómez, Ana and Leckie, George (2024) Local geographic variations in children’s school readiness - a multilevel analysis of the development gaps in England. Child Indicators Research, 17, pp. 145-176. (doi: 10.1007/s12187-023-10081-7)

2023

Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893, Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092, Williamson, Lee and Macintyre, Cecilia (2023) Data Explained: Exploring context, factors and approaches to educational exclusions and absences. Technical Report. Scottish Centre for Administrative Data Research.

Soraghan, Joanna, Raab, Gillian and Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893 (2023) The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic restrictions on children entering and leaving care in Scotland. International Journal of Population Data Science, 8(3), 25. (doi: 10.23889/ijpds.v8i2.2207)

Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092, Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893 and Williamson, Lee (2023) School and area-level disparities in exclusions in Scottish secondary schools. International Journal of Population Data Science, 8(2), 11. (doi: 10.23889/ijpds.v8i2.2194)

Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092 and Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893 (2023) The indivisibility of parental and child mental health and why poverty matters. Journal of Adolescent Health, 73(3), pp. 470-477. (doi: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2023.04.012)

Soraghan, Joanna, Raab, Gillian, Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893, Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092 and Porter, Robert (2023) The Impact of COVID-19 on Children’s Care Journeys in Scotland. Documentation. Scottish Centre for Administrative Data Research. (doi: 10.7488/era/3245).

Raab, Gillian, Soraghan, Joanna, Macintyre, Cecilia, McGhee, Janice and Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893 (2023) Infants born into care in Scotland (2008-2021). Project Report. Edinburgh Research Archive. (doi: 10.7488/era/3256).

Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092 and Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893 (2023) Digital exclusion in education: What the online learning technology Scholar tells us about inequality in Scottish secondary schools. Other. Nuffield Foundation.

Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893 and Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092 (2023) Methods for analysing the relationship between poverty, parental work intensity, child emotional symptoms and conduct problems over time. MethodsX, 10, 101940. (doi: 10.1016/j.mex.2022.101940) (PMID:36545544) (PMCID:PMC9761838)

2022

Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092 and Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893 (2022) Poverty, parental work intensity and child emotional and conduct problems. Social Science and Medicine, 312, p. 115373. (doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115373) (PMID:36152585)

Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092 and Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893 (2022) Digitally excluded: inequalities in the access and use of online learning technologies in Scottish secondary schools. International Journal of Population Data Science, 7(3), 48. (doi: 10.23889/ijpds.v7i3.1819) (PMCID:PMC9644675)

Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893 and Morales-Gómez, Ana (2022) Estimating the complier average causal effect via a latent class approach using gsem. Stata Journal, 22(2), pp. 404-415. (doi: 10.1177/1536867X221106416)

Humphrey, N. et al. (2022) The Good Behaviour Game intervention to improve behavioural and other outcomes for children aged 7–8 years: a cluster RCT. Public Health Research, 10(7), (doi: 10.3310/VKOF7695)

2021

Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893 and Humphrey, Neil (2021) Playing the long game: a multivariate multilevel non-linear growth curve model of long-term effects in a randomized trial of the Good Behavior Game. Journal of School Psychology, 88, pp. 68-84. (doi: 10.1016/j.jsp.2021.08.002) (PMID:34625211) (PMCID:PMC8519394)

2019

Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893 (2019) A two-fold indicator of school performance and the cost of ignoring it. International Journal of Educational Research, 95, pp. 153-167. (doi: 10.1016/j.ijer.2019.02.002)

2016

Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893, Pampaka, Maria and Olsen, Wendy (2016) Beyond traditional school value-added models: a multilevel analysis of complex school effects in Chile. School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 27(3), pp. 293-314. (doi: 10.1080/09243453.2015.1084010)

This list was generated on Sat Jul 5 03:55:08 2025 BST.
Jump to: Articles | Research Reports or Papers
Number of items: 17.

Articles

Purdam, Kingsley, Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893, Morales-Gómez, Ana and Leckie, George (2024) Local geographic variations in children’s school readiness - a multilevel analysis of the development gaps in England. Child Indicators Research, 17, pp. 145-176. (doi: 10.1007/s12187-023-10081-7)

Soraghan, Joanna, Raab, Gillian and Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893 (2023) The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic restrictions on children entering and leaving care in Scotland. International Journal of Population Data Science, 8(3), 25. (doi: 10.23889/ijpds.v8i2.2207)

Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092, Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893 and Williamson, Lee (2023) School and area-level disparities in exclusions in Scottish secondary schools. International Journal of Population Data Science, 8(2), 11. (doi: 10.23889/ijpds.v8i2.2194)

Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092 and Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893 (2023) The indivisibility of parental and child mental health and why poverty matters. Journal of Adolescent Health, 73(3), pp. 470-477. (doi: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2023.04.012)

Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893 and Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092 (2023) Methods for analysing the relationship between poverty, parental work intensity, child emotional symptoms and conduct problems over time. MethodsX, 10, 101940. (doi: 10.1016/j.mex.2022.101940) (PMID:36545544) (PMCID:PMC9761838)

Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092 and Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893 (2022) Poverty, parental work intensity and child emotional and conduct problems. Social Science and Medicine, 312, p. 115373. (doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115373) (PMID:36152585)

Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092 and Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893 (2022) Digitally excluded: inequalities in the access and use of online learning technologies in Scottish secondary schools. International Journal of Population Data Science, 7(3), 48. (doi: 10.23889/ijpds.v7i3.1819) (PMCID:PMC9644675)

Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893 and Morales-Gómez, Ana (2022) Estimating the complier average causal effect via a latent class approach using gsem. Stata Journal, 22(2), pp. 404-415. (doi: 10.1177/1536867X221106416)

Humphrey, N. et al. (2022) The Good Behaviour Game intervention to improve behavioural and other outcomes for children aged 7–8 years: a cluster RCT. Public Health Research, 10(7), (doi: 10.3310/VKOF7695)

Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893 and Humphrey, Neil (2021) Playing the long game: a multivariate multilevel non-linear growth curve model of long-term effects in a randomized trial of the Good Behavior Game. Journal of School Psychology, 88, pp. 68-84. (doi: 10.1016/j.jsp.2021.08.002) (PMID:34625211) (PMCID:PMC8519394)

Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893 (2019) A two-fold indicator of school performance and the cost of ignoring it. International Journal of Educational Research, 95, pp. 153-167. (doi: 10.1016/j.ijer.2019.02.002)

Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893, Pampaka, Maria and Olsen, Wendy (2016) Beyond traditional school value-added models: a multilevel analysis of complex school effects in Chile. School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 27(3), pp. 293-314. (doi: 10.1080/09243453.2015.1084010)

Research Reports or Papers

Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893, Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092, Williamson, Lee and Celia, MacIntyre (2024) Understanding Exclusions in Scottish Secondary Schools. Project Report. ADR UK, Edinburgh. (doi: 10.7488/era/4812).

Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893, Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092, Williamson, Lee and Macintyre, Cecilia (2023) Data Explained: Exploring context, factors and approaches to educational exclusions and absences. Technical Report. Scottish Centre for Administrative Data Research.

Soraghan, Joanna, Raab, Gillian, Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893, Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092 and Porter, Robert (2023) The Impact of COVID-19 on Children’s Care Journeys in Scotland. Documentation. Scottish Centre for Administrative Data Research. (doi: 10.7488/era/3245).

Raab, Gillian, Soraghan, Joanna, Macintyre, Cecilia, McGhee, Janice and Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893 (2023) Infants born into care in Scotland (2008-2021). Project Report. Edinburgh Research Archive. (doi: 10.7488/era/3256).

Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092 and Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893 (2023) Digital exclusion in education: What the online learning technology Scholar tells us about inequality in Scottish secondary schools. Other. Nuffield Foundation.

This list was generated on Sat Jul 5 03:55:08 2025 BST.

Teaching

  • Introduction to Multilevel Modelling, SGSSS Summer School (2022-2023) (Co-lecturer)
  • Introduction to Data Science for Administrative Data Research, Scottish Centre for Administrative Data Research (2023) (Co-lecturer)

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