Dr Serena Pattaro
- Research Fellow (Urban Studies)
telephone:
0044 (0)141 330 5981
email:
Serena.Pattaro@glasgow.ac.uk
Urban Big Data Centre (UBDC), 7 Lilybank Gardens (Room 7/403), University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8RZ
Biography
I am a quantitative social scientist and research fellow within the Scottish Centre for Administrative Data Research (SCADR). I am currently working on four research areas involving the analysis of linked administrative data from the benefits, tax and health systems:
- Socioeconomic, household and environmental risk factors for COVID-19;
- The causal effects of benefit sanctions on health;
- Using longitudinal linked administrative data to identify social disadvantage;
- Health, earnings and employment progression in England and Wales.
I was awarded a DPhil from Nuffield College at the University of Oxford with a doctoral thesis on ‘Women’s employment instability and fertility dynamics: Cross-cohort changes in Italy and Sweden’, where I modelled women's childbearing and labour market transitions, by using survival analysis applied to retrospective life history data.
Prior to joining Glasgow, I was involved on a research project on ‘Fertility postponement and recuperation in Britain’ at the ESRC Centre for Population Change at the University of Southampton. This project entailed the application of survival modelling techniques on micro data from two major British cohort studies: the 1958 National Child Development Studies and 1970 British Cohort Study.
Research interests
- Unemployment
- Labour market dynamics
- Social and health inequalities
- Welfare policies and welfare reform
- Intra-household inequalities
- Life-course transitions
- Fertility and family dynamics
- Cross-national comparative research
- Quantitative research methods
- Survival analysis
- Multilevel modelling
- Data visualization
- Causal inference
- Quasi-experimental designs
- Complex longitudinal survey data and administrative data
- Cross-sectoral data linkage
Grants
2021-2022: Administrative Data Research Centres 2018. UKRI ESRC funding extension, Grant reference: ES/S007407/1 (£139,991). Role: Co-Investigator.
2021: Assessing the impacts of benefit sanctions on health. RCUK EPSRC - UKRI COVID-19 Grant Extension Allocation scheme, Grant reference: ES/R005729/1 (£12,131). Role: Co-Investigator.
2018-2021: Assessing the impacts of benefit sanctions on health. UKRI ESRC Secondary Data Analysis Initiative, Grant reference: ES/R005729/1 (£157,718). Role: Co-Investigator.
2018-2021: Administrative Data Research Centres 2018. UKRI ESRC Grant reference: ES/S007407/1. Role: Researcher.
Supervision
I am interested in supervising both undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations/Phd theses in the following areas:
- Unemployment and labour market dynamics
- Social and health inequalities
- Social and labour market policies;
- Welfare reform
- Intra-household inequalities
- Life-course transitions
- Fertility and family dynamics
- Family policies
- Cross-national comparative research
- Quantitative research methods
Since 2016 I have supervised the dissertation of students (11 completed) from a range of MSc programmes (e.g. Public Policy and Management; Global Health; International Real Estate and Management; City and Regional Planning; Real Estate).
I am also providing support for two PhD students who are developing a thesis in the area of health and employment dynamics using linked administrative data.
Teaching
- Quantitative Data Analysis (PGT course: semester 1 and 2; tutor; School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow; 2020-present)
- An introduction to data science for administrative data research (ISD-ADR) (Postgraduate training course; contributing lecturer; Scottish Centre for Administrative Data Research (SCADR), University of Edinburgh, and Scottish Longitudinal Study-Development & Support Unit (SLS-DSU); 2017-present)
- Social and Public Policy 2A (UG course: semester 1; contributing lecturer; School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow; 2016-present)
Additional information
Journal editorial board member:
- Journal of Social Policy (2021-present)
- Social Policy and Society (2021-present)
Associations:
- Social Policy Association (2017-present)
- Royal Statistical Society (2017-present)
- British Society for Population Studies (2017-present)
Reviewer:
- Journal of Social Policy (2021-present)
- Social Policy and Society (2021-present)
- Social Indicators Research (2019-present)
- Demographic Research (2016-present)
- Vienna Yearbook of Population Research (2016-present)
- Population Studies (2018)