Dr Thees Spreckelsen

Lecturer in Research Methods (Sociology)

email: Thees.Spreckelsen@glasgow.ac.uk

School for Social and Political Sciences, Adam Smith Building, Room 513, Bute Garden, G12 8RT

ORCID iD https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5043-2077

Biography

I am lecturer for research methods at the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow. Previously I was "Lecturer for Evidence-based Quantitative Methods" and "Research Fellow for Quantitative Methods" at the Department of Social Policy and Intervention at the University of Oxford. Prior to that I have been lecturer in Quantitative Sociology at the University of Kent (Canterbury, UK) and a post-doctoral research officer at the Centre for Evidence-Based Intervention and the Oxford Institute of Social Policy at the at the University of Oxford.

Research interests

Research methods in the social sciences and public health, particularly survey research methods, experimental and quasi-experimental methods for the evaluation (particularly matching methods); research transparency and replication; research on EU migration, employment and labour market integration; social determinants of health; R and Stata programming.

Publications

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Number of items: 19.

2020

Ferragina, E., Arrigoni, A. and Spreckelsen, T. F. (2020) The rising invisible majority. Bringing society back into international political economy. Review of International Political Economy, (doi: 10.1080/09692290.2020.1797853) (Early Online Publication)

Lachman, J. M. , Wamoyi, J., Spreckelsen, T. F. , Wight, D. , Maganga, J. and Gardner, F. (2020) Combining parenting and economic strengthening programmes to reduce violence against children in rural Tanzania: a cluster randomised controlled trial with predominantly male caregivers. BMJ Global Health, (Accepted for Publication)

2019

Felbo-Kolding, J., Leschke, J. and Spreckelsen, T. F. (2019) A division of labour? Labour market segmentation by region of origin: the case of intra-EU migrants in the UK, Germany and Denmark. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 45(15), pp. 2820-2843. (doi: 10.1080/1369183X.2018.1518709)

O'Hara, L., Smith, E. R., Barlow, J., Livingstone, N., Herath, N. I.N.S., Wei, Y., Spreckelsen, T. F. and Macdonald, G. (2019) Video feedback for parental sensitivity and attachment security in children under five years. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2019(11), CD012348. (doi: 10.1002/14651858.cd012348.pub2) (PMID:31782528)

2018

Stoicescu, C., Cluver, L. D., Spreckelsen, T. , Casale, M., Sudewo, A. G. and Irwanto, (2018) Intimate partner violence and HIV sexual risk behaviour among women who inject drugs in Indonesia: a respondent-driven sampling study. AIDS and Behavior, 22(10), pp. 3307-3323. (doi: 10.1007/s10461-018-2186-2) (PMID:29948336) (PMCID:PMC6154010)

Montgomery, P., Spreckelsen, T. F. , Burton, A., Burton, J. R. and Richardson, A. J. (2018) Docosahexaenoic acid for reading, working memory and behavior in UK children aged 7-9: a randomized controlled trial for replication (the DOLAB II study). PLoS ONE, 13(2), e0192909. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0192909) (PMID:29462158) (PMCID:PMC5819802)

2016

Spreckelsen, T. F. and Van Der Horst, M. (2016) Is banning significance testing the best way to improve applied social science research? – Questions on Gorard (2016). Sociological Research Online, 21(3), pp. 95-105. (doi: 10.5153/sro.4076)

Heath, A. F. and Spreckelsen, T. (2016) European identities in comparative perspective. In: Elkink, J. A. and Farrell, D. M. (eds.) The Act of Voting: Identities, Institutions and Locale. Routledge: London, pp. 11-34. ISBN 9781138842014 (doi:10.4324/9781315725222-2)

2015

Ferragina, E., Seeleib-Kaiser, M. and Spreckelsen, T. (2015) The four worlds of ‘Welfare Reality’ – social risks and outcomes in Europe. Social Policy and Society, 14(2), pp. 287-307. (doi: 10.1017/S1474746414000530)

2014

Montgomery, P., Burton, J. R., Sewell, R. P., Spreckelsen, T. F. and Richardson, A. J. (2014) Fatty acids and sleep in UK children: subjective and pilot objective sleep results from the DOLAB study - a randomized controlled trial. Journal of Sleep Research, 23(4), pp. 364-388. (doi: 10.1111/jsr.12135) (PMID:24605819) (PMCID:PMC4263155)

2013

Montgomery, P., Burton, J. R., Sewell, R. P., Spreckelsen, T. F. and Richardson, A. J. (2013) Omega-3 DHA and Sleep in UK Children: Results From the DOLAB Study. FAB Research Conference: Omega-3 DHA for Child Behaviour and Learning, London, UK, 04 Sep 2013. (doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.903710)

Montgomery, P., Burton, J. R., Sewell, R. P., Spreckelsen, T. F. and Richardson, A. J. (2013) Low blood long chain omega-3 fatty acids in UK children are associated with poor cognitive performance and behavior: a cross-sectional analysis from the DOLAB study. PLoS ONE, 8(6), e66697. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066697) (PMID:23826114) (PMCID:PMC3691187)