• Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology

I am a senior lecturer in sociology. Most of my work involves analysis using secondary survey datasets, and I'm often involved in methodological research and training activities in the domain of quantitative data analysis and social science computing.

 

Before joing DASS in July 2003, I worked as a researcher at Cardiff University School of Social Sciences (2000-3), and at the Centre for Applied Statistics at Lancaster University (1996-2000, where I did my PhD). Some further details on my research activities and background are also available at http://staff.stir.ac.uk/paul.lambert/research.htm .

 

I'm involved in quite a few ongoing research projects, currently the main funded projects that I participate in are: 

• DAMES - Data Managment through e-Social Science (www.dames.org.uk) (ESRC)
• Social Networks and Occupational Structures (forthcoming, Oct 2010-2012) (ESRC)
• HIS-CAM - Estimating social stratification and interaction scales for the 19th and 20th Century (http://www.camsis.stir.ac.uk/hiscam/) (NWP)
• NEISS - National e-Infrastructure for Social Simulation (www.neiss.org.uk) (JISC)
• e-STAT - e-Social Science tools for statisitcal modelling (http://www.cmm.bristol.ac.uk/research/NCESS-EStat/) (ESRC)
• Seminar series: 'Language and social structure in urban France' (http://www.sociolinguistique-urbaine.com/spip.php?article33) (AHRC)

 

 Last updated: July 2010

 

 

• structures of social stratification
• the uses of occupational information and occupation-based social classifications (see www.camsis.stir.ac.uk and www.geode.stir.ac.uk)
• social stratification, ethnicity and immigration
• methodological research on the analysis of large scale survey datasets, in longitudinal and cross-national comparisons (see www.longitudinal.stir.ac.uk)
• e-social science (see www.dames.org.uk)

• Social Surveys and Social Statistics

• ASRP02-Research Design and Process (Contributing Lecturer)
• ASRP03-Introduction to Information Technology and Library Services (Co-ordinator)
• ASRP04-Quantitative Data Analysis (Co-ordinator)
• ASRP09-Group Project (Contributing Lecturer)
• SPC9C6-Research Process II (Co-ordinator)

Books

• Penn, R.D., Lambert, P.S. (2009) Children of International Migrants in Europe: Comparative Perspectives. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan.

Journal Papers

• Lambert, P. S., Tan, K. L. L., Gayle, V., Prandy, K., & Bergman, M. M. (2008). The importance of specificity in occupation-based social classifications. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 28(5/6), 179-192.

• Lambert, P. S., Scourfield, J., Smalley, N., & Jones, R. (2008). The social context of school bullying: evidence from a survey of children in South Wales. Research Papers in Education, 23(3), 269-291.

• Lambert PS, Gayle V, Tan KLT, Turner KJ, Sinnott R, Prandy K. 2007. "Data Curation Standards and Social Science Occupational Information Resources", International Journal of Digital Curaton, 2(1) 73-91.

  
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• Lambert PS, Prandy K, Bottero W. 2007. "By Slow Degrees: Two centuries of social reproduction and mobility in Britain". Sociological Research Online, 12(1).  

  
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• Gayle V, Lambert PS. 2007. "Using Quasi-variance to Communicate Results from Statistical Models", Sociology, 41(6) 1191-1206.

• Prandy K, Lambert PS. 2003. "Marriage, Social Distance and the Social Space : An alternative derivation and validation of the Cambridge Scale". Sociology 37(3):397-411

• Joye D, Bergman MM, Lambert PS. 2003. "Intergenerational Educational and Social Mobility in Switzerland". Swiss Journal of Sociology 29(2):263-291

• Lambert PS, Peignard E. 2002. "Ambitions et reussites scolaires et professionnelles comparees des enfants d'immigres". Revue Francaise de Pedagogie 140: 75-87

• Penn RD, Lambert PS. 2002. "Attitudes towards ideal family size of different ethnic/nationality groups in Great Britain, France and Germany". Population Trends 108: 49-58

• Bergman MM, Lambert PS, Prandy K, Joye D. 2002. Theorisation, Construction and Validation of a Social Stratification Scale : Cambridge Social Interaction and Stratification Scale (CAMSIS) for Switzerland. Swiss Journal of Sociology 28: 441-60

Book Chapters

• Bottero, W., Lambert, P. S., Prandy, K., & McTaggart, S. (2009). Occupational Structures: The Stratification Space of Social Interaction. In K. Robson & C. Sanders (Eds.), Quantifying Theory: Pierre Bourdieu (pp. 141-150). Amsterdam: Springer Netherlands.

• Lambert PS. 2005. "Ethnicity and the Comparative Analysis of Contemporary Survey Data". In Hoffmeyer-Zlotnick, J.H-P. and Harkness, J. (eds) Methodological Aspects in Cross-National Research (ZUMA Nachrichten - Spezial -11), 259-277.

Research Reports

• Lambert, PS, Bihagen, E. 2007. "Concepts and Measures: Empirical evidence on the interpretation of ESeC and other occupation-based social classifications". Paper presented to ISA RC28 Social Stratification and Mobility Summer meeting, Montreal, 14-17 August, and Social Stratification Research Seminar, Stirling, 5-7 September. (Download: draft paper). 

  
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• Lambert, PS, Tan, KLT., Turner, KJ., Gayle, V., Prandy, K. and Sinnott, R. 2006. "Development of a Grid Enabled Occupational Data Environment". Paper presented to 2nd International Conference on eSocial Science, Manchester, 28-30th June, and http://www.ncess.ac.uk/events/conference/2006/   

  
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• Lambert, PS, Zijdeman, R., Maas, I., Prandy, K. and van Leeuwen, MVL. 2006. "Testing the universality of historical occupational stratification structures across time and space". Paper presented to ISA RC28 Social Stratification and Mobility Spring meeting, Nijmegen, 11-14th May, and http://www.ru.nl/springmeetingnijmegen/  

  
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• Lambert PS. 2002. "Quantitative Representations of Ethnic Difference?" Presented at ISA RC-28 On Social Stratification and Mobility: Integrating Theory and Research, Nuffield College, Oxford, and http://www.nuff.ox.ac.uk/rc28/Papers/lambert.pdf

  
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• Lambert PS. 2001. "Individuals in household panel surveys: dealing with person-group clustering in individual level statistical models using BHPS data". Presented at BHPS conference, Colchester, July 5-7.

  
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Edited Books

• No Edited Books in our records

• GEODE: Grid Enabled Occupational Data Environment
• HIS-CAM: Estimating social interaction and stratification scales for the 19th and 20th century
• Social Stratification Research Seminars
• Quasi-Variances
• DAMES: Data Management through e-Social Science
• CAMSIS: Cambridge Social Interaction and Stratification Scales