Professor Gary Pollock

My profile

Interests and expertise

Mainly working on multi-partner European research projects.

Teaching

Multiple Regression

Multilevel Modelling

Longitudinal Modelling

Research outputs

  • Longitudinal and comparative  survey research methods
  • Educational achievements
  • Child well-being
  • Young people’s civic and political engagement
  • Sequence Analysis using Optimal Matching Analysis

Career history

2018 -

Professor, Policy Evaluation and Research Unit, Manchester Metropolitan University

2008 - 2018

Professor and Head of Department of Sociology, Manchester Metropolitan University

2002 - 2008

Principal Lecturer, Manchester Metropolitan University

2002

PhD, University of Liverpool

1992 - 2002

Lecturer, Manchester Metropolitan University

1992

MSc Sociology, University of Salford

1990 - 1992

Research Assistant, University of Salford

1989

PGCE, Wolverhampton Polytechnic 

1987

BA (Hons) Political Theory and Institutions, University of Liverpool

Press and media

Media appearances or involvement

2016 (February) BBC Radio 4 ‘Thinking Allowed’, interview by Laurie Taylor on the results of the MYPLACE survey in relation to populism.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06zttbs