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Dr Gundi KniesSenior Research Officer

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01206 872734
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2N2.5A.07 (Level 5A)

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Gknies

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Research Interests

I am a quantitative researcher with training and research experience in Economics, Social Policy and Sociology. I have experience undertaking income distribution/poverty, life satisfaction and neighbourhood effects analysis using a range of datasets, including the German Socio-economic Panel (SOEP) and the British Household Panel Study (BHPS). I am interested in research around what it is that makes people satisfied with where they live and how the local context enhances or hinders people's life chances.

My current research centers around asking survey respondents for their consent to add administrative records to their survey responses and I am involved in a number of projects investigating the relationship between place and well-being, bothin adults and children. An exiting new project I am working on is looking at whether physical attractiveness is associated with occupational mobility.

Responsibilities

I am member of the design and implementation team of Understanding Society, managing health and economic record linkages. I am also involved with training researchers in using the BHPS and Understanding Society data using Stata.

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