Professor IAN BRUNTON-SMITH, PhD. FHEA

Director of Warwick Q-step centre

Department of Sociology, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL

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EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS

Postgraduate Certificate in Academic PracticeUniversity of Surrey, Oct 2008 – July 2010

PhD University of Surrey, Oct 2005 – Sept 2008

MSc (with distinction)Social Research MethodsUniversity of Surrey, Oct 2003 – Sept 2004

BA (Hons) Criminology Lancaster University, Oct 1999 – July 2002

APPOINTMENTS

September 2016 – presentProfessor, Department of Sociology, University of Warwick

April 2013 – August 2016Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Surrey

July 2008 – March2013Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Surrey

October 2005 – September 2008PhD, University of Surrey

July 2005 – July 2008Researcher, Crime Surveys Programme, Home Office

October 2004 – March 2005Research Officer, University of Surrey

PUBLICATIONS

Journal articles (peer reviewed *Q1)

Skudder, H., Brunton-Smith, I., Tseloni, A., McInnes, A., Cole, J., Thompson, R., and Druckman, A. (forthcoming) ‘Investigating the carbon footprint of burglary prevention measures’ Security Journal [IF0.9]

Brunton-Smith, I., and Tarling, R. (forthcoming) ‘Harnessing paradata and multilevel multiple imputation when analysing longitudinal survey data’. International Journal of Social Research Methodology.[IF0.9]

McCarthy, D., and Brunton-Smith, I. (forthcoming) ‘The effect of penal legitimacy on prisoners’ post-release desistance’. Crime and Delinquency. [IF 1.2]

Williams, J., Sturgis, P., Brunton-Smith, I., and Moore, J.(online first) ‘Fieldwork effort, response rate and the distribution of survey outcomes: a multi-level meta-analysis’. Public Opinion Quarterly.*[IF 1.5]

Sindall, K., McCarthy, D., and Brunton-Smith, I. (online first) ‘Young people and the formation of attitudes towards the police’ European Journal of Criminology.[IF 1.3]

Brunton-Smith, I., Sturgis, P., and Leckie, G. (online first) ‘Detecting and understanding interviewer effects on survey data by using a cross-classified mixed effects location-scale model’.Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A.*[IF 1.7]

Skudder, H., Druckman, A., Cole, J., Ansaloni, G. P., Brunton-Smith, I., and McInnes, A. (online first) ‘Addressing the carbon-crime blind spot: A carbon footprint approach’. Journal of Industrial Ecology.*[IF 3.3]

Brunton-Smith, I., and McCarthy, D. (online first) ‘The effects of prisoner attachment to family on re-entry outcomes: A longitudinal assessment’. British Journal of Criminology.*[IF 1.6]

Brunton-Smith, I., and McCarthy, D. (2016) ‘The social characteristics of online piracy offenders and their offending pathways’.Victims and Offenders. 11(4): 509-533.

Brunton-Smith, I., and McCarthy, D. (2016) ‘Prison legitimacy and procedural fairness: the view from prisoners across England and Wales’. Justice Quarterly. 33(6): 1029-1054.*[IF 2.4]

Bullock, K., Meadows, R., and Brunton-Smith, I. (2014) ‘‘DiscoverQuants’: Integrating quantitative methods (QM) and substantive teaching for first year undergraduate sociology students’Enhancing Learning in the Social Sciences, 6(2): 6-20.

Brunton-Smith, I., Carpenter, J., Kenward, M., and Tarling, R. (2014) ‘Multiple Imputation for handling missing data in social research’ Social Research Update, no 66.

Brunton-Smith, I., Sutherland, A., and Jackson, J. (2014) ‘Bridging structure and perception; On the social ecology of beliefs and worries about neighbourhood violence in London’British Journal of Criminology. 54(4): 503-526.*[IF 1.6]

  • Editors choice award

Barrett, M., and Brunton-Smith, I. (2014) ‘Political and civic participation: Towards an integrative perspective’ Journal of Civil Society, 10(1): 5-28.

Sturgis, P., Brunton-Smith, I., Jackson, J., and Kuha, J. (2014)‘Ethnic diversity and the social cohesion of neighbourhoods in London’ Ethnic and Racial Studies, 37(8): 1286-1309. [IF 1.1]

Sutherland, A., Brunton-Smith, I., and Jackson, J. (2013)‘Collective efficacy and violence in London’ British Journal of Criminology, 53(6): 1050-1074.*[IF 1.6]

Brunton-Smith, I., Sturgis, P., and Williams, J.(2012) ‘Is success on the doorstep correlated with the magnitude of the interviewer design effect?’Public Opinion Quarterly, 76(2): 265-286.*[IF 1.5]

  • Honourable mention - European Survey Research Association early career researcher award

Brunton-Smith, I., and Sturgis, P. (2011) ‘Do neighborhoodsgenerate fear of crime?: An empirical test using the British Crime Survey’. Criminology, 49(2): 331-369.*[IF 4.8]

  • Winner of the Jon Rasbash memorial prize for quantitative social science 2012

Brunton-Smith, I. (2011) ‘Untangling the relationship between fear of crime and perceived disorder: Evidence from a longitudinal study of young people in England and Wales’. British Journal of Criminology, 51(6): 885-899.*[IF 1.6]

Sturgis, P., Brunton-Smith, I., Read, S., and Allum, N. (2011) ‘Does ethnic diversity erode trust?: Putnam’s ‘Hunkering-Down’ thesis reconsidered’.British Journal of Political Science, 41(1): 57-82.* [IF 3.1]

Sturgis, P., Brunton-Smith, I., and Fife-Schaw, C. (2010) ‘Public attitudes to genomic science: An experiment in information provision’. Public Understanding of Science, 19(2): 166-180.* [IF 1.9]

Allum, N., Sturgis, P., Tabourazi, D., and Brunton-Smith, I. (2008) ‘Science knowledge and attitudes across cultures: Ameta-analysis’.Public Understanding of Science, 17(1): 35-54.*[IF 1.9]

Other publications

Brunton-Smith, I. (forthcoming) ‘Fear 2.0: Worry about cybercrime in England and Wales’. International handbook of fear of crime.

Sturgis, P., Brunton-Smith, I., and Jackson, J. (forthcoming) ‘Regression-based think aloud analysis for assessing the validity of survey questions. QDET2.

Brunton-Smith, I. (in press) ‘Chapter 31 – Systematic Social Observation’ in Johnson, S., and Bruinsma, G. (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Criminology, Oxford University Press.

Saunders, C., Brunton-Smith, I., Garrod, B., Stepanek, M., Vignoles, A., and Sutherland, A. (2016) ‘Missing Key Stage 2 data in LSYPE2: user guide.’ Report for the Department for Education.

Saunders, C., Brunton-Smith, I., Garrod, B., Stepanek, M., Vignoles, A., and Sutherland, A. (2016) ‘Missing Key Stage 2 data in LSYPE2: technical report.’ Report for the Department for Education.

Davies, M., Brunton-Smith, I., Pina-Sanchez, J., and Sutherland, A. (2016) ‘Evaluation of sentencing council guidelines: Drug offences final report’. Rand Europe: Report for Office of the Sentencing Council.

Stoneman, P., and Brunton-Smith, I. (2016) ‘Chapter 5 - The foundations of quantitative research’ in Stoneman, P., and Gilbert, N. (eds) Researching Social Life, 3rd Edition.

Barrett, M., and Brunton-Smith, I. (2016) ‘Political and civic participation: Towards an integrative perspective’ Edited collection. Taylor and Francis.

Brunton-Smith, I., and Barrett, M. (2014) ‘Political and civic participation: findings from the modelling of existing survey data sets’ in Barrett, M., and Zani, B. (eds) Political and Civic Participation: Theories and Findings from the PIDOP Project. Routledge.

Brunton-Smith, I., Jackson, J., and Sutherland, A. (2014) ‘Chapter 4 – The role of neighbourhoods in shaping crime and perceptions of crime’ in van Ham, M., and Manley, D. (eds) Neighbourhood Effects or Neighbourhood based Problems? A Policy Context. Springer.

Brunton-Smith, I., and Hopkins, K. (2014) ‘The impact of experience in prison on the employment status of prisoners after release: Findings from the first 3 waves of Surveying Prisoner Crime Reduction (SPCR)’. Report for Ministry of Justice.

Brunton-Smith, I., Carpenter, J., Kenward, M., and Tarling, R. (2014) ‘Surveying Prisoner Crime Reduction (SPCR) Using multiple imputation to recover missing data from the SPCR’. Report for Ministry of Justice.

Hopkins, K., and Brunton-Smith, I. (2014) ‘Prisoners’ experience of prison and outcomes on release: Results from Surveying Prisoner Crime Reduction (SPCR). Report for Ministry of Justice.

Sturgis, P., and Brunton-Smith, I. (2014) ‘Examining potential bias in the sampling methodology for the Green Deal Assessment Survey’. Report for the Department of Energy and Climate Change.

Brunton-Smith, I., and Hopkins, K. (2013) ‘The factors associated with reconviction following release from prison: Findings from the first 3 waves of Surveying Prisoner Crime Reduction (SPCR). Report for Ministry of Justice.

Brunton-Smith, I., and Jackson, J. (2012) ‘Chapter 2 - Urban fear and its roots in place’ in Ceccato, V. (ed)Urban Fabric of Crime and Fear.Springer.

Sturgis, P., and Brunton-Smith, I. (2011) ‘An evaluation of the potential utility of interviewer observation variables for reducing nonresponse error in the National Survey for Wales’. Report for the Welsh Assembly Government.

Brunton-Smith, I. (2011) ‘Processes Influencing Democratic Ownership and Participation work package 5: Modelling existing survey data’. Work Package 5. Report for European Commission.

Brunton-Smith, I., Sindall, K., andTarling, R. (2010) ‘The effect of demographic make-up on perceptions of antisocial behaviour in London as measured by the British Crime Survey and 2008 Place Survey’. Report for Government Office for London.

Brunton-Smith, I., and Allen, J. (2009) ‘Chapter 3 - Measuring crime’ In M.Bulmer, J. Gibbs and L. Hyman (eds) Social Measurement through Social Surveys: an Applied Approach.Ashgate.

Sturgis, P., Allum, N., and Brunton-Smith, I. (2008) ‘Chapter 7 - Attitudes over time: The psychology of panel conditioning’In P. Lynn (ed) Methodology of Longitudinal Surveys. Wiley.

Revise and resubmit

Skudder, H., Brunton-Smith, I., Druckman, A., Cole, J., and McInnes, A. ‘The crime drop and untold environmental impacts’. British Journal of Criminology

Under review

Brunton-Smith, I., Sturgis, P., and Leckie, G. ‘How collective is collective efficacy? Consensus effects in judgments about community cohesion’ American Journal of Sociology

Brunton-Smith, I., Pina-Sanchez, J., and Li, G. ‘Re-assessing the consistency of sentencing decisions in cases of Assault: Allowing for within court inconsistencies’ Journal of Quantitative Criminology

Pina-Sanchez, J., Brunton-Smith, I., and Li, G. ‘Mind the step: An empirical study of the functioning of the England and Wales sentencing guidelines’ British Journal of Criminology

McCarthy, D., and Brunton-Smith, I. ‘Prisoner-family ties during imprisonment: Reassessing resettlement outcomes’. Prison Service Journal

GRANTS AND CONTRACTS

Additional Court Proceedings Database Analyses, August 2016 – October 2016, £4,000, Sentencing Council: Co-Investigator (with RAND Europe)

Missing data in the second Longitudinal Study of Young People in England (LSYPE2), March 2016 – June 2016, £45,000, Department for Education: Co-Investigator (with RAND Europe, and Vignoles, A)

Evaluation of sentencing council guidelines: A survey of magistrates courts, September 2015 – September 2016, £90,000, Sentencing Council: Co-Investigator (with RAND Europe, and Pina-Sanchez, J)

Understanding the impact of prison based diversion schemes on young people and prisoners, June 2015 – May 2018, £92,000, Dawes Trust: Co-Investigator (with Bullock, K.)

Evaluation of the Green Deal and ECO programmes: Examining potential bias in the cluster sampling methodology, March 2014 – June 2014, £15,000, Department of Energy and Climate Change: Co-Investigator (with Sturgis, P).

Spatial modelling of crime and perceptions of crime.July 2014 – May 2015, £7,273, British Academy: Principal Investigator (with Jones, K)

Curriculum Innovation: Integrating quantitative methods and substantive teaching for HE level one sociology students. January 2012 – December 2013, £60,000, Economic and Social Research Council: Co-investigator (with Bullock, K., and Meadows, R)

Surveying Prisoner Crime Reduction (SPCR) Analytic Project.November 2011 – December 2012,£39,000, Ministry of Justice: Principal Investigator

Processes Influencing Democratic Ownership and Participation.May 2009 – April 2012, €1,495,000, European Commission Seventh Framework Programme: Co-ordinator Work Package 5 – Modelling Existing Survey Data (with Barrett, M., et al)

An assessment of the utility of interviewer observation variables for nonresponse adjustment in the National Survey for Wales.September 2011 – November 2011, £15,000, Welsh Assembly Government: Co-investigator (with Sturgis, P)

Surveying Prisoner Crime Reduction (SPCR) missing data project. October 2010 – March 2011,£59,000, Ministry of Justice: Principal Investigator (with Carpenter, J., Kenward, M., and Tarling, R)

The effect of demographic make-up on perceptions of ASB in London.December 2009 – March 2010,£18,783, Government Office for London: Principal Investigator (with Tarling, R., and Sindall, K)

Under review

Psychological and social influences on public engagement withbiomedicine.January 2017 – December 2017, £41,000, Wellcome Trust: Co-investigator (with Allum, N., and Sturgis, P)

In preparation

Mathematical modelling of crime: exploring fast and slow neighbourhood dynamics. Approx..£600,000, Economic and Social Research Council: Principal investigator (with UCL and Surrey)

INVITED TALKS

Brunton-Smith, I. (2016) ‘A new approach for estimating the magnitude of interviewer effects conditional on covariates: An application of a cross-classified location scale effects model’ Research Methods Festival, July 5-7, 2016

Brunton-Smith, I. (2016) ‘How collective is collective efficacy? The roles of ethnic diversity and similarity in informing evaluations of social cohesion and informal control’ Freiburg Criminology Symposium on Ethnic Diversity and Neighbourhood Processes, May 24-25, 2016

Brunton-Smith, I. (2015) ‘Analytic projects with Surveying Prisoner Crime Reduction’ Ministry of Justice /Criminal Statistics Network, December7, 2015

Brunton-Smith, I. (2015) ‘Prison legitimacy and procedural justice’ Ministry of Justice policy seminar at The Old Bailey, January 27, 2015

Brunton-Smith, I. (2014) ‘Family contact and prisoner life chances’ Institute of Education seminar, March 4, 2014

Brunton-Smith, I. (2013) ‘Family contact and prisoner life chances’ AQMEN seminar at Edinburgh University, December 3, 2013

Brunton-Smith, I. (2013) ‘Collective efficacy and violence in London’ Royal Statistical Society Leeds/Bradford Local Group at Leeds University, January 16, 2013

Brunton-Smith, I. (2012) ‘PIDOP Work package 5: The extent and nature of political and civic participation across Europe’ Cronem 2nd International Multi-disciplinary Conference Political and Civic Participation at Surrey University April 16-17, 2012

Brunton-Smith, I. (2011) ‘Neighbourhoods matter: Spillovereffects in the fear of crime’ ESRC Seminar Series on Neighbourhood Effects, Neighbourhood Based Problems and International Policy Solutions at Glasgow University April 7-8, 2011

Brunton-Smith, I. (2011) ‘Do neighbourhoods generate fear of crime?’,Royal Statistical Society Local Group, Lancaster, January 20, 2011

Brunton-Smith, I. (2009) ‘What is a Country? Accounting for compositional differences between groups in assessments of cross-national measurement equivalence’, International Workshop on Cross-national Data Analysis QMSS2 Seminar at Bolzano-Bozen, June 11-12, 2009

Brunton-Smith, I. (2008) ‘The use of ACORN classifications and the Index of Deprivation in British Crime Survey analysis’, ONS Area Classification User Group meeting, Royal Statistical Society, September 15, 2008

Brunton-Smith, I. (2006) ‘Science knowledge and attitudes across cultures: A meta-analysis’ Interdisciplinary Workshop on Meta-analysis, Cologne, October 26-27, 2006

EVIDENCE OF STANDING

  • Editorial board of the British Journal of Criminology
  • Secretary of the Royal Statistics Society Social Statistics Committee
  • Winner of the Jon Rasbash prize for best paper in quantitative social science
  • Honourable mention in the European Survey Research Association early career researcher award
  • Peer reviewer for academic journals including Criminology, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Social Research Methodology: Theory and Practice, Criminology and Criminal Justice, The European Journal of Criminology, Public Opinion Quarterly, Justice Quarterly
  • End of award rapporteur for the Economic and Social Research Council
  • Peer reviewer for Home Office, Ministry of Justice, National Institute of Health Research, National Science Foundation, Sage.
  • External examiner at University of Essex (MSc in Survey Methods for Social Research, Sociological Research, and Criminology) and University of Bath (MRes in Social Science)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Current teaching responsibilities (2016-17)

  • Advanced Quantitative Methods (3rd Year undergraduate, Sociology)
  • Introduction to Quantitative Methods (Post-doctoral Training Partnership)

Previous Teaching

  • Statistical Modelling (MSc, Social Research Methods)
  • Crime and Offending (MSc, Criminology, Criminal Justice and Social Research)
  • Prisons and Prisoners (3rd Year undergraduate, Criminology and Law)
  • Crime and Society (1st Year undergraduate, Criminology and Law)
  • Applied Criminological Theories (2nd Year undergraduate, Criminology and Law)
  • Quantitative Methods (1st Year undergraduate, Sociology and Criminology)
  • Quantitative Methods (2nd Year undergraduate, Sociology and Criminology)
  • Historical and Theoretical Perspectives on Punishment (2nd Year undergraduate, Criminology)

External Teaching

  • ‘Introduction to Quantitative Methods’,University of Huddersfield, January 14-15, 2016
  • Courses in Applied Social Surveys– ‘Applied multilevel modelling’,University of Southampton, June 15-17, 2015
  • ‘Multilevel models – practice and application’,Iposos MORI, May-June, 2014
  • ‘Multilevel models – practice and application’, University of Essex, March 30-21, 2014
  • Courses in Applied Social Surveys– ‘Applied multilevel modelling’,University of Southampton, February 13-15, 2014
  • Courses in Applied Social Surveys– ‘Applied multilevel modelling’,University of Southampton, January 23-25, 2013
  • Courses in Applied Social Surveys– ‘Applied multilevel modelling’,University of Southampton, January 25-27, 2012
  • European Survey Research Association pre-conference short course – ‘Multilevel models for survey data’, Lausanne, July 18, 2011
  • Ministry of Justice training – ‘Multiple Imputation to recover missing data in longitudinal surveys’, Ministry of Justice, May 4, 2011
  • Survey Skills Workshop (part of ESRC Survey Resources Network project). City University, London, January 6, 2011
  • Courses in Applied Social Surveys– ‘Applied multilevel modelling’,University of Southampton, June 16-18, 2010
  • MSc in Official Statistics – ‘Multilevel modelling’,University of Southampton, March 15-19, 2010
  • Home Office training – ‘An introduction to multilevel modelling in SPSS’, Research Development and Statistics, Home Office, October 2009

ESRC funded quantitative methods undergraduate online resource:

ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES

Director of Warwick Q-step centre (Current)

Examinations Officer

Admissions Officer

Academic Integrity Officer

Graduate Tutor Co-ordinator

ACADEMIC REFERENCES

Professor Jon Garland (Head of Department)

Department of Sociology, University of Surrey,

Guildford, GU2 7XH

Professor Roger Tarling (Emeritus)

Department of Sociology, University of Surrey,

Guildford, GU2 7XH

Professor Patrick Sturgis (Director of National Centre for Research Methods)

Social Statistics & Demography, Social Sciences, University of Southampton,

Southampton, SO17 1BJ