Brendan Halpin

Brendan Halpin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Limerick. His research focuses on quantitative sociology, particularly longitudinal data analysis, sequence analysis, and computational social science. He has developed software tools like SADI for Stata, advancing sequence analysis methodologies. His work addresses topics such as social class trajectories, family formation dynamics, and educational attainment patterns across generations. Halpin's career includes prior roles at the University of Essex and Nuffield College, Oxford, where he contributed to the British Household Panel Survey. He actively publishes on methodological innovations and their social science applications.

Education: DPhil in Sociology from Nuffield College, Oxford. Previously worked at the Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex. Joined University of Limerick in 2000. His current research includes agent-based modeling of spouse choice and spatial analysis of higher education participation. He has authored over 40 publications and developed multiple statistical software modules for data analysis.

Research interests span lifespan social processes, including class mobility, labor markets, and simulation-based social modeling. His methodological contributions emphasize handling missing data in longitudinal studies and integrating multiple datasets for comparative analysis.