Mark Tranmer

Professor Mark Tranmer is a faculty member at the University of Glasgow's School of Social & Political Sciences, Department of Quantitative Social Sciences. He joined in 2016 and previously held roles at the University of Manchester. He holds an Honorary Professorship at the University of Wollongong.
Education: PhD in Social Statistics (University of Southampton, 1999), MSc and BSc in Statistics (University of Sheffield).

Research Interests:

• Methodological: Multilevel models, social network analysis, relational event models (REM), combining network and spatial/organizational structures.
• Substantive: Public health (smoking/substance use, well-being), health systems (hospitals, patient safety), social stratification, animal behavior.

Research Contributions: Over 15 articles from 2015–2024 focus on network-driven health outcomes, multilevel modeling innovations, and policy impacts (e.g., benefit sanctions). Notable work includes pandemic-related substance use disruptions and temporal animal social dynamics.

Affiliations: Leads the Glasgow Quantitative Methods Group (GQMG), promoting interdisciplinary quantitative methods. Active in Mitchell Centre for Social Network Analysis (Manchester) and Cathie Marsh Institute (CMIST).

Teaching & Supervision: Taught statistical methods globally; supervised 14 PhD students on quantitative applications in health/social sciences.