Criminology lecturer receives ONS Early Career Researcher Award
The award recognises the excellent and innovative analyses carried out by David during his PhD research about 鈥淪mall area estimation for criminological research鈥�.
A Lecturer from the Department of Criminology at Research Capability 2021, an event held by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), recognising outstanding, innovative research carried out using ONS secure data or data managed by the ONS.
The ONS Research Excellence Awards recognise and celebrate outstanding, innovative research carried out using ONS data that deliver a public benefit to the UK while protecting data confidentiality.
received the ONS Early Career Researcher Award for his PhD research, , which was supervised by Prof Juanjo Medina and Prof Natalie Shlomo.
The aim of this research was to develop a framework of theory, simulation studies and applications of 'small area estimation' to criminology, bridging the gaps in existing methodologies involving research of crime in small geographic areas.
Published across four research papers, this PhD produced reliable small area estimates of survey-recorded crime and perceptions of crime. More specifically, David’s PhD research applied model-based small area estimation techniques to compute estimates of in England and Wales, in 野狼社区, in Europe, and in London.
The Judging Panel considered that “this project is a prime example of early-career research – novel in approach, technical in application and proactive in transparent publication enabling dissemination on the international scale”.