Dr Patricio Troncoso

Lecturer in Youth Studies

  • Moray House School of Education and Sport
  • Institute for Education, Community & Society (IECS)

Contact details

Address

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Moray House School of Education and Sport, St John's Land, room 2.12
University of Edinburgh (Holyrood Campus)

City
Post code
EH8 8AQ

Biography

Background

Dr Patricio Troncoso is a Lecturer in Youth Studies. He is an applied statistician with a background in Sociology, Public Policy and Education research. His research focuses on a range of children’s outcomes and experiences, including educational inequalities in attainment, school behaviour and attendance, school value-added, social care and protection, mental health as well as social and emotional learning and development. 

Patricio joined the University of Edinburgh in 2024. Prior to joining UoE, he was a Research Fellow at the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow (2023-2024). His latest research was focused on the "Understanding children’s lives and outcomes" strand of the ESRC-funded Scottish Centre for Administrative Data Research (SCADR). Previously, he also held posts at Heriot-Watt University (2021-2023), as well as the Manchester Institute of Education and the Department of Social Statistics at the University of Manchester (2016-2020).

Qualifications

PhD in Social Statistics

MSc in Public Policy

Bachelor in Sociology

Responsibilities & affiliations

Member of the following Thematic Hubs:

  • Advanced Quantitative Research in Education (AQRiE) 
  • Children and Young People

Open to PhD supervision enquiries?

Yes

Areas of interest for supervision

Interested in supervising PhD students on the following topics/areas:

  • Educational inequalities
  • Quantitative methods
  • Children and family's mental health and wellbeing
  • Child protection

Methodological expertise: Advanced Statistical Methods, including:

  • Multilevel Modelling
  • Longitudinal Analysis
  • Structural Equation Modelling
  • Latent Variable Modelling
  • Randomised controlled trials

Research summary

I am interested in conducting research on all aspects of children and young people's (and their families) lives and experiences, with a special emphasis on how socio-economic inequalities affect a range of educational and non-educational outcomes, including school attainment and value-added, school absence and exclusions, social care and protection, social and emotional learning, mental health and wellbeing, etc.

I have mainly used quantitative data arising from longitudinal surveys, administrative records and randomised controlled trials. The methods applied to these are varied and include: Multilevel Modelling, Longitudinal Analysis, Latent Variable modelling and Structural Equations.

For a list of my publications, please visit:

https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/persons/patricio-troncoso

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