Public Profile
- Title
- Prof
- First Name
- Andy
- Last Name
- Thompson
- Job Title
- Professor of Public Policy and Citizenship
- Employer/Institution
- University of Edinburgh
- Department/Unit
- Politics & IR / School of Social and Political Science
- Discipline
- Political Science & International Relations
- Other discipline / Specific area of work
- Public policy
- Website 1
- http://www.pol.ed.ac.uk/staff_profiles/thompson_andrew
- Short Biography
My main research interests are in the politics of public services, public participation in health care and education, perception and satisfaction measurement, and quality management. I teach public policy, survey and questionnaire design, as well as descriptive, exploratory and advanced quantitative methods to postgraduate research students. The principal techniques that I use include data reduction methods, such as factor analysis/PCA and index construction, and regression modelling.
History
- Member for
- 3 years 6 months