Professor Joan Abbott-Chapman
Life Course Centre Affiliate
University of Tasmania
Prof Francisco (Paco) Perales (he/him) is a Principal Analyst in the Queensland Department of Youth Justice and Victim Support. In his spare time, he is Adjunct Professor of Social Policy at Griffith University and Adjunct Associate Professor of Sociology at UQ. He is also The Australian Research Awards 2023 ‘Best in the Field’ for the discipline of Sociology, and one of the top 2% most-cited researchers worldwide.
Paco has a background in applied quantitative Sociology and holds an undergraduate degree in Sociology from London Metropolitan University (UK), a Masters degree in Sociology and Panel Data Analysis from the University of Essex (UK), and a PhD in Social and Economic Research from the Institute for Social and Economic Research (UK).
Paco’s broad research interests are on social stratification and inequality, social disadvantage by gender and sexual orientation, and family and life-course studies. His methodological expertise is on the analysis of complex survey and administrative data – especially longitudinal and panel datasets.