Prof Susan McVie
Susan is Professor of Quantitative Criminology in the School of Law at the University of Edinburgh. Susan is Director of the ESRC-funded Understanding Inequalities project which seeks to explore the causes and consequences of social inequalities in Scottish society. She is Co-Director of the Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime, a prospective longitudinal study of youth offending based at the University of Edinburgh since 1998. She is also Co-Director of the Applied Quantitative Methods Network (AQMeN), which is an established provider of training and capacity building in statistical methods and data analysis within social science. Susan is a strategic advisor to Police Scotland on stop and search, biometric data, children and young people, and demand and performance. She sits on the Board of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Her current research involves examining the impact of inequalities in the early years on later life chances and outcomes. Susan was awarded an OBE in the 2016 Queen's New Year's Honours List for Services to Social Science.