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John is Associate Dean (Quantitative Methods) and Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh, a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and a Chartered Statistician. He is a member of the British Academy’s High Level Strategy group on Quantitative Skills, the advisory panel for Maths in Education and Industry and the Data Skills Taskforce. From 2009 to 2014 he was the Strategic Advisor to the Economic and Social Research Council on quantitative methods training, issuing two reports that eventually led to the Q-Step programme, since 2015 he has been Strategic Advisor on Quantitative Skills to the British Academy. Much of his current work focuses on statistical literacy and the promotion of quantitative methods within the social sciences. His own research focuses on population ageing and the measurement of age structures of populations.