School of Social & Political Sciences

Dr Patricio Troncoso

  • Honorary Research Fellow (School of Social & Political Sciences)

Biography

Dr Patricio Troncoso is a Research Fellow in Urban Studies at the School of Social and Political Sciences. Patricio is currently working in the “Understanding children’s lives and outcomes” strand of the ESRC-funded Scottish Centre for Administrative Data Research (SCADR).

Patricio is an applied statistician with a background in Sociology and Public Policy. 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.

Before joining Urban Studies at the University of Glasgow in 2023, Patricio worked at I-SPHERE, Heriot-Watt University (2021-2023), as well as the University of Manchester (2016-2020) in the Manchester Institute of Education and the Department of Social Statistics, where he also gained his PhD in Social Statistics.

Research interests

  • Educational and social inequalities
  • School attainment
  • Child development
  • Child and family wellbeing and mental health
  • Child protection and social care
  • Randomised controlled trials methodology
  • Quantitative methods

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Research groups

  • Just Cities & Societies

Publications

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Number of items: 18.

2026

Behrens, Silvia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2719-0169, Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092, Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893, Lee-Shield, Bethany, Russell, Emma, Williamson, Lee and Macintyre, Cecilia (2026) Predictors of authorised, unauthorised and persistent absence among secondary school pupils in Scotland. British Educational Research Journal, (Accepted for Publication)

2024

Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893, Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092, Williamson, Lee and Celia, MacIntyre (2024) Understanding Exclusions in Scottish Secondary Schools. Project Report. ADR UK, Edinburgh. (doi: 10.7488/era/4812).

Purdam, Kingsley, Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893, Morales-Gómez, Ana and Leckie, George (2024) Local geographic variations in children’s school readiness - a multilevel analysis of the development gaps in England. Child Indicators Research, 17, pp. 145-176. (doi: 10.1007/s12187-023-10081-7)

2023

Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893, Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092, Williamson, Lee and Macintyre, Cecilia (2023) Data Explained: Exploring context, factors and approaches to educational exclusions and absences. Technical Report. Scottish Centre for Administrative Data Research.

Soraghan, Joanna, Raab, Gillian and Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893 (2023) The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic restrictions on children entering and leaving care in Scotland. International Journal of Population Data Science, 8(3), 25. (doi: 10.23889/ijpds.v8i2.2207)

Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092, Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893 and Williamson, Lee (2023) School and area-level disparities in exclusions in Scottish secondary schools. International Journal of Population Data Science, 8(2), 11. (doi: 10.23889/ijpds.v8i2.2194)

Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092 and Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893 (2023) The indivisibility of parental and child mental health and why poverty matters. Journal of Adolescent Health, 73(3), pp. 470-477. (doi: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2023.04.012)

Soraghan, Joanna, Raab, Gillian, Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893, Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092 and Porter, Robert (2023) The Impact of COVID-19 on Children’s Care Journeys in Scotland. Documentation. Scottish Centre for Administrative Data Research. (doi: 10.7488/era/3245).

Raab, Gillian, Soraghan, Joanna, Macintyre, Cecilia, McGhee, Janice and Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893 (2023) Infants born into care in Scotland (2008-2021). Project Report. Edinburgh Research Archive. (doi: 10.7488/era/3256).

Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092 and Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893 (2023) Digital exclusion in education: What the online learning technology Scholar tells us about inequality in Scottish secondary schools. Other. Nuffield Foundation.

Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893 and Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092 (2023) Methods for analysing the relationship between poverty, parental work intensity, child emotional symptoms and conduct problems over time. MethodsX, 10, 101940. (doi: 10.1016/j.mex.2022.101940) (PMID:36545544) (PMCID:PMC9761838)

2022

Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092 and Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893 (2022) Poverty, parental work intensity and child emotional and conduct problems. Social Science and Medicine, 312, p. 115373. (doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115373) (PMID:36152585)

Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092 and Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893 (2022) Digitally excluded: inequalities in the access and use of online learning technologies in Scottish secondary schools. International Journal of Population Data Science, 7(3), 48. (doi: 10.23889/ijpds.v7i3.1819) (PMCID:PMC9644675)

Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893 and Morales-Gómez, Ana (2022) Estimating the complier average causal effect via a latent class approach using gsem. Stata Journal, 22(2), pp. 404-415. (doi: 10.1177/1536867X221106416)

Humphrey, N. et al. (2022) The Good Behaviour Game intervention to improve behavioural and other outcomes for children aged 7–8 years: a cluster RCT. Public Health Research, 10(7), (doi: 10.3310/VKOF7695)

2021

Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893 and Humphrey, Neil (2021) Playing the long game: a multivariate multilevel non-linear growth curve model of long-term effects in a randomized trial of the Good Behavior Game. Journal of School Psychology, 88, pp. 68-84. (doi: 10.1016/j.jsp.2021.08.002) (PMID:34625211) (PMCID:PMC8519394)

2019

Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893 (2019) A two-fold indicator of school performance and the cost of ignoring it. International Journal of Educational Research, 95, pp. 153-167. (doi: 10.1016/j.ijer.2019.02.002)

2016

Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893, Pampaka, Maria and Olsen, Wendy (2016) Beyond traditional school value-added models: a multilevel analysis of complex school effects in Chile. School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 27(3), pp. 293-314. (doi: 10.1080/09243453.2015.1084010)

This list was generated on Fri Apr 3 17:02:30 2026 BST.
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Number of items: 18.

Articles

Behrens, Silvia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2719-0169, Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092, Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893, Lee-Shield, Bethany, Russell, Emma, Williamson, Lee and Macintyre, Cecilia (2026) Predictors of authorised, unauthorised and persistent absence among secondary school pupils in Scotland. British Educational Research Journal, (Accepted for Publication)

Purdam, Kingsley, Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893, Morales-Gómez, Ana and Leckie, George (2024) Local geographic variations in children’s school readiness - a multilevel analysis of the development gaps in England. Child Indicators Research, 17, pp. 145-176. (doi: 10.1007/s12187-023-10081-7)

Soraghan, Joanna, Raab, Gillian and Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893 (2023) The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic restrictions on children entering and leaving care in Scotland. International Journal of Population Data Science, 8(3), 25. (doi: 10.23889/ijpds.v8i2.2207)

Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092, Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893 and Williamson, Lee (2023) School and area-level disparities in exclusions in Scottish secondary schools. International Journal of Population Data Science, 8(2), 11. (doi: 10.23889/ijpds.v8i2.2194)

Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092 and Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893 (2023) The indivisibility of parental and child mental health and why poverty matters. Journal of Adolescent Health, 73(3), pp. 470-477. (doi: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2023.04.012)

Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893 and Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092 (2023) Methods for analysing the relationship between poverty, parental work intensity, child emotional symptoms and conduct problems over time. MethodsX, 10, 101940. (doi: 10.1016/j.mex.2022.101940) (PMID:36545544) (PMCID:PMC9761838)

Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092 and Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893 (2022) Poverty, parental work intensity and child emotional and conduct problems. Social Science and Medicine, 312, p. 115373. (doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115373) (PMID:36152585)

Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092 and Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893 (2022) Digitally excluded: inequalities in the access and use of online learning technologies in Scottish secondary schools. International Journal of Population Data Science, 7(3), 48. (doi: 10.23889/ijpds.v7i3.1819) (PMCID:PMC9644675)

Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893 and Morales-Gómez, Ana (2022) Estimating the complier average causal effect via a latent class approach using gsem. Stata Journal, 22(2), pp. 404-415. (doi: 10.1177/1536867X221106416)

Humphrey, N. et al. (2022) The Good Behaviour Game intervention to improve behavioural and other outcomes for children aged 7–8 years: a cluster RCT. Public Health Research, 10(7), (doi: 10.3310/VKOF7695)

Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893 and Humphrey, Neil (2021) Playing the long game: a multivariate multilevel non-linear growth curve model of long-term effects in a randomized trial of the Good Behavior Game. Journal of School Psychology, 88, pp. 68-84. (doi: 10.1016/j.jsp.2021.08.002) (PMID:34625211) (PMCID:PMC8519394)

Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893 (2019) A two-fold indicator of school performance and the cost of ignoring it. International Journal of Educational Research, 95, pp. 153-167. (doi: 10.1016/j.ijer.2019.02.002)

Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893, Pampaka, Maria and Olsen, Wendy (2016) Beyond traditional school value-added models: a multilevel analysis of complex school effects in Chile. School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 27(3), pp. 293-314. (doi: 10.1080/09243453.2015.1084010)

Research Reports or Papers

Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893, Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092, Williamson, Lee and Celia, MacIntyre (2024) Understanding Exclusions in Scottish Secondary Schools. Project Report. ADR UK, Edinburgh. (doi: 10.7488/era/4812).

Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893, Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092, Williamson, Lee and Macintyre, Cecilia (2023) Data Explained: Exploring context, factors and approaches to educational exclusions and absences. Technical Report. Scottish Centre for Administrative Data Research.

Soraghan, Joanna, Raab, Gillian, Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893, Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092 and Porter, Robert (2023) The Impact of COVID-19 on Children’s Care Journeys in Scotland. Documentation. Scottish Centre for Administrative Data Research. (doi: 10.7488/era/3245).

Raab, Gillian, Soraghan, Joanna, Macintyre, Cecilia, McGhee, Janice and Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893 (2023) Infants born into care in Scotland (2008-2021). Project Report. Edinburgh Research Archive. (doi: 10.7488/era/3256).

Treanor, Morag ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4377-4092 and Troncoso, Patricio ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2204-1893 (2023) Digital exclusion in education: What the online learning technology Scholar tells us about inequality in Scottish secondary schools. Other. Nuffield Foundation.

This list was generated on Fri Apr 3 17:02:30 2026 BST.

Teaching

  • Introduction to Multilevel Modelling, SGSSS Summer School (2022-2023) (Co-lecturer)
  • Introduction to Data Science for Administrative Data Research, Scottish Centre for Administrative Data Research (2023) (Co-lecturer)

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