Professor James Brown 

Associate member S3RI, Visiting professor

Professor James Brown is Associate member S3RI within Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute at the University of Southampton.

Professor James Brown is the ABS Professor of Official Statistics

James received his B.Sc. (Hons) in Mathematics with Actuarial Studies (1993) and completed his M.Sc. (with distinction) in Social Statistics (1996), both from the University of Southampton. He completed his Ph.D. (University of Southampton, 2000) in the area of census coverage assessment and adjustment, work which started 15 years of collaboration with the Office for National Statistics in the UK.


Since 1999 he has held positions as Lecturer, and Senior Lecturer at the University of Southampton with responsibility for MSc in Official Statistics; Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Education (University of London) with responsibility for quantitative methods teaching within the Doctoral School; Reader at the University of Southampton with responsibility for the Methodology Support Contract with the Office for National Statistics. He joined UTS in September 2013 with a role to develop links between the University and the Australian Bureau of Statistics.