Dr Peter Rankin
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Institute for Social Science Research
+61 7 334 69690
Researcher biography
Peter is a postdoctoral research fellow working within the Early Development, Education, and Care group at ISSR. He has a broad range of applied statistical expertise encompassing Frequentist and Bayesian techniques. His current focus is on longitudinal and multilevel modelling, psychometric techniques for measurement, and compelling visualisations of complex data. Peter is also competent in structural equation modelling, machine learning, and econometric techniques. Importantly, he can work with, communicate between, and translate for different disciplines and statistical skill levels.
Journal Articles
Thorpe, Karen, Houen, Sandy, Rankin, Peter, Pattinson, Cassandra and Staton, Sally (2022). Do the numbers add up? Questioning measurement that places Australian ECEC teaching as ‘low quality’. The Australian Educational Researcher. doi: 10.1007/s13384-022-00525-4
Habib, Nusrat, Alauddin, Mohammad, Cramb, Rob and Rankin, Peter (2022). A differential analysis for men and women's determinants of livelihood diversification in rural rain-fed region of Pakistan: an ordered logit model (OLOGIT) approach. Social Sciences and Humanities Open, 5 (1) 100257, 1-9. doi: 10.1016/j.ssaho.2022.100257
Thorpe, Karen, Rankin, Peter, Beatton, Tony, Houen, Sandy, Sandi, Matteo, Siraj, Iram and Staton, Sally (2020). The when and what of measuring ECE quality: Analysis of variation in the Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS) across the ECE day. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 53, 274-286. doi: 10.1016/j.ecresq.2020.05.003
Staton, Sally, Rankin, Peter S., Harding, Mollie, Smith, Simon S., Westwood, Emily, LeBourgeois, Monique K. and Thorpe, Karen J. (2020). Many naps, one nap, none: a systematic review and meta-analysis of napping patterns in children 0-12 years. Sleep Medicine Reviews, 50 101247, 101247. doi: 10.1016/j.smrv.2019.101247
McClanahan, T. R. and Rankin, P. S. (2016). Geography of conservation spending, biodiversity, and culture. Conservation Biology, 30 (5) 0053, 1089-1101. doi: 10.1111/cobi.12720
Rankin, Peter Sheldon and Lemos, Ricardo T. (2015). An alternative surplus production model. Ecological Modelling, 313, 109-126. doi: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2015.06.024
Conference Papers
Rankin, P., Staton, S. and Thorpe, K. (2020). Variation in observed instructional support predicts academic outcomes. AERA Annual Meeting San Francisco, San Francisco, CA USA, 17-21 April 2020.
Staton, S., Rankin, P., Thorpe, K., Oakes, C., Houen, S., Cooke, E. and Smith, S. (2019). Improving sleep health in early childhood: pilot rct of an educator professional development program to improve sleep practices in childcare services. World Sleep 2019, Vancouver, Canada, 20-25 September 2019. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/j.sleep.2019.11.1013
Rankin, P., Staton, S., Beatton, T. and Thorpe, K. (2019). Variation and average teaching quality as a predictor of academic outcomes: extending CLASS. Society for Research in Child Development. Society for Research in Child Development, Poster Symposium, Biennial Meeting, Baltimore, MD United States, 21 - 23 March 2019.
Rankin, P., Staton, S., Thorpe, K. and Smith, S. (2019). Actigraphy based estimates of sleep duration in young children with and without a sleep log are comparable. 15th World Sleep Congress, Vancouver, Canada, 20-25 September 2019. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier . doi: 10.1016/j.sleep.2019.11.998
Staton, S., Smith, S., Rankin, P. and Thorpe, K. (2018). Regularity of infant and toddler sleep practices between home and childcare settings. 30th Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM) of Australasian-Sleep-Association and the Australasian-Sleep-Technologists-Association (Sleep DownUnder), Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 17-20 October 2018. Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. doi: 10.1111/jsr.106_12766
Rankin, P., Staton, S., Thorpe, K. and Smith, S. (2018). Actigraphy-based estimates of sleep duration in young children with and without a sleep log are comparable. Australasian Chronobiology Society 15th Annual Scientific Meeting, Brisbane, Australia, 2018.
Generic Document
O'Flaherty, M., Thorpe, K., Staton, S., Coles, L., Povey, J. and Rankin, P. (2019). Building Capacity in Australian Parents (BCAP) (Trial Interim Report). Department of Social Services, Australian Government.
Research Reports
Xiang, Ning, Rankin, Peter and Tomaszewski, Wojtek (2021). Drivers of attendance report, prepared for the NSW Department of Education. Brisbane, QLD Australia: Institute for Social Science Research.
Thorpe, Karen, Potia, Azhar Hussain, Beatton, Tony, Rankin, Peter and Staton, Sally (2020). Educational outcomes of Queensland's investment in early childhood education and care (2007- 2020). Brisbane, QLD Australia: Institute for Social Science Research, The University of Queensland.
Thorpe, Karen, Azhar Hussain Potia, Rankin, Peter, Beatton, Tony and Staton, Sally (2019). Measuring Goodstart children’s progress and outcomes. Brisbane, QLD Australia: Institute for Social Science Research, The University of Queensland.
Thorpe, Karen, Potia, Azhar Hussain, Rankin, Peter, Beatton, Tony and Staton, Sally (2019). Test cases for using Goodstart data. Brisbane, QLD Australia: Institute for Social Science Research, The University of Queensland.
Staton, S., Thorpe, K., Smith, S.S., Irvine, S., Pattinson, C,, Rankin, P., Oakes, C., Teo, Y. and Cooke, E. (2017). Professional development package and resources for guiding sleep practices in early childhood education and care services in Queensland - Phase 2 Follow-up Final Report. Brisbane, QLD Australia: Department of Education, Queensland Government.