John Furlong
Biographic Data
| ID | 1040153 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Furlong |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Furlong |
| SIGNATURE | FURLONG J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5730-5281 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 142 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The Restorative Frame: A Grounded Theory Study of Protective Factors for Foster Care Disruptions
This study used grounded theory to explore the protective factors for foster care placement disruptions. Twenty‐two interviews were conducted with foster parents, caseworkers and therapists involved with 14 older children or sibling sets who had undergone placement disruptions and were at high risk of experiencing future disruptions. A theoretical model of parental dispositional traits was developed with the aim of informing efforts to mitigate p…
Cyclability in London: Associations between the quality of the local cycling environment, cycling participation, and perceptions of the cycling environment
Increasingly, researchers are exploring how multiple factors affect the quality of the cycling environment (here “cyclability”), relating this to perceptions of cycling, to route choices, and/or to cycling levels. This recognises the impact the many built environmental characteristics have on experiences and levels of cycling, beyond the presence of infrastructure such as cycle tracks. For instance, the accessibility of local services is likely t…
Can mixed-methods help us better understand congestion on Low Traffic Neighbourhood boundary roads
Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs) aim to improve conditions for walking, wheeling and cycling by restricting motor vehicle movements on residential streets while maintaining access to all addresses. Despite generally positive evidence, LTNs faced backlash, often linked to concerns that motor traffic from inside LTNs is displaced onto surrounding ‘boundary roads’. In this paper, we bring together large-scale sensor data and spatially-transcribed i…
Blue-green infrastructure and socio-spatial changes: A study of urban wetlands restoration, housing development and gentrification in London using census data
What drives the link between university study and attitudinal change
What drives the link between university study and attitudinal change? While research shows that obtaining a degree tends to make students more socially liberal, little is known about what drives this effect. We address this ‘how’ question by testing the socialisation-based mechanisms through which university study may shift attitudes; combining individual-level panel data from the British Election Study Internet Panel with university- and constit…
Fragmented and Dealigned: The 2024 British General Election and the Rise of Place‐Based Politics
While the outcome of the 2024 British general election signalled a resounding repudiation of the incumbent government—returning a 231‐seat swing from the Conservatives to Labour—it did not radically overturn the geography of electoral outcomes in England and Wales. Indeed, demographic predictors of party vote for parliamentary constituencies at the aggregate level mostly represented a continuation of recent trends. With the Conservative Party's v…
Place-based Politics and Nested Deprivation in the U.K: Beyond Cities-towns, ‘Two Englands’ and the ‘Left Behind’
‘Place-based explanations’ of politics in the UK draw on survey data to tell sweeping narratives about ‘Two Englands’, or of sizeable regions of the country that have been ‘Left Behind’, reinforcing popular accounts of a North-South or city-town divide. We introduce the concept of nested deprivation—deprivation that may occur in just one housing estate or even one row of flats within neighbourhoods that are otherwise affluent. We report on intens…
The reform of initial teacher education in Wales: From vision to reality
Over the last four years, initial teacher education in Wales has been fundamentally reformed. The stimulus for those reforms were concerns about the quality of current provision, but more importantly a recognition by the Welsh Government that if their wider reforms of curriculum and assessment were to succeed, then teachers themselves had a key role to play. Teachers would no longer be simply required to ‘deliver’ a curriculum defined by others; …
The changing electoral geography of England and Wales: "Varieties of "left-behindedness
A well-established narrative has existed for some time in British politics: “left behind” places are gradually moving to the Conservatives as Labour dominate in urban, “cosmopolitan” areas. Merging constituency-level census data with election results, this article applies various regression techniques to test this idea on multiple definitions of “left-behindedness” at every general election between 1979 and 2017 in England and Wales. Conclusive r…
Knowledge and the Study of Education: An international exploration
In the English-speaking world, university Schools of Education are usually heavily involved in the professional preparation of teachers. Yet, in England and the USA in particular, the role of universities in teacher education has increasingly seemed under threat as alternative providers of training have come on the scene, often with the overt encouragement of governments. \n \nThis book, which is based on a project that explored how the study of …
Education - An Anatomy of the Discipline
Education – An Anatomy of the Discipline focuses on the development of the discipline of education, how it is understood and practised in contemporary universities, and the potential threats to its future. As the author, John Furlong argues, disciplines are not only intellectually coherent fields of study; they also have a political life, they are argued for, supported, challenged and debated. Nowhere is this more true than in the discipline of e…
Universities and the Discipline of Education: Understanding the Impact of the United Kingdom's Research Assessment Exercise
Research is typically experienced as a highly personal affair and the assessment of research quality has a significant impact on individual and institutional identities. As the ranking of institutional research quality has direct and indirect funding consequences, such research assessment exercises, shaped by the forces of globalisation and new public management, lead to considerable institutional pressure being exerted upon individual researcher…
Assessing quality in applied and practice‐based research in education: Continuing the debate
Some saw its introduction as a dreary ‘cul‐de‐sac’; others, as the answer to all of our problems in research funding. Like it or hate it, one of the most persistent features of the research environ
Expressions of excellence and the assessment of applied and practice‐based research
Critics of education research in the recent years have pointed the finger at what they saw as its low quality, impact, and ‘value for money’. In the context of the Research Assessment Exercise, particular concerns have been raised about applied and practice‐based educational research and how best to assess its quality. This contribution refines the ideas originally developed as part of a project commissioned by the ESRC in 2004 and completed in 2…
Adults' use of computers and the Internet for self-education
This paper explores the varied use of information technologies (ITs) such as the computer and Internet for self-education, highlighting how these technologies can facilitate and suppress such learning opportunities throughout the adult population. Based on data drawn from a large-scale study of adults in the West of England and South Wales, the paper addresses three areas of inquiry: (i) how computers and the Internet are used in adults' engageme…
Whose Internet is it Anyway: Exploring Adults’ (Non)Use of the Internet in Everyday Life
It is acknowledged that communication researchers need to develop more sophisticated and nuanced accounts of the social and individual dynamics of the internet in everyday life. Based on a household survey of 1001 adults with 100 in-depth follow-up interviews, the present article explores people’s (non)use of the internet by asking: (1) who is (and who is not) using the internet in everyday life; (2) for what purposes people are using the interne…
Best practice research scholarships: An evaluation
The Best Practice Research Scholarship programme (BPRS) was one of a series of initiatives designed by the English Department for Educational Studies (DfES) between 2000 and 2003, to support teachers’ continuing professional development. Each year, around 1,000 Scholarships of up to £3,000 each, were awarded to serving classroom teachers to engage in supported, school‐focused research. This paper reports an evaluation of the national scheme durin…
Bera at 30. Have we come of age
The increasing demand for research‐based evidence in the development of policy and practice presents the research community with new opportunities and challenges. We are still troubled by accusations of poor quality and lack of impact. A national research policy, designed to respond to these criticisms, has emerged recently which promotes a ‘big science’ model of research. This increasingly silences other approaches and opens up unhelpful divisio…
Older adults' use of information and communications technology in everyday life
Social commentators in countries such as the United Kingdom and the United States are beginning to recognise that encouraging older adults' use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) is essential for the creation of bona fide information societies. To date, however, few studies have examined in detail older adults' access to and use of ICTs. This important aspect of the interaction between population ageing and societal change is mo…
Ideology and Reform in Teacher Education in England: Some Reflections on Cochran-Smith and Fries
This article presents an international perspective on Cochran-Smith and Fries’ (2001) recent analysis of the ways in which two competing ideologies are currently being employed in the United States in support of teacher education reform. In England over the last 15 years, teacher education has been fundamentally reformed and the arguments of both the “deregulators” and the “professionalizers” have been important in that process. Despite surface s…
What's the Point of Using Computers: The Development of Young People's Computer Expertise in the Home
Despite the column inches and policy statements dedicated to arguing that young people need to use computers, very little is known about the reasons why young people themselves might value and acquire computer expertise. Drawing on a survey of 855 children and 16 detailed case studies of children's use of computers at home this article explores the influence of software design, family discourses, peer group culture and gender identity on children…
Constructing the Child Computer User: From public policy to private practices
Universal access to the 'new capital' of information and knowledge via Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) has become a central goal of education reform under the New Labour Government. Public policy and media discourses, however, currently construct young children in a paradoxical relationship with new technologies, as both at the vanguard of the digital revolution 'effortlessly grasping the tools' of the new technologies, and at t…
Constructing the Child Computer User: From public policy to private practices
This article was developed from an ESRC funded research project (1998-2000) entitled 'ScreenPlay' conducted by researchers from Bristol, Cardiff and University of Wales Newport universities. \nThe work acknowledges that access to new technologies in the area of information and communication (ICT) is of great concern to the British government but challenges the stereotype that all young people are vanguards of a 'digital revolution'. Based on rese…
Needles and Haystacks: Legal Information Sources in Ireland
Ireland is a small common law jurisdiction with a devolved legal system. These two factors combine to present a number of significant problems with regard to legal information sources:• Devolution has promoted incremental and incidental change. There has been little systemic review and the law is a complex mix of amendment, addition and judicial review.• Much of our legislation is reactive to social or political requirements.• Until recently, sou…
School Mentors and University Tutors: Lessons From the English Experiment
2000). School Mentors and University Tutors: Lessons From the English Experiment. Theory Into Practice: Vol. 39, New Visions of Mentoring, pp. 12-19
Older adults' use of information and communications technology in everyday life
Social commentators in countries such as the United Kingdom and the United States are beginning to recognise that encouraging older adults' use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) is essential for the creation of bona fide information societies. To date, however, few studies have examined in detail older adults' access to and use of ICTs. This important aspect of the interaction between population ageing and societal change is mo…
The changing electoral geography of England and Wales: "Varieties of "left-behindedness
A well-established narrative has existed for some time in British politics: “left behind” places are gradually moving to the Conservatives as Labour dominate in urban, “cosmopolitan” areas. Merging constituency-level census data with election results, this article applies various regression techniques to test this idea on multiple definitions of “left-behindedness” at every general election between 1979 and 2017 in England and Wales. Conclusive r…
Whose Internet is it Anyway: Exploring Adults’ (Non)Use of the Internet in Everyday Life
It is acknowledged that communication researchers need to develop more sophisticated and nuanced accounts of the social and individual dynamics of the internet in everyday life. Based on a household survey of 1001 adults with 100 in-depth follow-up interviews, the present article explores people’s (non)use of the internet by asking: (1) who is (and who is not) using the internet in everyday life; (2) for what purposes people are using the interne…
Learning trajectories: Travelling towards a learning society? 1
This paper uses the results of a large‐scale study of patterns of participation in post‐compulsory education and training over the past 50 years to identify some of the social determinants of adult participation in formal learning experiences. The patterns of participation are presented in the form of predictable lifelong ‘trajectories’, and the predictability of these patterns of participation is as important a finding as their determinants. The…
Bera at 30. Have we come of age
The increasing demand for research‐based evidence in the development of policy and practice presents the research community with new opportunities and challenges. We are still troubled by accusations of poor quality and lack of impact. A national research policy, designed to respond to these criticisms, has emerged recently which promotes a ‘big science’ model of research. This increasingly silences other approaches and opens up unhelpful divisio…
What's the Point of Using Computers: The Development of Young People's Computer Expertise in the Home
Despite the column inches and policy statements dedicated to arguing that young people need to use computers, very little is known about the reasons why young people themselves might value and acquire computer expertise. Drawing on a survey of 855 children and 16 detailed case studies of children's use of computers at home this article explores the influence of software design, family discourses, peer group culture and gender identity on children…
Ideology and Reform in Teacher Education in England: Some Reflections on Cochran-Smith and Fries
This article presents an international perspective on Cochran-Smith and Fries’ (2001) recent analysis of the ways in which two competing ideologies are currently being employed in the United States in support of teacher education reform. In England over the last 15 years, teacher education has been fundamentally reformed and the arguments of both the “deregulators” and the “professionalizers” have been important in that process. Despite surface s…
Constructing the Child Computer User: From public policy to private practices
Universal access to the 'new capital' of information and knowledge via Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) has become a central goal of education reform under the New Labour Government. Public policy and media discourses, however, currently construct young children in a paradoxical relationship with new technologies, as both at the vanguard of the digital revolution 'effortlessly grasping the tools' of the new technologies, and at t…
Place-based Politics and Nested Deprivation in the U.K: Beyond Cities-towns, ‘Two Englands’ and the ‘Left Behind’
‘Place-based explanations’ of politics in the UK draw on survey data to tell sweeping narratives about ‘Two Englands’, or of sizeable regions of the country that have been ‘Left Behind’, reinforcing popular accounts of a North-South or city-town divide. We introduce the concept of nested deprivation—deprivation that may occur in just one housing estate or even one row of flats within neighbourhoods that are otherwise affluent. We report on intens…
Expressions of excellence and the assessment of applied and practice‐based research
Critics of education research in the recent years have pointed the finger at what they saw as its low quality, impact, and ‘value for money’. In the context of the Research Assessment Exercise, particular concerns have been raised about applied and practice‐based educational research and how best to assess its quality. This contribution refines the ideas originally developed as part of a project commissioned by the ESRC in 2004 and completed in 2…
School Mentors and University Tutors: Lessons From the English Experiment
2000). School Mentors and University Tutors: Lessons From the English Experiment. Theory Into Practice: Vol. 39, New Visions of Mentoring, pp. 12-19
Best practice research scholarships: An evaluation
The Best Practice Research Scholarship programme (BPRS) was one of a series of initiatives designed by the English Department for Educational Studies (DfES) between 2000 and 2003, to support teachers’ continuing professional development. Each year, around 1,000 Scholarships of up to £3,000 each, were awarded to serving classroom teachers to engage in supported, school‐focused research. This paper reports an evaluation of the national scheme durin…
Teacher Education and Teacher Professionalism in England: Some emerging issues
Changes in teacher education are part of a much broader change in the nature of educational policy‐making in England and Wales. Successive Conservative Governments have increasingly attempted to regulate the supply and differentiate the pay and conditions of the teaching force. In relation to teacher education this has involved a process of diversification of routes into teacher training and to Qualified Teacher Status. The aims, content, structu…
Initial teacher education in England and Wales a topography
This paper is based upon a survey of initial teacher education courses conducted in 1990‐91 as part of the Modes of Teacher Education (MOTE) research project, funded by the ESRC (Grant No. R000232810). It presents data on the nature of 270 (85 per cent) of the courses in operation in that year, focusing on course philosophy and pedagogy, course structure, the nature of partnership between higher education and schools, and modes of student assessm…
Integration and partnership in initial teacher education ‐‐ dilemmas and possibilities
This paper draws on case‐study data from the Modes of Teacher Education (MOTE) project to document the changing relationship between higher education institutions (HEIs) and schools in the provision of initial teacher education (ITE). The research took place in 1992, prior to the Government's insistence (DFE, 1992; 1993a) on the development of ‘partnerships’ between schools and HEIs for the provision of ITE. It is argued that at the time of the r…
Can mixed-methods help us better understand congestion on Low Traffic Neighbourhood boundary roads
Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs) aim to improve conditions for walking, wheeling and cycling by restricting motor vehicle movements on residential streets while maintaining access to all addresses. Despite generally positive evidence, LTNs faced backlash, often linked to concerns that motor traffic from inside LTNs is displaced onto surrounding ‘boundary roads’. In this paper, we bring together large-scale sensor data and spatially-transcribed i…
What drives the link between university study and attitudinal change
What drives the link between university study and attitudinal change? While research shows that obtaining a degree tends to make students more socially liberal, little is known about what drives this effect. We address this ‘how’ question by testing the socialisation-based mechanisms through which university study may shift attitudes; combining individual-level panel data from the British Election Study Internet Panel with university- and constit…
Adults' use of computers and the Internet for self-education
This paper explores the varied use of information technologies (ITs) such as the computer and Internet for self-education, highlighting how these technologies can facilitate and suppress such learning opportunities throughout the adult population. Based on data drawn from a large-scale study of adults in the West of England and South Wales, the paper addresses three areas of inquiry: (i) how computers and the Internet are used in adults' engageme…
Scientific Psychology as Hermeneutics? Rorty's Philosophy of Mind
One might have expected sharper scrutiny of Rorty's thesis on the waning of philosophy than has appeared until now, for his is the only sustained, encompassing attempt in the latter half of the twentieth century to understand the nature and role of philosophy. One must confess, however, that it is difficult to know how to take issue with Rorty. The social practice of taking-issue-with in philosophy is part of the historical baggage that Rorty adv…
Scientific Psychology as Hermeneutics? Rorty's Philosophy of Mind
One might have expected sharper scrutiny of Rorty's thesis on the waning of philosophy than has appeared until now, for his is the only sustained, encompassing attempt in the latter half of the twentieth century to understand the nature and role of philosophy. One must confess, however, that it is difficult to know how to take issue with Rorty. The social practice of taking-issue-with in philosophy is part of the historical baggage that Rorty adv…
Initial teacher education in England and Wales a topography
This paper is based upon a survey of initial teacher education courses conducted in 1990‐91 as part of the Modes of Teacher Education (MOTE) research project, funded by the ESRC (Grant No. R000232810). It presents data on the nature of 270 (85 per cent) of the courses in operation in that year, focusing on course philosophy and pedagogy, course structure, the nature of partnership between higher education and schools, and modes of student assessm…
Integration and partnership in initial teacher education ‐‐ dilemmas and possibilities
This paper draws on case‐study data from the Modes of Teacher Education (MOTE) project to document the changing relationship between higher education institutions (HEIs) and schools in the provision of initial teacher education (ITE). The research took place in 1992, prior to the Government's insistence (DFE, 1992; 1993a) on the development of ‘partnerships’ between schools and HEIs for the provision of ITE. It is argued that at the time of the r…
Teacher Education and Teacher Professionalism in England: Some emerging issues
Changes in teacher education are part of a much broader change in the nature of educational policy‐making in England and Wales. Successive Conservative Governments have increasingly attempted to regulate the supply and differentiate the pay and conditions of the teaching force. In relation to teacher education this has involved a process of diversification of routes into teacher training and to Qualified Teacher Status. The aims, content, structu…
Learning trajectories: Travelling towards a learning society? 1
This paper uses the results of a large‐scale study of patterns of participation in post‐compulsory education and training over the past 50 years to identify some of the social determinants of adult participation in formal learning experiences. The patterns of participation are presented in the form of predictable lifelong ‘trajectories’, and the predictability of these patterns of participation is as important a finding as their determinants. The…
School Mentors and University Tutors: Lessons From the English Experiment
2000). School Mentors and University Tutors: Lessons From the English Experiment. Theory Into Practice: Vol. 39, New Visions of Mentoring, pp. 12-19
What's the Point of Using Computers: The Development of Young People's Computer Expertise in the Home
Despite the column inches and policy statements dedicated to arguing that young people need to use computers, very little is known about the reasons why young people themselves might value and acquire computer expertise. Drawing on a survey of 855 children and 16 detailed case studies of children's use of computers at home this article explores the influence of software design, family discourses, peer group culture and gender identity on children…
Constructing the Child Computer User: From public policy to private practices
Universal access to the 'new capital' of information and knowledge via Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) has become a central goal of education reform under the New Labour Government. Public policy and media discourses, however, currently construct young children in a paradoxical relationship with new technologies, as both at the vanguard of the digital revolution 'effortlessly grasping the tools' of the new technologies, and at t…
Constructing the Child Computer User: From public policy to private practices
This article was developed from an ESRC funded research project (1998-2000) entitled 'ScreenPlay' conducted by researchers from Bristol, Cardiff and University of Wales Newport universities. \nThe work acknowledges that access to new technologies in the area of information and communication (ICT) is of great concern to the British government but challenges the stereotype that all young people are vanguards of a 'digital revolution'. Based on rese…
Needles and Haystacks: Legal Information Sources in Ireland
Ireland is a small common law jurisdiction with a devolved legal system. These two factors combine to present a number of significant problems with regard to legal information sources:• Devolution has promoted incremental and incidental change. There has been little systemic review and the law is a complex mix of amendment, addition and judicial review.• Much of our legislation is reactive to social or political requirements.• Until recently, sou…
Ideology and Reform in Teacher Education in England: Some Reflections on Cochran-Smith and Fries
This article presents an international perspective on Cochran-Smith and Fries’ (2001) recent analysis of the ways in which two competing ideologies are currently being employed in the United States in support of teacher education reform. In England over the last 15 years, teacher education has been fundamentally reformed and the arguments of both the “deregulators” and the “professionalizers” have been important in that process. Despite surface s…
Older adults' use of information and communications technology in everyday life
Social commentators in countries such as the United Kingdom and the United States are beginning to recognise that encouraging older adults' use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) is essential for the creation of bona fide information societies. To date, however, few studies have examined in detail older adults' access to and use of ICTs. This important aspect of the interaction between population ageing and societal change is mo…
Bera at 30. Have we come of age
The increasing demand for research‐based evidence in the development of policy and practice presents the research community with new opportunities and challenges. We are still troubled by accusations of poor quality and lack of impact. A national research policy, designed to respond to these criticisms, has emerged recently which promotes a ‘big science’ model of research. This increasingly silences other approaches and opens up unhelpful divisio…
Whose Internet is it Anyway: Exploring Adults’ (Non)Use of the Internet in Everyday Life
It is acknowledged that communication researchers need to develop more sophisticated and nuanced accounts of the social and individual dynamics of the internet in everyday life. Based on a household survey of 1001 adults with 100 in-depth follow-up interviews, the present article explores people’s (non)use of the internet by asking: (1) who is (and who is not) using the internet in everyday life; (2) for what purposes people are using the interne…
Best practice research scholarships: An evaluation
The Best Practice Research Scholarship programme (BPRS) was one of a series of initiatives designed by the English Department for Educational Studies (DfES) between 2000 and 2003, to support teachers’ continuing professional development. Each year, around 1,000 Scholarships of up to £3,000 each, were awarded to serving classroom teachers to engage in supported, school‐focused research. This paper reports an evaluation of the national scheme durin…
Adults' use of computers and the Internet for self-education
This paper explores the varied use of information technologies (ITs) such as the computer and Internet for self-education, highlighting how these technologies can facilitate and suppress such learning opportunities throughout the adult population. Based on data drawn from a large-scale study of adults in the West of England and South Wales, the paper addresses three areas of inquiry: (i) how computers and the Internet are used in adults' engageme…
Assessing quality in applied and practice‐based research in education: Continuing the debate
Some saw its introduction as a dreary ‘cul‐de‐sac’; others, as the answer to all of our problems in research funding. Like it or hate it, one of the most persistent features of the research environ
Expressions of excellence and the assessment of applied and practice‐based research
Critics of education research in the recent years have pointed the finger at what they saw as its low quality, impact, and ‘value for money’. In the context of the Research Assessment Exercise, particular concerns have been raised about applied and practice‐based educational research and how best to assess its quality. This contribution refines the ideas originally developed as part of a project commissioned by the ESRC in 2004 and completed in 2…
Universities and the Discipline of Education: Understanding the Impact of the United Kingdom's Research Assessment Exercise
Research is typically experienced as a highly personal affair and the assessment of research quality has a significant impact on individual and institutional identities. As the ranking of institutional research quality has direct and indirect funding consequences, such research assessment exercises, shaped by the forces of globalisation and new public management, lead to considerable institutional pressure being exerted upon individual researcher…
Education - An Anatomy of the Discipline
Education – An Anatomy of the Discipline focuses on the development of the discipline of education, how it is understood and practised in contemporary universities, and the potential threats to its future. As the author, John Furlong argues, disciplines are not only intellectually coherent fields of study; they also have a political life, they are argued for, supported, challenged and debated. Nowhere is this more true than in the discipline of e…
Knowledge and the Study of Education: An international exploration
In the English-speaking world, university Schools of Education are usually heavily involved in the professional preparation of teachers. Yet, in England and the USA in particular, the role of universities in teacher education has increasingly seemed under threat as alternative providers of training have come on the scene, often with the overt encouragement of governments. \n \nThis book, which is based on a project that explored how the study of …
The changing electoral geography of England and Wales: "Varieties of "left-behindedness
A well-established narrative has existed for some time in British politics: “left behind” places are gradually moving to the Conservatives as Labour dominate in urban, “cosmopolitan” areas. Merging constituency-level census data with election results, this article applies various regression techniques to test this idea on multiple definitions of “left-behindedness” at every general election between 1979 and 2017 in England and Wales. Conclusive r…
The reform of initial teacher education in Wales: From vision to reality
Over the last four years, initial teacher education in Wales has been fundamentally reformed. The stimulus for those reforms were concerns about the quality of current provision, but more importantly a recognition by the Welsh Government that if their wider reforms of curriculum and assessment were to succeed, then teachers themselves had a key role to play. Teachers would no longer be simply required to ‘deliver’ a curriculum defined by others; …
Place-based Politics and Nested Deprivation in the U.K: Beyond Cities-towns, ‘Two Englands’ and the ‘Left Behind’
‘Place-based explanations’ of politics in the UK draw on survey data to tell sweeping narratives about ‘Two Englands’, or of sizeable regions of the country that have been ‘Left Behind’, reinforcing popular accounts of a North-South or city-town divide. We introduce the concept of nested deprivation—deprivation that may occur in just one housing estate or even one row of flats within neighbourhoods that are otherwise affluent. We report on intens…
Fragmented and Dealigned: The 2024 British General Election and the Rise of Place‐Based Politics
While the outcome of the 2024 British general election signalled a resounding repudiation of the incumbent government—returning a 231‐seat swing from the Conservatives to Labour—it did not radically overturn the geography of electoral outcomes in England and Wales. Indeed, demographic predictors of party vote for parliamentary constituencies at the aggregate level mostly represented a continuation of recent trends. With the Conservative Party's v…
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