Andrew Mcculloch
Biographic Data
| ID | 127917 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Mcculloch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcculloch |
| SIGNATURE | MCCULLOCH A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Robert Gordon University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7420-8221 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 50 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 253 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 50 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Does the viva matter? PhD student experiences of the oral examination and its contribution to examination outcome and researcher development
The typical doctoral examination comprises the assessment of a written thesis or other artefact followed by a viva involving the candidate and two or more examiners. Australian universities generally do not follow that model of PhD examination preferring instead to send theses to examiners and base decisions to award solely on examiner assessments of the thesis rather than involving an oral examination. In 2016, the University of South Australia …
Policy, regulation and pedagogy: A brief history of supervisor development and training in Australia and the United Kingdom
High quality supervision is a key determinant of the quality of a research student’s experience, their likelihood of success, and their time to completion. Several decades of research and commentary suggests that supervision is not always high quality and one regularly suggested solution to the problem is that professional development or training for research degree supervisors should be provided by institutions and that, in some cases, undertaki…
Outside looking in: Gendered roles and the wellbeing of working student mothers studying for a part‐time PhD
This article contributes to the growing evidence based on well‐being in doctoral study. It draws on 35 qualitative, in‐depth interviews to explore how the well‐being of an understudied group—working doctoral student mothers—is affected when undertaking part‐time PhDs. While there is a growing literature on the research student experience and an increased awareness of mental health issues in doctoral study, there has been little exploration of the…
The multiple uses of iThenticate in doctoral education: Policing malpractice or improving research writing
This article provides a description and analysis of the way in which research degree students and their supervisors at one Australian university (the University of South Australia) use a popular online plagiarism-detection system, iThenticate. The study identifies how these two groups use iThenticate by analysing usage data together with data from an anonymous online survey conducted 12 months after the university took out a pilot subscription to…
Educational Aspirations Trajectories in England
This study used latent class analysis to examine the trajectories followed by young people’s educational aspirations in England over the age range from 13 to 16 years and their relationship to educational achievement. The results suggested that young people’s aspirations followed six trajectories. Four trajectories showed overall patterns of aspirations which did not vary over time, while in the two remaining trajectories, aspirations either move…
Charisma and Patronage: Reasoning with Max Weber
A detailed and richly illustrated analysis of charisma and the political and cultural conditions in which charismatic figures arise, this work of historical sociology critically engages with Max Weber’s ambiguous concept of charisma to examine the charismatic careers of a number of figures, including Joan of Arc, Hitler and Nelson Mandela, as well as that of Jesus, who, the author contends - in contradistinction to Max Weber - was not a charismat…
Cohort Variations in the Membership of Voluntary Associations in Great Britain, 1991–2007
This article uses longitudinal data from the British Household Panel Study to examine trends in the level of membership in a range of voluntary associations from 1991 to 2007. It has been suggested that the membership of voluntary associations is in decline in western societies and the analysis examines the trajectory of the number of memberships with age for four 10-year age cohorts born between 1935 and 1975. The results for men show lower leve…
Patterns of Social Capital, Voluntary Activity, and Area Deprivation in England
This study uses data from the 2005 and 2007 Citizenship Survey to map broad differences in levels of volunteering and social capital between ninety different types of place in England, characterised by their regional location and level of deprivation. A measure of social capital in each type of place is constructed using a multivariate multilevel statistical model and the association with rates of volunteering is then examined. The results show a…
Housing density as a predictor of neighbourhood satisfaction among families with young children in urban England
Patterns of residential mobility suggest that urban areas in the UK are considered unpopular places to live, in particular by families with young children. The unpopularity of urban areas has been attributed to characteristics of the built environment as well as to levels of deprivation. This paper examines the relationship between levels of neighbourhood satisfaction and the density of housing in the local area using a sample of mothers with you…
The student as co-producer: Learning From Public Administration About the Student-University Relationship
The dominant metaphor/model used to characterise the relationship of the student to the university, that is, the 'student as consumer', is partial and not appropriate to the realities of contemporary higher education. This article suggests that co‐production, a concept drawn from the public administration literature, offers a more appropriate metaphor. In this metaphor, the student, lecturers and others who support the learning process are viewed…
Spaces of Social Exclusion
The Changing Structure of Ethnic Diversity and Segregation in England, 1991-2001
Using data from the 1991 and 2001 Censuses, I examine patterns of ethnic diversity and segregation in England's metropolitan regions. Diversity is measured using the Shannon entropy index and segregation is measured using the Theil index. Both indices can be decomposed into contributions due to region, district, and ward, which may indicate the processes responsible for patterns of ethnic diversity and segregation. The results show that ethnic di…
Variation in children's cognitive and behavioural adjustment between different types of place in the British National Child Development Study
Jesus Christ and Max Weber: Two Problems of Charisma
The significance of the concept of charisma for Weber, both theoretically and personally, is discussed. For Weber, Christ was the paradigmatic charismatic leader. What little we know about Christ is examined and his charismatic status disputed. The claim is made, therefore, that sociologists need to consider further the circumstances under which charismatic leadership appears. This is especially the case as charisma as a form of leadership does n…
Localism and its neoliberal application: A case study of West Gate New Deal for Communities in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
The New Labour Government's New Deal for Communities attempts to stitch neoliberal urban policy onto Area Based Initiatives that involve the local community. In Newcastle upon Tyne, this combination resulted in several fault-lines and considerable local conflict. The local community was not adequately represented, because there was not one. The locus of power was not in the community but in the partner agencies. Thus the most obvious community wa…
The Politics of the Environment: Ideas, Activism, Policy
Myths at Work
Local Labour Markets and Individual Transitions into and out of Poverty: Evidence from the British Household Panel Study Waves 1 to 8
Using data from the British Household Panel Study 1991 to 1998 and the Annual Employment Survey this paper examines the impact of changes in local-labour market conditions on individual poverty exits and entrances. Transitions out of poverty and transitions into poverty are estimated by using discrete duration models that control for individual and family-level characteristics, duration effects, and local labour-market variables. After controllin…
Ian Craib, 1945-2002
A moving commemoration at the University of Essex on 7th March of Ian Craib, Professor of Sociology, began with an affectionate address by his son, Ben. Ian Craib died at the age of 57 years on 22nd December, 2002 from a massive heart-attack, induced by an inoperable cancer in his lungs. 'Remembering Ian Craib' lasted nearly three hours. This was not because of the string quartet playing favourite pieces of Ian's nor because of the past and prese…
An examination of social capital and social disorganisation in neighbourhoods in the British household panel study
Child development and family resources: Evidence from the second generation of the 1958 British birth cohort
Transitions from school to work in a changing social context
Teenage childbearing in Great Britain and the spatial concentration of poverty households
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To investigate the association between the spatial concentration of deprived households and teenage non-marital childbearing. Associations with area deprivation are tested before and after allowing for levels of personal deprivation. DESIGN AND SETTING: The individual data are derived from the 2% sample of anonymised records (SAR) from the census of 1991 in Great Britain, and are combined with area data from the 278 districts of …
Neighbourhood and family influences on the cognitive ability of children in the British National Child Development Study
Ward-Level Deprivation and Individual Social and Economic Outcomes in the British Household Panel Study
This paper is an investigation of the association between the level of social deprivation in electoral wards and various aspects of individuals' lives using data from the British Household Panel Study 1991 to 1998 and the 1991 Census. The main finding is to establish that ecological associations of various indicators of individual adversity with a census-based indicator of area deprivation are largely, if not entirely, accounted for by individual…
Ward-Level Deprivation and Individual Social and Economic Outcomes in the British Household Panel Study
This paper is an investigation of the association between the level of social deprivation in electoral wards and various aspects of individuals' lives using data from the British Household Panel Study 1991 to 1998 and the 1991 Census. The main finding is to establish that ecological associations of various indicators of individual adversity with a census-based indicator of area deprivation are largely, if not entirely, accounted for by individual…
Neighbourhood and family influences on the cognitive ability of children in the British National Child Development Study
An examination of social capital and social disorganisation in neighbourhoods in the British household panel study
The Reliability of Retrospective Unemployment History Data
This paper sets out to examine the reliability of data on men's and women's past experiences of unemployment spells which has been gained by asking individuals to recall these spells and the dates of their occurrence. Surveys seek individuals' history data either to gain information about the initial conditions of respondents, or to examine these histories in their own right. It is much less expensive to collect data about individuals' histories …
The student as co-producer: Learning From Public Administration About the Student-University Relationship
The dominant metaphor/model used to characterise the relationship of the student to the university, that is, the 'student as consumer', is partial and not appropriate to the realities of contemporary higher education. This article suggests that co‐production, a concept drawn from the public administration literature, offers a more appropriate metaphor. In this metaphor, the student, lecturers and others who support the learning process are viewed…
Transitions from school to work in a changing social context
Patterns of Social Capital, Voluntary Activity, and Area Deprivation in England
This study uses data from the 2005 and 2007 Citizenship Survey to map broad differences in levels of volunteering and social capital between ninety different types of place in England, characterised by their regional location and level of deprivation. A measure of social capital in each type of place is constructed using a multivariate multilevel statistical model and the association with rates of volunteering is then examined. The results show a…
Variation in children's cognitive and behavioural adjustment between different types of place in the British National Child Development Study
Teenage childbearing in Great Britain and the spatial concentration of poverty households
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To investigate the association between the spatial concentration of deprived households and teenage non-marital childbearing. Associations with area deprivation are tested before and after allowing for levels of personal deprivation. DESIGN AND SETTING: The individual data are derived from the 2% sample of anonymised records (SAR) from the census of 1991 in Great Britain, and are combined with area data from the 278 districts of …
Child development and family resources: Evidence from the second generation of the 1958 British birth cohort
Cohort Variations in the Membership of Voluntary Associations in Great Britain, 1991–2007
This article uses longitudinal data from the British Household Panel Study to examine trends in the level of membership in a range of voluntary associations from 1991 to 2007. It has been suggested that the membership of voluntary associations is in decline in western societies and the analysis examines the trajectory of the number of memberships with age for four 10-year age cohorts born between 1935 and 1975. The results for men show lower leve…
Localism and its neoliberal application: A case study of West Gate New Deal for Communities in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
The New Labour Government's New Deal for Communities attempts to stitch neoliberal urban policy onto Area Based Initiatives that involve the local community. In Newcastle upon Tyne, this combination resulted in several fault-lines and considerable local conflict. The local community was not adequately represented, because there was not one. The locus of power was not in the community but in the partner agencies. Thus the most obvious community wa…
Local Labour Markets and Individual Transitions into and out of Poverty: Evidence from the British Household Panel Study Waves 1 to 8
Using data from the British Household Panel Study 1991 to 1998 and the Annual Employment Survey this paper examines the impact of changes in local-labour market conditions on individual poverty exits and entrances. Transitions out of poverty and transitions into poverty are estimated by using discrete duration models that control for individual and family-level characteristics, duration effects, and local labour-market variables. After controllin…
Educational Aspirations Trajectories in England
This study used latent class analysis to examine the trajectories followed by young people’s educational aspirations in England over the age range from 13 to 16 years and their relationship to educational achievement. The results suggested that young people’s aspirations followed six trajectories. Four trajectories showed overall patterns of aspirations which did not vary over time, while in the two remaining trajectories, aspirations either move…
Housing density as a predictor of neighbourhood satisfaction among families with young children in urban England
Patterns of residential mobility suggest that urban areas in the UK are considered unpopular places to live, in particular by families with young children. The unpopularity of urban areas has been attributed to characteristics of the built environment as well as to levels of deprivation. This paper examines the relationship between levels of neighbourhood satisfaction and the density of housing in the local area using a sample of mothers with you…
On the Public and the Private: A Comment on Fahey
A millstone round your neck? — Building societies in the 1930s and Mortgage default
Owner occupation first became a mass tenure in Britain in the 1930s and was promoted as freedom from rent and landlords. However, as the tenure was dramatically extended outside the middle classes, it was necessary that the tenure's margins were ‘policed’ by an alliance of builder, building society and solicitor. Mortgage agreements were constructed to include a battery of legal and extra‐legal powers so that mortgage default was kept severely in…
Joining a Political Party: A Reassessment of the Economic Approach to Membership
The active membership of political parties is usually studied with regard to their potential recruitment to public office, or to their attitudes on particular issues to assess their degree of extremism or militancy. Rarely are the reasons for their participation examined, rather, their membership is taken for granted. Olson's economic theory of participation is shown to be useful only in predicting levels of membership, rather than as a means of …
The Changing Structure of Ethnic Diversity and Segregation in England, 1991-2001
Using data from the 1991 and 2001 Censuses, I examine patterns of ethnic diversity and segregation in England's metropolitan regions. Diversity is measured using the Shannon entropy index and segregation is measured using the Theil index. Both indices can be decomposed into contributions due to region, district, and ward, which may indicate the processes responsible for patterns of ethnic diversity and segregation. The results show that ethnic di…
Evaluations of a Community Regeneration Project: Case Studies of Cruddas Park Development Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne
Five evaluations of the same community regeneration project in Newcastle upon Tyne are compared. It is argued that the separate evaluations are weak in method, atheoretical, ahistorical and lacking in a sense of social structure. To progress, community evaluations must typologise communities rather than treat community as a nebulous quality of relationships. A typology is offered. Further, it is suggested the community regeneration in this case w…
The green market and environmental policy
The green party in England and Wales: Structure and development: The early years
The Ecology Party, the forerunner to the English and Welsh, and Scottish Green Parties in Britain, was the first such party in Europe. However, despite this primacy, academic study of green parties has concentrated on continental parties. This is because of their greater success in placing representatives in public office. Drawing heavily upon research conducted at the time, this article discusses both the development of the Ecology Party in the …
Societal change, values and social support: Exploratory studies into adjustment in late life
Shell, the Brent Spar and Greenpeace: A doomed tryst
What do we Mean by ‘Development’ in Old Age
It is currently the vogue to speak of development throughout life. It is here argued that epigenetic models of human development are unsuited to explaining psycho-social change in old age. An alternative model of the emergence of psycho-social change in old age is proposed. An indication is given of why such change should occur, and the argument is illustrated with two catastrophe models of change, one hypothetical, and another describing events …
Communes, Sociology and Society
Preface 1. Communes and sociology - alternative realities? 2. The nature, structure and problems of communes 3. Some communes 4. Self-seeking 5. Men, women and children 6. Solidarity, survival and success 7. Communes, sociology and social policy Appendix Bibliography and references Index
Communes, Sociology, and Society
Communes, Sociology and Society
What do we Mean by ‘Development’ in Old Age
It is currently the vogue to speak of development throughout life. It is here argued that epigenetic models of human development are unsuited to explaining psycho-social change in old age. An alternative model of the emergence of psycho-social change in old age is proposed. An indication is given of why such change should occur, and the argument is illustrated with two catastrophe models of change, one hypothetical, and another describing events …
Philip Abrams - A Tribute
Turnover on the Electoral Register: Implications for the Administration of the Community Charge
Societal change, values and social support: Exploratory studies into adjustment in late life
A millstone round your neck? — Building societies in the 1930s and Mortgage default
Owner occupation first became a mass tenure in Britain in the 1930s and was promoted as freedom from rent and landlords. However, as the tenure was dramatically extended outside the middle classes, it was necessary that the tenure's margins were ‘policed’ by an alliance of builder, building society and solicitor. Mortgage agreements were constructed to include a battery of legal and extra‐legal powers so that mortgage default was kept severely in…
Joining a Political Party: A Reassessment of the Economic Approach to Membership
The active membership of political parties is usually studied with regard to their potential recruitment to public office, or to their attitudes on particular issues to assess their degree of extremism or militancy. Rarely are the reasons for their participation examined, rather, their membership is taken for granted. Olson's economic theory of participation is shown to be useful only in predicting levels of membership, rather than as a means of …
The green party in England and Wales: Structure and development: The early years
The Ecology Party, the forerunner to the English and Welsh, and Scottish Green Parties in Britain, was the first such party in Europe. However, despite this primacy, academic study of green parties has concentrated on continental parties. This is because of their greater success in placing representatives in public office. Drawing heavily upon research conducted at the time, this article discusses both the development of the Ecology Party in the …
The ecology party in England and Wales: Branch organisation and activity
The 1979 general election represented a watershed event in the development of the British Ecology Party. The party's membership jumped from 500 to more than 5,000 in a matter of weeks and many new branches were established. As a consequence of this expansion, an existing division in the party between those who favoured a traditional model of party organisation and those who favoured an alternative model was exacerbated. This article reports the r…
Implementing environmental policy in Scotland: The role of the voluntary sector
Despite the increasing interest in environmental policy and its implementation, little attention has been paid to the role played by the voluntary sector. However, in the UK this sector is actively involved by the Government as an agency of implementation. In this respect, The Scottish Office has established two mechanisms whereby it channels support to a number of voluntary organisations and this article examines the success achieved by these pr…
The green market and environmental policy
Policy Review Section
In this issue of the Policy Review Section, Keith Shaw of the Division of Government, University of Northumbria, Fred Robinson of the Department of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Durham and Margaret Curran of the Tyne and Wear Research and Intelligence Unit, examine the findings of a local authority survey of the membership of quangos in the North East. They argue that main areas of the public sector in the region are controlled by an…
BSE in Britain: Science, socio‐economics and European law
Shell, the Brent Spar and Greenpeace: A doomed tryst
Flexible Employment: The Future of Britain's Jobs
Many employed men and women now hold self-employed, part-time or temporary jobs. Such jobs have been increasing since the 1970s. This book examines the implications for employers, individuals and hous
On the Public and the Private: A Comment on Fahey
The Reliability of Retrospective Unemployment History Data
This paper sets out to examine the reliability of data on men's and women's past experiences of unemployment spells which has been gained by asking individuals to recall these spells and the dates of their occurrence. Surveys seek individuals' history data either to gain information about the initial conditions of respondents, or to examine these histories in their own right. It is much less expensive to collect data about individuals' histories …
Organisational Barriers to Widening Public Access to Environmental Information: Appraising the Scottish Office's Strategy
The principal purpose of this article is to highlight the insufficient nature of the Scottish Office strategy to combat the organisational barriers that restrict the public's opportunities to access environmental information in key areas of social life. This approach, which is based on a self-help, non-interventionist position, presumes that it is a relatively easy matter for organisations who arc involved in producing or disseminating environmen…
Internalising and externalising children's behaviour problems in Britain and the US: Relationships to family resources 1
A large sample of British children (n=994) of varying ages (7–18 years) and a large sample of American children (n=886) of varying ages (7–16 years) were rated by their mothers using respectively the Rutter Child Scale A and the Behaviour Problems Index both of which cover a variety of behavioural problems. Factor analysis of the behavioural scales distinguished externalising and internalising dimensions of behaviour in both countries. We examine…
Internalising and externalising children's behaviour problems in Britain and the US: Relationships to family resources
A large sample of British children (n=994) of varying ages (7–18 years) and a large sample of American children (n=886) of varying ages (7–16 years) were rated by their mothers using respectively the Rutter Child Scale A and the Behaviour Problems Index both of which cover a variety of behavioural problems. Factor analysis of the behavioural scales distinguished externalising and internalising dimensions of behaviour in both countries. We examine…
Internalising and externalising children's behaviour problems in Britain and the US: Relationships to family resources
Evaluations of a Community Regeneration Project: Case Studies of Cruddas Park Development Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne
Five evaluations of the same community regeneration project in Newcastle upon Tyne are compared. It is argued that the separate evaluations are weak in method, atheoretical, ahistorical and lacking in a sense of social structure. To progress, community evaluations must typologise communities rather than treat community as a nebulous quality of relationships. A typology is offered. Further, it is suggested the community regeneration in this case w…
Transitions from school to work in a changing social context
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