Rosemary Deem
Biographic Data
| ID | 197142 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rosemary Deem |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rosemary |
| FAMILY NAME | Deem |
| SIGNATURE | DEEM R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lancaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3081-7225 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 71 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 901 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 70 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 15 |
Diversity and Change Agents in Higher Education
This issue explores how higher education (HE) uses transformation to develop diverse and inclusive institutions, including policies utilising multiple actors’ agency. Existing HE literature has examined transformation through several lenses, such as how managerial reforms on diversity and inclusion work, and the potential of disruptive events for HE access and teaching quality, but also concerns that reforms may reinforce longstanding inequalitie…
Opening Plenary: Undisciplining II and the Sociological Review Foundation
Researching inequality in higher education: Tracing changing conceptions and approaches over fifty years
Fifty years ago, higher education globally had started to change radically in terms of the proportion of young people enrolled in the system as well as society’s expectations for what this would deliver. From the outset, Higher Education has featured research interrogating various aspects of inequality in higher education, including institutions and staff as well as students. This article offers an overview of that work. Our analysis is structure…
Inclusive Universities in a Globalized World
This thematic issue of Social Inclusion focuses on universities as inclusive organisations in a variety of different countries and higher education (HE) systems. It explores how these institutions aim, succeed or fail to become inclusive organisations, what policies and processes help achieve these goals and how academics and students can become agents of change through inclusive teaching and research cultures. The contributions in this thematic …
Rethinking Doctoral Education: University Purposes, Academic Cultures, Mental Health and the Public Good
Practice and Progress: British Sociology 1950–1980
Practice and Progress: British Sociology 1950-1980
Practice and Progress: British Sociology 1950-1980
Newer researchers in higher education: Policy Actors or Policy Subjects
In this article, we explore the extent to which 42 newer researchers, in the academic sub-field of higher education, were aware of, responded to and negotiated their careers in relation to higher education policies. Participants, who were mainly from European countries, tended to divide into two similarly sized groups: one that engaged with and made strategic use of higher education policy, who we termed ‘policy actors;' and another who felt that…
What is the Nature of the Relationship between Changes in European Higher Education and Social Science Research on Higher Education and (Why) Does It Matter
The paper examines the relationship between changes in European higher education and social science research on this theme and why it matters. Higher Education (HE) research is a new field significantly assisted by European funding, the Bologna process and the massification of HE. The field is populated by many emerging researchers but few established academics. The paper examines the sub-field’s characteristics including lack of theoretical/meth…
Women and success
All are equal, but some are more equal than others: Managerialism and gender equality in higher education in comparative perspective
The main purpose of this paper is to investigate what impact new regimes of management and governance, including new managerialism, have had on perceptions of gender equality at universities in three Western European countries. While in accordance with national laws and EU directives, contemporary current management approaches in universities should, in theory, stimulate equality of opportunities and diminish regimes of inequality, our findings f…
Developing Leadership Capacity in English Secondary Schools and Universities: Global Positioning and Local Mediation
Government responses to globalisation include developing educational leaders as reformers for workforce competitiveness in the knowledge economy. Qualitative research tracked interventions involving national leadership development bodies to acculturate leaders in secondary schools and universities. Acculturating leaders as reformers was mediated through interaction with professional cultures valuing autonomy. Yet mediation supported the governmen…
Leading and Managing Contemporary UK Universities: Do Excellence and Meritocracy still Prevail over Diversity
Producing and Re/producing the Global University in the 21st Century: Researcher Perspectives and Policy Consequences
Transforming Higher Education in Whose Image? Exploring the Concept of the ‘World-Class’ University in Europe and Asia
Knowledge, Higher Education, and the New Managerialism: The Changing Management of UK Universities
The nature of Higher Education in the UK has changed over the last three decades. Academics can no longer be said to carry out their work in ‘ivory towers’, as increasing government intervention and a growing ‘target culture’ has changed the way they work. Increasingly universities have transformed from ‘communities of scholars’ to ‘workplaces’. The organization and administration of universities has seen a corresponding prevalence of ideas and s…
Managing a meritocracy or an equitable organisation? Senior managers’ and employees’ views about equal opportunities policies in UK universities
This article examines the views of staff employed in UK higher education institutions (HEIs) about how those institutions are dealing with the impact of recent UK equality legislation and related European employment directives. Assumptions underlying current approaches to equality in UK HEIs are examined, particularly the notion of meritocracy, which advocates job selection and promotion based on normatively and culturally neutral measures of mer…
Engaging the Curriculum in Higher Education
Challenging the post‐Fordist/flexible organisation thesis: The case of reformed educational organisations
This paper examines claims that recent reforms to UK education have led to significant organisational changes in primary school and higher education. It also examines two main theoretical explanations for these, namely post‐Fordism and New Managerialism. Examples of changes in both schools and universities, including flexibility and teamwork, are explored. Up to the mid‐1980s, publicly funded educational organisations did display bureaucratic fea…
Management as ideology: The Case of 'New Managerialism' in Higher Education
The paper explores ideological conceptions of management, especially 'new managerialism', with particular reference to their role in the reform of higher education. It is suggested that attempts to reform public services in general are political as well as technical, though there is no single unitary ideology of 'new managerialism'. Whilst some argue that managers have become a class and have particular interests, this may not be so for all publi…
The Knowledge Worker, the Manager‐academic and the Contemporary UK University: New and Old Forms of Public Management?
This paper explores how far the expectations of and the practices and technologies used by academics in management roles in UK higher education at the end of the twentieth and beginning of the twenty‐first centuries appear to differ from those used in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. The system of higher education in the UK is explained and then concepts of new managerialism and academic knowledge work are discussed. Next the changing policy context o…
Sociology and the sociology of higher education: A missed call or a disconnection
The article explores the relationship between sociology and sociology of education in the United Kingdom (UK), with specific reference to the development of a sociology of higher education. Though the article is mainly concerned with the UK, the broader issues raised, about the status and location of the sociology of education in relation to sociology, who defines research excellence and research prestige and who collaborates with whom (and why) …
A Future for Higher Education?
Gender, Organizational Cultures and the Practices of Manager‐Academics in UK Universities
The article explores gendered management in UK universities in the context of moves to introduce new managerialism to higher education. Qualitative data are drawn from an Economic and Social Research Council funded project (R00023 7661) in which interviews were conducted with 137 male and female manager‐academics, from Heads of Department to Vice Chancellors, in 16 universities. The career trajectories of female and male manager‐academics are ana…
Management as ideology: The Case of 'New Managerialism' in Higher Education
The paper explores ideological conceptions of management, especially 'new managerialism', with particular reference to their role in the reform of higher education. It is suggested that attempts to reform public services in general are political as well as technical, though there is no single unitary ideology of 'new managerialism'. Whilst some argue that managers have become a class and have particular interests, this may not be so for all publi…
New managerialism' and higher education: The management of performances and cultures in universities in the United Kingdom
The paper examines the applicability of recent theories positing the existence of new approaches to the management of public sector institutions, to current organisational forms and management strategies in universities in the United Kingdom. The term 'new managerialism' is generally used to refer to the adoption by public sector organisations of organisational forms, technologies, management practices and values more commonly found in the privat…
Globalisation, New Managerialism, Academic Capitalism and Entrepreneurialism in Universities: Is the local dimension still important
The paper examines the importance of global and local factors in the current development of universities in Western countries. Globalisation is a fashionable theoretical stance but care needs to be taken in applying it to education, not least because social theorists cannot agree on definitions and implications. Three concepts dealing with recent changes to universities--new managerialism, academic capitalism and entrepreneurial universities--are…
Transforming Higher Education in Whose Image? Exploring the Concept of the ‘World-Class’ University in Europe and Asia
Practice and Progress: British Sociology 1950-1980
Gender, Organizational Cultures and the Practices of Manager‐Academics in UK Universities
The article explores gendered management in UK universities in the context of moves to introduce new managerialism to higher education. Qualitative data are drawn from an Economic and Social Research Council funded project (R00023 7661) in which interviews were conducted with 137 male and female manager‐academics, from Heads of Department to Vice Chancellors, in 16 universities. The career trajectories of female and male manager‐academics are ana…
Women, leisure and inequality
Women experience inequalities in gaining access to leisure ‘space’ and activities. Based on research in Milton Keynes, UK, this paper points towards a more satisfactory theory of women's leisure, and shows how aspects of women's gender-roles constrain their enjoyment and use of free time. Constraints include domestic labour, job attitudes, behaviour and working hours of male partners, child care, lack of independent income and absence of transpor…
All are equal, but some are more equal than others: Managerialism and gender equality in higher education in comparative perspective
The main purpose of this paper is to investigate what impact new regimes of management and governance, including new managerialism, have had on perceptions of gender equality at universities in three Western European countries. While in accordance with national laws and EU directives, contemporary current management approaches in universities should, in theory, stimulate equality of opportunities and diminish regimes of inequality, our findings f…
Doctoral Students' Access to Research Cultures-are some more unequal than others
The article explores how different kinds of social science students from two universities, Woodside and Hillside, access and experience a variety of research cultures in those universities. Previous research on research students has noted considerable differences between science and non-science students, with the latter much more likely to work as lone scholars meeting regularly only with their supervisors. Though other researchers have examined …
No Time for a Rest: An Exploration of women's Work, Engendered Leisure and Holidays
This article explores the idea that women in western societies, including those with male partners and/or children, may perceive and use their leisure, including holidays, to disrupt intensified life styles, or to interrupt the domination of clock time and work routines. Recent trends in research and theorizing on women's leisure, including post-structuralist and postmodernist critiques of such leisure, are examined, particularly for their theore…
Women, the city and holidays
This paper reports some preliminary research on women and holidays carried out in the summer of 1994 in Lancaster, a city in the north west of England. The research, which involved interviewing an opportunity sample of 54 women visitors and residents on the streets of Lancaster, attempted to explore holidays as an aspect of engendered leisure. The analysis makes use of theories about space, place and time as well as ideas about the tourist gaze a…
Leading and Managing Contemporary UK Universities: Do Excellence and Meritocracy still Prevail over Diversity
Transforming post-compulsory education? femocrats at work in the academy
Wo-managing Further Education; gender and the construction of the manager in the corporate colleges of England
This article suggests that alongside the seeming remasculinisation of UK further education management reported recently in Gender and Education, there is also a little-reported but prevalent feminisation of lower level managerial positions across this sector. To support this assertion the article draws on empirical work done by the Further Education Development Agency, and two interview-based studies of woman and men college 'managers'. Conceptua…
How do we get out of the ghetto? Strategies for research on gender and leisure for the twenty-first century
State Policy and Ideology in the Education of Women, 1944‐1980
The paper examines changes in state policies and ideologies about women's education in Britain for the period 1944‐1980. It links policies and shifting ideologies about women to the development of the slate, dominant political ideology, the economy and general social policy, tracing the gradual evolution of policies and ideologies encouraging women's education and their participation in paid work through the period of social democracy which spann…
The New School Governing Bodies—are gender and race on the agenda
This paper is based on qualitative research on a number of newly formed school governing bodies in two Southern LEAs. The paper looks at the extent to which sexism and racism arise during, and are reproduced by, school governing body meetings and explores sex and race dynamics in the power relations of governing schools
Talking to Manager-Academics: Methodological Dilemmas and Feminist Research Strategies
The paper examines how qualitative feminist research can inform the study of engendered practices in organizational settings. It reviews current debates about feminist research, including Oakley's (1998, 2000) critique of the ways in which qualitative methods and data are used by feminists. The work of Skeggs (2001) on feminist principles for undertaking qualitative research is also examined. The paper then considers two pieces of research on wor…
Unleisured lives; Sport in the context of women's leisure
Managing a meritocracy or an equitable organisation? Senior managers’ and employees’ views about equal opportunities policies in UK universities
This article examines the views of staff employed in UK higher education institutions (HEIs) about how those institutions are dealing with the impact of recent UK equality legislation and related European employment directives. Assumptions underlying current approaches to equality in UK HEIs are examined, particularly the notion of meritocracy, which advocates job selection and promotion based on normatively and culturally neutral measures of mer…
Sociology and the sociology of higher education: A missed call or a disconnection
The article explores the relationship between sociology and sociology of education in the United Kingdom (UK), with specific reference to the development of a sociology of higher education. Though the article is mainly concerned with the UK, the broader issues raised, about the status and location of the sociology of education in relation to sociology, who defines research excellence and research prestige and who collaborates with whom (and why) …
Physical Activity, Life‐long Learning and Empowerment — Situating Sport in Women's Leisure
The paper examines the ways in which gender relations, gender identities, school physical education, and dominant ideas about the association of masculinities with sport, affect how women perceive sport and physical activity. It is suggested that since many women dislike competitive and team sports, using a wider concept of physical activity, examining its location within broader notions of women's leisure, exploring how physical activity relates…
Education, gender and anxiety
Producing and Re/producing the Global University in the 21st Century: Researcher Perspectives and Policy Consequences
Border Territories: A journey through sociology, education and women's studies
La sociologie en tant que discipline connait une crise de ses fondements comme de ses domaines de recherche. L'A. explique ce phenomene en mettant en avant l'effondrement du communisme dans les pays de l'ex-bloc de l'Est, le demantelement des Etats-providence, l'interet pour les questions identitaires et celui porte a l'individu. Elle s'interesse aux changements survenus dans le cadre de la sociologie de l'education. Elle s'attache au developpeme…
Professionalism, Unity and Militant Action: The Case of Teachers
Gender and Education: A Discussion of Two Recent Books
State Policy and Ideology in the Education of Women, 1944‐1980
The paper examines changes in state policies and ideologies about women's education in Britain for the period 1944‐1980. It links policies and shifting ideologies about women to the development of the slate, dominant political ideology, the economy and general social policy, tracing the gradual evolution of policies and ideologies encouraging women's education and their participation in paid work through the period of social democracy which spann…
Schooling for Women's Work
The Teaching of Industrial Sociology in Higher Education: An Exploratory Analysis
Women, leisure and inequality
Women experience inequalities in gaining access to leisure ‘space’ and activities. Based on research in Milton Keynes, UK, this paper points towards a more satisfactory theory of women's leisure, and shows how aspects of women's gender-roles constrain their enjoyment and use of free time. Constraints include domestic labour, job attitudes, behaviour and working hours of male partners, child care, lack of independent income and absence of transpor…
Education for What and What Education
Shorter Notices
Our British Cousins
Journal Article Our British Cousins Get access John H. Smith John H. Smith University of Southhampton Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 61, Issue 3, March 1983, Pages 911–914, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/61.3.911 Published: 01 March 1983
The Cuts in British Higher Education: A symposium
(1984). The Cuts in British Higher Education: a symposium. British Journal of Sociology of Education: Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 167-181
The Politics of Women's Leisure
Towards anti-sexist and anti-racist schooling
Unleisured lives; Sport in the context of women's leisure
Together We Stand, Divided We Fall”; Social Criticism and the Sociology of Sport and Leisure
The article explores four modes of critical social theory in the sociology of sport and leisure, and attempts to identify common ground between these, especially in relation to their treatment of gender issues. Perspectives differ not only in their concepts and explanations but also in their underlying domain assumptions. First, the Weberian/Figurational perspective taken by Rojek is considered; this approach is the least concerned with gender, a…
The Great Education Reform Bill 1988 ‐ some issues and implications
The article explores some of the wider policy issues and concerns raised by the 1988 Education Bill, in particular the implications of the Bill for control over schooling. There is a brief discussion about the main aspects of the Bill's proposals as they affect schools. The paper then moves on to consider the extent to which the Bill gives power both to the Secretary of State for Education and to parents and school governors, whilst removing powe…
A Matter of Hours: Women, Part-time Work and the Labour Market
Part-time work in a changing labour market manufacturing industry the welfare state employers' conceptions theoretical perspectives questions of policy
The New School Governing Bodies—are gender and race on the agenda
This paper is based on qualitative research on a number of newly formed school governing bodies in two Southern LEAs. The paper looks at the extent to which sexism and racism arise during, and are reproduced by, school governing body meetings and explores sex and race dynamics in the power relations of governing schools
New Ways Forward in Sport and Leisure Studies—A Reply to Robert Sparks
Educational Work and the State of Education
1988 was an eventful year for state education in England and Wales; it saw the passage of an Education Reform Act which represents the largest and most far-reaching piece of educational legislation in these two countries since universal secondary education was introduced by the 1944 Education Act. The 1988 Act was the final nail in the coffin of the liberal consensus over state education which had existed since 1944, a consensus which basically s…
Charging for free education: An exploration of a debate in school governing bodies
Legal judgements delivered in recent years have impelled the government to redefine the meaning of free education. This redefinition was one of the miscellaneous measures included in the Education Reform Act. In contrast to former years, much of the responsibility for ensuring that schools only charge for those activities that they are legally entitled to, now falls to school governing bodies. These were, themselves, restructured and reconstitute…
Work, Unemployment, and Leisure
Gender, Work and Leisure in the Eighties - Looking Backwards, Looking Forwards
This paper reviews some of the major features of British sociological research on gender in the fields of employment, leisure and unpaid work carried out during the nineteen eighties. It examines both the achievements and the failings of such research. These include the development of feminist theory and methodology as well as the documentation of women's differential experiences. The article then traces the connections between the studies done d…
Opting Out of Local Authority Control ‐Using the Education Reform Act to Defend the Comprehensive Ideal: A case study in educational policy implementation
This paper is based on an insider account of the process by which a secondary school, Stantonbury Campus, Milton Keynes, England, used the 1988 Education Reform Act to opt out of local authority control in order to preserve its egalitarian comprehensive character. Using the legislation in this way effectively reversed many of the assumptions surrounding the notion of Grant Maintained Status, in particular that such schools would be selective, tra…
The Sociology of Gender and Leisure in Britain—Past Progress and Future Prospects
The paper reviews gender and leisure in the UK over the past decade and also explores possible future directions. Initial work on gender and leisure added women into the existing studies of male leisure but also pointed out how women's experience of leisure differed. This work led rethinking the concept of leisure and the relationship between employment, unpaid work and leisure and saw important methodological developments in qualitative research…
Governing bodies and local education authorities: Who shall inherit the earth
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