Mark Elliot
Biographic Data
| ID | 270351 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Elliot |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Elliot |
| SIGNATURE | ELLIOT M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3142-4493 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 78 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Division of Labour and Female Partners’ Relative Pay across Phases of Parenthood: Evidence from UK Dual-Earner Couples
The transition to first parenthood is a critical juncture at which both paid and unpaid work become more gendered within couples. From a life course perspective, parenthood is not a discrete event but a process that couples traverse together across successive phases. Far less is known, however, about how the gendered division of labour and its implications for the within-couple pay gap evolve across subsequent phases of parenthood. Using longitud…
Participatory storyworld building for unlocking climate adaptation
Communities worldwide are dangerously unprepared for projected climate risks. • Storytelling can help reduce the socio-political barriers to climate adaptation. • We introduce climate storyworld building as a participatory, transferable method. • We co-produced place-based climate storylines using narrative downscaling. • Method is now being used to support climate adaptation in 19 communities. Worldwide, local communities are experiencing increa…
Dictionary of Privacy, Data Protection and Information Security
The Dictionary of Privacy, Data Protection and Information Security explains the complex technical terms, legal concepts, privacy management techniques, conceptual matters and vocabulary that inform public debate about privacy.\n \nThe revolutionary and pervasive influence of digital technology affects numerous disciplines and sectors of society, and concerns about its potential threats to privacy are growing. With over a thousand terms meticulou…
McDonaldization and Artificial Intelligence
Vignette Research: Research Methods
Vignette research is an innovative qualitative, narrative and phenomenological research methodology that has gained international recognition, sparking interest from a wide range of individuals and institutions in global contexts. Vignettes are concise narratives, which capture human experiences in real life settings. They reveal surprising or intriguing facets and intangible moments. The experiential narratives resonate with readers and reduce t…
Is personal income associated with attitudes towards climate change risk? A moderated mediation analysis for the UK from 2009 to 2020
This study investigates the effect of personal income on attitudes towards climate change risk, considering the mediator of responsibility attribution (RA) for climate change and the moderator of educational attainment. Using a latent growth curve model applied to data from the UK Household Longitudinal Study dataset from 2009 to 2020, this study indicated that personal income growth heightens the likelihood of expressing concern about climate ch…
How Important Is Early Paternal Engagement? Deriving Longitudinal Measures of Fathers' Childcare Engagement and Exploring Structural Relationships With Prior Engagement and Employment Hours
Paternal childcare engagement is a focus of work-family policy debates yet there is little consensus about what engagement means and how it might be measured. Drawing on Lamb's (1986) classification of paternal involvement, we run confirmatory factor analysis on a sample of two-parent households from the UK's Millennium Cohort Study to derive latent paternal engagement measures at nine months, three, five, seven and eleven years old. Structural E…
Families of children with disabilities: Income poverty, material deprivation, and unpaid care in the UK
Child disability and provision of unpaid care by parents may contribute to a family’s poverty status. In this paper, using data from the Family Resources Survey-2018/19, a sample of 5451 families with dependent children was analysed. Sub-samples were created based on the groups of interest: child disability vs no child disability within the family and unpaid care vs no unpaid care for children with disabilities. Logistic regression models show so…
Mixed Methods Research: Research Methods
In this book, Mertens provides a brief history of the emergence of mixed methods research and numerous examples to illustrate its application in different disciplines and geographic areas. Mixed methods approaches offer researchers an exciting opportunity to explore new combinations of methods in diverse contexts: the design possibilities are endless and can be incorporated in many different approaches. The book presents case studies to illustrat…
Qualitative Interviewing: Research Methods
First published Open Access under a Creative Commons license as What is Qualitative Interviewing?, this title is now also available as part of the Bloomsbury Research Methods series. This book is a step-by-step guide for new and experienced social science researchers looking to use interviews in their projects. Rosalind Edwards and Janet Holland explain a range of interview types and practices, providing real research examples as informative illu…
Why Call It Equality?” Revisited: An Extended Critique of the Eige Gender Equality Index
In this paper, we review the methodology of one of the most comprehensive indices of gender equality, the Gender Equality Index by the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE). Building on Permanyer’s (J Eur Soc Policy, 25(4):414–430, 2015) critical analysis, we offer an extended critique of the EIGE’s current methodology, focusing on four interrelated issues: (a) the lack of transparency around the methodological decisions and the concomita…
Attitudes to climate change risk: Classification of and transitions in the UK population between 2012 and 2020
Strategies for achieving carbon emissions goals presuppose changes in individual behaviour, which can be indirectly nudged by interventions or tailored information but ultimately depend upon individual attitudes. Specifically, the perception that climate change is low risk has been identified as a barrier to participation in climate change adaptation and mitigation efforts. Therefore, understanding public attitudes towards climate change risk is …
Measuring the association between fathers' involvement and risky behaviours in adolescence
Understanding the drivers of adolescent risky behaviour is important given the costs that such behaviours impose on society and young people themselves. Evidence shows that early parent-child relations shape children's development and behaviour, however we know relatively little about the potential causal pathways that lead to risky behaviour and the differential impact of fathers' and mothers' childcare involvement. This study tests whether pate…
Automation on Twitter: Measuring the Effectiveness of Approaches to Bot Detection
The effectiveness of approaches to bot detection varies, with real-time detection being almost impossible. As a result, this article argues that the general Twitter using public cannot be expected to judge which accounts are bots with certainty and therefore do not know to what extent they are being manipulated online. In this article, the challenge of detecting bots and fake accounts is demonstrated by constructing two distinct methods to bot de…
Homonegativity in Britain: Changing Attitudes Towards Same-Sex Relationships
Over recent decades, British attitudes towards same-sex relationships have become more accepting. However, results from the National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles show that, in 2010, around a fifth of 16-59-year-olds still viewed sex between two men or two women as 'always wrong'. Using data from each edition of this survey (1990, 2000, 2010), we investigated which individuals are more likely to regard same-sex relationships as wrong …
Does Fathers’ Involvement in Childcare and Housework Affect Couples’ Relationship Stability
Objective Building on previous analysis conducted by Schober (2012), we explore how paternal involvement in different childcare and housework tasks affects the probability of relationship breakdown between parents. Methods We use logistic regression on the U.K. Millennium Cohort Study to predict parental relationship breakdown from nine months to seven years post‐childbirth. Paternal involvement in four childcare and three housework tasks during …
Using latent class analysis to produce a typology of environmental concern in the UK
Factor analysis is often used to study environmental concern. This choice of methodology is driven by predominant theories that tie environmental attitudes to the multidimensional construct of environmental concern. This paper demonstrates that using a clustering method such as latent class analysis can be a valuable tool for studying environmental attitudes as they exist within a given population. In making the case for the value of latent class…
Continuity and change in sexual attitudes: A cross-time comparison of tolerance towards non-traditional relationships
This article explores how attitudes towards different types of sexual relationships have changed over time. Data from the National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (1990, 2000 and 2010) are used to investigate whether people living in Britain have become more (or less) tolerant of one night stands, same-sex relationships and extra-marital relations, and whether any observed changes result from period or cohort effects. While attitudes to…
A Dictionary of Social Research Methods
Over 400 entries This new dictionary offers succinct, clear, expert explanations of key terms from both method and methodology in social research. It covers the whole range of qualitative, quantitative, and other methods, and it ranges from practical techniques like correlation up to methodological approaches such as ethnography. This wide-ranging approach enables it to cover terms needed by every social science discipline along with business and…
Measuring Paternal Involvement in Childcare and Housework
There is currently no quantitative tool for measuring paternal involvement in childcare and housework. To address this, we run Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) on a sample of households from the 2001-02 sweep of the UK's Millennium Cohort Study. Two quantitative measures of paternal involvement in childcare and housework are derived for when the child is aged nine months old, which appear to be isomorphic with two dimensions of Michael Lamb's p…
Environmental Concern Over Time: Evidence from the Longitudinal Analysis of a British Cohort Study from 1991 to 2008
Objective We examined whether and how levels of environmental concern (EC) changed over time in the United Kingdom, from 1991 to 2008–2009, as well as how EC relates to socioeconomic characteristics across this same timeframe. Methods Using item response theory models on the last three sweeps of the British National Child Development Study 1958, we evaluated a measure of EC. Then, using latent growth curve models (LGCMs) we estimated the pattern …
The Dynamic Risk of Heavy Episodic Drinking on Interpersonal Assault in Young Adolescence and Early Adulthood
This study examines the extent to which variation in violent behaviour can be explained by variation in drinking patterns in late adolescence and early adulthood using panel data of regular drinkers aged between 16 and 29 in England and Wales. Multilevel models explore individuals’ propensity to commit assault controlling for their drinking behaviour. Results suggest that males and younger people are more likely to commit assault offences and tha…
Introduction for Special Section: Attitudes: Ontology, Methodology, Impact
To introduce the special section we offer some reflections on the history of the attitude and its role within the social sciences and sociology in particular. Our central point is that the concept is pervasive in social science, and yet for a disciplinary environment where reflective criticism is the norm and where constructs are constantly questioned, the attitude has had a remarkably easy ride. Part of the issue here is that the attitude was la…
Social Theory or Attitudinal Types: A Case Study of Attitudes towards Relationships
Sociological theories can be viewed as models of (sub)-populations. In this paper we explore the possibility of representing social theories as attitudinal types rather than as descriptions of society at large. To test this idea we investigate the relevance of four different theories of couple relationships to the attitudes of 18 to 30 year olds. Rather than testing these theories via aggregate social trends, we investigate the plausibility of tr…
Which fathers are the most involved in taking care of their toddlers in the UK? An investigation of the predictors of paternal involvement
Economic provisioning continues to be the essence of 'good' fathering, and the work schedules associated with fathers' employment remain a key factor which shapes their involvement in childcare and domestic work at home. However, the relative impact of fathers' and mothers' employment hours on paternal involvement in childcare is unclear, and little is known about the longer-term impact, that is, whether a work arrangement organised when the chil…
Which fathers are the most involved in taking care of their toddlers in the UK? An investigation of the predictors of paternal involvement
Economic provisioning continues to be the essence of 'good' fathering, and the work schedules associated with fathers' employment remain a key factor which shapes their involvement in childcare and domestic work at home. However, the relative impact of fathers' and mothers' employment hours on paternal involvement in childcare is unclear, and little is known about the longer-term impact, that is, whether a work arrangement organised when the chil…
Homonegativity in Britain: Changing Attitudes Towards Same-Sex Relationships
Over recent decades, British attitudes towards same-sex relationships have become more accepting. However, results from the National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles show that, in 2010, around a fifth of 16-59-year-olds still viewed sex between two men or two women as 'always wrong'. Using data from each edition of this survey (1990, 2000, 2010), we investigated which individuals are more likely to regard same-sex relationships as wrong …
Measuring Paternal Involvement in Childcare and Housework
There is currently no quantitative tool for measuring paternal involvement in childcare and housework. To address this, we run Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) on a sample of households from the 2001-02 sweep of the UK's Millennium Cohort Study. Two quantitative measures of paternal involvement in childcare and housework are derived for when the child is aged nine months old, which appear to be isomorphic with two dimensions of Michael Lamb's p…
Does Fathers’ Involvement in Childcare and Housework Affect Couples’ Relationship Stability
Objective Building on previous analysis conducted by Schober (2012), we explore how paternal involvement in different childcare and housework tasks affects the probability of relationship breakdown between parents. Methods We use logistic regression on the U.K. Millennium Cohort Study to predict parental relationship breakdown from nine months to seven years post‐childbirth. Paternal involvement in four childcare and three housework tasks during …
Environmental Concern Over Time: Evidence from the Longitudinal Analysis of a British Cohort Study from 1991 to 2008
Objective We examined whether and how levels of environmental concern (EC) changed over time in the United Kingdom, from 1991 to 2008–2009, as well as how EC relates to socioeconomic characteristics across this same timeframe. Methods Using item response theory models on the last three sweeps of the British National Child Development Study 1958, we evaluated a measure of EC. Then, using latent growth curve models (LGCMs) we estimated the pattern …
The Dynamic Risk of Heavy Episodic Drinking on Interpersonal Assault in Young Adolescence and Early Adulthood
This study examines the extent to which variation in violent behaviour can be explained by variation in drinking patterns in late adolescence and early adulthood using panel data of regular drinkers aged between 16 and 29 in England and Wales. Multilevel models explore individuals’ propensity to commit assault controlling for their drinking behaviour. Results suggest that males and younger people are more likely to commit assault offences and tha…
Is personal income associated with attitudes towards climate change risk? A moderated mediation analysis for the UK from 2009 to 2020
This study investigates the effect of personal income on attitudes towards climate change risk, considering the mediator of responsibility attribution (RA) for climate change and the moderator of educational attainment. Using a latent growth curve model applied to data from the UK Household Longitudinal Study dataset from 2009 to 2020, this study indicated that personal income growth heightens the likelihood of expressing concern about climate ch…
A Dictionary of Social Research Methods
Over 400 entries This new dictionary offers succinct, clear, expert explanations of key terms from both method and methodology in social research. It covers the whole range of qualitative, quantitative, and other methods, and it ranges from practical techniques like correlation up to methodological approaches such as ethnography. This wide-ranging approach enables it to cover terms needed by every social science discipline along with business and…
Why Call It Equality?” Revisited: An Extended Critique of the Eige Gender Equality Index
In this paper, we review the methodology of one of the most comprehensive indices of gender equality, the Gender Equality Index by the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE). Building on Permanyer’s (J Eur Soc Policy, 25(4):414–430, 2015) critical analysis, we offer an extended critique of the EIGE’s current methodology, focusing on four interrelated issues: (a) the lack of transparency around the methodological decisions and the concomita…
Using latent class analysis to produce a typology of environmental concern in the UK
Factor analysis is often used to study environmental concern. This choice of methodology is driven by predominant theories that tie environmental attitudes to the multidimensional construct of environmental concern. This paper demonstrates that using a clustering method such as latent class analysis can be a valuable tool for studying environmental attitudes as they exist within a given population. In making the case for the value of latent class…
A Case Study of the Impact of Statistical Disclosure Control on Data Quality in the Individual UK Samples of Anonymised Records
Microdata released for public use, such as the Samples of Anonymised Records, Labour Force Survey data, and longitudinal data, such as the Millennium Cohort Study, are subject to statistical disclosure procedures. These measures include data swapping, recoding, postrandomisation, and suppression. Considerable research has been conducted into the extent to which such measures protect respondent anonymity. However, the impact the measures have on t…
The regulation of the personal: Individual data use and identity in the UK
The growth in the collection of individual level data and its use as a means of accessing services, tackling crime, informing policy making and marketing products is changing the nature of identity. As more information is collected, each of us leave larger ‘identity footprints’ in a multitude of contexts. Though the streets we live in may be less personally connected, neighbours, colleagues, employers, service providers and the state are all able…
How Important Is Early Paternal Engagement? Deriving Longitudinal Measures of Fathers' Childcare Engagement and Exploring Structural Relationships With Prior Engagement and Employment Hours
Paternal childcare engagement is a focus of work-family policy debates yet there is little consensus about what engagement means and how it might be measured. Drawing on Lamb's (1986) classification of paternal involvement, we run confirmatory factor analysis on a sample of two-parent households from the UK's Millennium Cohort Study to derive latent paternal engagement measures at nine months, three, five, seven and eleven years old. Structural E…
Measuring the association between fathers' involvement and risky behaviours in adolescence
Understanding the drivers of adolescent risky behaviour is important given the costs that such behaviours impose on society and young people themselves. Evidence shows that early parent-child relations shape children's development and behaviour, however we know relatively little about the potential causal pathways that lead to risky behaviour and the differential impact of fathers' and mothers' childcare involvement. This study tests whether pate…
Automation on Twitter: Measuring the Effectiveness of Approaches to Bot Detection
The effectiveness of approaches to bot detection varies, with real-time detection being almost impossible. As a result, this article argues that the general Twitter using public cannot be expected to judge which accounts are bots with certainty and therefore do not know to what extent they are being manipulated online. In this article, the challenge of detecting bots and fake accounts is demonstrated by constructing two distinct methods to bot de…
Continuity and change in sexual attitudes: A cross-time comparison of tolerance towards non-traditional relationships
This article explores how attitudes towards different types of sexual relationships have changed over time. Data from the National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (1990, 2000 and 2010) are used to investigate whether people living in Britain have become more (or less) tolerant of one night stands, same-sex relationships and extra-marital relations, and whether any observed changes result from period or cohort effects. While attitudes to…
The regulation of the personal: Individual data use and identity in the UK
The growth in the collection of individual level data and its use as a means of accessing services, tackling crime, informing policy making and marketing products is changing the nature of identity. As more information is collected, each of us leave larger ‘identity footprints’ in a multitude of contexts. Though the streets we live in may be less personally connected, neighbours, colleagues, employers, service providers and the state are all able…
A Case Study of the Impact of Statistical Disclosure Control on Data Quality in the Individual UK Samples of Anonymised Records
Microdata released for public use, such as the Samples of Anonymised Records, Labour Force Survey data, and longitudinal data, such as the Millennium Cohort Study, are subject to statistical disclosure procedures. These measures include data swapping, recoding, postrandomisation, and suppression. Considerable research has been conducted into the extent to which such measures protect respondent anonymity. However, the impact the measures have on t…
Environmental Concern Over Time: Evidence from the Longitudinal Analysis of a British Cohort Study from 1991 to 2008
Objective We examined whether and how levels of environmental concern (EC) changed over time in the United Kingdom, from 1991 to 2008–2009, as well as how EC relates to socioeconomic characteristics across this same timeframe. Methods Using item response theory models on the last three sweeps of the British National Child Development Study 1958, we evaluated a measure of EC. Then, using latent growth curve models (LGCMs) we estimated the pattern …
The Dynamic Risk of Heavy Episodic Drinking on Interpersonal Assault in Young Adolescence and Early Adulthood
This study examines the extent to which variation in violent behaviour can be explained by variation in drinking patterns in late adolescence and early adulthood using panel data of regular drinkers aged between 16 and 29 in England and Wales. Multilevel models explore individuals’ propensity to commit assault controlling for their drinking behaviour. Results suggest that males and younger people are more likely to commit assault offences and tha…
Introduction for Special Section: Attitudes: Ontology, Methodology, Impact
To introduce the special section we offer some reflections on the history of the attitude and its role within the social sciences and sociology in particular. Our central point is that the concept is pervasive in social science, and yet for a disciplinary environment where reflective criticism is the norm and where constructs are constantly questioned, the attitude has had a remarkably easy ride. Part of the issue here is that the attitude was la…
Social Theory or Attitudinal Types: A Case Study of Attitudes towards Relationships
Sociological theories can be viewed as models of (sub)-populations. In this paper we explore the possibility of representing social theories as attitudinal types rather than as descriptions of society at large. To test this idea we investigate the relevance of four different theories of couple relationships to the attitudes of 18 to 30 year olds. Rather than testing these theories via aggregate social trends, we investigate the plausibility of tr…
Which fathers are the most involved in taking care of their toddlers in the UK? An investigation of the predictors of paternal involvement
Economic provisioning continues to be the essence of 'good' fathering, and the work schedules associated with fathers' employment remain a key factor which shapes their involvement in childcare and domestic work at home. However, the relative impact of fathers' and mothers' employment hours on paternal involvement in childcare is unclear, and little is known about the longer-term impact, that is, whether a work arrangement organised when the chil…
Measuring Paternal Involvement in Childcare and Housework
There is currently no quantitative tool for measuring paternal involvement in childcare and housework. To address this, we run Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) on a sample of households from the 2001-02 sweep of the UK's Millennium Cohort Study. Two quantitative measures of paternal involvement in childcare and housework are derived for when the child is aged nine months old, which appear to be isomorphic with two dimensions of Michael Lamb's p…
A Dictionary of Social Research Methods
Over 400 entries This new dictionary offers succinct, clear, expert explanations of key terms from both method and methodology in social research. It covers the whole range of qualitative, quantitative, and other methods, and it ranges from practical techniques like correlation up to methodological approaches such as ethnography. This wide-ranging approach enables it to cover terms needed by every social science discipline along with business and…
Continuity and change in sexual attitudes: A cross-time comparison of tolerance towards non-traditional relationships
This article explores how attitudes towards different types of sexual relationships have changed over time. Data from the National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (1990, 2000 and 2010) are used to investigate whether people living in Britain have become more (or less) tolerant of one night stands, same-sex relationships and extra-marital relations, and whether any observed changes result from period or cohort effects. While attitudes to…
Does Fathers’ Involvement in Childcare and Housework Affect Couples’ Relationship Stability
Objective Building on previous analysis conducted by Schober (2012), we explore how paternal involvement in different childcare and housework tasks affects the probability of relationship breakdown between parents. Methods We use logistic regression on the U.K. Millennium Cohort Study to predict parental relationship breakdown from nine months to seven years post‐childbirth. Paternal involvement in four childcare and three housework tasks during …
Using latent class analysis to produce a typology of environmental concern in the UK
Factor analysis is often used to study environmental concern. This choice of methodology is driven by predominant theories that tie environmental attitudes to the multidimensional construct of environmental concern. This paper demonstrates that using a clustering method such as latent class analysis can be a valuable tool for studying environmental attitudes as they exist within a given population. In making the case for the value of latent class…
Homonegativity in Britain: Changing Attitudes Towards Same-Sex Relationships
Over recent decades, British attitudes towards same-sex relationships have become more accepting. However, results from the National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles show that, in 2010, around a fifth of 16-59-year-olds still viewed sex between two men or two women as 'always wrong'. Using data from each edition of this survey (1990, 2000, 2010), we investigated which individuals are more likely to regard same-sex relationships as wrong …
Automation on Twitter: Measuring the Effectiveness of Approaches to Bot Detection
The effectiveness of approaches to bot detection varies, with real-time detection being almost impossible. As a result, this article argues that the general Twitter using public cannot be expected to judge which accounts are bots with certainty and therefore do not know to what extent they are being manipulated online. In this article, the challenge of detecting bots and fake accounts is demonstrated by constructing two distinct methods to bot de…
Attitudes to climate change risk: Classification of and transitions in the UK population between 2012 and 2020
Strategies for achieving carbon emissions goals presuppose changes in individual behaviour, which can be indirectly nudged by interventions or tailored information but ultimately depend upon individual attitudes. Specifically, the perception that climate change is low risk has been identified as a barrier to participation in climate change adaptation and mitigation efforts. Therefore, understanding public attitudes towards climate change risk is …
Measuring the association between fathers' involvement and risky behaviours in adolescence
Understanding the drivers of adolescent risky behaviour is important given the costs that such behaviours impose on society and young people themselves. Evidence shows that early parent-child relations shape children's development and behaviour, however we know relatively little about the potential causal pathways that lead to risky behaviour and the differential impact of fathers' and mothers' childcare involvement. This study tests whether pate…
Families of children with disabilities: Income poverty, material deprivation, and unpaid care in the UK
Child disability and provision of unpaid care by parents may contribute to a family’s poverty status. In this paper, using data from the Family Resources Survey-2018/19, a sample of 5451 families with dependent children was analysed. Sub-samples were created based on the groups of interest: child disability vs no child disability within the family and unpaid care vs no unpaid care for children with disabilities. Logistic regression models show so…
Mixed Methods Research: Research Methods
In this book, Mertens provides a brief history of the emergence of mixed methods research and numerous examples to illustrate its application in different disciplines and geographic areas. Mixed methods approaches offer researchers an exciting opportunity to explore new combinations of methods in diverse contexts: the design possibilities are endless and can be incorporated in many different approaches. The book presents case studies to illustrat…
Qualitative Interviewing: Research Methods
First published Open Access under a Creative Commons license as What is Qualitative Interviewing?, this title is now also available as part of the Bloomsbury Research Methods series. This book is a step-by-step guide for new and experienced social science researchers looking to use interviews in their projects. Rosalind Edwards and Janet Holland explain a range of interview types and practices, providing real research examples as informative illu…
Why Call It Equality?” Revisited: An Extended Critique of the Eige Gender Equality Index
In this paper, we review the methodology of one of the most comprehensive indices of gender equality, the Gender Equality Index by the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE). Building on Permanyer’s (J Eur Soc Policy, 25(4):414–430, 2015) critical analysis, we offer an extended critique of the EIGE’s current methodology, focusing on four interrelated issues: (a) the lack of transparency around the methodological decisions and the concomita…
Dictionary of Privacy, Data Protection and Information Security
The Dictionary of Privacy, Data Protection and Information Security explains the complex technical terms, legal concepts, privacy management techniques, conceptual matters and vocabulary that inform public debate about privacy.\n \nThe revolutionary and pervasive influence of digital technology affects numerous disciplines and sectors of society, and concerns about its potential threats to privacy are growing. With over a thousand terms meticulou…
McDonaldization and Artificial Intelligence
Vignette Research: Research Methods
Vignette research is an innovative qualitative, narrative and phenomenological research methodology that has gained international recognition, sparking interest from a wide range of individuals and institutions in global contexts. Vignettes are concise narratives, which capture human experiences in real life settings. They reveal surprising or intriguing facets and intangible moments. The experiential narratives resonate with readers and reduce t…
Is personal income associated with attitudes towards climate change risk? A moderated mediation analysis for the UK from 2009 to 2020
This study investigates the effect of personal income on attitudes towards climate change risk, considering the mediator of responsibility attribution (RA) for climate change and the moderator of educational attainment. Using a latent growth curve model applied to data from the UK Household Longitudinal Study dataset from 2009 to 2020, this study indicated that personal income growth heightens the likelihood of expressing concern about climate ch…
How Important Is Early Paternal Engagement? Deriving Longitudinal Measures of Fathers' Childcare Engagement and Exploring Structural Relationships With Prior Engagement and Employment Hours
Paternal childcare engagement is a focus of work-family policy debates yet there is little consensus about what engagement means and how it might be measured. Drawing on Lamb's (1986) classification of paternal involvement, we run confirmatory factor analysis on a sample of two-parent households from the UK's Millennium Cohort Study to derive latent paternal engagement measures at nine months, three, five, seven and eleven years old. Structural E…
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