Anthony Kelly
Biographic Data
| ID | 3597782 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anthony Kelly |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anthony |
| FAMILY NAME | Kelly |
| SIGNATURE | KELLY A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southampton |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4664-8585 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
On the Interface of Influencers and Antagonists: Conceptualising the Role of Audience Antagonism in the Mediation of Reactionary Politics
This article considers the constitutive role of audience antagonism in the mediation of reactionary politics. Reactionary political influencers are now instrumental in the cultivation of toxic online environments typified by the platforming of racist, misogynistic, and anti-LGBTQIA+ content. As institutional and regulatory frameworks increasingly seek to grapple with the platformised ecosystem within which these influencers operate, the focus of …
“Oh, You Mean… Gay?”: Relational Labour and the Industrial Articulation of Hegemonic Masculinity by Andrew Tate and His Followers
This paper examines how the figures and imaginaries of hegemonic masculinity are co-produced and contested among a reactionary influencer fandom. It assumes an intersectional masculinities approach to the question of how Andrew Tate and his social media audience(s) articulate and mobilise anti-feminist and anti-LGBTQIA+ discourses online. Affective intermediation is proposed as a concept that situates relational labour within the influencer ecosy…
Representativeness and diversity within the teaching profession in England, 2010–2020
The focus of this paper is the ethnic representativeness of the teaching profession in England. The novel methodology does more than simply count how many ethnicities exist, but also takes into account the relative size of the different ethnicities and tracks changes in the diversity of the teaching workforce compared to that of the general population over the ten years between the 2011 and 2021 census. It finds that while the teaching profession…
Recontextualising partisan outrage online: Analysing the public negotiation of Trump support among American conservatives in 2016
This article conceptualises the role of audience agency in the performance of American conservative identities within a hybridised outrage media ecology. Audience agency has been under-theorised in the study of outrage media through an emphasis on outrage as a rhetorical strategy of commercial media institutions. Relatively little has been said about the outrage discourse of audiences. This coincides with a tendency to consider online political t…
The end of the line? A quantitative analysis of two decades of competitive assessment and research funding in UK higher education
The Research Excellence Framework is a high-stakes exercise used by the UK government to allocate billions of pounds of quality-related research (QR) funding and used by the media to rank universities and their departments in national league tables. The 2008, 2014 Times Higher Education (THE). 2014. (Paul Jump) “Check Your Coordinates.” Times Higher Education, December 18–31. Number 2183: 30–77. [Google Scholar] and 2021 assessments were zero-sum…
Managing cultural diversity for collective identity: A case study of an ELT department in Omani higher education
This paper employs a social identity approach to explore the management of a collective organizational culture in a culturally diverse context. Literature suggests that cultural diversity can be an asset for organizations if managed effectively. This study employs a qualitative case-study design, drawn on data generated for a larger project that utilized 16 interviews, eight team meetings’ observations, document analysis and field notes. It instr…
Negative capital: A generalised definition and application to educational effectiveness and equity
The concept of capital has risen in prominence within educational policy and practice in the UK since Ofsted introduced cultural capital into its inspection processes in 2019. At the same time, fractured discourses exist across different types of capital – one of which concerns capitals that are negative in constitution and/or impact. This paper addresses both through: A systematic literature review of these negativities (in social, economic, and…
A tale of two algorithms: The appeal and repeal of calculated grades systems in England and Ireland in 2020
The Covid pandemic and the cancellation of state examinations caused unprecedented turmoil in the education systems on both sides of the Irish Sea. As the policy of calculating grades using purpose‐built algorithms came undone in the face of a barrage of appeal, protest and legal action, the context in which the policies had been devised collapsed. The British and Irish governments had initially adopted similar approaches to issuing examination g…
The practice of choice-making: Applying Bourdieu to the field of international schooling
This paper presents findings from a recent study on choice-making among teachers, school leaders and parents in a for-profit British international school in Kuwait. Using a Bourdieusian field analysis, the choice-making of the various stakeholders is investigated to reveal their positionality within the school’s social space, to examine the resources they hold and the capitals in which they are willing to invest. We find that choices made by, and…
Abnegation, accommodation and affirmation: Three discursive modes for the institutional construction of independence among national news agency executives in Europe
The relationship between the ownership form of news agencies and their independence has long figured centrally in debates about the quality of news agency operations. Drawing on a discursive institutional framework, this article explores how national news agency executives in Europe perform a narrated role in the discursive construction of their organizations’ internal and external independence. We set out the concept of independence discourse, w…
A new composite measure of ethnic diversity: Investigating the controversy over minority ethnic recruitment at Oxford and Cambridge universities
Measuring ethnic diversity currently amounts simply to counting ethnicities. This makes it impossible to correlate with achievement, to track changes over time or to compare institutions in a meaningful way. It is not clear, for example, whether it is more diverse to have many ethnicities with a large majority in one or two categories, or to have fewer ethnicities with a larger proportion in each. This article is not about race per se, but develo…
Funding in English Universities and its relationship to the Research Excellence Framework
The purpose of the Research Excellence Framework ( REF ) is to judge the quality of research in the UK and on that basis to apportion to universities, in a transparent manner, differential shares in the UK 's £1.6 billion pot of research funding. However, the funding process is anything but transparent! While the REF process was known years in advance and remained constant throughout the assessment exercise, the mechanisms for the subsequent awar…
Monopolising the examining board system in England: A theoretical perspective in support of reform
The fiascoes that seem to accompany the annual publication of examination results in England, the subsequent inquiries instituted to ensure they ‘never happen again’ and the Secretary of State’s decision, reversed six months later because of fears about possible EU legal challenges, to ‘end competition between exam boards’ raise some interesting issues about the way Examination Boards (or ‘Awarding Bodies’) operate in what is partly a competitive…
Measuring ‘equity’ and ‘equitability’ in school effectiveness research
This paper introduces a Gini‐type index for measuring ‘attainment equity’ in schools; that is to say, how far a school (or group of schools) is from having a ‘fair’ proportion of its examination success attributable to a fair proportion of its student population. Using data from the National Pupil Database, the Index is applied to more than 20,000 students with matched attainment records at KS2 and KS4 in two ‘statistical‐neighbour’ local authori…
Can Cognitive Neuroscience Ground a Science of Learning
In this article, I review recent findings in cognitive neuroscience in learning, particularly in the learning of mathematics and of reading. I argue that while cognitive neuroscience is in its infancy as a field, theories of learning will need to incorporate and account for this growing body of empirical data
Globalisation and education: A review of conflicting perspectives and their effect on policy and professional practice in the UK
Many disparate groups have written about the effects of globalisation on education. Some have promoted its benefits; others have warned against its ill‐effects. This paper is an attempt at coalescing and juxtaposing the respective arguments as they relate to schooling policy and practice in the UK. The growing international pressures of globalisation affect practitioners in unpredictable and different ways, so the development of national policy i…
In defence of anonymity: Rejoining the criticism
This article is a response to the growing criticisms of the British Educational Research Association (BERA) and Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) ethical guidelines on anonymity and pseudonymity as default positions for participants in qualitative educational research. It discusses and responds to those criticisms under four headings—illusion, impossibility and undesirability, access and quality—and extends the explication of difficulti…
Reflections on the National Mathematics Advisory Panel Final Report
In March 2008, the National Mathematics Advisory Panel final report was released. This report was produced in response to an executive order from President George W. Bush. The report is important because of its subject matter—improving mathematics teaching and learning—its historically significant genesis, and the strong position that the report takes on the primacy of quantitative methods in education research. The author briefly introduces the …
Strengthening Structured Abstracts for Education Research: The Need for Claim-Based Structured Abstracts
Recent policy recommendations involving the putative primacy of randomized clinical trials in educational settings have reignited research paradigm debates. The authors of this article use the vehicle of strengthening structured journal abstracts to point out the argumentative character of all education research claims. They offer suggestions to authors to help inform academic and policy-oriented consumers of research articles about the various l…
The Intellectual Capital of Schools: Measuring and Managing Knowledge, Responsibility and Reward
The intellectual capital of schools: Analysing government policy statements on school improvement in light of a new theorization
Ideology without competence is a dangerous vice. But competence without ideology is a limited virtue." (D. Miliband, Minister of State for School Standards, DfES). Opportunistic attempts have been made by successive governments to establish - some would say impose - sets of criteria against which the effectiveness of not-for-profit organisations like schools can be gauged. Most have been subjective: the extent of staff involvement in decision mak…
Clinical Design Sciences: A View From Sister Design Efforts
In this article the authors argue that the social sciences are clinical-like endeavors, and the sophisticated way that sister fields discover and validate their results may inform research practice in education. The authors provide a brief introduction to three sister fields: engineering product design, research on the diffusion of innovations, and management analysis of institutional change
Theme Issue: The Role of Design in Educational Research
Inspired by the seminal work of Ann Brown, Allan Collins, Roy Pea, and Jan Hawkins, a growing number of researchers have begun to adopt the metaphors and methods of the design and engineering fields. This special issue highlights the work of some of these active researchers and provides a number of commentaries on it
Issues in High-Stakes Testing Programs
The debate over high-stakes testing programs plays out daily in newspapers, on TV, and in the business, education, legal, political, and research communities. This article examines some of the issues at the heart of this debate. Four main areas are covered: the types of tests used, the effects on student motivation and morale, the degree of alignment between the test and the curriculum, and the distinction between assessment of learning and asses…
The importance of materials R&D to the UK and the role of its National Physical Laboratory
The importance of materials R&D to a modern economy, which arises because of the global competition between manufacturers and the essential maturity of all manufacturing industries, is illustrated with direct examples from the semiconductor industry. One result of this R&D is that the consumption of materials per capita decreases as the wealth per capita increases. The development of the materials work at the UK National Physical Laboratory since…
Theme Issue: The Role of Design in Educational Research
Inspired by the seminal work of Ann Brown, Allan Collins, Roy Pea, and Jan Hawkins, a growing number of researchers have begun to adopt the metaphors and methods of the design and engineering fields. This special issue highlights the work of some of these active researchers and provides a number of commentaries on it
In defence of anonymity: Rejoining the criticism
This article is a response to the growing criticisms of the British Educational Research Association (BERA) and Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) ethical guidelines on anonymity and pseudonymity as default positions for participants in qualitative educational research. It discusses and responds to those criticisms under four headings—illusion, impossibility and undesirability, access and quality—and extends the explication of difficulti…
Strengthening Structured Abstracts for Education Research: The Need for Claim-Based Structured Abstracts
Recent policy recommendations involving the putative primacy of randomized clinical trials in educational settings have reignited research paradigm debates. The authors of this article use the vehicle of strengthening structured journal abstracts to point out the argumentative character of all education research claims. They offer suggestions to authors to help inform academic and policy-oriented consumers of research articles about the various l…
Issues in High-Stakes Testing Programs
The debate over high-stakes testing programs plays out daily in newspapers, on TV, and in the business, education, legal, political, and research communities. This article examines some of the issues at the heart of this debate. Four main areas are covered: the types of tests used, the effects on student motivation and morale, the degree of alignment between the test and the curriculum, and the distinction between assessment of learning and asses…
The Changing Cycle of Engineering Materials A Tribute to H. M. Finniston, Materials Scientist and Engineer
In this, the second Finniston Lecture, the growth in the production, usage and disposal of engineering materials is reviewed on a worldwide scale over the period of Sir Monty's lifetime. He worked in all stages of the cycle. The materials treated are steel and the common non-ferrous metals, the bulk plastics (polyethylene, polypropylene, polyvinylchloride, polystyrene) and Portland cement. The total tonnage used is determined by improvement in qu…
A tale of two algorithms: The appeal and repeal of calculated grades systems in England and Ireland in 2020
The Covid pandemic and the cancellation of state examinations caused unprecedented turmoil in the education systems on both sides of the Irish Sea. As the policy of calculating grades using purpose‐built algorithms came undone in the face of a barrage of appeal, protest and legal action, the context in which the policies had been devised collapsed. The British and Irish governments had initially adopted similar approaches to issuing examination g…
Clinical Design Sciences: A View From Sister Design Efforts
In this article the authors argue that the social sciences are clinical-like endeavors, and the sophisticated way that sister fields discover and validate their results may inform research practice in education. The authors provide a brief introduction to three sister fields: engineering product design, research on the diffusion of innovations, and management analysis of institutional change
Funding in English Universities and its relationship to the Research Excellence Framework
The purpose of the Research Excellence Framework ( REF ) is to judge the quality of research in the UK and on that basis to apportion to universities, in a transparent manner, differential shares in the UK 's £1.6 billion pot of research funding. However, the funding process is anything but transparent! While the REF process was known years in advance and remained constant throughout the assessment exercise, the mechanisms for the subsequent awar…
Measuring ‘equity’ and ‘equitability’ in school effectiveness research
This paper introduces a Gini‐type index for measuring ‘attainment equity’ in schools; that is to say, how far a school (or group of schools) is from having a ‘fair’ proportion of its examination success attributable to a fair proportion of its student population. Using data from the National Pupil Database, the Index is applied to more than 20,000 students with matched attainment records at KS2 and KS4 in two ‘statistical‐neighbour’ local authori…
Can Cognitive Neuroscience Ground a Science of Learning
In this article, I review recent findings in cognitive neuroscience in learning, particularly in the learning of mathematics and of reading. I argue that while cognitive neuroscience is in its infancy as a field, theories of learning will need to incorporate and account for this growing body of empirical data
The intellectual capital of schools: Analysing government policy statements on school improvement in light of a new theorization
Ideology without competence is a dangerous vice. But competence without ideology is a limited virtue." (D. Miliband, Minister of State for School Standards, DfES). Opportunistic attempts have been made by successive governments to establish - some would say impose - sets of criteria against which the effectiveness of not-for-profit organisations like schools can be gauged. Most have been subjective: the extent of staff involvement in decision mak…
A new composite measure of ethnic diversity: Investigating the controversy over minority ethnic recruitment at Oxford and Cambridge universities
Measuring ethnic diversity currently amounts simply to counting ethnicities. This makes it impossible to correlate with achievement, to track changes over time or to compare institutions in a meaningful way. It is not clear, for example, whether it is more diverse to have many ethnicities with a large majority in one or two categories, or to have fewer ethnicities with a larger proportion in each. This article is not about race per se, but develo…
The Contribution to the Work of Fracture of a Composite Material of “Pull-Out” of Fibers
The Changing Cycle of Engineering Materials A Tribute to H. M. Finniston, Materials Scientist and Engineer
The Changing Cycle of Engineering Materials A Tribute to H. M. Finniston, Materials Scientist and Engineer
In this, the second Finniston Lecture, the growth in the production, usage and disposal of engineering materials is reviewed on a worldwide scale over the period of Sir Monty's lifetime. He worked in all stages of the cycle. The materials treated are steel and the common non-ferrous metals, the bulk plastics (polyethylene, polypropylene, polyvinylchloride, polystyrene) and Portland cement. The total tonnage used is determined by improvement in qu…
Materials: Handmaid and master of all engineering
In his Presidential Address to the 1996 AGM of The Institute of Materials the author argues that materials science should be recognised as the foundation on which the other engineering disciplines stand. Without advances in materials, many of the technological breakthroughs in industry sectors as diverse as electronics and aerospace could not have happened. Advances in materials science itself, however, are only possible if we have access to accu…
Materials science – why so fashionable
Materials science – why so fashionable
Fibre composites: The weave of history
Alan Windle, Head of the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy at Cambridge, writes : This paper was delivered by Tony Kelly to mark the opening of the Gordon Laboratory for Composite Research, a joint venture at Cambridge of DERA and the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy. The large audience included the Chief Executive of DERA, the Vice Chancellor of the University, and a number of distinguished visitors many of whom had pl…
The importance of materials R&D to the UK and the role of its National Physical Laboratory
The importance of materials R&D to a modern economy, which arises because of the global competition between manufacturers and the essential maturity of all manufacturing industries, is illustrated with direct examples from the semiconductor industry. One result of this R&D is that the consumption of materials per capita decreases as the wealth per capita increases. The development of the materials work at the UK National Physical Laboratory since…
Clinical Design Sciences: A View From Sister Design Efforts
In this article the authors argue that the social sciences are clinical-like endeavors, and the sophisticated way that sister fields discover and validate their results may inform research practice in education. The authors provide a brief introduction to three sister fields: engineering product design, research on the diffusion of innovations, and management analysis of institutional change
Theme Issue: The Role of Design in Educational Research
Inspired by the seminal work of Ann Brown, Allan Collins, Roy Pea, and Jan Hawkins, a growing number of researchers have begun to adopt the metaphors and methods of the design and engineering fields. This special issue highlights the work of some of these active researchers and provides a number of commentaries on it
Issues in High-Stakes Testing Programs
The debate over high-stakes testing programs plays out daily in newspapers, on TV, and in the business, education, legal, political, and research communities. This article examines some of the issues at the heart of this debate. Four main areas are covered: the types of tests used, the effects on student motivation and morale, the degree of alignment between the test and the curriculum, and the distinction between assessment of learning and asses…
The Intellectual Capital of Schools: Measuring and Managing Knowledge, Responsibility and Reward
The intellectual capital of schools: Analysing government policy statements on school improvement in light of a new theorization
Ideology without competence is a dangerous vice. But competence without ideology is a limited virtue." (D. Miliband, Minister of State for School Standards, DfES). Opportunistic attempts have been made by successive governments to establish - some would say impose - sets of criteria against which the effectiveness of not-for-profit organisations like schools can be gauged. Most have been subjective: the extent of staff involvement in decision mak…
Strengthening Structured Abstracts for Education Research: The Need for Claim-Based Structured Abstracts
Recent policy recommendations involving the putative primacy of randomized clinical trials in educational settings have reignited research paradigm debates. The authors of this article use the vehicle of strengthening structured journal abstracts to point out the argumentative character of all education research claims. They offer suggestions to authors to help inform academic and policy-oriented consumers of research articles about the various l…
Reflections on the National Mathematics Advisory Panel Final Report
In March 2008, the National Mathematics Advisory Panel final report was released. This report was produced in response to an executive order from President George W. Bush. The report is important because of its subject matter—improving mathematics teaching and learning—its historically significant genesis, and the strong position that the report takes on the primacy of quantitative methods in education research. The author briefly introduces the …
Globalisation and education: A review of conflicting perspectives and their effect on policy and professional practice in the UK
Many disparate groups have written about the effects of globalisation on education. Some have promoted its benefits; others have warned against its ill‐effects. This paper is an attempt at coalescing and juxtaposing the respective arguments as they relate to schooling policy and practice in the UK. The growing international pressures of globalisation affect practitioners in unpredictable and different ways, so the development of national policy i…
In defence of anonymity: Rejoining the criticism
This article is a response to the growing criticisms of the British Educational Research Association (BERA) and Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) ethical guidelines on anonymity and pseudonymity as default positions for participants in qualitative educational research. It discusses and responds to those criticisms under four headings—illusion, impossibility and undesirability, access and quality—and extends the explication of difficulti…
Can Cognitive Neuroscience Ground a Science of Learning
In this article, I review recent findings in cognitive neuroscience in learning, particularly in the learning of mathematics and of reading. I argue that while cognitive neuroscience is in its infancy as a field, theories of learning will need to incorporate and account for this growing body of empirical data
Measuring ‘equity’ and ‘equitability’ in school effectiveness research
This paper introduces a Gini‐type index for measuring ‘attainment equity’ in schools; that is to say, how far a school (or group of schools) is from having a ‘fair’ proportion of its examination success attributable to a fair proportion of its student population. Using data from the National Pupil Database, the Index is applied to more than 20,000 students with matched attainment records at KS2 and KS4 in two ‘statistical‐neighbour’ local authori…
Monopolising the examining board system in England: A theoretical perspective in support of reform
The fiascoes that seem to accompany the annual publication of examination results in England, the subsequent inquiries instituted to ensure they ‘never happen again’ and the Secretary of State’s decision, reversed six months later because of fears about possible EU legal challenges, to ‘end competition between exam boards’ raise some interesting issues about the way Examination Boards (or ‘Awarding Bodies’) operate in what is partly a competitive…
Funding in English Universities and its relationship to the Research Excellence Framework
The purpose of the Research Excellence Framework ( REF ) is to judge the quality of research in the UK and on that basis to apportion to universities, in a transparent manner, differential shares in the UK 's £1.6 billion pot of research funding. However, the funding process is anything but transparent! While the REF process was known years in advance and remained constant throughout the assessment exercise, the mechanisms for the subsequent awar…
A new composite measure of ethnic diversity: Investigating the controversy over minority ethnic recruitment at Oxford and Cambridge universities
Measuring ethnic diversity currently amounts simply to counting ethnicities. This makes it impossible to correlate with achievement, to track changes over time or to compare institutions in a meaningful way. It is not clear, for example, whether it is more diverse to have many ethnicities with a large majority in one or two categories, or to have fewer ethnicities with a larger proportion in each. This article is not about race per se, but develo…
The practice of choice-making: Applying Bourdieu to the field of international schooling
This paper presents findings from a recent study on choice-making among teachers, school leaders and parents in a for-profit British international school in Kuwait. Using a Bourdieusian field analysis, the choice-making of the various stakeholders is investigated to reveal their positionality within the school’s social space, to examine the resources they hold and the capitals in which they are willing to invest. We find that choices made by, and…
Abnegation, accommodation and affirmation: Three discursive modes for the institutional construction of independence among national news agency executives in Europe
The relationship between the ownership form of news agencies and their independence has long figured centrally in debates about the quality of news agency operations. Drawing on a discursive institutional framework, this article explores how national news agency executives in Europe perform a narrated role in the discursive construction of their organizations’ internal and external independence. We set out the concept of independence discourse, w…
Managing cultural diversity for collective identity: A case study of an ELT department in Omani higher education
This paper employs a social identity approach to explore the management of a collective organizational culture in a culturally diverse context. Literature suggests that cultural diversity can be an asset for organizations if managed effectively. This study employs a qualitative case-study design, drawn on data generated for a larger project that utilized 16 interviews, eight team meetings’ observations, document analysis and field notes. It instr…
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