Deborah Wilson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3605027 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Deborah Wilson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Deborah |
| FAMILY NAME | Wilson |
| SIGNATURE | WILSON D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bristol |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0573-9034 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 438 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
A mixed-methods study protocol on factors contributing to suicide clusters among Native American youth in a northern plains reservation
Introduction: Suicide and suicide clusters within Native American Reservation communities are devastating to the entire community and increase individuals' risk for suicide over the lifespan. The objective of this paper is to describe the Indigenous community-based participatory research protocol implemented in partnership with the Fort Belknap Indian Community in Montana, United States. The study protocol was developed to understand suicide risk…
Decentering governance models: Education policy and school accountability in Post-Devolution Wales
Marketing and School Choice: A Systematic Literature Review
School-choice programs may increase schools' incentives for marketing rather than improving their educational offering. This article systematically reviews the literature on the marketing activities of primary and secondary schools worldwide. The 81 articles reviewed show that schools’ marketing has yet to be tackled by marketing academics or other social scientists outside the education field. Market-oriented U.S. charter schools and their inter…
Feasibility, acceptability and effectiveness of a culturally informed intervention to decrease stress and promote well-being in reservation-based Native American Head Start teachers
Utilizing a culturally based intervention to buffer stress and support the well-being of reservation-based teachers showed promise in helping them recognize their cultural strengths, stress, and need for ongoing support. Implementation outcomes show that intervention scale-out is feasible
Paleoindian Lithic Distribution in the New England-Maritimes Region
The archaeological record of fluted-point using Paleoindian groups in the Northeast rarely preserves bone or other perishable material. Paleoindian lithic material distribution in many North American regional analyses has been interpreted in the context of two separate explanatory hypotheses. An integral feature of a logistically-organized subsistence strategy that is followed in areas where resources are temporally dispersed involves a caching o…
Wakȟáŋyeža (Little Holy One) - an intergenerational intervention for Native American parents and children: A protocol for a randomized controlled trial with embedded single-case experimental design
ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT04201184 . Registered 11 December 2019
Political partisanship and stigma against people who use drugs in opinions about allocating Covid-19 prevention resources to vulnerable populations
School choice and the city: Geographies of allocation and segregation
Urban research has increasingly acknowledged the significance of the social and spatial composition of schools in the broader socio-spatial dynamics of cities overall. With increasingly marketised education systems, parental choice of school is a key mechanism affecting wider urban processes such as gentrification. Most research into school choice in cities concentrates on the dynamics of choice (how and what parents say they choose). Fewer studi…
School Choice in London and Paris – A Comparison of Middle‐class Strategies
Education is one major public service in which quasi‐markets and other choice‐based mechanisms are now established methods of delivery. The types of school people choose, and the extent to which their choices are realized, have a fundamental impact on the outcomes of any mechanism of school choice. In this article, we provide a comparative analysis of the school choice strategies of middle‐class families in L ondon and P aris. We draw on approxim…
What Parents Want: School Preferences and School Choice
We investigate parents' preferences for school attributes in a unique data set of survey, administrative, census and spatial data. Using a conditional logit, incorporating characteristics of households, schools and home–school distance, we show that most families have strong preferences for schools' academic performance. Parents also value schools' socio‐economic composition and distance, which may limit the potential of school choice to improve …
Towards an interactive sociological rational choice approach to theorising class dimensions of school choice
Understanding how different groups of users make choices is central to explaining the outcomes of choice-based mechanisms such as those observed in education systems across different national contexts. We discuss two established perspectives employed to explain decision-making in relation to class and education, and develop an argument for the superior explanatory potential of an elaborated, interactive, sociological rational choice perspective. …
Women, marriage and property in wealthy landed families in Ireland, 1750–1850
Until recently, women featured in the historiography of the landed class in Ireland either as bearers of assets to advantageous matches or as potential drains on family estates as a result of long widowhoods. Drawing on a range of sources from the papers of landed families, including settlements, wills and personal correspondence, this book challenges established notions and provides fresh insight into the place of these women. It seeks to contri…
Modeling Individual Vulnerability to Communicable Diseases: A Framework and Design
Reports on dangerous communicable diseases, such as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and H1N1 flu, have repeatedly stressed the importance of individuals in disease transmission. Still in its infancy, individual-based modeling faces many challenges. From the perspective of modeling approaches, this article explores (1) the framework of a three-population (daytime, nighttime, and pastime population) and two-scale (local and societal scale)…
Parental choice of primary school in England: What types of school do different types of family really have available to them
This article focuses on the constraints on parental choice of school caused by geographical location, which arise due to the reliance on geographical proximity as the key oversubscription criterion for allocating school places. We investigate the assumption that most families really can choose between a range of different schools, and ask what types of school are genuinely accessible to different types of pupil. Using an innovative combination of…
Introduction: Evidence from the Comparison of Public Service Performance
Systems for assessing the comparative performance of organizations providing public services are increasingly apparent across service sectors and jurisdictions. This article sets out an agenda of research themes about these systems.The themes include the performance concepts and measures adopted, purposes of systems (with variation from information-gathering to incorporation in systems of judgement and decision-making by a range of stakeholders),…
A Study of 279 General Outbreaks of Gastrointestinal Infection in the North-East Region of England
All outbreaks of infectious intestinal disease reported to the authorities were entered on a computer database with outbreak control teams being established to investigate larger or more significant incidents. The outbreak database and, when set up, the notes of outbreak team meetings were examined for the 279 outbreaks reported in a three-year period (2003-2005). Faeces specimens submitted as part of an outbreak were examined for microbial patho…
The dynamics of school attainment of England’s ethnic minorities
Exit, Voice and Quality in the English Education Sector
The use of choice as a mechanism to improve public service delivery is now well established in the UK. Current policy discourse additionally considers voice as a further, complementary, user‐driven mechanism. In this article I scrutinize the assumption that choice (exit) and voice complement each other in creating user‐driven incentives to increase quality for all consumers in the context of education. I do this by going back to Hirschman's thesi…
Women, Marriage and Property in Wealthy Landed Families in Ireland, 1750-1850
Until recently, women featured in the historiography of the landed class in Ireland either as bearers of assets to advantageous matches or as potential drains on family estates as a result of long widowhoods. Drawing on a range of sources from the papers of landed families, including settlements, wills and personal correspondence, this book challenges established notions and provides fresh insight into the place of these women. It seeks to contri…
The transition of pupils from primary to secondary school in England
This paper examines the transitions from primary to secondary school for a contemporary cohort of children moving between state schools in England. It uses data on over 12 000 primary schools, over 2000 secondary schools and around 400 000 pupils. The results suggest that the experiences of poor pupils at age 11 may be quite different, on average, to their non‐poor peers’. Poor pupils’ primary peer groups are more fractured at the age of 11 and t…
The Impact of School Choice in England: Implications from the economic evidence
The British government has placed the extension of school choice at the centre of its education reform programme for its third term in office. Those promoting choice make an appeal to a simple economic argument. Competitive pressure helps make private firms more efficient and consumer choice acts as a major drive for efficiency. Giving parents the ability to choose applies competitive pressure to schools and, analogously with private markets, it …
Sleep‐walking towards segregation’? The changing ethnic composition of English schools, 1997–2003: An entry cohort analysis
There has been considerable public debate recently in England regarding levels of segregation (and changes in those levels) not only by neighbourhood but also in schools. Few data are available to evaluate claims that such segregation has been increasing in the country's schools, however. This paper uses a data set released by the Department for Education and Skills which indicates the ethnic identity for every student in the entry cohorts for al…
Ethnic Segregation and Educational Performance at Secondary School in Bradford and Leicester
Evidence suggests considerable variation among British ethnic groups in their performance at different stages of their educational careers. Many members of those groups are concentrated in particular parts of certain cities, and as a consequence many attend ethnically segregated schools. Using pupil-level and school-level data from the Pupil Level Annual School Census in England, we explore the relationship between performance and various student…
What Gets Measured Gets Done”: Headteachers’ responses to the English Secondary School Performance Management System1 According to Belh (2003, p. 599), “what gets measured done” is perhaps the most fa…
English secondary schools operate within a performance management system, which includes league tables reporting school performance across a number of indicators. This article reports the results of an interview-based study, showing that head teachers care about their school's place in the league tables, and that they believe this system affects behaviour. The effects they identify include some unintended consequences, not necessarily related to …
School and Residential Ethnic Segregation: An Analysis of Variations across England's Local Education Authorities
Johnston R., Burgess S., Wilson D. and Harris R. (2006) School and residential ethnic segregation: an analysis of variations across England's Local Education Authorities, Regional Studies 40, 973–990. Schools are central to the goals of a multicultural society, but their ability to act as arenas within which meaningful intercultural interactions take place depends on the degree to which students from various cultural backgrounds meet there. Using…
Parallel Lives? Ethnic Segregation in Schools and Neighbourhoods
The paper provides evidence on the extent of ethnic segregation experienced by children across secondary schools and neighbourhoods (wards). Using 2001 Schools Census and Population Census data, indices of dissimilarity and isolation are employed to compare patterns of segregation across nine ethnic groups, and across Local Education Authorities in England. Looking at both schools and neighbourhoods, high levels of segregation are found for the d…
What Parents Want: School Preferences and School Choice
We investigate parents' preferences for school attributes in a unique data set of survey, administrative, census and spatial data. Using a conditional logit, incorporating characteristics of households, schools and home–school distance, we show that most families have strong preferences for schools' academic performance. Parents also value schools' socio‐economic composition and distance, which may limit the potential of school choice to improve …
Ethnic segregation in England's schools
We document ethnic segregation in secondary schools in England in 2001 in order to contribute to the debate on the degree of ethnic group social integration. We use indices of dissimilarity and isolation to compare the patterns of segregation across nine ethnic groups. We find that levels of ethnic segregation in England's schools are high, with considerable variation both across LEAs and across different minority ethnic groups. By combining the …
School and Residential Ethnic Segregation: An Analysis of Variations across England's Local Education Authorities
Johnston R., Burgess S., Wilson D. and Harris R. (2006) School and residential ethnic segregation: an analysis of variations across England's Local Education Authorities, Regional Studies 40, 973–990. Schools are central to the goals of a multicultural society, but their ability to act as arenas within which meaningful intercultural interactions take place depends on the degree to which students from various cultural backgrounds meet there. Using…
School Segregation in Multiethnic England
Aspects of both educational development and multicultural interrelationships are frequently related to school ethnic composition, with arguments that ethnically segregated schools both retard the development of multiethnic understanding and influence educational performance. In this article we employ data on their ethnic composition to portray the extent of segregation in English secondary schools in 2001, using a novel graphical method to explor…
Parental choice of primary school in England: What types of school do different types of family really have available to them
This article focuses on the constraints on parental choice of school caused by geographical location, which arise due to the reliance on geographical proximity as the key oversubscription criterion for allocating school places. We investigate the assumption that most families really can choose between a range of different schools, and ask what types of school are genuinely accessible to different types of pupil. Using an innovative combination of…
School choice and the city: Geographies of allocation and segregation
Urban research has increasingly acknowledged the significance of the social and spatial composition of schools in the broader socio-spatial dynamics of cities overall. With increasingly marketised education systems, parental choice of school is a key mechanism affecting wider urban processes such as gentrification. Most research into school choice in cities concentrates on the dynamics of choice (how and what parents say they choose). Fewer studi…
School Choice in London and Paris – A Comparison of Middle‐class Strategies
Education is one major public service in which quasi‐markets and other choice‐based mechanisms are now established methods of delivery. The types of school people choose, and the extent to which their choices are realized, have a fundamental impact on the outcomes of any mechanism of school choice. In this article, we provide a comparative analysis of the school choice strategies of middle‐class families in L ondon and P aris. We draw on approxim…
Sleep‐walking towards segregation’? The changing ethnic composition of English schools, 1997–2003: An entry cohort analysis
There has been considerable public debate recently in England regarding levels of segregation (and changes in those levels) not only by neighbourhood but also in schools. Few data are available to evaluate claims that such segregation has been increasing in the country's schools, however. This paper uses a data set released by the Department for Education and Skills which indicates the ethnic identity for every student in the entry cohorts for al…
Extending Choice in English Health Care: The Implications of the Economic Evidence
Extending choice in health care is currently popular among English, and other, politicians. Those promoting choice make an appeal to a simple economic argument. Competitive pressure helps make private firms more efficient and consumer choice acts as a major driver for efficiency. Giving service users the ability to choose applies competitive pressure to health care providers and, analogously with private markets, they will raise their game to att…
What Gets Measured Gets Done”: Headteachers’ responses to the English Secondary School Performance Management System1 According to Belh (2003, p. 599), “what gets measured done” is perhaps the most fa…
English secondary schools operate within a performance management system, which includes league tables reporting school performance across a number of indicators. This article reports the results of an interview-based study, showing that head teachers care about their school's place in the league tables, and that they believe this system affects behaviour. The effects they identify include some unintended consequences, not necessarily related to …
England's Multiethnic Educational System? A Classification of Secondary Schools
As British society has become increasingly multiethnic and multicultural, debate has grown regarding the advantages and disadvantages of ethnically segregated schools, with regard both to educational achievement and to multicultural accommodation. Compared with issues regarding the class composition of schools, however, little work has been done on the degree of ethnic segregation in schools, let alone its impact. The authors use a recently devel…
Modeling Individual Vulnerability to Communicable Diseases: A Framework and Design
Reports on dangerous communicable diseases, such as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and H1N1 flu, have repeatedly stressed the importance of individuals in disease transmission. Still in its infancy, individual-based modeling faces many challenges. From the perspective of modeling approaches, this article explores (1) the framework of a three-population (daytime, nighttime, and pastime population) and two-scale (local and societal scale)…
The dynamics of school attainment of England’s ethnic minorities
The Impact of School Choice in England: Implications from the economic evidence
The British government has placed the extension of school choice at the centre of its education reform programme for its third term in office. Those promoting choice make an appeal to a simple economic argument. Competitive pressure helps make private firms more efficient and consumer choice acts as a major drive for efficiency. Giving parents the ability to choose applies competitive pressure to schools and, analogously with private markets, it …
Towards an interactive sociological rational choice approach to theorising class dimensions of school choice
Understanding how different groups of users make choices is central to explaining the outcomes of choice-based mechanisms such as those observed in education systems across different national contexts. We discuss two established perspectives employed to explain decision-making in relation to class and education, and develop an argument for the superior explanatory potential of an elaborated, interactive, sociological rational choice perspective. …
The transition of pupils from primary to secondary school in England
This paper examines the transitions from primary to secondary school for a contemporary cohort of children moving between state schools in England. It uses data on over 12 000 primary schools, over 2000 secondary schools and around 400 000 pupils. The results suggest that the experiences of poor pupils at age 11 may be quite different, on average, to their non‐poor peers’. Poor pupils’ primary peer groups are more fractured at the age of 11 and t…
Ethnic Segregation and Educational Performance at Secondary School in Bradford and Leicester
Evidence suggests considerable variation among British ethnic groups in their performance at different stages of their educational careers. Many members of those groups are concentrated in particular parts of certain cities, and as a consequence many attend ethnically segregated schools. Using pupil-level and school-level data from the Pupil Level Annual School Census in England, we explore the relationship between performance and various student…
Introduction: Evidence from the Comparison of Public Service Performance
Systems for assessing the comparative performance of organizations providing public services are increasingly apparent across service sectors and jurisdictions. This article sets out an agenda of research themes about these systems.The themes include the performance concepts and measures adopted, purposes of systems (with variation from information-gathering to incorporation in systems of judgement and decision-making by a range of stakeholders),…
Women, Marriage and Property in Wealthy Landed Families in Ireland, 1750-1850
Until recently, women featured in the historiography of the landed class in Ireland either as bearers of assets to advantageous matches or as potential drains on family estates as a result of long widowhoods. Drawing on a range of sources from the papers of landed families, including settlements, wills and personal correspondence, this book challenges established notions and provides fresh insight into the place of these women. It seeks to contri…
Exit, Voice and Quality in the English Education Sector
The use of choice as a mechanism to improve public service delivery is now well established in the UK. Current policy discourse additionally considers voice as a further, complementary, user‐driven mechanism. In this article I scrutinize the assumption that choice (exit) and voice complement each other in creating user‐driven incentives to increase quality for all consumers in the context of education. I do this by going back to Hirschman's thesi…
Girls Rock, Boys Roll: An Analysis of the Age 14–16 Gender Gap in English Schools
We investigate possible explanations for the educational gender gap at age 16. We employ a national dataset of matched exam results of the cohort of pupils who took Key Stage 3 tests in 1999 and GCSEs in 2001. Our key result is the sheer consistency of the gender gap, across both the attainment and the ability distribution, with regard to both raw outcomes and value added. It is primarily driven by performance differentials in English. The genera…
Student Ratings of Instruction: Student and Instructor Sex Interactions
Of important practical concern to anyone who needs to interpret student ratings of instruction are any factors that might bias the data. The present study investigates sex bias by examining student-instructor sex interactions, that is, whether male or female students give higher ratings to the same male or female instructors. The data suggest that biasing sex interactions do not typically occur but may occur in particular situations
Student Ratings of Instruction: Student and Instructor Sex Interactions
Of important practical concern to anyone who needs to interpret student ratings of instruction are any factors that might bias the data. The present study investigates sex bias by examining student-instructor sex interactions, that is, whether male or female students give higher ratings to the same male or female instructors. The data suggest that biasing sex interactions do not typically occur but may occur in particular situations
Virginia Woolf: Feminist Destinations
The Christ-Haunted Landscape: Faith and Doubt in Southern Fiction
Here are Susan Ketchin's discerning interviews with twelve southerners living and writing in the South, and along with a piece of fiction by each are her penetrating commentaries about the impact of southern religious experience on their work. A little more than a generation ago Flannery O'Connor made a startling observation about herself and her fellow southerners: By and large, she said, people in the South still conceive of humanity in theolog…
Girls Rock, Boys Roll: An Analysis of the Age 14–16 Gender Gap in English Schools
We investigate possible explanations for the educational gender gap at age 16. We employ a national dataset of matched exam results of the cohort of pupils who took Key Stage 3 tests in 1999 and GCSEs in 2001. Our key result is the sheer consistency of the gender gap, across both the attainment and the ability distribution, with regard to both raw outcomes and value added. It is primarily driven by performance differentials in English. The genera…
School Segregation in Multiethnic England
Aspects of both educational development and multicultural interrelationships are frequently related to school ethnic composition, with arguments that ethnically segregated schools both retard the development of multiethnic understanding and influence educational performance. In this article we employ data on their ethnic composition to portray the extent of segregation in English secondary schools in 2001, using a novel graphical method to explor…
Women, Marriage and Property in Wealthy Landed Families in Ireland, 1750–1850: Ph.D. Thesis, Queen's University, Belfast, 2004
Restricted accessAbstractFirst published July 2005Women, Marriage and Property in Wealthy Landed Families in Ireland, 1750–1850: Ph.D. Thesis, Queen's University, Belfast, 2004Deborah WilsonView all authors and affiliationsVolume 32, Issue 1https://doi.org/10.1177/033248930503200108
Ethnic segregation in England's schools
We document ethnic segregation in secondary schools in England in 2001 in order to contribute to the debate on the degree of ethnic group social integration. We use indices of dissimilarity and isolation to compare the patterns of segregation across nine ethnic groups. We find that levels of ethnic segregation in England's schools are high, with considerable variation both across LEAs and across different minority ethnic groups. By combining the …
Parallel Lives? Ethnic Segregation in Schools and Neighbourhoods
The paper provides evidence on the extent of ethnic segregation experienced by children across secondary schools and neighbourhoods (wards). Using 2001 Schools Census and Population Census data, indices of dissimilarity and isolation are employed to compare patterns of segregation across nine ethnic groups, and across Local Education Authorities in England. Looking at both schools and neighbourhoods, high levels of segregation are found for the d…
England's Multiethnic Educational System? A Classification of Secondary Schools
As British society has become increasingly multiethnic and multicultural, debate has grown regarding the advantages and disadvantages of ethnically segregated schools, with regard both to educational achievement and to multicultural accommodation. Compared with issues regarding the class composition of schools, however, little work has been done on the degree of ethnic segregation in schools, let alone its impact. The authors use a recently devel…
What Gets Measured Gets Done”: Headteachers’ responses to the English Secondary School Performance Management System1 According to Belh (2003, p. 599), “what gets measured done” is perhaps the most fa…
English secondary schools operate within a performance management system, which includes league tables reporting school performance across a number of indicators. This article reports the results of an interview-based study, showing that head teachers care about their school's place in the league tables, and that they believe this system affects behaviour. The effects they identify include some unintended consequences, not necessarily related to …
School and Residential Ethnic Segregation: An Analysis of Variations across England's Local Education Authorities
Johnston R., Burgess S., Wilson D. and Harris R. (2006) School and residential ethnic segregation: an analysis of variations across England's Local Education Authorities, Regional Studies 40, 973–990. Schools are central to the goals of a multicultural society, but their ability to act as arenas within which meaningful intercultural interactions take place depends on the degree to which students from various cultural backgrounds meet there. Using…
Extending Choice in English Health Care: The Implications of the Economic Evidence
Extending choice in health care is currently popular among English, and other, politicians. Those promoting choice make an appeal to a simple economic argument. Competitive pressure helps make private firms more efficient and consumer choice acts as a major driver for efficiency. Giving service users the ability to choose applies competitive pressure to health care providers and, analogously with private markets, they will raise their game to att…
The Impact of School Choice in England: Implications from the economic evidence
The British government has placed the extension of school choice at the centre of its education reform programme for its third term in office. Those promoting choice make an appeal to a simple economic argument. Competitive pressure helps make private firms more efficient and consumer choice acts as a major drive for efficiency. Giving parents the ability to choose applies competitive pressure to schools and, analogously with private markets, it …
Sleep‐walking towards segregation’? The changing ethnic composition of English schools, 1997–2003: An entry cohort analysis
There has been considerable public debate recently in England regarding levels of segregation (and changes in those levels) not only by neighbourhood but also in schools. Few data are available to evaluate claims that such segregation has been increasing in the country's schools, however. This paper uses a data set released by the Department for Education and Skills which indicates the ethnic identity for every student in the entry cohorts for al…
Ethnic Segregation and Educational Performance at Secondary School in Bradford and Leicester
Evidence suggests considerable variation among British ethnic groups in their performance at different stages of their educational careers. Many members of those groups are concentrated in particular parts of certain cities, and as a consequence many attend ethnically segregated schools. Using pupil-level and school-level data from the Pupil Level Annual School Census in England, we explore the relationship between performance and various student…
The transition of pupils from primary to secondary school in England
This paper examines the transitions from primary to secondary school for a contemporary cohort of children moving between state schools in England. It uses data on over 12 000 primary schools, over 2000 secondary schools and around 400 000 pupils. The results suggest that the experiences of poor pupils at age 11 may be quite different, on average, to their non‐poor peers’. Poor pupils’ primary peer groups are more fractured at the age of 11 and t…
A Study of 279 General Outbreaks of Gastrointestinal Infection in the North-East Region of England
All outbreaks of infectious intestinal disease reported to the authorities were entered on a computer database with outbreak control teams being established to investigate larger or more significant incidents. The outbreak database and, when set up, the notes of outbreak team meetings were examined for the 279 outbreaks reported in a three-year period (2003-2005). Faeces specimens submitted as part of an outbreak were examined for microbial patho…
The dynamics of school attainment of England’s ethnic minorities
Exit, Voice and Quality in the English Education Sector
The use of choice as a mechanism to improve public service delivery is now well established in the UK. Current policy discourse additionally considers voice as a further, complementary, user‐driven mechanism. In this article I scrutinize the assumption that choice (exit) and voice complement each other in creating user‐driven incentives to increase quality for all consumers in the context of education. I do this by going back to Hirschman's thesi…
Women, Marriage and Property in Wealthy Landed Families in Ireland, 1750-1850
Until recently, women featured in the historiography of the landed class in Ireland either as bearers of assets to advantageous matches or as potential drains on family estates as a result of long widowhoods. Drawing on a range of sources from the papers of landed families, including settlements, wills and personal correspondence, this book challenges established notions and provides fresh insight into the place of these women. It seeks to contri…
Introduction: Evidence from the Comparison of Public Service Performance
Systems for assessing the comparative performance of organizations providing public services are increasingly apparent across service sectors and jurisdictions. This article sets out an agenda of research themes about these systems.The themes include the performance concepts and measures adopted, purposes of systems (with variation from information-gathering to incorporation in systems of judgement and decision-making by a range of stakeholders),…
Parental choice of primary school in England: What types of school do different types of family really have available to them
This article focuses on the constraints on parental choice of school caused by geographical location, which arise due to the reliance on geographical proximity as the key oversubscription criterion for allocating school places. We investigate the assumption that most families really can choose between a range of different schools, and ask what types of school are genuinely accessible to different types of pupil. Using an innovative combination of…
Modeling Individual Vulnerability to Communicable Diseases: A Framework and Design
Reports on dangerous communicable diseases, such as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and H1N1 flu, have repeatedly stressed the importance of individuals in disease transmission. Still in its infancy, individual-based modeling faces many challenges. From the perspective of modeling approaches, this article explores (1) the framework of a three-population (daytime, nighttime, and pastime population) and two-scale (local and societal scale)…
Women, marriage and property in wealthy landed families in Ireland, 1750–1850
Until recently, women featured in the historiography of the landed class in Ireland either as bearers of assets to advantageous matches or as potential drains on family estates as a result of long widowhoods. Drawing on a range of sources from the papers of landed families, including settlements, wills and personal correspondence, this book challenges established notions and provides fresh insight into the place of these women. It seeks to contri…
School Choice in London and Paris – A Comparison of Middle‐class Strategies
Education is one major public service in which quasi‐markets and other choice‐based mechanisms are now established methods of delivery. The types of school people choose, and the extent to which their choices are realized, have a fundamental impact on the outcomes of any mechanism of school choice. In this article, we provide a comparative analysis of the school choice strategies of middle‐class families in L ondon and P aris. We draw on approxim…
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