Christopher Chapman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3609607 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Chapman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Chapman |
| SIGNATURE | CHAPMAN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Glasgow Glasgow UK |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0877-4778 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Educational networks as catalysts for cultural change
This paper draws on evidence and insights from attempts to build Networked Learning Systems (NLS) over a seven-year period in Scotland and Chile. The paper examines how both systems seek to leverage the middle tier and illuminate the possibilities and pitfalls associated with initiating and sustaining school-to-school improvement networks in diverse international cultural and policy contexts. Drawing on socio-cultural theory (Douglas, 1982), whic…
Cardiac responses to daily threats and challenges during wakefulness and sleep
This research examines cardiovascular response to everyday threats and challenges during wakefulness and sleep. Approximately 11,000 people, who comprised a diverse sample ethnically but not socioeconomically, completed three weekly morning and evening surveys in which they indicated whether they expected and experienced threats and challenges that day. Participants also provided measures of blood pressure on morning surveys and provided measures…
A causeway to impact
Over recent decades there has been growing interest in amplifying children and young people's views (CYP) within policy debates. Despite this, they are rarely invited to participate in key policy‐making discussions, and when they are, this tends to be tokenistic. This paper presents an intergenerational methodological framework ‘The Causeway Approach’, inspired by the mythology of the Giant's Causeway, which addresses the challenge of CYP's voice…
Leading professional networks
No abstract available
Affinity through Vulnerability
Child welfare is a challenging space for professionals, parents, and most of all children. The labour of care within this space is an intersection of personal histories and ongoing narratives that synthesise self, family, medicine, and the state. I explore how encounters with children in care brought me into this nexus and redefined my position as a researcher. Competing perspectives on the role of experience in shaping affinity reveal a contenti…
Educational Equity
Focusing on what can be done to promote equity within education systems, what the barriers to progress are and how these barriers might be overcome, this book provides detailed examples of strategies that have proved to be effective in addressing this challenge. Built on the work of the authors over the last three decades, the book presents an approach to educational change that will be relevant to different countries. The authors argue that ther…
Using research to promote equity within education systems
This article provides an evaluative account of its authors’ involvement in three major national improvement initiatives. Set in the context of three of the countries that make up the UK, these developments were focused in particular on the promotion of educational equity. Unusually, the analysis provided compares evidence collected from an insider perspective with data generated through independent evaluations. In so doing, it considers how resea…
Use of force in minority communities is related to police education, age, experience, and ethnicity
Some experts argue that better-educated police may use less force, but research has been equivocal. In three mainly-minority US cities, 511 officers reported their use of force, acceptance of others’ force use, age, experience, ethnicity, and education. Among patrol officers only, education predicted less frequent force and lower levels of force use. Across all duties, including patrol officers, detectives and other, younger officers used more fo…
Colorectal Cancer Screening Among Chinese American Immigrants
Improving Schools in Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Areas ? A Review of Research Evidence
Schools in difficult and challenging circumstances have received increasing policy and to some extent research attention in recent years. Improving schools in these circumstances is likely to prove a difficult process. This literature review has attempted to collect research on improving schools in these areas. Themes emerging from the literature include: a focus on teaching and learning, leadership, creating an information-rich environment, crea…
Improving Schools in Difficult Contexts
This article focuses on ‘improving’ schools in difficult or disadvantaged contexts. It explores the contemporary policy discourse and intervention strategies aimed at improving schools in such circumstances. It argues that contemporary approaches to improvement are unlikely to succeed because the approaches adopted are not sufficiently differentiated or context specific. Drawing on two recent empirical studies, the article offers an alternative p…
A proposal to adopt the centesimal system of angles, geographical coordinates and time and a rational calendar
Additional informationNotes on contributorsC. M. ChapmanMr C. M. Chapman is a retired surveyor who has worked in Australia and in other parts of the Pacific
Improving Schools in Difficult Contexts
This article focuses on ‘improving’ schools in difficult or disadvantaged contexts. It explores the contemporary policy discourse and intervention strategies aimed at improving schools in such circumstances. It argues that contemporary approaches to improvement are unlikely to succeed because the approaches adopted are not sufficiently differentiated or context specific. Drawing on two recent empirical studies, the article offers an alternative p…
Affinity through Vulnerability
Child welfare is a challenging space for professionals, parents, and most of all children. The labour of care within this space is an intersection of personal histories and ongoing narratives that synthesise self, family, medicine, and the state. I explore how encounters with children in care brought me into this nexus and redefined my position as a researcher. Competing perspectives on the role of experience in shaping affinity reveal a contenti…
Using research to promote equity within education systems
This article provides an evaluative account of its authors’ involvement in three major national improvement initiatives. Set in the context of three of the countries that make up the UK, these developments were focused in particular on the promotion of educational equity. Unusually, the analysis provided compares evidence collected from an insider perspective with data generated through independent evaluations. In so doing, it considers how resea…
A proposal to adopt the centesimal system of angles, geographical coordinates and time and a rational calendar
Additional informationNotes on contributorsC. M. ChapmanMr C. M. Chapman is a retired surveyor who has worked in Australia and in other parts of the Pacific
Improving Schools in Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Areas ? A Review of Research Evidence
Schools in difficult and challenging circumstances have received increasing policy and to some extent research attention in recent years. Improving schools in these circumstances is likely to prove a difficult process. This literature review has attempted to collect research on improving schools in these areas. Themes emerging from the literature include: a focus on teaching and learning, leadership, creating an information-rich environment, crea…
Improving Schools in Difficult Contexts
This article focuses on ‘improving’ schools in difficult or disadvantaged contexts. It explores the contemporary policy discourse and intervention strategies aimed at improving schools in such circumstances. It argues that contemporary approaches to improvement are unlikely to succeed because the approaches adopted are not sufficiently differentiated or context specific. Drawing on two recent empirical studies, the article offers an alternative p…
Colorectal Cancer Screening Among Chinese American Immigrants
Use of force in minority communities is related to police education, age, experience, and ethnicity
Some experts argue that better-educated police may use less force, but research has been equivocal. In three mainly-minority US cities, 511 officers reported their use of force, acceptance of others’ force use, age, experience, ethnicity, and education. Among patrol officers only, education predicted less frequent force and lower levels of force use. Across all duties, including patrol officers, detectives and other, younger officers used more fo…
Using research to promote equity within education systems
This article provides an evaluative account of its authors’ involvement in three major national improvement initiatives. Set in the context of three of the countries that make up the UK, these developments were focused in particular on the promotion of educational equity. Unusually, the analysis provided compares evidence collected from an insider perspective with data generated through independent evaluations. In so doing, it considers how resea…
Educational Equity
Focusing on what can be done to promote equity within education systems, what the barriers to progress are and how these barriers might be overcome, this book provides detailed examples of strategies that have proved to be effective in addressing this challenge. Built on the work of the authors over the last three decades, the book presents an approach to educational change that will be relevant to different countries. The authors argue that ther…
Leading professional networks
No abstract available
Affinity through Vulnerability
Child welfare is a challenging space for professionals, parents, and most of all children. The labour of care within this space is an intersection of personal histories and ongoing narratives that synthesise self, family, medicine, and the state. I explore how encounters with children in care brought me into this nexus and redefined my position as a researcher. Competing perspectives on the role of experience in shaping affinity reveal a contenti…
A causeway to impact
Over recent decades there has been growing interest in amplifying children and young people's views (CYP) within policy debates. Despite this, they are rarely invited to participate in key policy‐making discussions, and when they are, this tends to be tokenistic. This paper presents an intergenerational methodological framework ‘The Causeway Approach’, inspired by the mythology of the Giant's Causeway, which addresses the challenge of CYP's voice…
Cardiac responses to daily threats and challenges during wakefulness and sleep
This research examines cardiovascular response to everyday threats and challenges during wakefulness and sleep. Approximately 11,000 people, who comprised a diverse sample ethnically but not socioeconomically, completed three weekly morning and evening surveys in which they indicated whether they expected and experienced threats and challenges that day. Participants also provided measures of blood pressure on morning surveys and provided measures…
Educational networks as catalysts for cultural change
This paper draws on evidence and insights from attempts to build Networked Learning Systems (NLS) over a seven-year period in Scotland and Chile. The paper examines how both systems seek to leverage the middle tier and illuminate the possibilities and pitfalls associated with initiating and sustaining school-to-school improvement networks in diverse international cultural and policy contexts. Drawing on socio-cultural theory (Douglas, 1982), whic…
Political science (9 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Educational Assessment and Improvement (4 works) · Pedagogy (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies (3 works) · Children's Rights and Participation (2 works)