Tom Clark

Biographic Data

ID3625149
NAMETom Clark
GIVEN NAMESTom
FAMILY NAMEClark
SIGNATURECLARK T
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Sheffield
ORCID0000-0001-6871-629X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS52
TOTAL CITATIONS157
AUTHOR COUNT49
EDITOR COUNT3
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1925
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX5

  • The research/teaching nexus in sociology: Perspectives from Norway, Hungary and England

    Open AccessRita Hordósy, Meryem Betül Yasdiman et al.ARTICLESociology2026

    There is a growing literature that has explored the dynamic intersections that exist between research and teaching in higher education institutions. However, there is also a paucity of research that has explored how this research/teaching nexus is realised within sociological practice. Drawing on comparative data from Norway, Hungary and England, this article explores how the research/teaching nexus is viewed by sociology academics (N staff = 30)…

  • Mostly haunted: A socio-spatial analysis of ghost tourism in England and Wales

    Open AccessTom S Clark, Tom Clark et al.ARTICLETourism Recreation Research2026References: 51

    There is now a well-established literature on ghost tourism. However, much of this work examines aspects associated with the demand side of the industry, or the motivations and experiences of consumers. There are currently no studies that have sought to explore the supply of ghost tourism and the spatial, social, and economic relationships that exist between these places. Using Lower Tier Local Authorities (LTLAs) in England and Wales as the unit…

  • Measuring Religious Evil: Examining the Use of Single-Item Measures in Religious Research

    Open AccessTom Clark, Scott A Desmond et al.ARTICLEReview of Religious Research2025References: 43

    Multiple-item indexes are ubiquitous within the sociology of religion. However, there are a growing number of articles in other disciplines that have advocated the use of single-item measures in specific circumstances. Using quantitative survey data taken from the United Kingdom, this article contributes to this literature by exploring the impact of single and multiple item measures of religious evil on a series of social and political attitudes.…

  • Marginalized, Secularized, and Popularized? The Prevalence and Patterns of Paranormal Belief in the United Kingdom

    Open AccessTom Clark, J O Baker et al.ARTICLESociological Quarterly2025Cited by: 3References: 59

    There is growing recognition of the prevalence of paranormal beliefs in Western countries. However, most of this interest has been focused on the United States and robust, comparative data remain limited. This study extends this literature to report findings from a national survey of the United Kingdom designed to assess the prevalence and patterns of paranormal beliefs. Although there are many similarities to previous research, the results also …

  • Forced choice? Is bullying pushing non-binary students into cyber schools

    Dennis Beck, Robert Maranto et al.ARTICLEEducational Review2024

    Little research addresses the schooling experiences of non-binary students; no prior work explores their experiences in cyber schools. Using unique data from a US multi-state cyber charter school, we compare the factors parents of non-binary students and parents of other students stated as reasons for leaving their prior schools to attend a cyber charter school in fall 2019 (before the COVID-19 pandemic). Despite a small sample size, we found sta…

  • Mapping the Journey of (non-) Reporting in Response to Racism: A Change-oriented Approach to Reporting Barriers, Motives and Support Needs

    Open AccessMario Peucker, Tom Clark et al.ARTICLEJournal of Intercultural Studies2024Cited by: 2References: 16

    Governments and other agencies seeking to tackle racism have been calling for better empirical evidence, including complaint data based on reports by people who have experienced racism.This approach requires much of those who face racism, often while offering little effective support or redress for them.There is a need to understand reporting or not reporting experiences of racism as a result of a complex interplay between different factors -as a…

  • Finding a Way: What Crisis Reveals about Teachers’ Emotional Wellbeing and Its Importance for Education

    Open AccessJean Hopman, Tom ClarkARTICLEEducation Sciences2023

    In crisis, teachers are often positioned as frontline workers serving the community’s needs. A fast-growing body of research investigates strategies and interventions to emotionally support children and young people in times of crisis. Less explored is teachers’ emotional wellbeing during times of crisis. This research aims to better understand teachers’ needs to support their wellbeing in times of crisis. It utilises a narrative approach, thread…

  • ‘ They would rather not have known and me kept my mouth shut’: The role of neutralisation in responding to the disclosure of childhood sexual abuse

    Open AccessClaire Cunnington, Tom ClarkARTICLEQualitative Social Work2023

    There is a well-established literature examining how perpetrators of child sexual abuse (CSA) neutralise the norms and beliefs that ordinarily prohibit such behaviours. However, there has been substantially less focus on how such techniques of neutralisation might also be applied by people and groups who were not directly involved in the abuse, who we might expect to be more supportive. Drawing on a thematic analysis of an open-ended survey (n=14…

  • Sympathy for the Devil: Belief in Satan and Moral Beliefs

    Scott A Desmond, Tom Clark et al.ARTICLEDeviant Behavior2023Cited by: 2References: 31

    Previous research suggests that religious service attendance, biblical literalism, images of God, and other measures of religion are related to moral beliefs (i.e., that certain behaviors are wrong or deviant). Given previous theory and research on spiritual appraisals (particularly demonization and desecration), we argue that belief in Satan should also predict moral beliefs. Using the first four waves of the Baylor Religion Survey, we tested th…

  • Exploring the BME Attainment Gap in a Russell Group University: A Mixed Methods Case-Study

    Open AccessAunam Quyoum, Stephanie Powell et al.ARTICLEEducation Sciences2022

    Presenting the results from a mixed methods case-study, this paper draws together insight from the fields of ‘BME attainment’ and ‘student transition’ to explore how differential levels of degree attainment might be experienced within the context of a higher tariff university in England. Across a five-year period (2010/11–2014/2015) it compares the levels of degree attainment between UK-domiciled White and Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) students…

  • Beyond Babel: Scholarly Organizations and the Study of Languages and Literatures

    Tom Clark, Paddy GordonBOOKBeyond Babel2022

  • Choosing cyber during Covid

    Open AccessRobert Maranto, Dennis Beck et al.ARTICLEPhi Delta Kappan2021

    Substantial research has already examined how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected in-person schooling, but no prior work has explored its effects on cyber schools. Here, Robert Maranto, Dennis Beck, Tom Clark, Bich Tran, and Feng Liu compare the students entering a large national cyber charter school network in spring 2020, during the pandemic, with students entering in 2019 and 2018, before the pandemic. They find that the COVID cohort resembled …

  • Normal Happy Girl' Interrupted: An auto/biographical Analysis of Myra Hindley's Public Confession

    Tom ClarkARTICLEDeviant Behavior2021Cited by: 2References: 30

    Responding to the need to develop the range and scope of narrative criminology, this paper provides an empirical demonstration of how auto/biographical analysis can be used for criminological purposes. More specifically, the paper explores how British serial killer Myra Hindley sought to construct, (re)present and rehabilitate her own identity in the face of the ‘mad, bad, or evil’ discourse that she was typically associated with. Using her auto/…

  • Hard Times: Inequality, Recession, Aftermath

    Tom S Clark, Tom Clark et al.BOOKHard Times2020

    An analysis of the enduring social costs of the post-2008 economic crisis 2008 was a watershed year for global finance. The banking system was eventually pulled back from the brink, but the world was saddled with the worst slump since the 1930s Depression, and millions were left unemployed. While numerous books have addressed the financial crisis, very little has been written about its social consequences. Journalist Tom Clark draws on the resear…

  • Hypnotising evil: Myra Hindley, hypnosis, and criminal investigations in the UK

    Tom ClarkARTICLEContemporary British History2020References: 4

    In 1987 Myra Hindley submitted a petition to the Home Office requesting permission to undergo hypnosis in an attempt to locate the grave of Keith Bennett. Whilst the request was initially declined, the issue continued to be an administrative challenge for the Home Office for the fifteen years that followed. Drawing on her ‘prison records’ currently held in The National Archive, this paper details the reasons for the request, how the policy respon…

  • Student budgets and widening participation: Comparative experiences of finance in low and higher income undergraduates at a northern red brick university

    Open AccessRita Hordósy, Tom ClarkARTICLESocial Policy and Administration2019Cited by: 3References: 35

    Drawing on a thematic analysis of longitudinal qualitative data (n total = 118), this article takes a “whole student lifecycle” approach to examine how lower and higher income students at an English northern red brick university variously attempted to manage their individual budgets. It explores how students reconcile their income—in the form of loans, grants, and bursaries—with the cost of living. Four arenas of interest are described: planning,…

  • The Treaty's Going to Give the Recognition that this Wasn't Right' - Optimism and Pessimism in Non-Indigenous Attitudes to Treaties in Australia

    Tom Clark, Ravi De Costa et al.ARTICLEJournal of Intercultural Studies2019References: 4

    Like other settler-colonial societies, Australia over the last half-century or so has been the site for a lengthy and involved discussion about the need for Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples to reconstitute the relationship between them, recognising past injustices and forestalling future conflict. Unlike those other countries, however, Australia and its states lack a history of treaties and treaty law to ground that discussion. While the ide…

  • Social Identification, Widening Participation and Higher Education: Experiencing Similarity and Difference in an English Red Brick University

    Open AccessTom Clark, Rita HordósyARTICLESociological Research Online2019Cited by: 2References: 30

    In 2012, the UK government introduced the National Scholarship Programme - a scheme that aimed to ensure that young people from families with low household incomes would not be discouraged from entry into higher education by increases in tuition fees. Drawing on longitudinal evidence in the form of 80 semi-structured interviews conducted in an English Red Brick University over a 3-year period, this article uses Jenkins' work on social identificat…

  • It's Scary and It's Big, and There's No Job Security: Undergraduate Experiences of Career Planning and Stratification in an English Red Brick University

    Open AccessRita Hordósy, Tom ClarkARTICLESocial Sciences2018Cited by: 4References: 53

    There is a continuing trend within higher education policy to frame undergraduate study as 'human capital investment'-a financial transaction whereby the employment returns of a degree are monetary. However, this distinctly neoliberal imaginary ignores well-established information asymmetries in choice, non-monetary drivers for education, as well as persistent inequalities in access, participation, and outcome. Non-linearity and disadvantage are …

  • Worldmaking: Literature, language, culture

    Tom Clark, Emily Finlay et al.BOOKWorldmaking2017

    In 1978, Nelson Goodman explored the relation of “worlds” to language and literature, formulating the term, “worldmaking” to suggest that many other worlds can as plausibly exist as the “world” we know right now. We cannot catch or know “the world” as such: all we can catch are the world versions - descriptions, views or workings of the world – that are expressed in symbolic systems (words, music, dancing, visual representations). Over the twenty…

  • Non-Indigenous Australians and the 'Responsibility to Engage

    Tom Clark, Ravi De Costa et al.ARTICLEJournal of Intercultural Studies2017Cited by: 3References: 12

    National projects of reconciliation in settler colonial countries such as Australia are predicated on assumptions about non-Indigenous willingness to engage with the cultures and histories of Indigenous peoples. However, empirical research consistently finds such attitudes are far from universal. This article reports findings from focus groups with non-Indigenous peoples conducted at four locations around Australia during 2014. The goal was to se…

  • The Limits of Settler Colonial Reconciliation: Non-Indigenous People and the Responsibility to Engage

    Open AccessSarah Maddison, Tom Clark et al.BOOKLimits of Settler Colonial…2016

  • Limits of Settler Colonial Reconciliation: Non-Indigenous People and the Responsibility to Engage

    Ravi De Costa, Sarah Maddison et al.BOOKLimits of Settler Colonial…2016

  • On the responsibility to engage: Non-Indigenous peoples in settler states

    Ravi De Costa, Tom ClarkARTICLESettler Colonial Studies2016

    Many non-Indigenous peoples in settler societies describe themselves as concerned with the legacies of colonialism and wish to become more engaged with that history and with Indigenous peoples. Paradoxically, however, many do not understand what that engagement might entail, how they could do it or whether, indeed, it is their place to do so. In this research, we survey findings from three sets of focus groups with non-Indigenous peoples in Canad…

  • War, Armed Conflict, and Refugees: The United Nations’ Endless Battle for Peace

    Tom Clark, Tom C Clark et al.ARTICLERefugee Survey Quarterly2016

    This article examines 21st century wars and the growth in refugee numbers and changes in the nature of the conflicts producing them, drawing from data on refugee numbers and on battle-related deaths from 2014. Measuring conflicts by battle-related deaths is no longer enough. Refugee numbers produced must be a central part. The evolution of refugee-producing armed conflicts and the United Nations’ responses to them are set out. The mid-2015 status…