David Ashton
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3660276 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | David Ashton |
| NOMBRES | David |
| APELLIDO | Ashton |
| FIRMA | ASHTON D |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Leicester |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7572-3818 |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 39 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 92 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1969 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Self-diagnosing electromagnetic hypersensitivity—A case study
Self-Diagnosing Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS) – A Case StudyBy David AshtonIntroduction'Exclude the impossible and what is left, however improbable, must be the truth' (A. Conan Doyle, 1885)At present, it is unlikely that someone living in the UK would receive a medical diagnosis of Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS). In its 2005 ‘Backgrounder’ (1), the World Health Organisation (WHO) recognises the condition, and the symptoms that E…
Towards a qualitative data observatory
This article examines the relationship of qualitative data to place-based decision-making and the role of data observatories in these emerging debates and practices. Qualitative data enables the understanding and evaluation of the lived and felt experience of place. This article identifies where qualitative data approaches intersect with place-based policy and existing data observatory initiatives. While data observatory initiatives and projects …
Assisted Dying, David Hume and the Principle of Utility
Assisting a person with the intent of hastening death is an emotive and highly contentious issue. Currently, such an action in not legally permissible in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland or England. In Scotland there is a now a proposal to change the law, through the Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill (2024) . For those with religious commitments, their attitude to an assisted death is determined by the exegesis of their fa…
David Hume – An Apologia
In September 2020, ‘The David Hume Tower’ in Edinburgh was renamed ‘40 George Square’ because Edinburgh University had concluded that the philosopher, historian and essayist, David Hume, was guilty of holding racist views. There were also public allegations of his support for slavery. The supposed evidence comes from a letter he wrote to Lord Hertford in March 1766; an assumed loan to a slave plantation investor; a letter he received in June 1766…
Creativity and the curriculum
In many European societies, arts education and culture play a central role in their education systems. In England, the situation is very different. There, for the last two decades, the state has progressively marginalised the role of the arts in the public education system in the belief that the ‘market’ does not value the arts. However, England also has a strong relatively autonomous private education system financed directly by parental fees. T…
Arts audience segmentation
This article critically examines how segmentation is used to identify, understand and engage arts audiences. Policy reports and academic publications are reviewed to establish the priorities of arts policymakers and practitioners for understanding arts audiences and their continued focus on audience data and segmentation. This article then makes two contributions. Firstly, critical perspectives on the use of data for audience profiling are applie…
Institutional Logics and Low Skills
This article introduces the concept of institutional logics to provide a more adequate understanding of the interaction between firms and the institutions within an economy that impact on skills and pay. We argue that the most prominent institutionalist approaches suffer from a number of major weaknesses that have contributed towards the failure of policy initiatives derived from them. We then demonstrate how developments in relational sociology …
Creative work careers
This article examines the career opportunities, challenges and trajectories of creative work. As part of the Creative Trident approach to creative workforce measurements, the embedded mode draws attention to creative work as it is undertaken outside of the creative industries. This article further considers and conceptualises the complex careers pathways of creative workers. Firstly, creative workers in non-creative occupations in other industrie…
Norbert Elias and social theory
Reviewed by Henrietta O’Connor, David Ashton, and Daniel R. SmithNorbert Elias has recently been described as ‘the most important thinker you’ve never heard of’ (Pinker 2011, 59). Such a descriptio
Producing Participatory Media
Created from footage contributed by members of the public to YouTube, the 2011 Life in a Day and 2012 Britain in a Day crowdsourced documentaries show participatory media-making projects on a global and national scale. Drawing comparisons with digital storytelling projects, this article examines efforts to structure and shape the contributions to the ... in a Day crowdsourcing projects as set out in guidance and tutorial materials from the produc…
Cultural workers in-the-making
This article explores the situated practices through which higher education students understand ‘becoming’ cultural workers. Drawing on research with a media production studio operated by a UK higher education institution, this article examines how students understand themselves as nascent industry professionals and workers ‘in-the-making’ and connects this with critical debates on cultural workforce issues. This article reveals that while the st…
This is not how cancer looks
Jade Goody was publicly diagnosed with cervical cancer in 2008, and prior to her death in 2009 she remained a permanent presence in the celebrity and tabloid press. And although popular commentary refers to the ‘Jade Effect’ whereby young women, who otherwise would not have gone for testing, are seeking out cervical screening programs after the death of Jade Goody, it is important that we understand the ways in which tabloid readers engage with c…
Playstations and workstations
Purpose The aim of this paper is to present qualitative research with higher education games design students to explore situated understandings of work and the negotiation of “work” and “non‐work” boundaries. Design/methodology/approach Situated understandings of work are examined through interviews and focus groups with games design students in the UK and contextualised with interviews with games industry professionals and attendance at industry…
Upgrading the self
This article explores the upgrade and perpetual innovation economy of digital gaming as it informs understandings and practices of the ‘self’. Upgrade is situated in terms of digital gaming as a globalized techno-cultural industry. Drawing on accounts of governmentality and cultural work, research with digital games design students is drawn on to explore the overlapping twin logics of technological upgrade and work-on-the-self. The games industry…
The Global Auction
For decades, the idea that more education will lead to greater individual and national prosperity has been a cornerstone of developed economies. Indeed, it is almost universally believed that college diplomas give Americans and Europeans a competitive advantage in the global knowledge wars. Challenging this conventional wisdom, this book forces us to reconsider our deeply held and mistaken views about how the global economy really works and how t…
Awarding the self in Wikipedia
The ‘behind-the-scenes’ discussion and edit pages of Wikipedia reveal a complex layering of debates and discussion between editors. Focusing on how Wikipedia ‘service awards’ can identify and distinguish editors, this paper explores the disclosure of knowledge as it is intimately bound up with identity work. Examining contributions/edits to Wikipedia as disclosures highlights processes of identity management and work
Making it professionally
Addressing connections between higher education and ‘industry’ framed by UK government creative industries strategies, this article draws on research with games design students to explore their transition from being a student to being ‘industry‐ready’. The article introduces broader currents within higher education around personal development and possessing the right skills, and addresses how these emerge through collaboration with industry. Thes…
Thinking with games
Drawing on empirical research conducted with games design tutors and students within higher education, this article addresses the ‘imaginaries’ that students draw to develop ideas and design games as they negotiate a transition from being players to designers. The article outlines tutors’ efforts to prepare students as industry ready and expand the cultural and historical resources that students draw on in design. These efforts are compared with …
Globalisation, Skill Formation and the Varieties of Capitalism Approach
This paper is concerned to evaluate the varieties of capitalism approach to global institutional convergence and divergence as represented by the skill formation and welfare state theory of Margarita Estevez-Abe, Torben Iversen and David Soskice. They argue that the configuration of particular skills and labor markets distinctive of national economies can explain key aspects of welfare state provision. This paper makes the case that the generatio…
Education and Training for Development in East Asia
The East Asian miracle, or its supposed demise, is always news. The Four Tiger economies of Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan and South Korea have experienced some of the fastest rates of economic growth ever achieved. This book provides the first detailed analysis of the development of education and training systems in Asia, and the relationship with the process of economic growth
Explaining Change in National HRD Strategies
Post-school education and training policy in developmental states
The integration of economic and skill formation policies in South Korea and Taiwan through modified forms of state planning have been more successful than free-market alternatives in contributing both to economic growth and raising levels of educational achievement. However, this pattern of integration is now coming under pressure from a number of directions - the declining power of the State to compel employers to train their workers, the realiz…
The Linkages Between Education and Employment in Canada and the United Kingdom
The educational attainment of the Canadian and British labour forces and the current educational enrolment of the two adult populations are contrasted. Using data from Canadas 1989 General Social Survey and the United Kingdoms 1989 Labour Force Survey the similarities and differences in how these key indicators of human capital development vary by age gender and occupation are examined. The results demonstrate that the greater flexibility of the …
Making Their Way
Restructuring the Labour Market
List of Tables - List of Figures - Acknowledgements - Introduction - Conceptualising the Youth Labour Market - The Impact of the Recession - Determinants of the General Demand for Labour at the Level of the Firm - Structuring the Supply of Workers - Determinants of the Type of Labour employed at the Level of the Firm - Changes in Labour Demand during the Recession - The Segmentation of the Youth Labour Market - Local Labour Markets - The Youth La…
Making Their Way
School to work transitions in Britain and Canada - a comparative perspective the changing Canadian labour market British labour market trends education as a preparation for work in Canada - structure, policy and student response schooling and employment in the United Kingdom reluctant rebels - a case study of Edmonton high school dropouts transition to work - results of a longitudinal study of high school and University graduates in three Canadia…
Restructuring the Labour Market
List of Tables - List of Figures - Acknowledgements - Introduction - Conceptualising the Youth Labour Market - The Impact of the Recession - Determinants of the General Demand for Labour at the Level of the Firm - Structuring the Supply of Workers - Determinants of the Type of Labour employed at the Level of the Firm - Changes in Labour Demand during the Recession - The Segmentation of the Youth Labour Market - Local Labour Markets - The Youth La…
Skill Shortage and Skill Deficiency
Globalisation, Skill Formation and the Varieties of Capitalism Approach
This paper is concerned to evaluate the varieties of capitalism approach to global institutional convergence and divergence as represented by the skill formation and welfare state theory of Margarita Estevez-Abe, Torben Iversen and David Soskice. They argue that the configuration of particular skills and labor markets distinctive of national economies can explain key aspects of welfare state provision. This paper makes the case that the generatio…
Cultural workers in-the-making
This article explores the situated practices through which higher education students understand ‘becoming’ cultural workers. Drawing on research with a media production studio operated by a UK higher education institution, this article examines how students understand themselves as nascent industry professionals and workers ‘in-the-making’ and connects this with critical debates on cultural workforce issues. This article reveals that while the st…
Sources of Variation in Labour Market Segmentation
In spite of superficial similarities in the levels of unemployment this paper reveals major differences in the structure of the youth labour markets in Canada and Britain. It argues that labour market segmentation theory by according primacy to such factors as product markets, industrial structures and technology, can provide only a partial explanation for the observed difference. A more adequate explanation will have to take greater cognizance o…
The Determinants of Labour Market Transitions
This article reports the results of an event history analysis of the determinants of job transitions among a sample of young adults (18-24 year olds). It contrasts the status attainment model with a model of a segmented labour market and compares the utility of both in an attempt to explain the direction of job movement. The results show that the variables which affect the direction of job transitions operate in different ways across the various …
Creativity and the curriculum
In many European societies, arts education and culture play a central role in their education systems. In England, the situation is very different. There, for the last two decades, the state has progressively marginalised the role of the arts in the public education system in the belief that the ‘market’ does not value the arts. However, England also has a strong relatively autonomous private education system financed directly by parental fees. T…
Institutional Logics and Low Skills
This article introduces the concept of institutional logics to provide a more adequate understanding of the interaction between firms and the institutions within an economy that impact on skills and pay. We argue that the most prominent institutionalist approaches suffer from a number of major weaknesses that have contributed towards the failure of policy initiatives derived from them. We then demonstrate how developments in relational sociology …
This is not how cancer looks
Jade Goody was publicly diagnosed with cervical cancer in 2008, and prior to her death in 2009 she remained a permanent presence in the celebrity and tabloid press. And although popular commentary refers to the ‘Jade Effect’ whereby young women, who otherwise would not have gone for testing, are seeking out cervical screening programs after the death of Jade Goody, it is important that we understand the ways in which tabloid readers engage with c…
The Empirical Correlates of Action and Structure
The paper attempts to link theoretical ideas concerning the relation of agency and structure with empirical research on the transition from school to work. In particular, some of the propositions of structuration theory are assessed in terms of their applicability to empirical research which investigates the impact of individual and structural variables on movement into the labour market, and the way the variables combine to determine entry into …
Arts audience segmentation
This article critically examines how segmentation is used to identify, understand and engage arts audiences. Policy reports and academic publications are reviewed to establish the priorities of arts policymakers and practitioners for understanding arts audiences and their continued focus on audience data and segmentation. This article then makes two contributions. Firstly, critical perspectives on the use of data for audience profiling are applie…
The Linkages Between Education and Employment in Canada and the United Kingdom
The educational attainment of the Canadian and British labour forces and the current educational enrolment of the two adult populations are contrasted. Using data from Canadas 1989 General Social Survey and the United Kingdoms 1989 Labour Force Survey the similarities and differences in how these key indicators of human capital development vary by age gender and occupation are examined. The results demonstrate that the greater flexibility of the …
The Transition from School to Work
David Hume – An Apologia
In September 2020, ‘The David Hume Tower’ in Edinburgh was renamed ‘40 George Square’ because Edinburgh University had concluded that the philosopher, historian and essayist, David Hume, was guilty of holding racist views. There were also public allegations of his support for slavery. The supposed evidence comes from a letter he wrote to Lord Hertford in March 1766; an assumed loan to a slave plantation investor; a letter he received in June 1766…
Making Their Way
Anatomy of a Strike
The Transition from School to Work
Management Development in the Organization
A Framework for Management Development
In this book we have consistently taken an organizational focus for management development. When we look at management development at this level, whatever the main components of this function may be, we must see it as a complex area of organizational endeavour. This complexity can be most clearly understood by perceiving management development as a network which embraces the generation and use of information, decision taking, a variety of activit…
Learning to Labour
Unemployment under Capitalism
Unemployment under Capitalism
The author contends that the level and types of unemployment that occur in contemporary advanced capitalist societies are the result of the intended and unintended consequences of human actions. Arguing that unemployment is a predictable consequence of the ways in which work is organized within and between societies, he attacks the view that unemployment is either the result of impersonal, uncontrollable market forces or of the personal character…
Sources of Variation in Labour Market Segmentation
In spite of superficial similarities in the levels of unemployment this paper reveals major differences in the structure of the youth labour markets in Canada and Britain. It argues that labour market segmentation theory by according primacy to such factors as product markets, industrial structures and technology, can provide only a partial explanation for the observed difference. A more adequate explanation will have to take greater cognizance o…
Portfolio Risk Management
Journal Article Macrosolve Get access Macrosolve. By STEPHEN R. KING, RICK M. MCCONNELL and DAVID H. POPELL. (London: W. W. Norton, 1988. £10.95. ISBN 0 393 95689 X.) Nigel Duck Nigel Duck University of Bristol Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 100, Issue 401, 1 June 1990, Page 655, https://doi.org/10.2307/2234170 Published: 01 June 1990
Making Their Way
School to work transitions in Britain and Canada - a comparative perspective the changing Canadian labour market British labour market trends education as a preparation for work in Canada - structure, policy and student response schooling and employment in the United Kingdom reluctant rebels - a case study of Edmonton high school dropouts transition to work - results of a longitudinal study of high school and University graduates in three Canadia…
Making Their Way
The Empirical Correlates of Action and Structure
The paper attempts to link theoretical ideas concerning the relation of agency and structure with empirical research on the transition from school to work. In particular, some of the propositions of structuration theory are assessed in terms of their applicability to empirical research which investigates the impact of individual and structural variables on movement into the labour market, and the way the variables combine to determine entry into …
Making Their Way
Restructuring the Labour Market
List of Tables - List of Figures - Acknowledgements - Introduction - Conceptualising the Youth Labour Market - The Impact of the Recession - Determinants of the General Demand for Labour at the Level of the Firm - Structuring the Supply of Workers - Determinants of the Type of Labour employed at the Level of the Firm - Changes in Labour Demand during the Recession - The Segmentation of the Youth Labour Market - Local Labour Markets - The Youth La…
Skill Shortage and Skill Deficiency
The Determinants of Labour Market Transitions
This article reports the results of an event history analysis of the determinants of job transitions among a sample of young adults (18-24 year olds). It contrasts the status attainment model with a model of a segmented labour market and compares the utility of both in an attempt to explain the direction of job movement. The results show that the variables which affect the direction of job transitions operate in different ways across the various …
The Linkages Between Education and Employment in Canada and the United Kingdom
The educational attainment of the Canadian and British labour forces and the current educational enrolment of the two adult populations are contrasted. Using data from Canadas 1989 General Social Survey and the United Kingdoms 1989 Labour Force Survey the similarities and differences in how these key indicators of human capital development vary by age gender and occupation are examined. The results demonstrate that the greater flexibility of the …
Post-school education and training policy in developmental states
The integration of economic and skill formation policies in South Korea and Taiwan through modified forms of state planning have been more successful than free-market alternatives in contributing both to economic growth and raising levels of educational achievement. However, this pattern of integration is now coming under pressure from a number of directions - the declining power of the State to compel employers to train their workers, the realiz…
Explaining Change in National HRD Strategies
Education and Training for Development in East Asia
The East Asian miracle, or its supposed demise, is always news. The Four Tiger economies of Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan and South Korea have experienced some of the fastest rates of economic growth ever achieved. This book provides the first detailed analysis of the development of education and training systems in Asia, and the relationship with the process of economic growth
Globalisation, Skill Formation and the Varieties of Capitalism Approach
This paper is concerned to evaluate the varieties of capitalism approach to global institutional convergence and divergence as represented by the skill formation and welfare state theory of Margarita Estevez-Abe, Torben Iversen and David Soskice. They argue that the configuration of particular skills and labor markets distinctive of national economies can explain key aspects of welfare state provision. This paper makes the case that the generatio…
Making it professionally
Addressing connections between higher education and ‘industry’ framed by UK government creative industries strategies, this article draws on research with games design students to explore their transition from being a student to being ‘industry‐ready’. The article introduces broader currents within higher education around personal development and possessing the right skills, and addresses how these emerge through collaboration with industry. Thes…
Thinking with games
Drawing on empirical research conducted with games design tutors and students within higher education, this article addresses the ‘imaginaries’ that students draw to develop ideas and design games as they negotiate a transition from being players to designers. The article outlines tutors’ efforts to prepare students as industry ready and expand the cultural and historical resources that students draw on in design. These efforts are compared with …
The Global Auction
For decades, the idea that more education will lead to greater individual and national prosperity has been a cornerstone of developed economies. Indeed, it is almost universally believed that college diplomas give Americans and Europeans a competitive advantage in the global knowledge wars. Challenging this conventional wisdom, this book forces us to reconsider our deeply held and mistaken views about how the global economy really works and how t…
Awarding the self in Wikipedia
The ‘behind-the-scenes’ discussion and edit pages of Wikipedia reveal a complex layering of debates and discussion between editors. Focusing on how Wikipedia ‘service awards’ can identify and distinguish editors, this paper explores the disclosure of knowledge as it is intimately bound up with identity work. Examining contributions/edits to Wikipedia as disclosures highlights processes of identity management and work
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