Karen Evans
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3742441 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Karen Evans |
| PRENOMES | Karen |
| SOBRENOME | Evans |
| ASSINATURA | EVANS K |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0630-1560 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 58 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 217 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 56 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1990 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Developing Essential Biodiversity Variables for the Southern Ocean
The Southern Ocean is central to global heat and carbon cycling, connecting all the major ocean basins and regulating Earth’s climate system, and hence providing ecosystem services of global significance. However, its ecosystems are increasingly vulnerable to climate change and localized human-induced pressures, such as (biological) resource extraction, pollution, ship traffic, and tourism. Effective conservation and management require systematic…
‘State of the Environment’ reports require integrated and holistic approaches – Lessons from Australia’s marine experience
Regular assessments of the ‘state of the environment’ are common approaches implemented to track and guide sustainable management of marine social-ecological systems at scales ranging from local to global. In Australia, a regular national State of the Environment Report (SoE) is required as a legislative requirement and tabled in Parliament by the relevant Minister. Each SoE comprises a set of thematic reports, authored by independent domain expe…
Global ocean indicators
International audience
Delivering scientific evidence for global policy and management to ensure ocean sustainability
Life depends on the ocean, with societal health, cultural systems and national economies reliant on ocean processes and resources. As ocean resources are used, and humans continue to drive climate change, the benefits from the ocean to society are being diminished. Science must meet the needs of policy and deliver to decision makers the information and tools for identifying pathways that support continued delivery of the benefits society derives …
Community and the Problem of Crime
This book offers a useful theoretical overview of key approaches to the subject of crime and community and considers the ways in which these have been applied in more practical settings. Written by an expert in the field and drawing on a range of international case studies from Europe, North America, Australia and Asia, this book explores both why and how crime and community have been linked and the implications of their relationship within crimi…
A synthesis of approaches to support integrated assessments of hazards for the emerging Blue Economy
Growth in offshore blue economies is predicted to accelerate as emerging food and energy production industries look to expand into these environments. Operating in novel environments for these industries inherently fosters uncertainty in outcomes generated by a complex suite of hazards, some of which are unknown prior to deployment. Faced with such uncertainty, a precautionary, flexible, and cross-disciplinary (integrated) approach is recommended…
Co-designing a multi-criteria approach to ranking hazards to and from Australia’s emerging offshore blue economy
A multi-sectoral assessment of risks can support the management and investment decisions necessary for emerging blue economy industries to succeed. Traditional risk assessment methods will be challenged when applied to the complex socio-ecological systems that characterise offshore environments, and when data available to support management are lacking. Therefore, there is a need for assessments that account for multiple sectors. Here we describe…
Context-dependent changes in maritime traffic activity during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic
Rapid implementation of human mobility restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic dramatically reduced maritime activity in early 2020. But where and when activity rebounded, or remained low, during the full extent of 2020 restrictions remains unclear. Using global high-resolution datasets, we reveal a surprising degree of complexity in maritime activity patterns during 2020, yielding a more nuanced picture of how restrictions affected activity. O…
Community and the Problem of Crime
Workplace Learning for Changing Social and Economic Circumstances
Empowering young people with climate and ocean science
Putting skills to work
This paper focuses on how generic skills can be developed to enable young adults to best utilise them in making transitions into the labour market. Drawing on the literature and a Commercial Education Trust study of practices which encourage employer engagement in skills development, it is argued that ‘putting skills to work’ is not automatic or unproblematic. It is not simply a matter of ‘skills transfer’, but a ‘continuous, contextually-embedde…
Young women’s autonomy and information needs in the schools-based HPV vaccination programme
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Zero Tolerance or Community Tolerance?
First published in 1999, this volume presents arguments which compare two inner-city wards of Salford and look to introduce such a subtlety to the understanding of the management of crime in high crime communities and derive from a longitudinal research study which took place over a two and a half year period. Between 1994 and 1996, researchers based at the University of Salford and the University of Keele embarked on research into two similarly …
How Non-Permanent Workers Learn and Develop
How Non-Permanent Workers Learn and Develop is an empirically based exploration of the challenges and opportunities non-permanent workers face in accessing quality work, learning, developing occupational identities and striving for sustainable working lives. Based on a study of 100 non-permanent workers in Singapore, it offers a model to guide thinking about workers’ learning and development in terms of an ‘integrated practice’ of craft, entrepre…
Education for Young Adults
This book presents a descriptive and analytical review of contemporary youth development and education from various national and international perspectives. The first part of the text focuses on the problems and issues of youth in the USSR, Europe and North America, set within the contemporary political debate of the superpowers. In the second section, the focus is on youth and education in the newly developing world.
Gender Responsive Justice
At the end of the twentieth century a step-change in thinking about the offending behaviour of women began to impact on policy-makers concerned with the treatment of female offenders. A growing number of nations, states and organisations both national and supra-national in nature began to acknowledge that existing criminal justice and especially penal practices had not been sufficiently attentive to women’s needs and had discriminated against wom…
Your Past Makes You Who You Are
In this article, we explore how Black Caribbean parents prepare their children for the challenges ahead-including anticipated discrimination-in order to boost their opportunities in education and work and eventually their social mobility. Drawing upon family case studies with Black Caribbean families in London, this article focuses on what we have defined as retrospective parenting to mean the use of narratives about the past as resources for par…
Reflections on Ulrich Beck's legacy in the field of youth transitions and employment
A fish out of water?' The therapeutic narratives of class change
Young people from working class backgrounds remained mostly excluded from the widening educational participation which characterised postwar Britain. Based on 20 semi-structured interviews which were part of a wider study about 'Social Participation and Identity' (2008-2009), this article explores the unusual learning trajectories of a group of working class adults born in 1958, who participated in higher education (HE) in a context where most pe…
Can Lifelong Learning Reshape Life Chances
Despite the expansion of post-school education and incentives to participate in lifelong learning, institutions and labour markets continue to interlock in shaping life chances according to starting social position, family and private resources. The dominant view that the economic and social returns to public investment in adult learning are too low to warrant large-scale public funding has been challenged by recent LLAKES research that shows sig…
Individual differences in pronoun reversal
Pronoun reversal, the use of you for self-reference and I for an addressee, has often been associated with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and impaired language. However, recent case studies have shown the phenomenon also to occur in typically developing and even precocious talkers. This study examines longitudinal corpus data from two children, a typically developing girl, and a boy with Asperger's syndrome. Both were precocious talkers who rever…
Crime Prevention
How do we reduce and prevent crime? This is a question with which governments have been grappling for decades. 'Crime Prevention' explores the legislative developments, policy changes and practical strategies that have been put in place in recent years in an attempt to manage the level of crime in our society
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Learning, Work and Social Responsibility
Taking Control of their Lives? Agency in Young Adult Transitions in England and the New Germany
The present article provides an overview of findings from the UK Economic and Social Research Council's Youth Citizenship and Social Change Project on how young adults experience control and exercise agency in differing socioeconomic environments. The research builds on previous Anglo-German and UK studies (Bynner & Roberts, 1991; Evans & Heinz, 1994; Evans et al ., 2000), which have contrasted the regulated German and unregulated British approac…
Structure and Agency in Youth Transitions
The school-to-work transitions of two samples of 16–19-year-old college students in the UK arc examined in terms of their vocational preparation and expectations of labour market entry. Current processes of vocational preparation are evaluated primarily from the perspectives of the young people themselves. The aims are to explore influences of structure and agency in young people's lives in the light of their perceptions of the ‘new vocational is…
Whom Can You Trust? The Politics of 'Grassing' on an Inner City Housing Estate
This paper derives from an ongoing research project concerned to explore how people living in, going to work in, attending school in, high crime areas manage their routine daily lives. It focuses on one of our research areas in which we argue that the question of the 'fear of crime' is much better understood through an appreciation of how the question of trust manifests itself in that community. In other words, whom you trust, when, and by how mu…
Studying Forms of Transition
(1993). Studying Forms of Transition: methodological innovation in a cross‐national study of youth transition and labour market entry in England and Germany. Comparative Education: Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 145-158
The significance of individual biography in workplace learning
In this paper we address a perceived gap in the workplace learning literature, for there is very little writing which successfully integrates the issues of individual learners into predominantly social theories of learning. The paper draws upon data from four linked research projects to address this problem. Following an analysis of the theoretical problems and a possible solution, the paper identifies and discussed four overlapping individual di…
Can Lifelong Learning Reshape Life Chances
Despite the expansion of post-school education and incentives to participate in lifelong learning, institutions and labour markets continue to interlock in shaping life chances according to starting social position, family and private resources. The dominant view that the economic and social returns to public investment in adult learning are too low to warrant large-scale public funding has been challenged by recent LLAKES research that shows sig…
A fish out of water?' The therapeutic narratives of class change
Young people from working class backgrounds remained mostly excluded from the widening educational participation which characterised postwar Britain. Based on 20 semi-structured interviews which were part of a wider study about 'Social Participation and Identity' (2008-2009), this article explores the unusual learning trajectories of a group of working class adults born in 1958, who participated in higher education (HE) in a context where most pe…
Reconstructing fate as choice
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Taking Control of Their Lives? A comparison of the experiences of unemployed young adults (18-25) in England and the new Germany
This paper explores the experiences and actions of young adults who have had difficulties in entering and sustaining a place in the labour market. The research was carried out in selected localities undergoing economic transformation in England and the new Germany, as part of the project 'Taking Control' in the ESRC's Youth Citizenship and Social Change Programme. The 18-25 age group has been newly 'targeted' for interventions through programmes …
Your Past Makes You Who You Are
In this article, we explore how Black Caribbean parents prepare their children for the challenges ahead-including anticipated discrimination-in order to boost their opportunities in education and work and eventually their social mobility. Drawing upon family case studies with Black Caribbean families in London, this article focuses on what we have defined as retrospective parenting to mean the use of narratives about the past as resources for par…
Uncertain Frontiers
L'article propose de saluer la memoire d'un des peres de l'education comparee du vingtieme siecle, Edmund King en reprenant sa vision de l'education permanente, et ses critiques des structures obsoletes de l'education a la fin du XXe siecle sous la forme d'un appel a un apprentissage mutuel transnational et transdisciplinaire entre systemes, populations s'integrant a un debat plus large sur la mondialisation et la post-modernite
Tenant control, housing cooperatives and government policy
Public–private strategies, regulatory regimes and education systems
We begin this issue with a tribute from Compare to Jacqueline (Jackie) Kirk who was among the three International Rescue Committee (IRC) victims of an ambush in Logar Province, Afghanistan in Augus
Youth, education and risk - facing the future
Relationships Between Work and Life
Risky Voyages
The contrasts between the regulated German and unregulated British approaches to young adult transitions have been the subject of the authors' previous Anglo-German Foundation studies, published as Youth and Work: transitions to employment (1991) and Becoming Adults in England and Germany (1994). The 'reunification' of Germany from 1990 has involved economic and political transformations whose effects will shape the future development of Germany …
Change and Prospects in Education for Young Adults
(1994). Change and Prospects in Education for Young Adults. Comparative Education: Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 39-47
Does pre‐vocational education work
Whether pre‐vocational education improves young people's prospects in the labour market and whether it should have a place in the school curriculum at all have been at the centre of a long‐standing debate in education. This study supplements data from the ESRC 16‐19 Initiative to address these questions. In the core study of the 16‐19 Initiative, over three and a half thousand young people in two cohorts (aged 15–16 and 17‐18) selected from schoo…
The Changing Role of the In‐company Trainer
Alternance' training has, since 1980, become a permanent feature of the vocational education and training arrangements for young people in the member states of the European Economic Community (EEC). In this type of training, the trainer or supervisor working with the trainee in the workplace has a crucial part to play-not least in maintaining the balance between the practical and theoretical, on- and off-the-job learning. It is surprising, theref…
Does pre‐vocational education work
Whether pre‐vocational education improves young people's prospects in the labour market and whether it should have a place in the school curriculum at all have been at the centre of a long‐standing debate in education. This study supplements data from the ESRC 16‐19 Initiative to address these questions. In the core study of the 16‐19 Initiative, over three and a half thousand young people in two cohorts (aged 15–16 and 17‐18) selected from schoo…
Work Training
This paper reports a comparative analysis of data from two linked national projects carried out in the United Kingdom and Canada during 1987–1990. The two projects providing the base data are, respectively, the 16–19 Initiative—an Economic and Social Research Council funded programme of research into the educational and occupational experiences of young adults in contrasting local labour markets in the UK—and a project funded by the University of…
Studying Forms of Transition
(1993). Studying Forms of Transition: methodological innovation in a cross‐national study of youth transition and labour market entry in England and Germany. Comparative Education: Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 145-158
Leisure Patterns of Young Adults in Britain and the Role of the Youth Service
The Youth Service in Britain has been challenged by the Government to justify its claims on public funds by setting out its unique contribution to the education and socialisation of young people. This article considers research evidence yielded by a series of studies, which sheds light on the leisure activities and social education needs of post-16s and on the ability of the youth service to offer provision of relevance to this age group
Change and Prospects in Education for Young Adults
(1994). Change and Prospects in Education for Young Adults. Comparative Education: Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 39-47
Tenant control, housing cooperatives and government policy
An Investigation of the Importance of Domain-Specific Knowledge for Writing Proficiency
This study examined the relationship between domain-specific knowledge and the development of writing skills. 70 undergraduate and postgraduate subjects enrolled in an introductory educational psychology course were assessed for content knowledge and also produced a writing sample evaluating an article in the discipline. For the entire sample, content knowledge and writing proficiency were not significantly correlated. Using the scores of one rat…
A Tale of Two Cities
Whom Can You Trust? The Politics of 'Grassing' on an Inner City Housing Estate
This paper derives from an ongoing research project concerned to explore how people living in, going to work in, attending school in, high crime areas manage their routine daily lives. It focuses on one of our research areas in which we argue that the question of the 'fear of crime' is much better understood through an appreciation of how the question of trust manifests itself in that community. In other words, whom you trust, when, and by how mu…
Structure and Agency in Youth Transitions
The school-to-work transitions of two samples of 16–19-year-old college students in the UK arc examined in terms of their vocational preparation and expectations of labour market entry. Current processes of vocational preparation are evaluated primarily from the perspectives of the young people themselves. The aims are to explore influences of structure and agency in young people's lives in the light of their perceptions of the ‘new vocational is…
Zero Tolerance or Community Tolerance
Part 1 Crime and community: introduction - ways of thinking about community crime and community in Salford. Part 2 Crime and community dynamics: the frightened community Oldtown - the defended community?. Part 3 Crime, policy and community: crime, community and partnership - zero tolerance or community tolerance? conclusion - understanding and managing crime in high crime areas. Appendices: research methodology the questionnaire
Zero Tolerance or Community Tolerance? Police and Community Talk about Crime in High-Crime Areas
Risky Voyages
The contrasts between the regulated German and unregulated British approaches to young adult transitions have been the subject of the authors' previous Anglo-German Foundation studies, published as Youth and Work: transitions to employment (1991) and Becoming Adults in England and Germany (1994). The 'reunification' of Germany from 1990 has involved economic and political transformations whose effects will shape the future development of Germany …
What Does it Mean to Become Skilled for Young People in Canada, England and Germany
Through the lens of the institutional structures for education and training, this study sought to examine the processes, content and meaning of becoming skilled for young people in Canada, the United Kingdom, and Germany. Using a close matching methodology and comparative case analysis, eight occupational fields ranging from nursing to electrician were selected. Subjects were gainfully employed in the area having completed their training. Finding…
Reconstructing fate as choice
Relationships Between Work and Life
Niches, transitions, trajectoires. De quelques théories et représentations des passages de la jeunesse
Les auteurs retracent l'évolution des images utilisées pour analyser les interactions des jeunes avec la société et les séquences d'événements typiques du passage de l'adolescence à l'âge adulte. Durant les années 1960, dominées par les théories du développement, on parle de niches à combler dans la société et de « tâches » à accomplir au cours de la croissance pour accéder aux rôles adultes. Puis la complexité croissante des schemes de reproduct…
Taking Control of their Lives? Agency in Young Adult Transitions in England and the New Germany
The present article provides an overview of findings from the UK Economic and Social Research Council's Youth Citizenship and Social Change Project on how young adults experience control and exercise agency in differing socioeconomic environments. The research builds on previous Anglo-German and UK studies (Bynner & Roberts, 1991; Evans & Heinz, 1994; Evans et al ., 2000), which have contrasted the regulated German and unregulated British approac…
Taking Control of Their Lives? A comparison of the experiences of unemployed young adults (18-25) in England and the new Germany
This paper explores the experiences and actions of young adults who have had difficulties in entering and sustaining a place in the labour market. The research was carried out in selected localities undergoing economic transformation in England and the new Germany, as part of the project 'Taking Control' in the ESRC's Youth Citizenship and Social Change Programme. The 18-25 age group has been newly 'targeted' for interventions through programmes …
Learning and Work in the Risk Society
Dedication Acknowledgements Introduction Looking East Perspectives, Plans and Methods Systems Under Strain: Labour Market Conditions and Training Options From 'Old' to 'New': Continuities and Discontinuities as Experienced by a Group of Trainers Labour Market Structures and the Processes of Transition Smooth Transitions: Young Adults' Experience of Vocational Education and Work Entry Broken Transitions Risky Voyages: Learning Experiences, Transit…
Youth, education and risk - facing the future
Uncertain Frontiers
L'article propose de saluer la memoire d'un des peres de l'education comparee du vingtieme siecle, Edmund King en reprenant sa vision de l'education permanente, et ses critiques des structures obsoletes de l'education a la fin du XXe siecle sous la forme d'un appel a un apprentissage mutuel transnational et transdisciplinaire entre systemes, populations s'integrant a un debat plus large sur la mondialisation et la post-modernite
Reconnection
Editors' Introduction List Of Contributors Karen Evans and Beatrix Niemeyer: Re-enter and Reconnect - But whose Problem is it? Introduction Bettina Hoffmann and Karen Evans: Engaging to Learn: Situated Learning and Re-Integration for Young People Beatrix Niemeyer: Situated Learning for Social and Vocational Integration in Germany Ilse Fripont, Katrien Van Valckenborgh and Mia Douterlungne: Situated Learning Embedded in the Idea of Route Counselli…
The significance of individual biography in workplace learning
In this paper we address a perceived gap in the workplace learning literature, for there is very little writing which successfully integrates the issues of individual learners into predominantly social theories of learning. The paper draws upon data from four linked research projects to address this problem. Following an analysis of the theoretical problems and a possible solution, the paper identifies and discussed four overlapping individual di…
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