Donald Simpson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3756584 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Donald Simpson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Donald |
| FAMILY NAME | Simpson |
| SIGNATURE | SIMPSON D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Teesside University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4868-7273 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 109 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Who still cares? Gendered and classed ‘care trajectories’ into paid adult social care and childcare work
The decline of masculinised industries across the Global North is well documented; however, to date, there has been relatively little discussion of feminised paid care work in formerly industrial areas. Drawing on evidence of gendered and classed ‘care trajectories’ into paid adult social care and childcare care work in one such area, Teesside, North-East England, our findings show continuities with research documenting entrenched problems with l…
New normal’ or continued ‘social distancing’? Preschool practitioners’ responses to poverty across post-lockdown England and the USA
Just as illness can sometimes heal us, some have speculated an unexpected silver lining of COVID-19 may be an invigoration of a prosocial vision as the ‘new normal’ necessitates new ways of thinking and doing things differently across society and in preschool. This article explores this and reports survey research completed with preschool practitioners post-lockdown across several locations in England and the USA. This repeated a previous survey …
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past’: Legacy, care leavers and university study
International research reveals underrepresentation and problems of retention, amongst care leavers in higher education, are universal. Drawing upon qualitative research in England, we highlight legacy as an under-explored and double-edged feature of care leavers’ motivations to enter and persist in university study. While restricting access to the propulsive power of material resources, in the context of a widening participation policy mandate, o…
Talking heresy about ‘quality’ early childhood education and care for children in poverty
This paper considers the socially progressive function of a model of ‘quality’ early childhood education and care widely prescribed to address child poverty across England and the USA. Ubiquitous, it is imbued with a sense of objectivity, secureness and practicality. We question these foundations. Then using data from practitioners in both countries, we contrast expectations about this model of ECEC as an unmitigated good building resilience to ‘…
Pre-school practitioners, child poverty and social justice
Purpose – Several ideas exist about social justice and how inequalities can be tackled to help families and children in poverty. The Coalition government released the UK’s first Child Poverty Strategy in 2011. Pervaded by neoliberal ideology, the strategy mentions “empowering” pre-school services and practitioners within the childcare market “to do more for the most disadvantaged” (Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and Department for Educati…
Basic Skills, Literacy Practices and the 'Hidden Injuries of Class
This paper draws on qualitative data from three research projects that examined the impact of poor skills on the life chances of adults living in two disadvantaged areas of England. We employed the theories of Goffman and Bourdieu to document how problems with literacy have a corrosive effect on the identities of interviewees, threatening their wellbeing. Though learning difficulties occur across all social backgrounds, the poor family resources …
Key Concepts in Youth Studies
Reform, inequalities of process and the transformative potential of communities of practice in the pre-school sector of England
The integration of care and education across pre-school sectors of several European countries is currently a key policy priority. In England this necessitates reform aimed at re-modelling a traditionally hierarchical and divided workforce. Drawing on research with early years professionals, this article explores the micro-politics of reform with a focus on the extent to which workers in pre-school settings are engaging in new collaborative ways o…
Becoming professional? Exploring Early Years Professional Status and its implications for workforce reform in England
Across the ‘European learning space’ (Lawn, 2006) professionalisation of early years workforces has become a key priority and there has been a flow of this policy between borders (Oberhuemer, 2005). Early Years Professional Status (EYPS) is central to these developments in England.Within what is regarded as a traditionally ‘split’ early years workforce (Moss, 2008), EYPS felt to offer a route for those from a childcare background to improve their…
Basic skills and transitions to adulthood
This article reports on the findings of a qualitative research project conducted in the North East of England. This project involved interviews with 55 young adults in an attempt to explore the impact of poor basic skills on transitions to adulthood. Poor basic skills have been identifued across Europe as a problem facing nation states, groups and individuals. But apart from large-scale survey-based studies (Bynner and Parsons, 2001), previous yo…
Skills for Life? Basic Skills and Marginal Transitions from School to Work
This paper reports on a qualitative research project that explored the influence of basic skills on the school-to-work transitions of young adults. Large numbers of young people have poor skills yet it is a neglected area of study. We document how skill competencies act as barriers to learning and labour market opportunities, illustrating that some individuals are ‘reticent’ about accessing opportunities and that individual decision-making and ag…
Brain Wounds in the First World War: Lessons from the Steel Thunderstorms
In The Myriad Faces of War, Trevor Wilson directed attention to one of the most interesting medical issues in the First World War: the relatively high incidence of brain wounds in trench warfare, 'the head being the most attackable part of a trench-dweller'.2 The incidence of head wounds in British wounded during a period of trench warfare in 1915 was about 23 per cent, compared with 16 per cent in 1914, in general a time of open fighting.3 This …
Growing Up in Poor Neighbourhoods: The Significance of Class and Place in the Extended Transitions of ‘Socially Excluded’Young Adults
Drawing upon qualitative, longitudinal research with 'socially excluded' young adults from some of England's poorest neighbourhoods, the article explores how locally-embedded, social networks become part of the process whereby poverty and class inequalities are reproduced. Networks of family and friends, rooted in severely de-industrialized locales, supported young people as they carved out transitions to adulthood in adverse circumstances. Examp…
Baudin's Doctors: French Medical Scientists in Australian Waters, 1801–1803
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Comprehensive Community Initiatives: Addressing a 'Problem' in Local Governance or Creating One
Pervaded by 'third way' values and identified as archetypal Comprehensive Community Initiatives (CCIs), programmes such as Education Action Zones (EAZs) and Health Action Zones (HAZs) follow a procedural rationale based on heterarchy and partnership. They are a response to an alleged prior fragmentation of service provision in welfare across sectors. Employing evidence from an evaluation of an EAZ and HAZ in one location, this article makes two c…
Thirty years of the commonwealth day observance
A formal Observance of Commonwealth Day has become a strong tradition since the first service of affirmation and faith was held in the Church of St. Martin in the Fields in 1966. But from the outset there has been controversy about the multi‐faith nature of the event. Later multi‐faith ceremonies have been held at the London Guildhall and, since 1972, at Westminster Abbey. The order includes forms of words which were initially strongly theistic b…
David Livingstone's Shire Journal 1861–1864
Journal Article David Livingstone's Shire Journal 1861–1864 Get access David Livingstone's Shire Journal 1861–1864, edited by Gary W. Clendennen. Scottish Cultural Press, 1993. Paperback £20.00. xxxix + 214 pp. ISBN 1 898218 00 5. DONALD SIMPSON DONALD SIMPSON Hampton Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 94, Issue 377, October 1995, Pages 593–594, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.a…
Aggrey and Fraser: A Unique Photograph
Journal Article AGGREY AND FRASER: A UNIQUE PHOTOGRAPH Get access DONALD SIMPSON DONALD SIMPSON Donald Simpson is former Librarian of The Royal Commonwealth Society Library, London. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 94, Issue 374, January 1995, Pages 87–89, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a098804 Published: 01 January 1995
David Livingstone: Letters and documents 1841–1872
David Livingstone: Letters and documents 1841–1872 Get access David Livingstone: Letters and documents 1841–1872, edited by Timothy Holmes. James Currey, London, 1990. xx+202pp. £30.00. ISBN 0 253 33516 7. Livingatone's Legacy: Horace Waller and Victorian mythmaking, by Dorothy O. Helly. Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio and London, 1987. xviii+404pp. £36.05. ISBN 0 8214 0836 4. DONALD SIMPSON DONALD SIMPSON Twickenham, Middlesex Search for oth…
Black Images in Film—The 1940s to the Early 1960s
(1990). Black Images in Film—The 1940s to the Early 1960s. The Black Scholar: Vol. 21, Black Cinema, pp. 20-29
Mary Kingsley: A West African Group
Journal Article MARY KINGSLEY: A WEST AFRICAN GROUP Get access DONALD SIMPSON DONALD SIMPSON Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 86, Issue 342, January 1987, Pages 5–6, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a097879 Published: 01 January 1987
Bibliography of Africa
Journal Article BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AFRICA Get access DONALD H. SIMPSON DONALD H. SIMPSON Royal Commonwealth Society Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 82, Issue 329, October 1983, Pages 595–598, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a097574 Published: 01 October 1983
Commonwealth notebook
Dark Companions: The African Contribution to the European Exploration of East Africa
Dark Companions: The African Contribution to the European Exploration of East Africa
Growing Up in Poor Neighbourhoods: The Significance of Class and Place in the Extended Transitions of ‘Socially Excluded’Young Adults
Drawing upon qualitative, longitudinal research with 'socially excluded' young adults from some of England's poorest neighbourhoods, the article explores how locally-embedded, social networks become part of the process whereby poverty and class inequalities are reproduced. Networks of family and friends, rooted in severely de-industrialized locales, supported young people as they carved out transitions to adulthood in adverse circumstances. Examp…
Dark Companions: The African Contribution to the European Exploration of East Africa
Dark Companions: The African Contribution to the European Exploration of East Africa
Skills for Life? Basic Skills and Marginal Transitions from School to Work
This paper reports on a qualitative research project that explored the influence of basic skills on the school-to-work transitions of young adults. Large numbers of young people have poor skills yet it is a neglected area of study. We document how skill competencies act as barriers to learning and labour market opportunities, illustrating that some individuals are ‘reticent’ about accessing opportunities and that individual decision-making and ag…
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past’: Legacy, care leavers and university study
International research reveals underrepresentation and problems of retention, amongst care leavers in higher education, are universal. Drawing upon qualitative research in England, we highlight legacy as an under-explored and double-edged feature of care leavers’ motivations to enter and persist in university study. While restricting access to the propulsive power of material resources, in the context of a widening participation policy mandate, o…
Becoming professional? Exploring Early Years Professional Status and its implications for workforce reform in England
Across the ‘European learning space’ (Lawn, 2006) professionalisation of early years workforces has become a key priority and there has been a flow of this policy between borders (Oberhuemer, 2005). Early Years Professional Status (EYPS) is central to these developments in England.Within what is regarded as a traditionally ‘split’ early years workforce (Moss, 2008), EYPS felt to offer a route for those from a childcare background to improve their…
Basic skills and transitions to adulthood
This article reports on the findings of a qualitative research project conducted in the North East of England. This project involved interviews with 55 young adults in an attempt to explore the impact of poor basic skills on transitions to adulthood. Poor basic skills have been identifued across Europe as a problem facing nation states, groups and individuals. But apart from large-scale survey-based studies (Bynner and Parsons, 2001), previous yo…
Dark Companions: The African Contribution to the European Exploration of East Africa
Talking heresy about ‘quality’ early childhood education and care for children in poverty
This paper considers the socially progressive function of a model of ‘quality’ early childhood education and care widely prescribed to address child poverty across England and the USA. Ubiquitous, it is imbued with a sense of objectivity, secureness and practicality. We question these foundations. Then using data from practitioners in both countries, we contrast expectations about this model of ECEC as an unmitigated good building resilience to ‘…
Basic Skills, Literacy Practices and the 'Hidden Injuries of Class
This paper draws on qualitative data from three research projects that examined the impact of poor skills on the life chances of adults living in two disadvantaged areas of England. We employed the theories of Goffman and Bourdieu to document how problems with literacy have a corrosive effect on the identities of interviewees, threatening their wellbeing. Though learning difficulties occur across all social backgrounds, the poor family resources …
Comprehensive Community Initiatives: Addressing a 'Problem' in Local Governance or Creating One
Pervaded by 'third way' values and identified as archetypal Comprehensive Community Initiatives (CCIs), programmes such as Education Action Zones (EAZs) and Health Action Zones (HAZs) follow a procedural rationale based on heterarchy and partnership. They are a response to an alleged prior fragmentation of service provision in welfare across sectors. Employing evidence from an evaluation of an EAZ and HAZ in one location, this article makes two c…
Thirty years of the commonwealth day observance
A formal Observance of Commonwealth Day has become a strong tradition since the first service of affirmation and faith was held in the Church of St. Martin in the Fields in 1966. But from the outset there has been controversy about the multi‐faith nature of the event. Later multi‐faith ceremonies have been held at the London Guildhall and, since 1972, at Westminster Abbey. The order includes forms of words which were initially strongly theistic b…
Africa — any representation a blessing
Dark Companions: The African Contribution to the European Exploration of East Africa
Dark Companions: The African Contribution to the European Exploration of East Africa
Dark Companions: The African Contribution to the European Exploration of East Africa
Dark Companions: The African Contribution to the European Exploration of East Africa
Commonwealth notebook
Bibliography of Africa
Journal Article BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AFRICA Get access DONALD H. SIMPSON DONALD H. SIMPSON Royal Commonwealth Society Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 82, Issue 329, October 1983, Pages 595–598, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a097574 Published: 01 October 1983
Mary Kingsley: A West African Group
Journal Article MARY KINGSLEY: A WEST AFRICAN GROUP Get access DONALD SIMPSON DONALD SIMPSON Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 86, Issue 342, January 1987, Pages 5–6, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a097879 Published: 01 January 1987
Black Images in Film—The 1940s to the Early 1960s
(1990). Black Images in Film—The 1940s to the Early 1960s. The Black Scholar: Vol. 21, Black Cinema, pp. 20-29
David Livingstone: Letters and documents 1841–1872
David Livingstone: Letters and documents 1841–1872 Get access David Livingstone: Letters and documents 1841–1872, edited by Timothy Holmes. James Currey, London, 1990. xx+202pp. £30.00. ISBN 0 253 33516 7. Livingatone's Legacy: Horace Waller and Victorian mythmaking, by Dorothy O. Helly. Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio and London, 1987. xviii+404pp. £36.05. ISBN 0 8214 0836 4. DONALD SIMPSON DONALD SIMPSON Twickenham, Middlesex Search for oth…
David Livingstone's Shire Journal 1861–1864
Journal Article David Livingstone's Shire Journal 1861–1864 Get access David Livingstone's Shire Journal 1861–1864, edited by Gary W. Clendennen. Scottish Cultural Press, 1993. Paperback £20.00. xxxix + 214 pp. ISBN 1 898218 00 5. DONALD SIMPSON DONALD SIMPSON Hampton Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 94, Issue 377, October 1995, Pages 593–594, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.a…
Aggrey and Fraser: A Unique Photograph
Journal Article AGGREY AND FRASER: A UNIQUE PHOTOGRAPH Get access DONALD SIMPSON DONALD SIMPSON Donald Simpson is former Librarian of The Royal Commonwealth Society Library, London. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 94, Issue 374, January 1995, Pages 87–89, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a098804 Published: 01 January 1995
Thirty years of the commonwealth day observance
A formal Observance of Commonwealth Day has become a strong tradition since the first service of affirmation and faith was held in the Church of St. Martin in the Fields in 1966. But from the outset there has been controversy about the multi‐faith nature of the event. Later multi‐faith ceremonies have been held at the London Guildhall and, since 1972, at Westminster Abbey. The order includes forms of words which were initially strongly theistic b…
Comprehensive Community Initiatives: Addressing a 'Problem' in Local Governance or Creating One
Pervaded by 'third way' values and identified as archetypal Comprehensive Community Initiatives (CCIs), programmes such as Education Action Zones (EAZs) and Health Action Zones (HAZs) follow a procedural rationale based on heterarchy and partnership. They are a response to an alleged prior fragmentation of service provision in welfare across sectors. Employing evidence from an evaluation of an EAZ and HAZ in one location, this article makes two c…
Baudin's Doctors: French Medical Scientists in Australian Waters, 1801–1803
TEST 02 - Elsevier's Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Search and access research from the science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities fields
Brain Wounds in the First World War: Lessons from the Steel Thunderstorms
In The Myriad Faces of War, Trevor Wilson directed attention to one of the most interesting medical issues in the First World War: the relatively high incidence of brain wounds in trench warfare, 'the head being the most attackable part of a trench-dweller'.2 The incidence of head wounds in British wounded during a period of trench warfare in 1915 was about 23 per cent, compared with 16 per cent in 1914, in general a time of open fighting.3 This …
Growing Up in Poor Neighbourhoods: The Significance of Class and Place in the Extended Transitions of ‘Socially Excluded’Young Adults
Drawing upon qualitative, longitudinal research with 'socially excluded' young adults from some of England's poorest neighbourhoods, the article explores how locally-embedded, social networks become part of the process whereby poverty and class inequalities are reproduced. Networks of family and friends, rooted in severely de-industrialized locales, supported young people as they carved out transitions to adulthood in adverse circumstances. Examp…
Skills for Life? Basic Skills and Marginal Transitions from School to Work
This paper reports on a qualitative research project that explored the influence of basic skills on the school-to-work transitions of young adults. Large numbers of young people have poor skills yet it is a neglected area of study. We document how skill competencies act as barriers to learning and labour market opportunities, illustrating that some individuals are ‘reticent’ about accessing opportunities and that individual decision-making and ag…
Basic skills and transitions to adulthood
This article reports on the findings of a qualitative research project conducted in the North East of England. This project involved interviews with 55 young adults in an attempt to explore the impact of poor basic skills on transitions to adulthood. Poor basic skills have been identifued across Europe as a problem facing nation states, groups and individuals. But apart from large-scale survey-based studies (Bynner and Parsons, 2001), previous yo…
Becoming professional? Exploring Early Years Professional Status and its implications for workforce reform in England
Across the ‘European learning space’ (Lawn, 2006) professionalisation of early years workforces has become a key priority and there has been a flow of this policy between borders (Oberhuemer, 2005). Early Years Professional Status (EYPS) is central to these developments in England.Within what is regarded as a traditionally ‘split’ early years workforce (Moss, 2008), EYPS felt to offer a route for those from a childcare background to improve their…
Reform, inequalities of process and the transformative potential of communities of practice in the pre-school sector of England
The integration of care and education across pre-school sectors of several European countries is currently a key policy priority. In England this necessitates reform aimed at re-modelling a traditionally hierarchical and divided workforce. Drawing on research with early years professionals, this article explores the micro-politics of reform with a focus on the extent to which workers in pre-school settings are engaging in new collaborative ways o…
Key Concepts in Youth Studies
Pre-school practitioners, child poverty and social justice
Purpose – Several ideas exist about social justice and how inequalities can be tackled to help families and children in poverty. The Coalition government released the UK’s first Child Poverty Strategy in 2011. Pervaded by neoliberal ideology, the strategy mentions “empowering” pre-school services and practitioners within the childcare market “to do more for the most disadvantaged” (Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and Department for Educati…
Basic Skills, Literacy Practices and the 'Hidden Injuries of Class
This paper draws on qualitative data from three research projects that examined the impact of poor skills on the life chances of adults living in two disadvantaged areas of England. We employed the theories of Goffman and Bourdieu to document how problems with literacy have a corrosive effect on the identities of interviewees, threatening their wellbeing. Though learning difficulties occur across all social backgrounds, the poor family resources …
Talking heresy about ‘quality’ early childhood education and care for children in poverty
This paper considers the socially progressive function of a model of ‘quality’ early childhood education and care widely prescribed to address child poverty across England and the USA. Ubiquitous, it is imbued with a sense of objectivity, secureness and practicality. We question these foundations. Then using data from practitioners in both countries, we contrast expectations about this model of ECEC as an unmitigated good building resilience to ‘…
Political science (18 works) · Sociology (16 works) · African history and culture studies (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · History (7 works) · History (7 works) · Economic growth (6 works)