Gareth Rees
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 260645 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Gareth Rees |
| PRENOMES | Gareth |
| SOBRENOME | Rees |
| ASSINATURA | REES G |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Cardiff University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2938-7491 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 56 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 282 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 55 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1959 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Diagnosing by anticipation
Anticipation is a fundamental aspect of social life and, following Weber, the hallmark of social action-it means trying to take others' responses to our actions into account when acting. In this article, we propose and argue the relevance of anticipation to the sociological study of diagnosis. To that end, we introduce and elaborate on the concept of diagnosing by anticipation. To diagnose by anticipation is to consider diagnoses as cultural obje…
The Positional Effects of Education on Social Capital in the UK
Social research consistently identifies education as a key driver of social capital, providing skills, experiences and values facilitating social interaction. This theory cannot explain, however, why indicators of social capital (such as social trust) have not increased despite the massification of higher education in Europe and America. Efforts to explain this paradox have suggested the sorting effects of education may be more important for unde…
The coproduction work of healthcare professionals in police custody
Forensic medicine has traditionally been understood as constituting a tension between medical and legal roles: a care-custody paradox. Rather than reinforcing this paradox, however, in this paper I will draw upon a study of Healthcare Professionals working within police custody suites in England in order to show the ways that they coproduce [Jasanoff, S., 2004. States of knowledge: the co-production of science and social order . London: Routledge…
Judging Post-Controversy Expertise
The sexual assault trial of R v Hartman included evidence from a sleep expert who found himself increasingly marginalised within the scientific community. Marginalisation takes place following a scientific controversy, when those considered to be on the losing side find it increasingly difficult to be heard by the community, and in particular, their ideas are removed from core texts in the field. Given a marginalised expert's ambiguous status, an…
Fourth Report on the Publication and Conservation of the Tomb of Ramesses III in the Valley of the Kings (KV 11)
The following article presents preliminary results of a sondage in the burial chamber (hall J) and a visual survey in the areas H, I, J, Ja-Jd, K1, K2, and L during the 2019/2020 field season carried out by The Ramesses III (KV 11) Publication and Conservation Project in the tomb of pharaoh Ramesses III.1 The detailed description and interpretation of the initial excavation work were omitted from the Second Report2 because it required more extens…
A liberal higher education for all? The massification of higher education and its implications for graduates’ participation in civil society
In recent years, questions about the purpose of higher education (HE) have come to the fore as HE tuition fees have escalated both in the UK and internationally. The extent to which universities provide students with opportunities for developing skills needed not only for future employment but participation in civic life has become an important contemporary issue. Drawing on interviews with 29 graduates from three distinct types of UK higher educ…
Second Report on the Publication and Conservation of the Tomb of Ramesses III in the Valley of the Kings (KV 11)
The Ramesses III (KV 11) Publication and Conservation Project is currently developing a site management, conservation and publication strategy for the severely damaged tomb of pharaoh Ramesses III in order to prevent further deterioration and to preserve this cultural heritage site for future generations. Along with first urgent measures of conservation, a geo-archaeological survey of KV 11 and its surroundings, as well as a geomatic and photogra…
Finding Antarctica’s Pole of Inaccessibility
Antarctica’s Pole of Inaccessibility (Southern Pole of Inaccessibility (SPI)) is the point on the Antarctic continent farthest from its edge. Existing literature exhibits disagreement over its location. Using two revisions of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research’s Antarctic Digital Database, we calculate modern-day positions for the SPI around 10 years apart, based on the position of the “outer” Antarctic coastline, i.e. its boundary wi…
Conceptualising the sociology of education
This paper presents an account of the development of the sociology of education in the UK, by means of an analysis of papers published in the field’s flagship journal, the British Journal of Sociology of Education and its US equivalent, Sociology of Education. In particular, we examine the representation of two contrasting traditions in addressing social inequalities: ‘political arithmetic’; and the more recent ‘cultural turn’. We find that in th…
The 'civic premium' of university graduates
Considerable attention has been paid to the economic benefits of participating in higher education, particularly the ‘economic premium’ of graduates compared to non-graduates. Although the civic contribution of graduates has been widely acknowledged and discussed, there has been a dearth of empirical analysis that investigates this contribution. Furthermore, the massification of higher education in the UK, US, and many other countries, has had pr…
Getting the Sergeants on your side
In this article, I contribute to the literature around interagency collaboration, especially between law enforcement and health care, by reconciling the previous work of Sarah Charman (2014) with the interprofessional teamwork literature. Drawing upon a semi-structured interview-based study with 20 custody nurses working in English police custody suites (analysed using Framework Analysis), I explore the ways they are able to achieve interagency c…
Widening Access’ to higher education
Patterns of participation in higher education (HE) in the UK, as elsewhere, have been marked by social inequalities for decades. UK Governments have responded with a plethora of policies and agendas aimed at addressing this broad social issue. However, little is known about how higher education institutions (HEIs) interpret and ‘enact’ these policies in relation to institution-specific contexts. Drawing on concepts from policy sociology this pape…
Self-Defense or Undermining the Self? Exploring the Possibilities and Limitations of a Novel Anti-Rape Technology
Despite decades of feminist-inspired law reforms, rape remains highly prevalent. While many continue to fight for broad cultural and institutional changes, some argue that more immediate interventions are required. Self-defense techniques represent a key strategy of resistance to rape, and empirical evidence suggests that women's active resistance may hold a number of positive benefits. In this essay, we compare the aims and objectives of a novel…
Colonial discourse, Indian Ocean Trade and the Urbanisation of the Western Deccan
A plethora of data attest to the importance of connections across the Indian Ocean during the first millennium BC. Literary and archaeological evidence indicate that an Indian Ocean trade network had been established that facilitated the exchange of diverse goods between East Africa, Egypt, Arabia, South East Asia and South Asia.1 The same period witnessed the development of urban centres and empires in South Asia. In the Western Deccan the emerg…
New managerialism in education
Kathleen Lynch and her colleagues Bernie Grummell and Dympna Devine have produced a frustratingly compelling volume that documents the arrival of ‘new managerialism’ in the Irish education system
Finding the Arctic pole of inaccessibility
The Arctic pole of inaccessibility (API), defined as the point on the Arctic Ocean that is farthest from any land, is commonly asserted to lie at 84° 03′ N, 174° 51′ W. We show that the true position is 85° 48′ N, 176° 09′ E, over 200 km from the traditional location. The reason for this error is unknown
Devolution and geographies of education
Following political devolution in the late 1990s and the establishment of the governments for Wales and Scotland, the education systems of the four home countries of the UK have significantly diverged. Consequently, not only does that mean that education research in the UK has to be sensitive to such divergence, but that the divergence of policy and practice provides an important opportunity to undertake comparative research within the UK. Such ‘…
Whose Credibility Is It Anyway
There is an inherent tension in the information gathering and recording stages of the forensic medical examination of rape survivors. Medical practitioners do not wish to record information that can undermine a complainant’s credibility, but at the same time must ensure that they do not problematise their own credibility by appearing partisan (for instance, by omitting information that might be relevant). Drawing upon semi-structured interviews w…
With the Disruption to Your Family Life, It’s More A Vocation than A Job”
For those involved in the management of the forensic intervention following a rape assault, the attendance of a survivor is unpredictable. Rotas are produced to attempt control; however, as the forensic intervention is an example of bodywork (determined by body time), it necessarily poses a challenge to clock time. To solve this dilemma, nurses offer “favours” (Cohen, 2010) to colleagues in the form of flexibility over shifts. Nurses are also fle…
Making a Space for Medical Expertise
This article looks at the boundary work performed by Victorian doctors in order to position themselves as beneficial to the court in helping to determine whether a woman had been raped. These doctors provided tangible physical evidence to support already widely-held beliefs about the nature of the rape victim. Such physical evidence could then be used to support, or undermine, the complainant’s allegation. The article concludes that the reliance …
Vindictive but vulnerable
Introduction
The 11 th International Circumpolar Remote Sensing Symposium (ICRSS) was held at the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge from 20 to 24 September 2010. The ICRSS series began in Yellowknife in 1990 and has been held biennially since then. The 2010 meeting was the sixth time it had been held in Europe and the second time in the UK, but the first time in Cambridge. 35 people attended the meeting, from 11 countries, and over 20 oral presentat…
Morphology is a witness which doesn't lie
It is Not for Me to Say Whether Consent Was Given or Not’
Attrition rate studies have outlined the role the ‘real rape’ stereotype plays in prosecutor decisions concerning the progression of rape cases through the criminal justice system. According to the ‘real rape’ stereotype, the victim should attend the medical examination with significant physical injury, and therefore police, prosecutors and jurors take injury evidence into consideration when deciding the veracity of the complainant’s allegation. …
Out‐of‐school learning
A significant volume of research demonstrates that out‐of‐school learning activities enhance student development in terms of cognitive, affective and social outcomes. However, there is also evidence that the opportunity to engage in these activities has been severely reduced in recent years. This paper explores the extent to which the provision of such opportunities is unevenly distributed—spatially and institutionally. The paper draws on researc…
The Services Economy, Subcontracting and the New Employment Relations
Sociological discussion of expansion in services employment has been unnecessarily limited. An examination of developments in under-explored sectors such as personal services and `low-level' producer services demonstrates the fruitfulness of analysis in terms of the social and technical divisions of labour, especially with respect to the growth of subcontracting. However, contrary to theories of the `flexible firm', this restructuring is complex,…
Reappraising the Apparent Underachievement of Boys at School
This article challenges two widely-held beliefs about the differences in the performance of boys and girls at school. The 'gap' between the achievement of boys and girls is not growing, and may be shrinking. The gap is not predominantly a problem of low achievement, nor is it uniformly distributed across the range of attainments. The gap, in favour of girls, mainly appears at the higher levels in any assessment. The change in understanding of the…
History, place and the learning society
This paper aims to shift the debate on the Learning Society away from the normative focus which has predominated hitherto. Rather than beginning with questions about what a Learning Society ought to constitute, we seek to engage with the patterns of participation in learning through the life‐course and their determinants. Our discussion begins with an examination of the way in which the official discourse of the Learning Society is dominated by h…
Investigating the Patterns of Differential Attainment of Boys and Girls at School
Recent research on the differential attainment of boys and girls at school has produced findings in significant contrast to the standard account on which most previous explanations of the differences between boys and girls were based. Put simply, much previous research may have been attempting to explain differences whose nature was incompletely understood. The result, if these new findings are accepted, is that further research is now necessary …
Regional Restructuring, Class Change, and Political Action
This paper sets out an analysis of the determination of the character of the 1984–1985 miners' strike. This character is to be understood in terms of the continuities between the strike and preceding developments in terms of (1) the reorganisation of the British coal industry, (2) wider patterns of change in the economic and social structure of the coalfields, and (3) active and self-conscious political organisation, especially within the Nationa…
Two dimensions of time
(1999). Two dimensions of time: The changing social context of lifelong learning. Studies in the Education of Adults: Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 35-48
It is Not for Me to Say Whether Consent Was Given or Not’
Attrition rate studies have outlined the role the ‘real rape’ stereotype plays in prosecutor decisions concerning the progression of rape cases through the criminal justice system. According to the ‘real rape’ stereotype, the victim should attend the medical examination with significant physical injury, and therefore police, prosecutors and jurors take injury evidence into consideration when deciding the veracity of the complainant’s allegation. …
Learning trajectories
This paper uses the results of a large‐scale study of patterns of participation in post‐compulsory education and training over the past 50 years to identify some of the social determinants of adult participation in formal learning experiences. The patterns of participation are presented in the form of predictable lifelong ‘trajectories’, and the predictability of these patterns of participation is as important a finding as their determinants. The…
Patterns of Participation in Lifelong Learning
This article draws on the results of a large‐scale study of lifetime participation in education and training. Focusing on the datasets relating to parents and children in the same family, it suggests that despite large changes in educational and training provision since 1945, individual participation trajectories remain very similar within families. The article also illustrates some of the varied ways in which family influences have been played o…
Social change, rural localities and the state
Morphology is a witness which doesn't lie
Research‐capacity building, professional learning and the social practices of educational research
There have been numerous attempts in the past few years within education research—and social science research more generally—to alter the character of research practice(s). In particular, there has been a systematic effort to address perceived shortcomings in research practice through a series of ‘research‐capacity building’ initiatives, aimed at the restructuring of professional learning. In this article the authors explore empirically the ways …
Lifelong learning trajectories
This paper illustrates the social determinants of lifelong learning histories as uncovered in a largescale survey and interview analysis carried out as part of the ESRC Learning Society Programme, and previously reported in this journal. The statistical ‘determinants’ of adult participation in learning as described there, such as family background or gender, are examined here in terms of individual stories as well as theoretical models derived fr…
Status Zero’
Considerable concern has been expressed over the plight of those young people who, on leaving school, fail to enter a training programme or a job. However, very little systematic research has been carried out on these jobless — or, as we put it, ‘Status Zero’ — school‐leavers. This paper begins to report the results of a study, carried out in a single TEC/LEA area in industrial South Wales, which aims to fill this gap. On the basis of extended in…
Vindictive but vulnerable
The ‘new vocationalism’
Current policies aimed at promoting a ‘new vocationalism’ through changes in vocational training in further education are based upon a particular functional model of labour market behaviour, which sees the relationships between technical qualifications, training and recruitment to jobs as unproblematic. In fact, however, this model bears little relationship to the realities of actual labour markets, especially given the enormous diversity which e…
Widening Access’ to higher education
Patterns of participation in higher education (HE) in the UK, as elsewhere, have been marked by social inequalities for decades. UK Governments have responded with a plethora of policies and agendas aimed at addressing this broad social issue. However, little is known about how higher education institutions (HEIs) interpret and ‘enact’ these policies in relation to institution-specific contexts. Drawing on concepts from policy sociology this pape…
Devolution and geographies of education
Following political devolution in the late 1990s and the establishment of the governments for Wales and Scotland, the education systems of the four home countries of the UK have significantly diverged. Consequently, not only does that mean that education research in the UK has to be sensitive to such divergence, but that the divergence of policy and practice provides an important opportunity to undertake comparative research within the UK. Such ‘…
The governance of educational inequalities
This paper examines the background, assumptions and impact of the current fashion for area-based initiatives (ABIs). Since coming to power in 1997, New Labour has increasingly sought to tackle education and other inequalities in the UK through distributing resources on an area basis. Although at first sight the policy of targeting resources at the most deprived areas appears to offer a straightforward means of redistributing welfare, it can be de…
The Industrial Restructuring of South Wales
This paper examines the causes of the current economic crisis in the industrial region of South Wales. The authors maintain that past as well as current government policies have played a major role in bringing about the crisis by contributing to the vulnerability of communities in South Wales. The authors review the history of the policies which have contributed to the current steel and coal crises. They then provide a brief discussion of current…
The coproduction work of healthcare professionals in police custody
Forensic medicine has traditionally been understood as constituting a tension between medical and legal roles: a care-custody paradox. Rather than reinforcing this paradox, however, in this paper I will draw upon a study of Healthcare Professionals working within police custody suites in England in order to show the ways that they coproduce [Jasanoff, S., 2004. States of knowledge: the co-production of science and social order . London: Routledge…
Conceptualising the sociology of education
This paper presents an account of the development of the sociology of education in the UK, by means of an analysis of papers published in the field’s flagship journal, the British Journal of Sociology of Education and its US equivalent, Sociology of Education. In particular, we examine the representation of two contrasting traditions in addressing social inequalities: ‘political arithmetic’; and the more recent ‘cultural turn’. We find that in th…
Out‐of‐school learning
A significant volume of research demonstrates that out‐of‐school learning activities enhance student development in terms of cognitive, affective and social outcomes. However, there is also evidence that the opportunity to engage in these activities has been severely reduced in recent years. This paper explores the extent to which the provision of such opportunities is unevenly distributed—spatially and institutionally. The paper draws on researc…
Copper Sheathing an Example of Technological Diffusion in the English Merchant Fleet
The Positional Effects of Education on Social Capital in the UK
Social research consistently identifies education as a key driver of social capital, providing skills, experiences and values facilitating social interaction. This theory cannot explain, however, why indicators of social capital (such as social trust) have not increased despite the massification of higher education in Europe and America. Efforts to explain this paradox have suggested the sorting effects of education may be more important for unde…
An Historical Atlas of Wales from Early to Modern Times
Copper Sheathing an Example of Technological Diffusion in the English Merchant Fleet
An Historical Atlas of Wales from Early to Modern Times
Geology of the North-West European Continental Shelf. Vol. 1
Faludi's 'Sociology in Planning Education
The Industrial Restructuring of South Wales
This paper examines the causes of the current economic crisis in the industrial region of South Wales. The authors maintain that past as well as current government policies have played a major role in bringing about the crisis by contributing to the vulnerability of communities in South Wales. The authors review the history of the policies which have contributed to the current steel and coal crises. They then provide a brief discussion of current…
Restructuring Capital
Regional Restructuring, Class Change, and Political Action
This paper sets out an analysis of the determination of the character of the 1984–1985 miners' strike. This character is to be understood in terms of the continuities between the strike and preceding developments in terms of (1) the reorganisation of the British coal industry, (2) wider patterns of change in the economic and social structure of the coalfields, and (3) active and self-conscious political organisation, especially within the Nationa…
Cities in Crisis. The Political Economy of Urban Development in Post-War Britain
Changing places
Social change, rural localities and the state
The ‘new vocationalism’
Current policies aimed at promoting a ‘new vocationalism’ through changes in vocational training in further education are based upon a particular functional model of labour market behaviour, which sees the relationships between technical qualifications, training and recruitment to jobs as unproblematic. In fact, however, this model bears little relationship to the realities of actual labour markets, especially given the enormous diversity which e…
The Services Economy, Subcontracting and the New Employment Relations
Sociological discussion of expansion in services employment has been unnecessarily limited. An examination of developments in under-explored sectors such as personal services and `low-level' producer services demonstrates the fruitfulness of analysis in terms of the social and technical divisions of labour, especially with respect to the growth of subcontracting. However, contrary to theories of the `flexible firm', this restructuring is complex,…
Australian Urban and Regional Research
Status Zero’
Considerable concern has been expressed over the plight of those young people who, on leaving school, fail to enter a training programme or a job. However, very little systematic research has been carried out on these jobless — or, as we put it, ‘Status Zero’ — school‐leavers. This paper begins to report the results of a study, carried out in a single TEC/LEA area in industrial South Wales, which aims to fill this gap. On the basis of extended in…
The Role of Institutional Networks in Local Economic Development
(1997). The role of institutional networks in local economic development: A new model of governance? Local Economy: Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 104-118.
History, place and the learning society
This paper aims to shift the debate on the Learning Society away from the normative focus which has predominated hitherto. Rather than beginning with questions about what a Learning Society ought to constitute, we seek to engage with the patterns of participation in learning through the life‐course and their determinants. Our discussion begins with an examination of the way in which the official discourse of the Learning Society is dominated by h…
Learning trajectories
This paper uses the results of a large‐scale study of patterns of participation in post‐compulsory education and training over the past 50 years to identify some of the social determinants of adult participation in formal learning experiences. The patterns of participation are presented in the form of predictable lifelong ‘trajectories’, and the predictability of these patterns of participation is as important a finding as their determinants. The…
Networking for Local Economic Development
The twin themes of ‘globalisation’ and ‘localisation’ have been prominent features in the debate about economic development since the mid-1980s. Paradoxically, as the economy becomes more and more globalised the local dimension of economic development has attracted more and more interest from both scholars and policy-makers. One of the reasons for this apparent paradox is that localities and regions are the day-to-day arenas in which the pressure…
Reappraising the Apparent Underachievement of Boys at School
This article challenges two widely-held beliefs about the differences in the performance of boys and girls at school. The 'gap' between the achievement of boys and girls is not growing, and may be shrinking. The gap is not predominantly a problem of low achievement, nor is it uniformly distributed across the range of attainments. The gap, in favour of girls, mainly appears at the higher levels in any assessment. The change in understanding of the…
Two dimensions of time
(1999). Two dimensions of time: The changing social context of lifelong learning. Studies in the Education of Adults: Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 35-48
Patterns of Participation in Lifelong Learning
This article draws on the results of a large‐scale study of lifetime participation in education and training. Focusing on the datasets relating to parents and children in the same family, it suggests that despite large changes in educational and training provision since 1945, individual participation trajectories remain very similar within families. The article also illustrates some of the varied ways in which family influences have been played o…
Lifelong learning trajectories
Lifelong learning trajectories
This paper illustrates the social determinants of lifelong learning histories as uncovered in a largescale survey and interview analysis carried out as part of the ESRC Learning Society Programme, and previously reported in this journal. The statistical ‘determinants’ of adult participation in learning as described there, such as family background or gender, are examined here in terms of individual stories as well as theoretical models derived fr…
Investigating the Patterns of Differential Attainment of Boys and Girls at School
Recent research on the differential attainment of boys and girls at school has produced findings in significant contrast to the standard account on which most previous explanations of the differences between boys and girls were based. Put simply, much previous research may have been attempting to explain differences whose nature was incompletely understood. The result, if these new findings are accepted, is that further research is now necessary …
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