Anthony Heath: Annual Report 1999-2000

Anthony Heath (Official Fellow) has been working on the establishment of the new Department of Sociology. This has left less time than usual for academic research. His main research activities have been collaborative work with Robert Andersen (Research Fellow in the Centre for Research into Elections and Social Trends). They have been working on papers exploring the electoral cycle, the contextual effects of social class, regional differences in voting behaviour, and political knowledge. With other colleagues in CREST Anthony Heath has also been successful in obtaining a grant from the ESRC to study national identity and constitutional change in England (as part of the ESRC's Devolution and Constitutional Change Programme).

He has also been working on ethnic differences in Britain, in particular comparing the educational and occupational experiences of the first- and second-generation members of ethnic minorities. This work suggests that the generation, who were born and educated in Britain, suffer disadvantages as great as those suffered by the first generation who were educated abroad and then migrated to Britain.

Publications

(with Dorren McMahon) 'Les différences ethniques sur le marché du travail Britainnique: le rôle de l'éducation et des origines sociales', Formation Emploi, 68, 1999.

(with I. McLean, B. Taylor adn J. Curtice), 'Between First and Second Order: A Comparison of Voting Behaviour in European and Local Elections in Britain', European Journal of Political Research, 35, 1999.

(with Clive Payne) 'Social Mobility', in A. H. Halsey with J. Webb (eds.), Twentieth-Century British Social Trends. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000.

(with Harvey Goldstein) Educational Standards, Proceedings of the British Academy 102, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.

(with Min Yang and Harvey Goldstein) 'Multilevel Models for Repeated Binary Outcomes: Attitudes and Voting over the Electoral Cycle', Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 163, 2000.