Anthony Heath: Annual Report 2001-2002

Anthony Heath (Professorial Fellow) has continued to be Head of the Department of Sociology. He has suffered some ill health during the year and is extremely grateful to all his colleagues for the great support they have given him. Thanks to his supportive collaborators, he has made some progress with research. He has been working with Robert Andersen (Research Fellow in the Centre for Research into Elections and Social Trends), Richard Sinnott (UCD) and James Tilley (Prize Research Fellow-elect) on the role and impact of political knowledge. With Cath Rothon and his other colleagues in CREST Anthony Heath has also been working on 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 has fed into the Cabinet Office's current inquiry into ethnic minority disadvantage in Britain and the possible policy responses to it. With Sin-Yi Cheung he has set up a cross-national project to compare ethnic minority disadvantage in a range of countries including France, Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands, Belgium, Ireland, Israel, the USA and Canada. Finally with Alice Sullivan (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at Nuffield) he has been work on educational attainment in state and private schools and exploring the mechanisms that account for the success of independent and grammar schools.

Publications

(with Robert Andersen) 'Class Matters: The Persisting Effects of Contextual Social Class on Individual Voting in Britain, 1964-97', European Sociological Review 18, 2000.

(with Sanjay Kumar and Oliver Heath). 'Determinants of Social Mobility in India', Economic and Political Weekly, 37, 2002.

(with Robert Andersen and Richard Sinnott) 'Political Knowledge and Electoral Choice', in Lynn Bennie, Colin Rallings, Jonathan Tonge and Paul Webb (eds.), British Elections and Parties Review, Volume 12. London: Frank Cass, 2002.

(with Robert Andersen) 'La integración de la teoría y los métodos: un nuevo enfoque para la investigación comparativa de las divisiones sociales', Política y Sociedad, 38, 2001.