Anthony Heath: Annual Report 2002-2003

Anthony Heath (Professorial Fellow) has been very largely occupied with running the Department of Sociology and supervising graduate students. However he still finds time for some research. His main research activities has been working on a project on English national identity which is part of the ESRC's programme on Devolution and Constitutional Change. With Cath Rothon he has been working on the question of 'who is British' and has found very considerable variations in 'Britishness' across the four territories of the United Kingdom. With Sin Yi Cheung (Oxford Brookes) he has been coordinating a major cross-national study of ethnic minority disadvantage in the labour market, focusing particularly on the experiences of the second generation. He has also been working with Chris McCrudden and Robert Ford on an assessment of fair employment legislation in Northern Ireland.

Publications

(with L Jarvis and C Rothon) 'English to the Core?', in A Park (ed.), British Social Attitudes: the 19th Report. London: Sage, 2002, pp 169-184.

'Education since 1945', in J Hollowell (ed.), Britain Since 1945. Oxford: Blackwell, 2003, pp 296-312.

(with J Martin and R Beertens) 'Old and New Social Class Measures: A Comparison', in D Rose and D J Pevalin (eds.), A Researcher's Guide to the National Statistics Socio-economic Classification. London: Sage, 2003, pp 226-243.

(with R Andersen and R Sinnott) 'Do Less Informed Voters Make Mistakes? Political Knowledge and Electoral Choices' Revue de la Maison Française d'Oxford, 1, 69-83, 2003.

(with A Sullivan) 'Intakes and Examination Results at State and Private Schools', in G Walford (ed.), British Private Schools: Research on Policy and Practice. London: Woburn, 2003, pp 77-104.

(with Y Yogendra) 'The United Colours of Congress: Social Profile of Congress Voters, 1996 and 1998', in Z Hasan (ed), Parties and Party Politics in India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2002, pp 107-149.

(with R Andersen) 'Social Identities and Political Cleavages: The Role of Political Context', Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 166, 3, 310-328, [ ].

(with S Kumar and O Heath) 'Changing Patterns of Social Mobility: Some Trends over Time', Economic and Political Weekly, 37, 4091-4096, 2002.