Anthony Heath: Annual Report 2003-2004

Anthony Heath (Professorial Fellow) has been working on a number of projects. The first is an ESRC-funded study (part of the Devolution and Constitutional Change Programme) looking at national identity and support for the Union in the wake of devolution. Closely related to this is another ESRC-funded project (with James Tilley and Sonia Exley) on national pride. These projects have shown that there are substantial generational changes in pride in Britain (and support for the union) and that these changes have been proceeding more rapidly in Scotland than in England or Wales. A second group of projects concerns ethnic disadvantage in the labour market. With Sin Yi Cheung (Oxford Brookes) Anthony Heath has been coordinating a cross-national study of ethnic disadvantage, comparing the British experience with that in other Western European and North American countries. They are also carrying out a project for the Department of Work and Pensions on sectoral differences in ethnic disadvantages. And with Rob Ford and Chris McCrudden a preliminary study of the effects of affirmative action on Catholic/Protestant differentials in the labour market has been completed. It is hoped that this will lead to a further major investigation.

Publications

(with Bob Andersen) 'Social Identities and Political Cleavages: The Role of Political Context', Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A, 166, 301-327, 2003.

(with Cath Rothon) 'Trends in Racial Prejudice', in Alison Park et al (eds.), British Social Attitudes, the 20th Report: Continuity and Change over Two Decades. London: Sage, 2003, pp 189-213.

(with Michael Sobel, Nan Dirk de Graaf and Ying Zou) 'Men Matter More: The Social Class Identity of Married British Women', Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A, 167, 37-52, 2004.

(with Christopher McCrudden and Robert Ford) 'The Impact of Affirmative Action Agreements', in Bob Osborne and Ian Shuttleworth (eds.), Fair Employment in Northern Ireland: A Generation On. Belfast: The Blackstaff Press, 2004, pp 122-150.