SocMobility: Education and Social Mobility in Scotland in the 20th Century
Conference on
Education and Social Mobility, 13 June 2005 |
A public conference on Education and Social
Mobility was held on 13 June 2005 at the University of Edinburgh.
The conference was supported by the Economic and Social Research Council
(ESRC) and marked the end of the ESRC-funded research project "Education
and Social Mobility in Scotland in the 20th Century". This project
was conducted by Dr Cristina Iannelli and Professor Lindsay Paterson,
with the administrative support of Moira Burke. A summary of the main
results from the project was presented at the conference and their
policy implications were discussed. The presentations also focused
on fundamental ethical and political principles which underpin debates
about social mobility and education and on some specific issues in
educational policy in Scotland and England. The conference was chaired
by Professor Robert Cormack (Principal of the UHI Millennium Institute)
and the speakers were Dr Adam Swift (Balliol College, Oxford), Professor
Stephen Baron (Strathclyde University, and Institute of Education,
London) and Dr Cristina Iannelli and Professor Lindsay Paterson (Moray
House School of Education, Edinburgh University). The conference was
attended by 66 people who came from eight universities in England
and Scotland, the Scottish Executive, three Scottish local authorities,
various public bodies in Scottish education, and various voluntary-sector
organisations in Scottish education. |
The following
are accessible via the web-links below |
• The conference
programme • Biographical notes on the Chair and Speakers • Abstracts for the presentations • The conference presentations • A full list of participants and their details |
Seminar
on Education and Social Mobility, 8 October 2004 |
Under the auspices of the project, Cristina
Iannelli and Lindsay Paterson, with the administrative assistance
of Moira Burke, organised a one-day seminar for academics who have
a specialist interest in education and social mobility. This seminar
was held in Edinburgh University in October 2004 and encompassed substantive
theoretical and methodological issues as well as empirical results
in social mobility studies. David Raffe (Moray House School of Education,
Edinburgh University) chaired the seminar and the speakers were John
Goldthorpe (Nuffield College, Oxford), Richard Breen (Nuffield College,
Oxford), Chris Whelan (Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin),
Cristina Iannelli and Lindsay Paterson (both from Moray House School
of Education, Edinburgh University). The seminar was an important
opportunity for the organisers and the participants to discuss some
of the main findings of the project and to debate current issues in
social mobility studies in the national and international arenas. |
Participants
in the seminar, in addition to the chairman and speakers |
Stephen Baron, Strathclyde and Cambridge
Universities; Ross Bond, Delma Byrne, Linda Croxford, Ian Deary, Pamela
Munn, Michael Rosie and Marina Shapira, all from Edinburgh University;
Steve Bruce and Tony Glendinning, Aberdeen University; Paul Lambert,
Stirling University; Emma McCallum, Scottish Household Survey, Scottish
Executive; Ann Millar, Scottish Funding Councils for Further &
Higher Education; Emer Smyth, Economic & Social Research Institute
(ESRI), Dublin; John Tibbitt and Diana Wilkinson, Scottish Executive. |