SocMobility: Education and Social Mobility in Scotland in the 20th Century
Conference on
Education and Social Mobility, 13 June 2005 Biographical Notes |
Chair: Professor Robert J Cormack, Principal of UHI Millennium Institute |
Robert Cormack gained an MA in Sociology at the University of Aberdeen before
undertaking graduate studies at Brown University USA. He was appointed
a Lecturer in Sociology at Queen's University of Belfast in 1973,
and spent 28 years at Queen's, becoming successively, Senior Lecturer,
Reader and Professor of Sociology. From 1993-95 he was Dean of the
Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences before becoming Pro-Vice-Chancellor
in 1995. He was the Co-Director of the Centre for Research on Higher
Education - a joint research centre of Queen's University and the
University of Ulster. He has worked on a number of Council of Europe
projects over the years most notably on a working party set up to
advise on the restructuring of Pristina University in Kosovo after
the war. In 2001 he was appointed the Principal of UHI Millennium
Institute – the institution charged with creating the University
for the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. He is the author of many
articles, reports and books mainly on equal opportunities issues in the context of Northern Ireland and on higher education matters. |
Dr Cristina Iannelli, Research Fellow at the Centre for Educational Sociology at the Moray House
School of Education in the University of Edinburgh |
Cristina Iannelli gained her PhD in Social and Political Sciences at the European
University Institute (San Domenico di Fiesole, Florence) in April
2000. Since October 1999 she has worked as a Research Fellow at the
Centre for Educational Sociology in the Moray House School of Education,
University of Edinburgh. She has been involved in two major European
research projects on school-to-work transitions (A Comparative Analysis
of Transitions from Education to Work in Europe, funded by the European
Commission; and Evaluation and Analysis of the LFS 2000 Ad Hoc Module
on School-to-Work Transitions in Europe, funded by Eurostat) and
a number of national projects. At the moment she is principal investigator
in the project Education and Social Mobility in Scotland in the 20th
Century, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
and she is collaborating in another ESRC-funded project Education
and Youth Transitions in England, Wales and Scotland 1984-2002. She
has recently been awarded a three-year ESRC fellowship on The Role of Educational Structure and Content in the Process
of Social Mobility. Her most recent publications include: Iannelli, C. (2004) ‘School Variations in Youth Transitions in Ireland, Scotland and the Netherlands’, Comparative Education, 40 (3): 401-425. Iannelli, C (2004) ‘Trends in the Patterns of Tertiary Entrance in Ireland, the Netherlands and Scotland’, European Educational Research Journal, 3:14-48. Paterson, L., Iannelli, C., Bechhofer, F. and McCrone, D. (2004) ‘Social Class and Social Opportunity’, Chapter 6 in Paterson, L., Bechhofer, F. and McCrone, D. Living in Scotland: Social and Economic Change Since 1980, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Iannelli, C. and Soro-Bonmatí, A. (2003) ‘Transition Pathways in Italy and Spain: Different Patterns, Similar Vulnerability?’, Chapter 8 in W. Müller, and M. Gangl (eds.) Transitions from Education to Work in Europe - The Integration of Youth into EU Labour Markets, Oxford: Oxford University Press. |
Dr Adam Swift, Fellow in Politics and Sociology at Balliol College, and Director of the Centre
for the Study of Social Justice at the University of Oxford |
Adam Swift is Fellow in Politics and Sociology at Balliol College, and Director
of the Centre for the Study of Social Justice at the University of
Oxford. He is co-author of: Liberals and Communitarians (Blackwell, 1996), Against the Odds? Social Class and Social Justice in Industrial Societies (Oxford University Press 1997). And author of: Political Philosophy: A Beginners' Guide for Students and Politicians (Polity 2001) How Not To Be A Hypocrite: School Choice for the Morally Perplexed Parent (Routledge Falmer 2003) He is currently working (with Harry Brighouse) on a book provisionally entitled Family Values: Social Justice, Parents, and Children. |
Professor Lindsay Paterson,
Professor of Educational Policy at the Moray House School of Education in the
University of Edinburgh |
Lindsay Paterson is Professor of Educational Policy at the Moray House School
of Education, University of Edinburgh. He is a sociologist by profession,
and has academic interests in education, politics and culture. He
has written on these topics in books, in academic and professional
journals and in political and cultural periodicals. He is editor
of the quarterly journal Scottish Affairs.
Some of his more recent books are: Paterson, L., Bechhofer, F. and McCrone, D. (2004)Living in Scotland: Social and Economic Change since 1980, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Paterson, L. (2003)Scottish Education in the Twentieth Century, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Paterson, L. (2000)Education and the Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh: Dunedin Academic Press. |
Professor Stephen Baron, Professor of Education at the University of Strathclyde; Associate Director
(Research Capacity Building) of the ESRC Teaching and Learning
Research Programme; and Co-ordinator of AERS in Scotland |
Stephen Baron is Professor of Education at the University of Strathclyde, is
Associate Director (Research Capacity Building) of the ESRC Teaching
and Learning Research Programme, and is Co-ordinator of the Applied
Educational Research Scheme in Scotland. He has a background in sociology,
psychology and contemporary cultural studies. His research interest
lies in processes of marginalization particularly with respect to
people with learning disabilities and to areas of multiple deprivation.
His most recent book is: Baron, S., Field, J. and Schuller, T. (eds) (2000) Social Capital, Oxford: Oxford University Press. |