Selected Publications
My publications include:
Books
Housing, Community and Conflict:
understanding resident ‘involvement’ (1997), Arena
(edited/co-authored with Murray Hawtin).
Resident Involvement and Community Action:
theory to practice (1998), Chartered Institute of
Housing/Housing Studies Association - Policy & Practice Series
(edited/co-authored with Murray Hawtin).
'Modernising' Social Policy: Unravelling
New Labour's Welfare Reforms (2000), Ashgate (co-authored with
Tom Burden and Steph Petrie).
Understanding School
Exclusion: Challenging processes of docility (2002),
Education Now Books.
Community, conflict and the state:
rethinking notions of ‘safety’, ‘cohesion’ and ‘wellbeing’
(2008), Palgrave.
Empowerment and Participation in Youth
Work (2011) Learning Matters (co-authored with Annette
Fitzsimons, Max Hope and Keith Russell).
Chapters
‘An introduction to community development and
housing’ (1997), in Housing, Community and Conflict:
understanding resident ‘involvement’, Arena (with Murray
Hawtin).
‘Concepts of community involvement, power and
democracy’ (1997), in Housing, Community and Conflict:
understanding resident ‘involvement’, Arena (with Murray
Hawtin).
‘Community involvement, housing and equal
opportunities’ (1997), in Housing, Community and Conflict:
understanding resident ‘involvement’, Arena (with Murray
Hawtin).
‘Understanding community involvement in
housing’ (1997), in Housing, Community and Conflict:
understanding resident ‘involvement’, Arena (with Murray
Hawtin).
‘An introduction to understanding “resident
involvement”’ (1998), in Resident Involvement and Community
Action: theory to practice, Chartered Institute of
Housing/Housing Studies Association - Policy & Practice Series
(with Murray Hawtin).
‘An alternative perspective on the theory and
practice of involving residents’ (1998), in Resident
Involvement and Community Action: theory to practice,
Chartered Institute of Housing/Housing Studies Association - Policy
& Practice Series (with Murray Hawtin).
‘Democratising social housing: building the
“People’s Home”’ (1998), in Resident Involvement and Community
Action: theory to practice, Chartered Institute of
Housing/Housing Studies Association - Policy & Practice
Series.
‘Understanding “resident involvement”: turning
theory into practice’ (1998), in Resident Involvement and
Community Action: theory to practice, Chartered Institute of
Housing/Housing Studies Association - Policy & Practice Series
(with Murray Hawtin).
‘Surviving the British school system: a
toolbox for change’ (2004), in Damage Limitation: trying to
reduce the harm schools do to children, Educational Heretics
Press (edited by Roland Meighan).
‘Making schools more learner-friendly’ (2004),
in Damage Limitation: trying to reduce the harm schools do to
children, Educational Heretics Press (edited by Roland
Meighan).
‘Places, “folk devils” and social policy’
(2005), in Housing and Social Policy: Contemporary Themes and
Critical Perspectives, Routledge (edited by Nigel Sprigings
and Peter Somerville).
‘Involving users and carers in housing and
social care planning - the rhetoric of “user empowerment”’ (2005),
in Housing, Community Care and Supported Housing – resolving
contradictions, Chartered Institute of Housing/Housing Studies
Association (edited by Mark Foord and Paul Simic).
‘Community involvement in community safety -
But whose “community”? And whose “safety”?’ (2006) in
Supporting Safer Communities – Housing, crime and
neighbourhoods, Chartered Institute of Housing/Housing Studies
Association (edited by Alan Dearling, Tim Newburn and Peter
Somerville).
‘Responding to Britain's unhappy childhoods:
enhancing young people's well-being through participatory action
research’ (2010) in Social Policy Review 22, Analysis and debate in social policy,
2010, Policy Press (edited by Ian
Greener, Chris Holden and Majella Kilkey).
Articles
‘The Impact of Tourism on Residential
Experience in Central-Eastern Europe: the development of a new
legitimation crisis in the Czech Republic?’ (1998) Urban
Studies Vol. 35, No.12, December (with Nigel Morpeth).
‘Empowering Practice in Social Care: Lessons from Swedish
housing’ (1999) Social Work in Europe, Vol. 6, No.1.
‘Making schools more learner-friendly’ (2002)
Education Now, No.38, Winter.
‘Researching school exclusion and “projects of docility”’ (2002)
Research Policy and Planning: the journal of the social
services research group, Vol. 20, No. 3.
‘Housing & Social Structure in Lincoln, 1842-2002’ (2002)
The Journal of Regional & Local Studies, Vol. 22, No.
1.
‘Surviving the British school system: a
toolbox for change’ (2003), Education Now, No.40,
Summer.
‘“Globalisation”, the New Managerialism and
Education: Rethinking the purpose of education in Britain’ (2004),
The Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, Vol.2,
No.2, September (with Andrea Beckmann).
‘Conditions of domination: reflections
on harms generated by the British state education system’ (2005),
British Journal of Sociology of Education, Vol.26, No.2,
September (with Andrea Beckmann).
‘Nous accusons - Revisiting
Foucault’s comments on the role of the “specific intellectual” in
the context of increasing processes of Gleichschaltung in
Britain’ (2005), Outlines: Critical Social Studies, Vol.
7, No.2, December (with Andrea Beckmann).
‘The Respect Agenda: fit for purpose?’ (2007),
Criminal Justice Matters, No. 67, Spring.
‘Rethinking the “problem of youth”: Refocusing
on the Social and its Interrelationship with Dominant Power
Structures?’ (2009), Youth & Policy, 103,
Summer.
‘Neoliberalization and managerialization of
“education” in England and Wales – a case for reconstructing
education’ (2009) Journal for Critical Education Policy
Studies, 7(2), November (with Andrea Beckmann and Dave
Hill).
‘Imagining “radical” youth work possibilities
– challenging the “symbolic violence” within the mainstream
tradition in contemporary state-led youth-work practice in England’
(2011) Journal of Youth Studies.
'Understanding the English "riots" of 2011: "mindless
criminality" or youth "Mekin Histri" in austerity Britain?'
(2012),Youth & Policy, 109.
'Neoliberal Globalisation, Managerialism and Higher Education In
England: Challenging The Imposed "Order Of Things"' (2013),
Educational Policy Analaysis and Strategic Research, 8(1)
(with Andrea Beckmann).