Katy Huxley

Research Fellow Cardiff University

HuxleyKL@cardiff.ac.uk 02920870853

As a SPARK research fellow, my role involves undertaking research, supporting research and encouraging collaboration. I have a focus on open research and data science. My research interests include industrial relations, employment and education. I am a Co-investigator with Administrative Data Research (ADR) Wales, focusing on data access and education, skills and employability research using linked data.

Katy Huxley Bio

Urgent Appeals: Data and Shared Learning ESRC GCRF Project

This is a project that is being undertaken by colleagues in Cardiff Business School and WISERD in collaboration with the Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC). It built on an earlier ESRC IAA Award which was completed in March 2019. The focus of our work is to improve and develop the database used by CCC to record and…

Research Team: Jean Jenkins (Cardiff University), Katy Huxley (Cardiff University)

ADR Wales

Administrative Data Research UK The ESRC, as part of UKRI, are funding an important new investment in research infrastructure to maximise the potential of administrative data as a resource for high-quality research in the UK – Administrative Data Research UK (ADR UK). ADR UK aims to engage government and academic communities in innovative research to address…

Research Team: Ian Thomas (Cardiff University), Katy Huxley (Cardiff University), Rhys Davies (Cardiff University), Sonia De Saxe (Cardiff University)

Administrative Data Research Centre Wales (ADRC)

About the Centre The main aim of ADRC WALES was to create a world-class administrative data research centre, known for its ability to access, link and make safe use of data for high quality research. Our work was underpinned by a robust Governance framework. ADRC Wales objectives were to: Provide powerful, robust, state-of-the art data linkage and data…

Research Team: Chris Taylor (Cardiff University), David Blackaby (Swansea University), Dora Pouliou (Swansea University), Foteini Tseliou (Cardiff University), Ian Rees Jones (Cardiff University), Ian Thomas (Cardiff University), Katy Huxley (Cardiff University), Peter Mackie (Cardiff University), Rhys Davies (Cardiff University), Scott Orford (Cardiff University)

Reports and Briefings

A comparison of job quality for teachers in private and state schools in the post-pandemic world

This report presents findings from new research comparing the job quality, other than pay, of private and state school teachers in post-pandemic England and Wales, including those based at elite private schools, based on a survey of private and state school teachers who are members of the National Education Union. Information was obtained from 14,212…

Education, Inequalities | May 2024

Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology

Journal Articles

Maternal Mental Health and Children’s Problem Behaviours: A Bi-directional Relationship?

Transactional theory and the coercive family process model have illustrated how the parent-child relationship is reciprocal. Emerging research using advanced statistical methods has examined these theories, but further investigations are necessary. In this study, we utilised linked health data on maternal mental health disorders and explored their relationship with child problem behaviours via the Strengths…

Data & Methods, Health, Wellbeing & Social Care | July 2023

Reports and Briefings

Working in Schools: Job Quality of educational professionals before and after the pandemic

The quality of the education system cannot exceed the quality of its teachers. But this Government has made the profession less and less attractive to new graduates. This important report exposes how hard teachers’ working lives have become. It makes a clear, succinct and powerful case that the intensity of teachers’ work is unsustainable. The…

Education | July 2023

Reports and Briefings

Exploring transitions to post-compulsory education in Wales

This Data Insight explores transitions from school to Post-Compulsory Education and Training (PCET) in Wales.

Education | ADR Wales | May 2023

Reports and Briefings

Briefing: Teachers’ Job Quality Before and After the Pandemic: First Findings

Research undertaken before the pandemic showed that the job quality of teachers in Britain had been declining in two key respects for a number of years. First, their work was becoming much more intensive, meaning that the rate of their physical or mental input was increasing, just in order to cover their required workloads. By…

Work and Labour Markets | April 2023

Reports and Briefings

How is careers guidance for school pupils prioritised?

This Data Insight explores how information is used to inform decisions regarding the provision of careers guidance interviews among key stage 4 (KS4) pupils in Wales. It explores the relative importance of background characteristics contained within administrative education records compared to information supplied by pupils via the Careers Wales diagnostic tool.

Civil Society, Education, Work and Labour Markets | ADR Wales | March 2023

Reports and Briefings

Effectiveness of careers guidance in supporting participation in Post Compulsory Education and Training (PCET)

This Data Insight explores the influence careers guidance can have on transitions to Post Compulsory Education and Training (PCET) in Wales. The analysis examines rates of transition to PCET in Wales, whether the receipt of careers guidance during key stage 4 supports transition to PCET and, if so, whether it benefits some groups of pupils…

Civil Society, Education, Work and Labour Markets | ADR Wales | March 2023

Journal Articles

Senior Public Managers’ Organizational Commitment: Do Private Sector Experience and Tenure Make a Difference?

Drawing on the literature on sector imprinting, we examine whether private sector experience is related to organizational commitment among senior public managers. We also explore the role that position and organizational tenure play in shaping that commitment, since tenure length is often associated with greater commitment, and assumed to be an important mediator of employee…

Civil Society | March 2019

Reports and Briefings

An Evaluation of the Pupil Deprivation Grant

Ipsos MORI and WISERD were commissioned by the Welsh Government in April 2013 to conduct a process and impact evaluation of the Pupil Deprivation Grant (PDG). The PDG was launched in 2012 and provides additional funding to schools based on the number of pupils on their roll eligible for Free School Meals (eFSM) or who…

Education, Inequalities | Evaluation of the Pupil Deprivation Grant | December 2017

Journal Articles

Employee share ownership and organisational performance: a tentative opening of the black box

Purpose A range of studies have shown that performance is typically higher in organisations with employee share ownership (ESO) schemes in place. Many possible causal mechanisms explaining this relationship have been suggested. These include a reduction in labour turnover, synergies with other forms of productivity-enhancing communication and participation schemes, and synergies with employer-provided training. The…

Civil Society, Work and Labour Markets | October 2017

Reports and Briefings

Learners leaving Sixth Form before Year 13: Characteristics and Further Education Enrolment

The purpose of this study was to provide quantified evidence to show the extent of both non-completion among post-16 learners attending Sixth Form and of the movement of these learners from Sixth Form to the Further Education (FE) sector. It provides quantified evidence showing the extent of non-completion among post-16 learners attending Sixth Form. It…

Education | Impact and Effectiveness of Widening Access to Higher Education | March 2017

Journal Articles

Administrative traditions and citizen participation in public policy: a comparative study of France, Germany, the UK and Norway

The participation of citizens in public policy-making has become a key aim for national and supranational institutions across Europe, but the relative importance policy-makers actually accord citizen participation arguably varies due to the alternative administrative traditions within different countries. Using data drawn from a large-scale survey of senior public managers in France, Germany, the United…

Civil Society | July 2016

Reports and Briefings

Evaluation of the Pupil Deprivation Grant: 2nd Interim Report

Education, Inequalities | Evaluation of the Pupil Deprivation Grant | December 2015

News

Teachers’ job quality is poorer in state schools than in private schools

28th May 2024 | Alan Felstead, Francis Green, Katy Huxley

New study shows 60% of state school teachers always come home from work exhausted, compared to 37% of teachers at ‘top’ private schools State school teachers more likely to be working at ‘very high speed’ with less autonomy State schools have lost over 15,000 teachers to private schools since 2014 State school teachers in England…

Education, Work and Labour Markets

News

Cardiff is UK’s first UNICEF Child Friendly City

27th October 2023 | Alexandra Sandu, Chris Taylor, Ian Thomas, Jennifer Keating, Katy Huxley, Kelly Regan, Laura Arman, Rhian Barrance, Rhys Davies, Robert French, Sally Power, Zoe Rozelaar

A wealth of social science research expertise has helped Cardiff become the UK’s first UNICEF Child Friendly City (CFC). The prestigious status has been awarded to the city in recognition of the steps Cardiff Council and its partners, including Cardiff University, have taken over the past five years to advance the human rights of children…

Civil Society, Data & Methods, Education, Health, Wellbeing & Social Care, Inequalities | ADR Wales, WISERD Education, WISERD Education Data Lab, WISERD Education Multi Cohort Study

News

Job quality is worse for teachers who are expecting an Ofsted inspection, report finds

13th July 2023 | Alan Felstead, Katy Huxley

Teachers in England who are expecting an Ofsted inspection in the coming 12 months have worse job quality and a higher work intensity, according to a report. The study from academics at Cardiff University and University College London (UCL) also showed that the conditions for teaching professionals have barely changed since the pandemic and have,…

Data & Methods, Education, Work and Labour Markets

News

Exploring transitions to post-compulsory education in Wales

24th May 2023 | Katy Huxley, Rhys Davies

In a new ADR Wales Data Insight, researchers Dr Katy Huxley and Rhys Davies looked at the transitions to post-compulsory education in Wales. The team linked Welsh education data sources, allowing them to identify characteristics associated with those who do, and do not, transition to further learning. The linked datasets included the Welsh National Data Collection…

Data & Methods, Education | ADR Wales

News

WISERD researchers present findings on teachers’ job quality

3rd April 2023 | Alan Felstead, Francis Green, Katy Huxley

Katy Huxley, Alan Felstead (WISERD) and Francis Green (UCL) presented the first results of their research on the changing job quality of teachers to a fringe event at the National Education Union (NEU) annual conference in Harrogate today (3 April 2023). The evidence is based on a research project carried out by WISERD at Cardiff…

Data & Methods, Education, Health, Wellbeing & Social Care, Work and Labour Markets

News

New research examines effectiveness of careers guidance and how it is prioritised

6th March 2023 | Katy Huxley, Rhys Davies

New research carried out by ADR Wales has examined the effectiveness of careers guidance in supporting participation in post compulsory education and training and how careers guidance is prioritised. The work, which was undertaken by ADR Wales researchers Dr Katy Huxley and Rhys Davies, used anonymised Careers Wales data to examine how the provision of careers support to key stage…

Civil Society, Education, Work and Labour Markets | ADR Wales

News

A new report provides recommendations on the better use of data to inform careers guidance in Wales

14th October 2022 | Katy Huxley, Rhys Davies

A recent report published by Welsh Government highlights the benefits and limitations of enhanced data utilisation to deliver careers services in Wales. Welsh Government commissioned ADR Wales researchers to undertake a study to examine the policy and legislative context within which the national careers provider, Careers Wales operates, the utility of data holdings of Careers Wales and other organisations,…

Data & Methods, Work and Labour Markets | ADR Wales

News

Urgent Appeals: Data and Shared Learning

5th November 2019 | Jean Jenkins, Katy Huxley

WISERD researchers will continue to support the development of data repositories for strategic use within NGOs, having successfully obtained funding from the ESRC under the NGO Secondary Data Analysis Call. Dr. Jean Jenkins and Dr. Katy Huxley will build on previous work with partners the Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC), who campaign for decent work and…

Localities, Work and Labour Markets | Urgent Appeals: Data and Shared Learning ESRC GCRF Project

News

WISERD to present at TUC Congress 2019

28th August 2019 | Helen Blakely, Katy Huxley, Rhys Davies, Steve Davies, Wil Chivers

On Monday 9th September, a team of WISERD researchers from Cardiff University, Helen Blakely, Wil Chivers, Rhys Davies, Steve Davies and Katy Huxley, will share the latest findings from our research on trade union membership in the UK, to the TUC Congress. The 151st annual congress event will take place at the Brighton Centre and attract hundreds of delegates representing every…

Civil Society, Data & Methods, Localities, Work and Labour Markets | Trade Union Membership, Associational Life and Wellbeing, Trade unions and social media

WISERD Online Lunchtime Seminar

An Introduction to the Evidence for Equality National Survey

21st November 2023 | Online

Presented by Katy Huxley (ADR Wales) This seminar presents the Evidence for Equality National Survey (EVENS), run by the Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity. Katy will present an overview of the survey collection, contents and further resources. The purpose of the seminar is to introduce the survey as a potential open data resource for…

Cardiff Lunchtime Seminar

Administrative measures of social class: Exploring education and census data as predictors of pupil attainment

29th March 2022 | Cardiff

Presented by Katy Huxley. Research often highlights the impact of poverty on educational attainment and employment outcomes. Within the Census 2011 and administrative education data collected by schools there are a number of measures and proxies of social class and economic circumstance. These include parental occupational (Census) and whether children are eligible for Free School…

WISERD Online Lunchtime Seminar

WISERD online lunchtime seminar- Understanding the origins of labour market disadvantage

9th March 2021 | Online

Presented by Katy Huxley and Rhys Davies, WISERD. This presentation provides an overview of the difficulties expressed by Key Stage 4 pupils in making choices regarding their transitions from compulsory education. Through a population level linkage study that combines data from the Careers Wales Career Check Survey with pupil level information from the National Pupil…

Seminar

TUC Congress 2019 “The report of my death has been greatly exaggerated”: The resilience and renewal of trade unions

9th September 2019 | Brighton

Unions have faced decades of hostile legislation designed to make them ineffective, have seen the collapse of parts of the economy that were union strongholds and the growth of precarious work. They have been written off as out of date and out of time. Yet although union density and membership have declined since the 1980s,…

Cardiff Lunchtime Seminar

Voice Channels and Employee Outcomes: Evidence from the Workplace Employment Relations Survey 2011

31st May 2016 | Cardiff

This event is part of the WISERD Cardiff lunchtime seminar series which focuses on research currently being undertaken by WISERD researchers. Presented by: Katy Huxley

Cardiff Lunchtime Seminar

Trade Union Learning Activity: Resource or Distraction?

8th December 2015 | Cardiff

This event was part of the WISERD Cardiff lunchtime seminar series which focuses on research currently being undertaken by WISERD researchers. Presented By: Katy Huxley

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