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Innovation in the Welsh Automotive Industry: Challenges and Strategies

This paper seeks to understand the status of and changes in the Welsh automotive industry in the wake of globalization and the consequent structural challenges. Hailed as a budding leader in Europe in terms of auto-component production (where Wales purportedly boasts of supportive institutions, high quality infrastructure and flexible labour conditions), its ambition to maintain…

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ESF Leavers Survey 2009

Aim – understand the characteristics and outcomes of those participating in ESF funded projects Methodology – telephone survey of people who were identified as having left an ESF project during 2009. – Details of 10,201 learners provided by WEFO – P2 and P3 projects only – and partial coverage Wave 1 conducted 17th Feb to…

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Innovation and Reduction in Contemporary Qualitative Methods: The Case of Conceptual Coupling, Activity-Type Pairs and Auto-Ethnography

During the course of this paper we mobilise an ideal typical framework that identifies three waves of reduction within contemporary qualitative inquiry as they relate to key aspects of the sociological tradition. The paper begins with a consideration of one of sociology’s key questions; namely how is social organisation possible? The paper aims to demonstrate…

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Out-of-School Learning: The Uneven Distribution of School Provision and Local Authority Support

A significant volume of research demonstrates that out-of-school learning activities enhance student development in terms of cognitive, affective and social outcomes. However, there is also evidence that the opportunity to engage in these activities has been severely reduced in recent years. This paper explores the extent to which the provision of such opportunities is unevenly…

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Policing rural protest

This chapter defines what is meant by rurality and examines the particular difficulties faced by women experiencing domestic violence within rural areas. It examines the police response to domestic violence, and in particular the services female victims living in rural areas receive. The investigation relied upon documentary analysis of secondary literature and informal interviews with…

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Impedimenta state: Anatomies of neoliberal penality

Punishing the Poor avers not only that the United States has shifted from the single (welfare) to the double (social-cum-penal) regulation of the poor, but also that the ‘stunted development of American social policy’ skilfully dissected by Piven and Cloward stands in close causal and functional relation to America’s uniquely overgrown and hyperactive penal policy….

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Young people and housing in 2020: identifying key drivers for change

This paper, commissioned as part of JRF’s programme on young people and housing: identifies seven key drivers likely to influence the housing options of young people in the next ten years; collates and presents key data relevant to the housing options of young people; and lays foundations for the next stage of this study, which…

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Knowledge and Identity: Concepts and applications in Bernstein’s sociology

What in the digital era is knowledge? Who has knowledge and whose knowledge has value? Postmodernism has introduced a relativist flavour into educational research such that big questions about the purposes of education have tended to be eclipsed by minutiae. Changes in economic and financial markets induce a sense that we are also experiencing an…