Contact details:
Tel.: +44 (0)20 7849 4910
Fax:  +44 (0)7955 6951
e-mail:  r.lupton@lse.ac.uk
Centre:  STICERD,   R510

  Research interests:

• Disadvantaged areas

• Social exclusion

• Education

 Current research projects:

• Hampshire Research with Primary Schools (HARPS) - A multidisciplinary investigation into the impact of school composition on pupils' experiences and outcomes

 Selected publications:

• 'Parallel lives? Ethnic segregation in schools and neighbourhoods' (with S Burgess and D Wilson) Urban Studies, 42(7): 1027-1056 (2005)  

• 'Poor neighbourhoods in the 1990s: better or worse? An analysis of 1991 and 2001 UK Census data' Benefits, 13(3): 179-188 (2005)  

• 'Social justice and school improvement: improving the quality of schooling in the poorest neighbourhoods' British Educational Research Journal, 31(5): 589-604 (2005)  

• A Good Place for Children? Attracting and retaining families in inner urban mixed income communities (with E Silverman and A Fenton). Chartered Institute of Housing for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (2006)  

• Disadvantaged by where you live? New Labour and neighbourhood and renewal in J Hills and K Stewart, 'A More Equal Society: New Labour, poverty, inequality and exclusion'. Bristol: The Policy Press (2005)  

• Education, education, education...: an assessment of Labour's success in tackling educational inequalities (with A McKnight and H Glennerster) in J Hills and K Stewart, 'A More Equal Society: New Labour, poverty, inequality and exclusion'. Bristol: The Policy Press (2005)  

• Poverty Street: The Dynamics of Neighbourhood Decline and Renewal. Bristol: The Policy Press (2003)  

•     Schools in disadvantaged areas: recognising context and raising quality CASEpaper 76, 2004  

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 Other publications:  

• 'Neighbourhood Effects': Can we measure them and does it matter?. [CASE 073] , November 2003
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• Changing Neighbourhoods? Mapping the geography of poverty and worklessness using the 1991 and 2001 Census. [Census 3] , March 2005
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• Heroin and Crack Cocaine Markets in Deprived Areas: Seven local case studies. [CASEreport 19] , January 2002
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• Is Targeting Deprived Areas an Effective Means to Reach Poor People? An assessment of one rationale for area-based funding programmes. [CASE 070] , June 2003
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• Minority Ethnic Groups in Britain. [Census 2] , November 2004, Out of Print
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• Parallel lives? Ethnic segregation in schools and neighbourhoods. [CASE 101] , June 2005
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• Places Apart? The initial report of CASE's areas study. [CASEreport 14] , February 2001
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• Poverty, Social Exclusion and Neighbourhood: Studying the area bases of social exclusion. [CASE 022] , March 1999
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• Schools in Disadvantaged Areas: Recognising context and raising quality. [CASE 076] , January 2004
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• The Growth and Decline of Cities and Regions. [Census 1] , July 2004
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• What We Know about Neighbourhood Change: A literature review. [CASEreport 27] , September 2004
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