Staff Biography


	Professor Ruth LUPTON Professor of Education at the University of Manchester and Visiting Professor at CASE
	Tel: +44 (0)161 275 3503 Email: ruth.lupton@manchester.ac.uk STICERD , External Personal WebSite Video Profile Publications on LSE Research Online
Research Interests: Disadvantaged areas Social exclusion Education Current Research Projects: Social Policy in a Cold Climate: A programme of linked quantitative analyses to assess the effects of recession, spending changes, policy reform in the UK, 2007-2014, with a particular focus on their impacts on distribution, poverty, inequality and spatial differences (2011-2015) Postcode Discrimination in Employment: An investigation of job search for young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods in three local labour markets, including a test for ‘postcode discrimination’. School Contexts, Quality and Performance: Current work includes a quantitative analysis of measures of school context, a new look a theorising the ways in which context affects organisational processes, and a collaboration with Leeds Metropolitan University and the City of Leeds ‘Leading Learning Project’ to apply the work in teachers’ continuing professional development. STICERD/CASE Publications: The Conservatives' Record on Compulsory education: spending, policies and outcomes in England, May 2015 to pre-COVID 2020 Ruth Lupton, Polina Obolenskaya, October 2020 Paper No' SPDORP06: Read Abstract \| Paper 1 \| Paper 2 City-region devolution in England Kerris Cooper, Ceri Hughes, Ruth Lupton, Sian Peake-Jones, November 2018 Paper No' SPDORP02: Read Abstract \| Full paper The Effects of English Secondary School System Reforms (2002-2014) on Pupil Sorting and Social Segregation: A Greater Manchester Case Study Ruth Lupton, Stephanie Thomson, August 2017 Paper No' SPCCWP24: Paper 1 \| Paper 2 Paper copy now out of print. Pulling in the Same Direction? Economic and Social Outcomes in London and the North of England Since the Recession Ruth Lupton, Polina Obolenskaya, Bert Provan, July 2016 Paper No' SPCCWP23: Read Abstract \| Full paper The Changing Anatomy of Economic Inequality in London (2007-2013) Jack Cunliffe, Chris Grollman, Eleni Karagiannaki, Ruth Lupton, Polina Obolenskaya, Stephanie Thomson, Polly Vizard, March 2015 Paper No' SPCCRR06: Read Abstract \| Full paper Download zipped data files associated with this paper. Paper copy now out of print. The Coalition's Record on Schools: Policy, Spending and Outcomes 2010-2015 Ruth Lupton, Stephanie Thomson, February 2015 Paper No' SPCCWP13: Paper 1 \| Paper 2 The Coalition's Record on Area Regeneration and Neighbourhood Renewal: Policy, Spending and Outcomes 2010-2015 Amanda Fitzgerald, Ruth Lupton, January 2015 Paper No' SPCCWP19: Read Abstract \| Paper 1 \| Paper 2 The Coalition's Record on Further Education, Skills and Access to Higher Education: Policy, Spending and Outcomes 2010-2015 Ruth Lupton, Stephanie Thomson, Lorna Unwin, January 2015 Paper No' SPCCWP14: Read Abstract \| Paper 1 \| Paper 2 The Coalition's Social Policy Record: Policy Spending and Outcomes 2010-2015 Tania Burchardt, Amanda Fitzgerald, John Hills, Ruth Lupton, Abigail McKnight, Polina Obolenskaya, Kitty Stewart, Stephanie Thomson, Rebecca Tunstall, Polly Vizard, January 2015 Paper No' SPCCRR04: Read Abstract \| Paper 1 \| Paper 2 Hard times, new directions? The impact of local government spending cuts on three deprived neighbourhoods. Final report. Anne Marie Brady, Amanda Fitzgerald, Ruth Lupton, November 2014 Paper No' SPCCWP09: Read Abstract \| Full paper Hard Times, New Directions? The Impact of Local Government Spending Cuts in London (Interim Report Summary) Amanda Fitzgerald, Ruth Lupton, January 2014 Paper No' SPCCRN008: Read Abstract \| Full paper Hard Times, New Directions? The Impact of Local Government Spending Cuts in London (Interim Report) Amanda Fitzgerald, Ruth Lupton, Ronan Smyth, Polly Vizard, December 2013 Paper No' SPCCWP07: Read Abstract \| Paper 1 \| Paper 2 Paper copy now out of print. Labour's Record on Neighbourhood Renewal in England: Policy, Spending and Outcomes 1997-2010 Alex Fenton, Amanda Fitzgerald, Ruth Lupton, October 2013 Paper No' CASE/177: Read Abstract \| Full paper Labour's Record on Neighbourhood Renewal in England: Policy, Spending and Outcomes 1997-2010 Alex Fenton, Amanda Fitzgerald, Ruth Lupton, July 2013 Paper No' SPCCWP06: Paper 1 \| Paper 2 Labour's Record on Education: Policy, Spending and Outcomes 1997-2010 Ruth Lupton, Polina Obolenskaya, July 2013 Paper No' SPCCWP03: Paper 1 \| Paper 2 Prosperity, Poverty and Inequality in London 2000/01-2010/11 Jack Cunliffe, Alex Fenton, Amanda Fitzgerald, Ludovica Gambaro, Ruth Lupton, Polly Vizard, July 2013 Paper No' SPCCRR03: Paper 1 \| Paper 2 Download zipped data files associated with this paper. Winners and Losers in the Crisis: The Changing Anatomy of Economic Inequality in the UK 2007 - 2010 Jack Cunliffe, Ludovica Gambaro, John Hills, Ruth Lupton, Polina Obolenskaya, July 2013 Paper No' SPCCRR02: Paper 1 \| Paper 2 Labour's Social Policy Record: Policy, Spending and Outcomes 1997-2010 John Hills, Ruth Lupton, Kitty Stewart, Polly Vizard, July 2013 Paper No' SPCCRR01: Paper 1 \| Paper 2 Low-demand Housing and Unpopular Neighbourhoods Under Labour Alex Fenton, Ruth Lupton, April 2013 Paper No' SPCCRN006: Full paper The Distribution of Local Government Finance by Local Authority-Level Deprivation Alex Fenton, Amanda Fitzgerald, Ruth Lupton, April 2013 Paper No' SPCCRN005: Full paper Social Policy in a Cold Climate: A Framework for Analysing the Effects of Social Policy Tania Burchardt, John Hills, Ruth Lupton, Kitty Stewart, Polly Vizard, April 2013 Paper No' SPCCRN001: Full paper The Impact of School Context: What headteachers say Ruth Lupton, Martin Thrupp, December 2011 Paper No' CASE/158: Read Abstract \| Full paper Towards the ‘Big Society’: What role for neighbourhood working? Evidence from a comparative European study Catherine Durose, Jonathan France, Ruth Lupton, Liz Richardson, October 2011 Paper No' CASE/154: Read Abstract \| Full paper Building the Big Society Ruth Lupton, Anne Power, Liz Richardson, Rebecca Tunstall, June 2011 Paper No' CASEreport 067: Full paper Place Typologies and their Policy Applications Alex Fenton, Rich Harris, Ruth Lupton, Rebecca Tunstall, February 2011 Paper No' CASEreport 065: Full paper Paper copy now out of print. Growing Up in Social Housing in the New Millennium: Housing, Neighbourhoods, and Early Outcomes for Children Born in 2000 Andrew Jenkins, Dylan Kneale, Ruth Lupton, Rebecca Tunstall, February 2011 Paper No' CASE/143: Read Abstract \| Paper 1 \| Paper 2 \| Paper 3 Teenage Housing Tenure and Neighbourhoods and the Links with Adult Outcomes: Evidence from the 1970 Cohort Study Andrew Jenkins, Dylan Kneale, Ruth Lupton, Rebecca Tunstall, January 2011 Paper No' CASEreport 064: Paper 1 \| Paper 2 Paper copy now out of print. Teenage Housing Tenure and Neighbourhoods and the Links with Adult Outcomes: Evidence from the 1970 Cohort Study Andrew Jenkins, Dylan Kneale, Ruth Lupton, Rebecca Tunstall, January 2011 Paper No' CASEbrief 29: Full paper Paper copy now out of print. Are there neighbourhood effects on teenage parenthood in the UK, and does it matter for policy? A review of theory and evidence Dylan Kneale, Ruth Lupton, September 2010 Paper No' CASE/141: Read Abstract \| Full paper Parallel lives? Ethnic segregation in schools and neighbourhoods Simon Burgess, Ruth Lupton, Deborah Wilson, June 2005 Paper No' CASE 101: Read Abstract \| Full paper Changing Neighbourhoods? Mapping the geography of poverty and worklessness using the 1991 and 2001 Census Ruth Lupton, March 2005 Paper No' Census 3: Full paper Minority Ethnic Groups in Britain Ruth Lupton, Anne Power, November 2004 Paper No' Census 2: Paper 1 \| Paper 2 \| Paper 3 Paper copy now out of print. What We Know about Neighbourhood Change: A literature review Ruth Lupton, Anne Power, September 2004 Paper No' CASEreport 027: Full paper The Growth and Decline of Cities and Regions Ruth Lupton, Anne Power, July 2004 Paper No' Census 1: Full paper Schools in Disadvantaged Areas: Recognising context and raising quality Ruth Lupton, January 2004 Paper No' CASE 076: Read Abstract \| Full paper 'Neighbourhood Effects': Can we measure them and does it matter? Ruth Lupton, November 2003 Paper No' CASE 073: Read Abstract \| Full paper Is Targeting Deprived Areas an Effective Means to Reach Poor People? An assessment of one rationale for area-based funding programmes Ruth Lupton, Rebecca Tunstall, June 2003 Paper No' CASE 070: Read Abstract \| Full paper Heroin and Crack Cocaine Markets in Deprived Areas: Seven local case studies Ruth Lupton, Tiggey May, Paul J Turnbull, Hamish Warburton, Andrew Wilson, January 2002 Paper No' CASEreport 019: Full paper Places Apart? The initial report of CASE's areas study Ruth Lupton, February 2001 Paper No' CASEreport 014: Full paper Poverty, Social Exclusion and Neighbourhood: Studying the area bases of social exclusion Howard Glennerster, Ruth Lupton, Philip Noden, Anne Power, March 1999 Paper No' CASE 022: Read Abstract \| Full paper