Research Interests:
- Disadvantaged areas
- Social exclusion
- Education
Current Research Projects:
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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:
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- City-region devolution in England
Kerris Cooper,
Ceri Hughes,
Ruth Lupton,
Sian Peake-Jones,
November 2018
Paper No' SPDORP02:
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- 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:
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- 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:
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- 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:
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- The Coalition's Record on Schools: Policy, Spending and Outcomes 2010-2015
Ruth Lupton,
Stephanie Thomson,
February 2015
Paper No' SPCCWP13:
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- 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:
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- 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:
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- 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:
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- 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:
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- 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:
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- 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:
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- 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:
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- 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:
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- Labour's Record on Education: Policy, Spending and Outcomes 1997-2010
Ruth Lupton,
Polina Obolenskaya,
July 2013
Paper No' SPCCWP03:
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- 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:
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- 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:
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- Labour's Social Policy Record: Policy, Spending and Outcomes 1997-2010
John Hills,
Ruth Lupton,
Kitty Stewart,
Polly Vizard,
July 2013
Paper No' SPCCRR01:
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- Low-demand Housing and Unpopular Neighbourhoods Under Labour
Alex Fenton,
Ruth Lupton,
April 2013
Paper No' SPCCRN006:
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- The Distribution of Local Government Finance by Local Authority-Level Deprivation
Alex Fenton,
Amanda Fitzgerald,
Ruth Lupton,
April 2013
Paper No' SPCCRN005:
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- 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
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- The Impact of School Context: What headteachers say
Ruth Lupton,
Martin Thrupp,
December 2011
Paper No' CASE/158:
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- 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:
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- Building the Big Society
Ruth Lupton,
Anne Power,
Liz Richardson,
Rebecca Tunstall,
June 2011
Paper No' CASEreport 067:
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- Place Typologies and their Policy Applications
Alex Fenton,
Rich Harris,
Ruth Lupton,
Rebecca Tunstall,
February 2011
Paper No' CASEreport 065:
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- 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:
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- 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:
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- 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:
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- 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:
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- Parallel lives? Ethnic segregation in schools and neighbourhoods
Simon Burgess,
Ruth Lupton,
Deborah Wilson,
June 2005
Paper No' CASE 101:
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- Changing Neighbourhoods? Mapping the geography of poverty and worklessness using the 1991 and 2001 Census
Ruth Lupton,
March 2005
Paper No' Census 3:
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- Minority Ethnic Groups in Britain
Ruth Lupton,
Anne Power,
November 2004
Paper No' Census 2:
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- What We Know about Neighbourhood Change: A literature review
Ruth Lupton,
Anne Power,
September 2004
Paper No' CASEreport 027:
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- The Growth and Decline of Cities and Regions
Ruth Lupton,
Anne Power,
July 2004
Paper No' Census 1:
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- Schools in Disadvantaged Areas: Recognising context and raising quality
Ruth Lupton,
January 2004
Paper No' CASE 076:
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- 'Neighbourhood Effects': Can we measure them and does it matter?
Ruth Lupton,
November 2003
Paper No' CASE 073:
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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
Ruth Lupton,
Rebecca Tunstall,
June 2003
Paper No' CASE 070:
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- 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:
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- Places Apart? The initial report of CASE's areas study
Ruth Lupton,
February 2001
Paper No' CASEreport 014:
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- 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:
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