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Ruth Lupton

Ruth Lupton

CASE Visiting Professor and Honorary Professor at the University of Manchester

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ruth.lupton@manchester.ac.uk
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Biography

Ruth Lupton's current research interests are:

  • Disadvantaged areas
  • Social exclusion
  • Education

Ruth's latest projects include:

Latest

CASE Social Exclusion Seminars
Great Mistakes in Education Policy: and how to avoid them in the future

07 July 2021

Ruth Lupton (University of Manchester)

Can a clear view of what’s gone wrong in the past help forge a new consensus about the policy directions of the future? In this seminar, Ruth Lupton will talk about her new book with Debra Hayes: Great Mistakes in Educa... Read more...
Social Policies and Distributional Outcomes Research Papers
The Conservatives' Record on Compulsory education: spending, policies and outcomes in England, May 2015 to pre-COVID 2020

22 October 2020

Ruth Lupton and Polina Obolenskaya

This paper reviews education policy in England for the period since the Conservative Government took office in 2015 to the eve of COVID-19 pandemic. We consider the effects of policies on the school system, teachers, cur... Read more...
CASE Social Exclusion Seminars
Social Policy and Distributional Outcomes (SPDO) event: Compulsory Education: policies, spending and outcomes

11 December 2019

Ruth Lupton (University of Manchester)

This seminar assesses what has happened to the compulsory phase of the education system (ages 5-18) under the Conservative government since 2015. Cuts to school funding have dominated the headlines and all major parties ... Read more...
Social Policies and Distributional Outcomes Research Papers
City-region devolution in England

21 November 2018

Ruth Lupton, Ceri Hughes, Sian Peake-Jones and Kerris Cooper

This paper explores recent developments in the devolution of powers to subnational governments in England and its implications for social policy making and the distribution of economic and social outcomes. It is general... Read more...
Social Policy in a Cold Climate Research Working Papers
The Effects of English Secondary School System Reforms (2002-2014) on Pupil Sorting and Social Segregation: A Greater Manchester Case Study

11 August 2017

Stephanie Thomson and Ruth Lupton

The English secondary school system has been undergoing rapid change. 60% of secondary schools are now Academies. Opponents of these changes fear, among other things, greater social segregation, while supporters argue t... Read more...
Social Policy in a Cold Climate Research Working Papers
Pulling in the Same Direction? Economic and Social Outcomes in London and the North of England Since the Recession

13 July 2016

Polina Obolenskaya, Ruth Lupton and Bert Provan

The Social Policy in a Cold Climate research programme had two major components: first an analysis of the social policies and spending of Labour and Coalition governments from 1997 to 2015, and theirimpacts on poverty, i... Read more...
CASE Social Exclusion Seminars
Moving home in the early years: family and child outcomes in the UK and the US.

27 May 2015

Ruth Lupton (University of Manchester)

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Social Policy in a Cold Climate Research Reports
The Changing Anatomy of Economic Inequality in London (2007-2013)

23 March 2015

Polly Vizard, Polina Obolenskaya, Eleni Karagiannaki, Jack Cunliffe, Stephanie Thomson, Chris Grollman and Ruth Lupton

In this report we examine changing patterns of inequality in London over the period 2007-2013. We examine how the distribution of key economic outcomes - including income and wealth, employment and unemployment, earnings... Read more...
Social Policy in a Cold Climate Research Working Papers
The Coalition's Record on Schools: Policy, Spending and Outcomes 2010-2015

01 February 2015

Ruth Lupton and Stephanie Thomson

In May 2010, David Cameron and Nick Clegg committed the Coalition to sweeping school reforms, promising “a breaking open of the state monopoly”. They also pledged to protect school spending and give extra money to the ed... Read more...
Social Policy in a Cold Climate Research Working Papers
The Coalition's Record on Area Regeneration and Neighbourhood Renewal: Policy, Spending and Outcomes 2010-2015

26 January 2015

Ruth Lupton and Amanda Fitzgerald

In the decade to 2010, substantial progess had been made to improve living conditions, and outcomes in the poorest neighbourhoods. But large gaps remained. This paper looks at how the Coalition tackled this issue, and wh... Read more...
Social Policy in a Cold Climate Research Working Papers
The Coalition's Record on Further Education, Skills and Access to Higher Education: Policy, Spending and Outcomes 2010-2015

26 January 2015

Ruth Lupton, Lorna Unwin and Stephanie Thomson

The Coalition inherited some long-term problems in the provision of further education (FE) and skills training as well unresolved challenges about the funding of higher education (HE). What did it do and with what result... Read more...
Social Policy in a Cold Climate Research Reports
The Coalition's Social Policy Record: Policy Spending and Outcomes 2010-2015

26 January 2015

Ruth Lupton, Tania Burchardt, Amanda Fitzgerald, John Hills, Abigail McKnight, Polina Obolenskaya, Kitty Stewart, Stephanie Thomson, Rebecca Tunstall and Polly Vizard

This paper summarises nine detailed reports assessing the social policies of the UK Coalition government elected in 2010. What did the Coalition set out to achieve? How much was spent and saved? What policies were enacte... Read more...
Social Policy in a Cold Climate Research Working Papers
Hard times, new directions? The impact of local government spending cuts on three deprived neighbourhoods. Final report.

16 October 2014

Amanda Fitzgerald, Ruth Lupton and Anne Marie Brady

In the context of what was described as the worst financial settlement in living memory for local government, we set out in this study to establish how residents living in some of the most deprived neighbourhoods of Lond... Read more...

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