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ANTHONY F. HEATH, FBA Curriculum Vitae Born 15 December 1942 Married to Dr Jane Pearce, Frcpsych. Education Merchant Taylors ANTHONY F. HEATH, F.B.A. curriculum vitae Born 15 December 1942 Married to Dr Jane Pearce, FRCPsych. Education Merchant Taylors' School, Crosby. Trinity College, Cambridge, 1961-5 Classical Tripos, Part I, Class I Economics Tripos, Part II, Class I Senior Scholar, 1963 Ph D, 1971 Current appointments Professor of Sociology, University of Oxford, 1999- Co-Director of the Centre for Research into Elections and Social Trends, 1994- Previous appointments Official Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford, 1987-99 Tutorial Fellow, Jesus College, Oxford and University Lecturer in Sociology, 1970-1986 Official Fellow, Churchill College, Cambridge and University Assistant Lecturer in Economics, Cambridge University, 1968-70 Assistant Principal, HM Treasury, 1965-6 Offices Head of Department of Sociology, 1999-2004, 2005-2008. Chairman, Editorial Board, Oxford Review of Education, 2003-08 Chairman, Management Board, Oxford Spring School in Social Statistics, 2003- Chairman, Social Studies Advisory Board, 2000-2003. Chairman, Sociology, Social Statistics and Demography Section, British Academy, 1996-1999. Director, 1983, 1987, 1992 and 1997 British Election Studies. Tutor for Admissions, Jesus College, 1975-1978 Pro-Proctor, 1977 International work Member of the Editorial Board, Annual Review of Sociology 2010- Masterclass, Groningen Univesity, Netherlands 2009. Consultant to UNDP in Bosnia and Herzegovina on social capital and social cohesion, 2006-10. Hooker Visiting Professor, McMaster University, Canada, 2004 ‘Famous Foreigner’, Inter-University Graduate School of Sociology, Netherlands, 2003 International Adviser, South Asian Study of Democracy. CSDS, Delhi, 2004; Indian Election Study 2009. International Adviser, French National Election Study, 1996 External examiner for doctoral theses at EUI, Florence; the universities of Utrecht and Nijmegen, Netherlands; Sciences Po, Paris, University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Leuven, Belgium. External examiner for the University of Malta. Principal Investigator on the SSRC/Nuffield Foundation project on the education of the children of immigrants. Coordinator of a European research group (funded by the EU through the EQUALSOC network) on ethnic minority education and entry into the labour market. Research Grants E1,000,000 from Norface for the CILS4EU project (Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study for the EU). 2009-2013 with Frank Kalter (Mannheim, PI), Jan Jonsson (Stockholm), Frank van Tubergen (Utrecht) and others. £1,203,959 from the ESRC for ‘The British Election Study Ethnic Minority Survey’. 2009-11 with David Sanders and Stephen Fisher. £1,008,234 from the Leverhulme Trust to study ‘Ethno-religious diversity and social trust in residential and educational settings’. 2009-2014 with Miles Hewstone (PI), Ceri Peach, Steve Vertovec and Sarah Spencer. £172,238 from the Nuffield Foundation to study ‘Assessing the affirmative action programme in Northern Ireland (OPD/33573), 2007-8. with Christopher McCrudden and Heather Hamill. £179,813 from the ESRC to study ‘Are Traditional Identities in Decline?’ 2004-2007 (RES-148-25-0031) with John Curtice, Katarina Thomson and Robert Andersen. £36,460 from the ESRC to study ‘Being British: National Identity in a Global Context’ 2003-2006 (RES-000-22-0326) with Alison Park and James Tilley. Rated outstanding. £50,000 from the Department for Work and Pensions to study ethnic minority disadvantage in the labour market (with Sin Yi Cheung), 2004-5. £10,000 from the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland to study affirmative action in Northern Ireland (with Chris McCrudden), 2003. £129,537 from the ESRC to study ‘National identity and constitutional change in England’ ( (L219252018) with John Curtice and Lindsey Jarvis, 2001-2004. Rated outstanding. £38,521 from the ESRC to study ‘National identity and sentiment in England’ 1999-2000. £119,505 from the ESRC to study the Welsh Assembly Election 1999 (with Richard Wyn Jones and Katarina Thomson), 1999-2000. £39,362 from the ESRC to study British ethnic minority political attitudes and voting behaviour (with Shamit Saggar), 1996-98. £372,517 from the ESRC to study the 1997 British General Election (with Roger Jowell and John Curtice), 1996-98. £1,700,000 to establish the Centre for Research into Elections and Social Trends, with R Jowell (Co-Director), 1994-99. £140,000 from the ESRC to study two major themes in large-scale data analysis (with Sir David Cox, D Firth and N Shephard), 1994-6. £122,410 from the ESRC to study emerging forms of political representation and participation in Eastern Europe (with C Payne, G Evans and S Whitefield), 1992-5. £93,680 from the ESRC to study the British General Election of 1992 (with R Jowell and J Curtice), 1991-93. £400,860 from the ESRC to study change in social and political values (with R Jowell), 1989-93. £61,480 from the ESRC to study the educational progress of children in care (with J Aldgate), 1987-90. DM10,000 and £4,400 from the Anglo-German Foundation to study social values and political culture in Britain and Germany (with R Topf and W Burklin), 1987-8. £130,000 from the ESRC and Pergamon Press to study the British General Election of 1987 (with R Jowell and J Curtice), 1986-9. £23,500 from the ESRC to fund methodological aspects of attitude research (with R Jowell and J Curtice), 1985-6. £4,850 from the ESRC to study trends in occupational and class mobility in England and Wales, 1972-83 (with John Goldthorpe and Clive Payne), 1983-4. £145,000 from the ESRC, Jesus College and Pergamon Press to undertake the British General Election Study of 1983 (with R Jowell and J Curtice), 1983-4. Books Heath, A F and Jeffery, R (eds) (forthcoming) Diversity and Change in Modern India. Proceedings of the British Academy 159. Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy. Heath, A F and S Y Cheung (eds) (2007) Unequal Chances: Ethnic Minorities in Western Labour Markets. Proceedings of the British Academy 137. Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy. Heath, A F, Ermisch, J and Gallie, D (eds) (2005) Understanding Social Change. Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy. Heath, A F, Jowell, R M and Curtice, J K (2001) The Rise of New Labour : Party Policies and Voter Choices. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Goldstein, H and Heath, A F (2000) Educational Standards. Proceedings of the British Academy 102. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Heath, A F, Breen, R, and Whelan, C (eds) (1999) Ireland, North and South: Perspectives from the Social Sciences . Proceedings of the British Academy 98. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Heath, A F, Jowell, R M and Curtice, J K with Taylor B (eds) (1994) Labour's Last Chance? The 1992 Election and Beyond , Aldershot: Dartmouth. Crouch, C and Heath A F (eds) (1992) Social Research and Social Reform: Essays in Honour of A.H. Halsey , Oxford: Oxford University Press. Heath, A F et al., (1991) Understanding Political Change: The British Voter 1964-1987 , Oxford: Pergamon Press. Heath, A F, Jowell, R M and Curtice, J K (1985) How Britain Votes , Oxford: Pergamon Press. Heath, A F (1981) Social Mobility , London: Fontana. Heath, A F (ed) (1981) Scientific Explanation , Oxford: Clarendon Press. Halsey, A H, Heath, A F and Ridge, J M (1980) Origins and Destinations: Family, Class and Education in Modern Britain , Oxford: Clarendon Press. Heath, A F (1976) Rational Choice and Social Exchange , Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Reports for Government Heath, Anthony (2009) The Labour Market Integration of the children of Immigrants: main determinants of educational and labour market outcomes. Paper prepared for the workshop on the labour market integration of the children of immigrants, co-organized by the European Commission and the OECD, 1 st -2nd October 2009. Li, Jaojun, Fiona Devine and Anthony Heath (2008) Group Inequalities in Education, Employment and Earnings: A research Review and analysis of trends over time. Research Report: 10. Manchester: Equality and Human Rights Commission. www.equalityhumanrights.com/researchreports Heath A F and Jane Roberts (2008) British Identity: its sources and possible implications for civic attitudes and behaviour. Research report for Lord Goldsmith’s Citizenship Review. http://www.justice.gov.uk/docs/british- identity.pdf Heath, A F and Yaojun Li (2007) Measuring the size of the employer contribution to the ethnic minority employment gap. Research report for the National Employment Panel. http://www.ccsr.ac.uk/staff/yaojun/nep.pdf Laurence, James and Anthony Heath (2008) Predicting community cohesion: multilevel modeling of the 2005 Citizenship Survey. Department for Communities and Local Government. http://www.communities.gov.uk/publications/communities/pdf/681539 Heath, A F and S Y Cheung (2006) Ethnic Penalties in the Labour Market: Employers and Discrimination, Department for Work and Pensions, Research Report No 341. Published for the Department for Work and Pensions by Corporate Document Services, Leeds. www.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd5/rrs2006.asp Heath, A F, Robert Ford, Allison Gilmore and Maria Sobolewska (2006) British Identity . Report by the Department of Sociology for the Cabinet Office. Research papers for the Cabinet Office on Ethnic Minority disadvantage, not published but extensively cited in the Cabinet Office Report. Papers Spreckelsen, T, Heath, A F and Martin, J (2009) ‘Cross-national comparability of survey findings’. International Journal of Public Opinion Research Heath, A F Curtice, J and Elgenius, G (forthcoming) ‘Individualization and the decline of class identity.’ In M Wetherell (ed) Identity in the 21 st Century: New Trends in Changing Times . Palgrave. Heath, Anthony, Cath Rothon and Sundas Ali (forthcoming) ‘Race and public opinion.’ In A Bloch and J Solomos (eds) Race and Ethnicity in the 21 st Century . Palgrave Macmillan. Zimdars, Anna, Sullivan, Alice and Heath, Anthony (2009) ‘Elite higher education admissions in the arts and sciences: is cultural capital the key?’ Sociology, 43: 648-66. Ogg, Tom, Zimdars, Anna and Heath, Anthony (2009) ‘Schooling effects on degree performance: a comparison of the predictive validity of aptitude testing and secondary school grades at Oxford University’.
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