The Moray House School of Education
Research - Themes & Projects

Lead researcher

Dr Cristina Iannelli (Education & Society, School of Education) University of Edinburgh

Other researchers

Professor Lindsay Paterson (Education & Society, School of Education) University of Edinburgh

Keywords

Social mobility

Abstract

This is a study of social mobility in Scotland, comparing it with the results of the international study of social mobility directed by Professor Richard Breen of Nuffield College Oxford. The main data sources are the Scottish Household Survey and the British Household Panel Study.
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Publications

Iannelli, C. and Paterson , L. (2003), 'Education and social mobility in Scotland', paper presented at the Nuffield College Sociology seminars, 22nd January.

Paterson, L., Iannelli, C., Bechhofer, F. and McCrone, D., (2004), 'Social class and social opportunity', ch.6 in Paterson, L., Bechhofer, F. and McCrone, D., Living in Scotland, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 80-104.

2002 - 2004

Funder /amount

ESRC
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