[ Qualifications ]
[ Principal Interests ] [ Research
Supervision ]
[ Biographical
Note ] [ Current
and Recent Research ] [ Publications ]
Qualifications
- 1978: MA (Aberdeen University)
- 1981: PhD (Edinburgh University)
Principal
Interests
- Sociology of education
- Educational policy
- History of Scottish education
- Statistical methods in social
research
Research
Supervision
I am happy to supervise research under the headings above.
Biographical
Note
Lindsay Paterson is Professor
of Educational Policy in the School of Education, University of Edinburgh.
His undergraduate education was in Aberdeen University (where he studied mathematics
and English literature), and he then did a PhD in statistics at Edinburgh University.
He gained postdoctoral experience working as a statistician for the Agricultural
Research Council, after which he was a lecturer in the Department of Actuarial
Mathematics and Statistics at Heriot-Watt University. While there, his research
was mainly in epidemiological work in medicine.
Since the late 1980s he has worked in educational sociology, first in the
Centre for Educational Sociology and then at Moray House. His main substantive
interests are in the history of education, in educational policy, and in the
relationship between education and democracy, on which topics he has written
several books and many papers. Much of his research is based on the statistical
analysis of large social surveys.
He has served on the Research Resources Board of the UK Economic and Social
Research Council, and has been an adviser to the Scottish Parliament's Education
Committee. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2004.
Current
and Recent Research
- Education and social mobility (with Dr Cristina Iannelli, School of Education)
- Higher education, national identity and civil society in the UK (with Ross Bond, School of Social and Political Studies)
- Education and the Scottish parliament (part of several large research projects, mainly led by Professor David McCrone, Institute of Governance)
- Education and civic values
- The
history of the secondary-school curriculum in Scotland
Publications
Selected
Recent Publications:
Paterson, L. (2008), 'Political attitudes, social participation and social mobility: a longitudinal analysis', British Journal of Sociology, 59, pp. 413-34.
Paterson, L. and Iannelli, C. (2007), 'Social class and educational attainment: a comparative study of England, Wales and Scotland', Sociology of Education, 80, pp. 330-58.
Paterson, L. (2007), 'The renewal of social democratic educational thought in Scotland', in Keating, M. (ed.), Scottish Social Democracy: Progressive Ideas for Public Policy, Brussels: Peter Lang, pp. 59-84.
Paterson, L. and Bond, R. (2005), 'Higher education and critical citizenship: a survey of academics' views in Scotland and England', Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 13, pp. 205-31.
Paterson, L., Bechhofer, F. and McCrone, D. (2004), Living
in Scotland: Social and Economic Change since 1980, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University
Press.
Paterson, L. (2004), 'The modernising of the democratic intellect: the role of English in Scottish secondary education, 1900-1939', Journal of Scottish Historical Studies, 24, pp. 45-79.
 More
on the School's Publications Database
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