Publications

(tbc) 2010: A Million Small Conversations, book on dialogue to support positive public service and other social transitions in a rapidly changing world

(tbc) late 2009: 'Green Hubs, Social Inclusion and Community Engagement', in a professional journal

2009: 'Knowledge, the new currency in regeneration', Journal of Urban Regeration and Renewal, December

2009: Scoping Report, Blackburn Young Pakistanis Achievement Commission, November

2009: 'Where should we put the 'evidence base' when we make policy?', New Start blog, July

2009: Biography ('The tale of a jobbing sociologist'), British Sociological Association Sociologists Outside Academia magazine, June

2009: 'Can Liverpool's Arts And Culture Businesses Thrive Post-2008?', Liverpool Chamber magazine of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce, January / February

2009: 'Was Liverpool a truly inclusive Capital of Culture in 2008?', New Start magazine, January

2008: 'Arachnid 'art', big toys and cultural communties', a-n magazine, December

2008: 'Liverpool 08: Cultural Turn or Cultural Tourism?', lecture at the Architectural Association seminar supported by the Architectural Review, London, 5 December

2008: 'If only scientists could remember - science has its responsibilities', an analysis of the DIUS A Vision for Science and Society, in Science Review, 5 November.

2008: DIUS Science and Society consultation submission, October

2008: From 'Regeneration to Sustainability: A Northern Take On Knowledge', keynote address at the NUREC conference, Liverpool, 28 July

2008: 'Regeneration Rethink' (equality and diversity), Public Service Review: Transport, Local Government and the Regions, issue 12, Spring

2008: 'Places for People: Hope Street Quarter as a case study', Communities and the Public Realm Masterclass, Bradford, 21 April

2008: 'Alice in economic context', (re: Big Science in Regional Economic Contexts: Daresbury Laboratory and the ALICE programme) Education Guardian letters page, 13 April

2008: Introductory speaker (and instigator) at the BURA Equality and Diversity Network Launch, London, 20 February

2008: Member, Editorial Support Team, Neighbourhood: The International Journal of Neighbourhood Renewal

2007: Social Research in Defra, report of the Defra Science Advisory Council (by Prof. Chris Gaskell (chair), Hilary Burrage, Prof Ian Diamond, Prof. Peter Guthrie, Prof Philip Lowe and Sir John Marsh), Autumn

2007: Putting scientific research in context, The Guardian (letters), 17 February

2006: 'Can I have a speaker that reflects the community? Too white, too male and too posh. It's time conferences had an injection of diversity', New Start, 27 October, p.11 (website version)

2006: 'Should women be starting more businesses?', Vision (Liverpool Daily Post's regional business magazine), Summer, p.52

2006: Sure Start in Halewood: Service Provision Overview, report for Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council, March

2006: 'No-Win or Win-Win Gender and Babies Agenda?', Diverse Liverpool , March, pp. 113-115

2006: 'Knowledge Economies and Big Science: A challenge for governance,' Centre for Local Economic Strategies (CLES) Local Work: Voice, No.68, February (website version)

2006: 'Make a move too far and you might find yourself exposed', New Start, 27 January, p.11 (website version)

2005: 'Regional Issues around the Very High Skills Knowledge Economy', Knowledge Economy Network Conference, London

2005: Evaluation Report on the Positive Activities for Young People (PAYP) & Schools and Youth Service (SaYS) Collaborative Programme, Salford Youth Service

2005: 'The Hope Street Quarter, Liverpool', Northern European Cathedrals Conference, Liverpool2002: 'Cultural Tourism as a Catalyst for Renaissance', Mersey Partnership Cultural Impact Conference.

2000: Paper presented to the Secretary of State for Culture, and the Millennium Commissioners on the Hope Street Millennium Festival, London, September

2000: 'Imagine all the people - and all the things they'd do.....', Manifesto for a New Liverpool (eds: M. Lyons & J. Egan), University of Liverpool et al

2000: Art at the Heart: The Role of Established Cultural Quarters in City Renaissance (commissioning editor, for HOPES: The Hope Street Association)

1987-96: Member of Editorial Board of Gender and Education

1993: 'The Sociology of Science and the Science of Society', Chapter 1 of Sociology Reviewed (eds: T. Lawson et al), Collins Educational

1991 onwards: articles and reports in the arts media and cultural publications (eg: Classical Music magazine, writing as Frances South) & many response / positional documents for CAMPAM and HOPES.

1991: 'Gender, Curriculum and Assessment Issues at 14-16+', Gender and Education, vol.3, no.1 (March)

1990: 'Health Education', Chapter 4 in The New Social Curriculum (ed: B. Dufour), Cambridge University Press

1986-90: Editor, Social Science Teacher (national professional journal)

1989: '"Recent, Relevant Experience": How CATE legitimates narrowly defined concepts of teacher education' (with W. Boxall), Journal of Further and Higher Education, vol.13, no.3 (Autumn)

1987: 'Epidemiology and Community Health:a strained connection?', Social Science & Medicine, vol.25, no.8 - later cited by WHO

1987: 'Striking at the Heart: sociology's place in the school curriculum', The Guardian, 11 August

1987: The National Curriculum 5 - 16: Response of the Joint Forum of Academic and Teaching Associations in the Social Sciences

1986: Paper delivered to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences / SANA symposium of The Socio-Economic Consequences of World War Three (July, Budapest)

1986: ATSS Submission to the Winfield ESRC Enquiry on PhD Completion Rates

1984: 'Doctors and Patients - Bird's Eye or Worm's Eye View?', Scottish Medicine (December)

1983: 'Women University Teachers of Natural Science, 1971-2: An Empirical Study', Social Studies of Science, vol.13, no.1, (February) (Report of M.Sc. research of same title)