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Overview

Miriam David is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research focuses on various topics within the social sciences, particularly intersecting fields such as political science, education, finance, demography, and gender studies.

Their recent publications cover a range of subjects and include the following papers:

  • Hannah Arendt on educational thinking and practice in dark times: Education for a world in crisis, 2021, British Journal of Sociology of Education
  • New Institutionalism in Higher Education, 2020, The SAGE Encyclopedia of Higher Education
  • Changing Global Gender Involvement in Higher Education Participation, 2021, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education
  • Spaces of care, edited by Loraine Gelsthorpe, Perveez Mody and Brian Sloan, Oxford and NY, Hart Publishing for Cambridge Socio-Legal Group, 2020, Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law
  • A Jewish Sisterly Tribute to Nira, 2020, Feminist Review

The main topics of their work include:

  • Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy
  • Healthcare innovation and challenges
  • Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
  • Elder Abuse and Neglect
  • Gender Diversity and Inequality
  • Mentoring and Academic Development
  • Radio, Podcasts, and Digital Media

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Miriam David are:

  • Heinz-Dieter Meyer
  • Justin J W Powell
  • Marilyn J. Amey
  • Bentina Alawari Mathias
  • Rosalind Edwards

They have published regularly in venues such as:

  • British Journal of Sociology of Education
  • Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law
  • The SAGE Encyclopedia of Higher Education
  • Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education
  • Feminist Review

Their research contributions span five publications in social sciences with subfields including political science and international relations, education, finance, demography, and gender studies. The topics covered show an engagement with interdisciplinary themes combining social theory, policy analysis, and gender issues.

Best Publications

  • Choices of Degree or Degrees of Choice? Class, `Race' and the Higher Education Choice Process

    Diane Reay;Jacqueline Davies;Miriam David;Stephen J Ball

  • Degrees of choice : class, race, gender and higher education

    Diane Reay;Miriam E. David;Stephen J. Ball

  • 'Classification' and 'Judgement': Social Class and the 'Cognitive Structures' of Choice of Higher Education

    Stephen J. Ball;Jackie Davies;Miriam David;Diane Reay

  • Closing the Gender Gap Post-War Education and Social Change

    Madeleine Arnot;Miriam David;Gaby Weiner

  • Making a Difference?: Institutional Habituses and Higher Education Choice:

    Diane Reay;Miriam David;Stephen Ball

  • 'Ethnic choosing': Minority ethnic students, social class and higher education choice

    Stephen J. Ball;Diane Reay;Miriam David

  • ‘It's Taking Me a Long Time but I'll Get There in the End’: Mature students on access courses and higher education choice

    Diane Reay;Stephen Ball;Miriam David

  • Children and School-based Research: ‘informed consent’ or ‘educated consent’?

    Miriam David;Rosalind Edwards;P. A. M. Alldred

  • Children, their world, their education: final report and recommendations of the Cambridge Primary Review

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  • Closing the Gender Gap: Postwar Education and Social Change

    Madeleine Arnot;Miriam E. David;Gaby Weiner

  • Gender Issues in Parental Involvement in Student Choices of Higher Education

    Miriam E. David;Stephen J. Ball;Jackie Davies;Diane Reay

  • Variations in Vivas: Quality and equality in British PhD assessments

    Louise Morley;Diana Leonard;Miriam David

  • Parental Involvement in Education in and out of School

    Anne West;Philip Noden;Ann Edge;Miriam David

  • Parents, Gender and Education Reform

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  • Mother's Intuition: Choosing Secondary Schools

    Miriam E. David;Anne West;Jane Ribbens

  • Women and Gender Equality in Higher Education

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  • Improving Learning by Widening Participation in Higher Education

    Miriam David;Ann-Marie Bathmaker;Gill Crozier;Pauline Davis

  • Choice Within Constraints: Mothers and schooling

    Miriam David;Jackie Davies;Rosalind Edwards;Diane Reay Kay Standing

  • Mothers and Education: Inside Out?

    Miriam David;Rosalind Edwards;Mary Hughes;Jane Ribbens

  • Troubling identities: Reflections on Judith Butler's philosophy for the sociology of education

    Miriam David;Amanda Coffey;Paul Connolly;Anoop Nayak

  • Feminism, Gender and Universities: Politics, passion and pedagogies

    Miriam E. David

  • Choices and destinations at transfer to secondary schools in London

    Philip Noden;Anne West;Miriam David;Ann Edge

  • The State, the Family and Education

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  • Closing the Gender Gap: Postwar Education and Social Change

    Sanjiv Gupta;Madeleine Arnot;Miriam David;Gaby Weiner

Frequent Co-Authors

Diane Reay
Diane Reay University of Cambridge
Louise Morley
Louise Morley University of Sussex
Madeleine Arnot
Madeleine Arnot University of Cambridge
Anne West
Anne West London School of Economics and Political Science
Alison Fuller
Alison Fuller University College London
Carol Vincent
Carol Vincent University College London
Rosalind Edwards
Rosalind Edwards University of Southampton
John Evans
John Evans Loughborough University
Gill Crozier
Gill Crozier University of Roehampton
Alan Brown
Alan Brown Harvard University

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