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5530
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Overview

Phil Hodkinson is a researcher affiliated with the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom. Their work primarily focuses on the social sciences with a particular emphasis on areas such as sociology and political science, urban studies, demography, and economics and econometrics.

The researcher's body of work covers significant topics including youth education and societal dynamics, cultural industries and urban development, retirement, disability, and employment, as well as labor market dynamics and wage inequality.

Phil Hodkinson has contributed to the academic discourse through publications in the Journal of the National Institute for Career Education and Counselling, which has served as the main venue for their work. Their recent papers include:

  • Understanding career decisionmaking and progression: Careership revisited (2022) in the Journal of the National Institute for Career Education and Counselling
  • The strengths and limitations of career guidance (2022) in the Journal of the National Institute for Career Education and Counselling
  • Cultural capital and young people's career progression - Part 1: Daniel Johnson and Tamsin Roorke (2022) in the Journal of the National Institute for Career Education and Counselling
  • Cultural capital and young people's career progression - Part 2: Making sense of the stories (2022) in the Journal of the National Institute for Career Education and Counselling

The coauthor most frequently collaborating with Phil Hodkinson is Martin Bloomer.

Best Publications

  • Learning as peripheral participation in communities of practice: a reassessment of key concepts in workplace learning

    Alison Fuller;Heather Hodkinson;Phil Hodkinson;Lorna Unwin

  • Careership: a sociological theory of career decision making

    Phil Hodkinson;Andrew C. Sparkes

  • Informality and Formality in Learning: a report for the Learning and Skills Research Centre

    Janice Malcolm;Phil Hodkinson;Helen Colley

  • The interrelationships between informal and formal learning

    Janice Malcolm;Phil Hodkinson;Helen Colley

  • Understanding Learning Culturally: Overcoming the Dualism Between Social and Individual Views of Learning

    Phil Hodkinson;G J J Biesta;David James

  • Non-formal learning: mapping the conceptual terrain, a consultation report

    Helen Colley;Phil Hodkinson;Janice Malcolm

  • Improving Workplace Learning

    Karen Evans;Phil Hodkinson;Helen Rainbird;Lorna Unwin

  • Moving beyond the metaphor of transfer of learning

    Paul Hager;Phil Hodkinson

  • Learning Careers: Continuity and change in young people's dispositions to learning

    Martin Bloomer;Phil Hodkinson

  • Improving schoolteachers' workplace learning

    Heather Hodkinson;Phil Hodkinson

  • The significance of individuals’ dispositions in workplace learning: a case study of two teachers

    Phil Hodkinson;Heather Hodkinson

  • Individuals, Communities of Practice and the Policy Context: School teachers' learning in their workplace

    Phil Hodkinson;Heather Hodkinson

  • Understanding learning cultures

    Phil Hodkinson;Gert Biesta;David James

  • Rethinking the concept of community of practice in relation to schoolteachers’ workplace learning

    Heather Hodkinson;Phil Hodkinson

  • Improving Learning through the Lifecourse: Learning Lives

    Gert Biesta;John Field;Phil Hodkinson;Flora J. Macleod

  • The significance of individual biography in workplace learning

    Phil Hodkinson;Heather Hodkinson;Karen Evans;Natasha Kersh

  • Problems with "bridging the gap": the reversal of structure and agency in addressing social exclusion

    Helen Colley;Phil Hodkinson

  • Research as a form of work: expertise, community and methodological objectivity

    Phil Hodkinson

  • Can There Be Criteria for Selecting Research Criteria?—A Hermeneutical Analysis of an Inescapable Dilemma:

    Dean Garratt;Phil Hodkinson

  • Knowledge and Nationhood: Education, Politics and Work

    James Avis;Martin Bloomer;Geoff Esland;Denis Gleeson

Frequent Co-Authors

Lorna Unwin
Lorna Unwin University College London
Andrew C. Sparkes
Andrew C. Sparkes Leeds Beckett University
Gert Biesta
Gert Biesta National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Alison Fuller
Alison Fuller University College London
Paul Hager
Paul Hager University of Technology Sydney
Ivor Goodson
Ivor Goodson University of Brighton
Stephen Richard Billett
Stephen Richard Billett Griffith University

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