Research reports
Research reports for 2006 | 2007 | 2008| 2009| 2010
2006 Research reports:
- The Arts in Criminal Justice – A Study of Research Feasibility, commissioned by the DCMS, Arts Council England and DfES, produced by Andrew Miles and Rebecca Clarke of the Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change at the University of Manchester. http://www.culture.gov.uk/Reference_library/Publications/archive_2006/acj_study.htm
- Roads to Development? Uneven development and the politics of knowledge, convenors Penny Harvey and Hannah Knox. This project was a one year anthropological study of roads in Peru. The aim of the research has been to improve our understanding of the relationship between technologies and social change, by exploring the ways in which the technology of roads becomes a site for the mobilisation, reproduction or challenging of social practices, identities, and relations.
The research period for this project ended in September 2007 and the Research Report can be viewed here. For more information on the project please go to Projects - Peru
- Media Culture - The Social Organisation of Media Practices in Contemporary Britain, a report for the British Film Institute. This report is prepared by Tony Bennett, Mike Savage, Elizabeth Silva, Alan Warde, Modesto Gayo-Cal and David Wright. To view the report please click here.
2007 Research reports:
- taking part in the north west - understanding engagement and participation in culture
Taking Part in the North West presents the key findings of a research seminar series on cultural participation and engagement. This series, convened by the Northwest Culture Observatory and the Centre for Research on Socio-cultural Change, University of Manchester brought together research-interested individuals from across the cultural sector in the Northwest – policymakers, administrators and managers, sector researchers, market researchers and academics.
The publication summarises key issues raised through these seminars, identifies directions for future research and signposts readers to relevant research and intelligence. It reflects on a new cross-sector collaboration and knowledge exchange.
To view the executive summary please click here
2008 Research reports:
- Reward for performance (Business Engagement Scheme)
This report is published by the ESRC’s Centre for Research on Socio Cultural Change at the University of Manchester. The authors are: Julie Froud, Sukhdev Johal, Adam Leaver, Siobhan McAndrew, David Shammai and Karel Williams. They wish to thank Carl Sjostrom who originally championed this project and advised on its execution.
This academic research is produced under the auspices of an ESRC Business Engagement Scheme which brought together KPMG’s People Services practice and CRESC. The report presents the individual views of the authors not the corporate views of CRESC, KPMG or any other organization which employs the authors.
Research Report (May 2008) - Beyond Pay for Performance: New Thinking on Top Management Pay
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- The Academy: A Report on Outcomes for Participants, June 2006-June2008
A report written by Andrew Miles and Paul Strauss for the Academy and published by CRESC and Dance United.
Headline conclusion: The Academy offers a radically intensive, dance-led learning programme for
young offenders and young people at risk of offending in a community setting. The evidence collected over the first two years of its operation suggests that the Academy programme makes a major positive impact on participants’ attitudes and behaviour. This evidence indicates that Academy participants are less likely to re-offend than their peers and that on completion of the programme they have much
higher than expected rates of transfer into education, training and employment. These ‘hard’ outcomes are underpinned by measurable increases in participants’ capacity to learn and the development of a range of key life skills, to which dance as a process and a context is crucial. Set against recent claims that the government’s ten year youth crime drive has had ‘no measurable impact’ (Solomon and Garside 2008: 36), the outcomes of the programme to date suggest that it is high time policymakers recognised the serious role that professionally appointed and properly targeted arts interventions can play in helping to address the problem of youth offending.Research Report (October 2008) - Please click here (
- Locust? Private Equity and Hedge Funds and their Impact on the Economy and the Labour Market
This Conference report written by Johnna Montgomerie (CRESC) is produced for the Seventh British-German Trades Union Forum and published with help fro, the Anglo-German Foundation for the Study of Industrial Society, Hans-Böckler-Stiftung Düsseldorf, and Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, London Office.
Conference Report (November 2008) - Locust? Private Equity and Hedge Funds and their Impact on the Economy and the Labour Market (
- Mobility, careers and inequalities: a study of work-life mobility and the returns from education
This report reviews what is known about patterns of work-life mobility for a number of key equality groups: women, ethnic minorities and disabled people. In addition, it uses ground-breaking sequencing techniques to analyse panel survey data and demonstrate the complex patterns and range of processes that produce inequalities in work-life mobility.
The research was conducted and the report written by Anna Schroeder, Andrew Miles, Mike Savage, Susan Halford and Gindo Tampubolon on behalf of CRESC for the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
Research Report (December 2008) - Please click here to download the report. (
2009 Research reports:
- Rediscovering banking as utility: A memo for the Treasury Select Committee
This memo to the Treasury Select Committee was written by Ismael Erturk, Julie Froud, Sukh Johal, Adam Leaver, Karel Williams (all CRESC Theme 1 members), January 2009.
- This submission presents argument and evidence which suggests that banking is not a suitable activity for shareholder value driven PLCs.
- It shows how the pursuit of shareholder interests from the 1980s onwards encouraged new business models which undermined banking’s basic utility functions and damaged the interests of depositors and borrowers.
- The crisis since 2007 dramatises the need for new policies of damage limitation as long as PLC organisation and shareholder value prevail and also for more radical policies to encourage the remutualisation of banking.
To review the full submission and the CRESC memorandum please click here
- We Play: Play and Space Report
A report written by Andrew Miles for and with the North West Regional Development Agency.
To review Play and Space Report (March 2009) please click here
- Submission to the Public Administration Select Committee Inquiry, Executive pay in the public sector: issues and questions
A submission by Tony Cutler (CRESC, Honorary Research Fellow) March 2009.
To read the submission please click here
- An alternative report on UK banking reform
A Public interest reportfrom CRESC. Jointly authored by a working group of practitioners and academics based at the ESRC Centre for Research on Socio Cultural Change, University of Manchester
Experts propose and the public mood supports banking reforms more radical than those proposed by the Labour government and the Conservative opposition. The report then presents a radical analysis of what went wrong in banking before the financial crisis. It ends by proposing more democratic control of finance.
To view the report please click here
2010 Research reports: