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Clare Holdsworth's Outputs (37)

The cult of experience: standing out from the crowd in an era of austerity (2015)
Journal Article
Holdsworth. (2017). The cult of experience: standing out from the crowd in an era of austerity. Area, 49(3), 296-302. https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12201

Faced with uncertain futures associated with precarious/casualised employment or unemployment, young people are increasingly encouraged to invest in practices of distinction that enable them to stand out from the crowd in the pursuit of employability... Read More about The cult of experience: standing out from the crowd in an era of austerity.

Gendered forms of responsibility and control in teenagers' views of alcohol (2015)
Journal Article
Holdsworth. (2015). Gendered forms of responsibility and control in teenagers' views of alcohol. Journal of Youth Studies, 794 - 808. https://doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2014.992325

There has been a shift in the most recent UK Government's Alcohol Strategy (2012) from personal responsibility towards a model of shared responsibility for young people's drinking. On closer examination of the strategy, however, it appears that rathe... Read More about Gendered forms of responsibility and control in teenagers' views of alcohol.

Volunteering, choice and control: a case study of higher education student volunteering (2013)
Journal Article
Holdsworth, C., & Brewis, G. (in press). Volunteering, choice and control: a case study of higher education student volunteering. Journal of Youth Studies, 17(2), 204 - 219. https://doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2013.815702

There has been a step change around youth volunteering in the UK in recent years as this once unheralded and taken for granted activity has moved more centre stage, particularly as a key strand of recent Government initiatives directed towards welfar... Read More about Volunteering, choice and control: a case study of higher education student volunteering.

Population and Society (2013)
Book
Holdsworth, C., Finney, N., Marshall, A., & Norman, P. (2013). Population and Society. SAGE Publications

Family and Intimate Mobilities (2013)
Book
Holdsworth, C. (2013). Family and Intimate Mobilities. Palgrave Macmillan

The book considers how mobility is not just about bringing people together but how it also allows for time apart.

Parental smoking and children's anxieties: an appropriate strategy for health education? (2013)
Journal Article
Holdsworth, C., & Robinson, J. (2013). Parental smoking and children's anxieties: an appropriate strategy for health education?. Children's Geographies, 11(1), 102-116. https://doi.org/10.1080/14733285.2013.743284

While the prevalence of smoking has declined in the UK in recent years, class differentials in smoking behaviour have become more marked and smoking is increasingly recognised as a causal factor in inequalities in health. Health education initiatives... Read More about Parental smoking and children's anxieties: an appropriate strategy for health education?.

'Seize that chance!' Leaving home and transitions to higher education (2005)
Journal Article
Patiniotis, J., & Holdsworth, C. (2005). 'Seize that chance!' Leaving home and transitions to higher education. Journal of Youth Studies, 8(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/13676260500063710

This paper interrogates assumptions surrounding the practices of leaving home and going to higher education in England and Wales. As more students from non-traditional backgrounds are encouraged to go to university, this is leading to greater diversi... Read More about 'Seize that chance!' Leaving home and transitions to higher education.

Leaving the home in comparative perspective: Negotiating processes and meanings (2005)
Book Chapter
Morgan, D. H. J., Patiniotis, J., & Holdsworth, C. (2005). Leaving the home in comparative perspective: Negotiating processes and meanings. In Young People in Transition (97-115). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230597778_6

There is now a considerable body of, largely quantitative, data available dealing with the process of leaving the parental home in a wide range of countries. Such data show a tendency for the process to be delayed or obscured through one or more retu... Read More about Leaving the home in comparative perspective: Negotiating processes and meanings.

Transitions in Context: Leaving Home, Independence and Adulthood (2005)
Book
Holdsworth, C., & Morgan, D. (2005). Transitions in Context: Leaving Home, Independence and Adulthood. Open University Press

This book addresses important aspects of youth transitions, by considering cross-cultural differences in leaving home experiences and the inter-relationships between transitions to adulthood, the achievement of independence and leaving home.

This... Read More about Transitions in Context: Leaving Home, Independence and Adulthood.

Analysing Census Microdata (2000)
Book
Dale, A., Fieldhouse, E., & Holdsworth, C. (2000). Analysing Census Microdata. Wiley

The use of census microdata - which is the extremely detailed information collected through the 'ultracensusing' of a small number of households at the time of the last census - forms an important part of many research activities in subject areas as... Read More about Analysing Census Microdata.

Leaving home in Spain: A regional analysis (1998)
Journal Article
Holdsworth, C. (1998). Leaving home in Spain: A regional analysis. International Journal of Population Geography, 4(4), 341-360. https://doi.org/10.1002/%28SICI%291099-1220%28199812%294%3A4%3C341%3A%3AAID-IJPG113%3E3.0.CO%3B2-C

This paper compares regional patterns of leaving home in Spain during the 1970s and 1980s based on analysis of the 1991 Spanish Sociodemographic Survey. The purpose of this analysis is to demonstrate that while nationally Spain is representative of a... Read More about Leaving home in Spain: A regional analysis.

Issues in the analysis of ethnicity in the 1991 British Census: Evidence from microdata (1997)
Journal Article
Dale, A., & Holdsworth, C. (1997). Issues in the analysis of ethnicity in the 1991 British Census: Evidence from microdata. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 20(1), 160-181. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.1997.9993952

The 1991 British Census was the first to ask a question on ethnic group. This Research note provides a brief review of the development of the question and then uses the Samples of Anonymised Records, also newly available in 1991, to explore the const... Read More about Issues in the analysis of ethnicity in the 1991 British Census: Evidence from microdata.

Ethnic differences in women's employment (1997)
Journal Article
Holdsworth, C., & Dale, A. (1997). Ethnic differences in women's employment. Work, Employment and Society, 11(3), 435-457. https://doi.org/10.1177/0950017097113003

This paper uses the 1 per cent household file from the Samples of Anonymised Records (SARs) for the 1991 Census and the ONS Longitudinal Study (LS) to explore variations in patterns of employment and occupational attainment among women from different... Read More about Ethnic differences in women's employment.

Women's work and family health: Evidence from the Staffordshire Potteries, 1890-1920 (1997)
Journal Article
Holdsworth, C. (1997). Women's work and family health: Evidence from the Staffordshire Potteries, 1890-1920. Continuity and Change, 12(1), 103–128. https://doi.org/10.1017/S026841609700283X

The progress of industrialization throughout the nineteenth century had profound effects on health and mortality. One relationship that contemporaries found particularly alarming was the potentially damaging effect that the employment of women in ind... Read More about Women's work and family health: Evidence from the Staffordshire Potteries, 1890-1920.