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From assisted places to free schools: subsidizing private schools for the northern English middle classes (2020)
Journal Article
Gamsu, S. (2020). From assisted places to free schools: subsidizing private schools for the northern English middle classes. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 41(8), 1093-1114. https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2020.1833180

This paper examines how the English educational state has consistently acted to support private schooling in areas where fee-paying schools would be otherwise financially unviable. Educational data on private school participation since the 2008 finan... Read More about From assisted places to free schools: subsidizing private schools for the northern English middle classes.

Social network analysis methods and the geography of education: regional divides and elite circuits in the school to university transition in the UK (2020)
Journal Article
Gamsu, S., & Donnelly, M. (2021). Social network analysis methods and the geography of education: regional divides and elite circuits in the school to university transition in the UK. Journal of Economic and Human Geography, 112(4), 370-386. https://doi.org/10.1111/tesg.12413

This paper uses social network analysis methods to explore how the spatial mobility of students to attend university creates regional divisions and socio‐spatial hierarchies of schools and universities. Using community detection methods as our method... Read More about Social network analysis methods and the geography of education: regional divides and elite circuits in the school to university transition in the UK.