Anthony Heath

Anthony Heath studied classics and economics at Trinity College, Cambridge, receiving a double first.{{Cite web |url=http://www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/documents/people/cv/HeathA_CV.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=13 October 2013 |archive-date=24 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924103323/http://www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/documents/people/cv/HeathA_CV.pdf |url-status=dead }} After a spell in the Treasury he returned to Cambridge to study for a doctorate on social exchange theory with John H Goldthorpe as supervisor. He then moved to Jesus College, Oxford, as a tutorial fellow, followed by an official fellowship and then a professorial fellowship at Nuffield College, when he became Oxford's first professor of sociology in 1999, and founded the Oxford Department of Sociology.{{cite web|url=http://www.crest.ox.ac.uk/heath.htm |title=Archived copy |access-date=13 October 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131022011029/http://www.crest.ox.ac.uk/heath.htm |archive-date=22 October 2013 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.nuff.ox.ac.uk/Sociology/Group/2000_01/Heath.html |title=Archived copy |access-date=13 October 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101206195142/http://www.nuff.ox.ac.uk/Sociology/Group/2000_01/Heath.html |archive-date=6 December 2010 }} He was elected a fellow of the British Academy in 1992. He is also a fellow of the European Academy of Sociology.{{cite web|url=http://www.europeanacademy.nl/fellows_list.htm |title=EAS - European academy of sociology |access-date=6 February 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090321051808/http://www.europeanacademy.nl/fellows_list.htm |archive-date=21 March 2009 }}

At Oxford he first worked with Chelly Halsey and John Ridge investigating social class inequalities in education, analysing the 1972 Nuffield social mobility survey and working in the political arithmetic tradition. He has been closely associated with this tradition of research ever since, analysing large-scale social surveys to investigate 'real world' issues of class, gender and ethnic stratification. A recent study in this tradition is his 2001 Oxford Admissions Study,{{Cite web |url=http://www.onsir.ox.ac.uk/index.php/research/55-projects/112-oxford-admissions-study.html |title=The Oxford Admissions Study |access-date=13 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131022011843/http://www.onsir.ox.ac.uk/index.php/research/55-projects/112-oxford-admissions-study.html |archive-date=22 October 2013 |url-status=dead }} which investigated the extent to which Oxford admissions procedures followed meritocratic principles.

Together with Roger Jowell and John Curtice, he directed the 1983, 1987, 1992 and 1997 British Election Surveys, focussing particularly on the topics of class voting, social change and the future of the left in Britain.{{cite web|url=http://diversity.psy.ox.ac.uk/research-team/anthony-heath/|title=Intergroup Conflict — PSY|website=diversity.psy.ox.ac.uk}} More recently he has focussed on issues of ethnic inequality, particularly on ‘ethnic penalties’ in education and the labour market. He coordinated a major cross-national investigation of ethnic inequalities in the labour market in Western countries,Heath, Unequal Chances: Ethnic Minorities in Western Labour Markets comparing the magnitude of the ethnic penalties experienced by different minorities in different countries. Current work includes a major new national study of ethnic minority political integration based on the Ethnic Minority British Election Survey.{{cite web|url=http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_releases_for_journalists/experts_on_voting.html |title=Experts on voting behaviour and elections - University of Oxford |access-date=13 October 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131022010101/http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_releases_for_journalists/experts_on_voting.html |archive-date=22 October 2013 }} He leads the Centre for social investigation, an interdisciplinary research group based at Nuffield College. He has written reports for government on discrimination in the labour market, social cohesion, and on national identity.

• Heath, A F (2018) Social Progress in Britain. Oxford: Oxford University Press
• {{cite journal |last1=Li |first1=Y |last2=Heath |first2=A F |year=2017 |title= The socio-economic integration of ethnic minorities |journal=Social Inclusion |volume=5 |pages=1–4|doi=10.17645/si.v5i1.943 |doi-access=free }}
• {{Cite book|title = Hard Times: Inequality, Recession, Aftermath|author1=Clark, T |author2=Heath, A F|publisher = Yale University Press|year = 2015|location = New Haven}}
• {{Cite book|title = Hard Times: The Divisive Toll of the Economic Slump|author1=Clark, T |author2=Heath, A F|publisher = Yale University Press|year = 2014|location = New Haven}}
• {{Cite book|title = Unequal Attainments: Ethnic educational inequalities in ten Western countries|last = Heath, A F and Brinbaum, Y (eds)|publisher = Oxford University Press|year = 2014|location = Oxford}}
• {{Cite book|title = Migrants and Their Children in Britain: Generational Change in Patterns of Ethnic Minority Integration|last = Heath, A F|publisher = Routledge|year = 2014|location = London}}
• {{Cite book|title = The Political Integration of Ethnic Minorities in Britain|last = Heath, A F, Fisher, S D, Rosenblatt, G, Sanders, D and Sobolewska, M|publisher = Oxford University Press|year = 2013|location = Oxford}}
• {{Cite book|title = Expansion and equity in secondary education|last = Heath, A F, Sullivan, A (eds)|publisher = Routledge|year = 2011|location = Abingdon}}
• {{Cite book|title = Rational Choice and Social Exchange: A Critique of Exchange Theory (Themes in the Social Sciences)|last = Heath, A F|publisher = Cambridge University Press|year = 2010|location = Cambridge}}
• {{Cite book |author=Heath, A F and Jeffery, R (eds) |title=Diversity and Change in Modern India. Proceedings of the British Academy 159 |year=2010 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford }}
• {{Cite book |author=Heath, A F and S Y Cheung (eds) |title=Unequal Chances: Ethnic Minorities in Western Labour Markets. Proceedings of the British Academy 137 |year=2007 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford }}
• {{Cite book |author=Heath, A F, Ermisch, J and Gallie, D (eds) |title=Understanding Social Change |year=2005 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford }}
• {{Cite book |author=Heath, A F, Jowell, R M and Curtice, J K |title=The Rise of New Labour: Party Policies and Voter Choices |year=2001 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford }}
• {{Cite book |author1=Goldstein, H |author2=Heath, A F |title=Educational Standards. Proceedings of the British Academy 102 |year=2000 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford }}
• {{Cite book |author=Heath, A F, Breen, R, and Whelan, C (eds) |title=Ireland, North and South: Perspectives from the Social Sciences. Proceedings of the British Academy 98 |year=1999 |publisher=Clarendon Press |location=Oxford }}
• {{Cite book |author=Heath, A F, Jowell, R M and Curtice, J K with Taylor B (eds) |title=Labour's Last Chance? The 1992 Election and Beyond |year=1994 |publisher=Dartmouth |location=Aldershot }}
• {{Cite book |author=Crouch, C and Heath A F (eds) |title=Social Research and Social Reform: Essays in Honour of A.H. Halsey |year=1992 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford }}
• {{Cite book |author=Heath, A F |title=Understanding Political Change: The British Voter 1964–1987 |year=1991 |publisher=Pergamon Press |location=Oxford |display-authors=etal}}
• {{Cite book |author=Heath, A F, Jowell, R M and Curtice, J K |title=How Britain Votes |year=1985 |publisher=Pergamon Press |location=Oxford }}
• {{Cite book |author=Heath, A F |title=Social Mobility |year=1981 |publisher=Fontana |location=London }}
• {{Cite book |editor=Heath, A F |title=Scientific Explanation |year=1981 |publisher=Clarendon Press |location=Oxford }}
• {{Cite book |author=Halsey, A H, Heath, A F and Ridge, J M |title=Origins and Destinations: Family, Class and Education in Modern Britain |year=1980 |publisher=Clarendon Press |location=Oxford }}
• {{Cite book |author=Heath, A F |title=Rational Choice and Social Exchange |year=1976 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge }}

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