
George Smith currently Head of the Department of Social Policy and Social Work, and co-directs the Social Disadvantage Research Centre. Until April 1996 he was part time adviser/research consultant to the British Government's Office for Standards in Education (OFSTED), London and before that to Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Schools (HMI). His fields of interest include urban disadvantage, social security, poverty/low income and education, and the measurement of deprivation at the local level. He worked on the Educational Priority Areas project, the Community Development Project; was co-ordinator of OECD projects on educational disadvantage in the US and disadvantaged youth in urban areas.
Tel: (01865) (2)70354
Email: george.smith@socres.ox.ac.uk
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Smith, George & Smith, Teresa (2006). A. H. Halsey: Oxford as a base for social research and educational reform Oxford Review of Education, Special Issue, 32 (1), 105-126, February 2006. |
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Noble, M. Wright, G , Smith, G & Dibben, C. (2006). 'Measuring multiple deprivation at the small-area level' Environment and Planning A, 38(1) January, pages 169 -185. |
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Smith, T. Lee, C. with Braswell, S. Coxon, K. Smith, G. Sylva, K. & Tanner, E. (2005). 'Early Stages of the Neighbourhood Nurseries Initiative: Opening the Nurseries'. Department for Education and Skills Publications. |
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Smith, George & Smith, Tom (2005). Mapping deprivation at the local level: recent experience from the United Kingdom ICSC Research Review, 12(2), pp79-84 |
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Noble, M. Barnes, H. Smith, G. McLennan, D. Dibben, C. Avenell, D. Smith, Tom, Anttila, C, Sigala, M & Mokhtar, C (2005) Northern Ireland Multiple Deprivation Measures, 2005 NISRA. |
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Buchanan, A., Bennett, F., Smith, T., Smith G., Ritchie, C., Harker, L., and Vitali, S. (2004) The Impact of Government Policy on Children aged 0-13 at risk of Social Exclusion: A review of the literature for the Social Exclusion Unit in Breaking the Cycle series. London: Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, Social Exclusion Unit, London. |
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Noble, M. Wright, G. Dibben, C. Smith, G. Maclennan, D. Anttila, C. Barnes, H. (2004). The English Indices of Deprivation, 2004 Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, Neighbourhood Renewal Unit. |
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Noble, M. Wright, G. Lloyd, M. Dibben, C. Smith, G. Ratcliffe, A. Mclennan, D. Sigala, M & Anttila, C. (2004). Scottish Index of Deprivation 2003: Summary Report, Scottish Executive, Edinburgh |
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Noble, M., Wright, G., Lloyd, M., Dibben, C., Smith, G.A.N. (2004). Scottish Indices of Deprivation 2004: Full Report Scottish Executive web document available from http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library5/social/siod-00.asp. |
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Evans, M. Noble, M. Wright, G. Smith, G. Lloyd, M & Dibben, C. (2002). Growing Together or Growing Apart? Geographic Patterns of Change in IS and JSA-IB Claimants in England 1995-2000,The Policy Press. |
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Plewis, I, Smith, George, Wright, Gemma, & Cullis, A . (2001). 'Linking Child Poverty and Child Outcomes: Exploring Data and Research Strategies', ASD Research Branch Working Papers No 1, Department for Work and Pensions October 2001. |
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Noble, M. Smith, G. Wright, G, Dibben, C & Lloyd, M. (2001). Measures of Deprivation in Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland Statistical Research Agency (NISRA), Belfast. |
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Noble, Michael, Evans, Martin, Dibben, Chris & Smith, George. (2001). Changing Fortunes: geographic patterns of income deprivation in the late 1990s, DLTR and Social Exclusion Unit, Renewal July 2001. |
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Dibben, C. Surender, R. Sims, A. Noble, M, Hill, A, Goldacre, M. Goodman, Lloyd, M. Wright, G. Smith, G. (2001). Health Poverty Index Scoping Project Report Department of Health. |
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Noble, M. Smith, G. Wright, G. Dibben, C. & Lloyd, M. (2001). 'The Northern Ireland Multiple Deprivation Measure', 2001 Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA), Occasional Paper 16, 2001. |
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Smith, George, Noble, Michael & Wright, Gemma. (2001). 'Do we care about area effects?' Environment and Planning A, 33, 1341-1344 2001. |
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Smith, George & Smith, Teresa. (2001). 'Excellence, diversity and inequality in education' in Fimister, G (ed) An End in Sight? Child Poverty Action Group, London, 51-62. |
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Noble, Michael, Penhale, Bruce, Smith, George, Wright, Gemma, Dibben, Chris, Owen, Tom & Lloyd, Myfanwy. (2000). Indices of Deprivation 2000 Regeneration Research Summary, Number 31 2000, Department of Transport, Environment and the Regions (DETR). |
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Noble, M., Smith, G.A.N., Penhale, B., Wright, G., Dibben, C., Owen, T. & Lloyd, M. (2000). Measuring Multiple Deprivation at the Small Area Level: The Indices of Deprivation 2000 DETR, Regeneration Research Summary Number 37, 2000. |
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Noble, M., Penhale, B., Smith, G.A.N., Wright, G., Dibben, C. & Lloyd, M., (2000). Response to the Formal Consultations on the Indices of Deprivation 2000, DETR, London. |
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Noble, Michael, Smith, George, Wright, Gemma, Dibben, Chris, Lloyd, Myfanwy & Penhale, Bruce. (2000). Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation: 2000 Edition The National Assembly for Wales. |
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Lloyd, C & Preller, K with Sandham, S and Smith, G. (2000). 'Young People, Offending and Local Action' in Young People in Transition series, National Youth Agency Press for the Carnegie UK Trust. |
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Smith, George & Noble, Michael. (2000). 'Developing the use of administrative data to study poverty' in Bradshaw, J & Sainsbury, R (eds) Researching Poverty, Studies in Cash & Care, Ashgate, 2000, pp77-97. |
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Smith, George (2000). 'Research and Inspection: HMI and OFSTED, 1981-1996 - A Commentary.' Oxford Review of Education, 26 (3&4). 2000 |
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Wright, G; Noble, M; Smith, G Penhale, B. (2000). 'Response to the Formal Consultations on the Indices of Deprivation, 2000 Department of the Environment Transport and the Regions pp87. |
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Smith, George. (2000). 'Schools' in Halsey, A H & Webb, J Twentieth-Century British Social Trends, pp 179-220, Basingstoke, Macmillan. |
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Noble, Michael, Cheung, Sin Yi, & Smith, George. (1998). ‘Origins and Destinations: Social Security Claimant Dynamics’ Journal of Social Policy 27 (3). |
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Noble, Michael, Smith, George, Cheung, Sin Yi with de Moor, Desmond, Smith, Teresa & Whitlock, Sandra. (1998). Lone Mothers Moving In and Out of Benefit, York Publishing Services for Joseph Rowntree Foundation. |
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Smith, George, Smith, Teresa, & Wright, Gemma (1997). 'Choice, diversity or division? Poverty and schooling 1979-1997' in Walker, A & Walker, C Britain Divided: the Growth of Social Exclusion, 1979-1997. |
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Smith, George (1996). 'Results from the Reading Tests' in OFSTED The Teaching of Reading in 45 Inner London Primary Schools, London. |
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Noble, Michael & Smith, George. (1996). 'Two nations? Changing patterns of income and wealth in two contrasting areas' in Hills, J New Inequalities, Cambridge University Press. |
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Smith, George. (1996). 'Urban Education: Current Position and Future Possibilities: Some Evidence from Research' in Barber, Michael & Dann, Ruth, Raising Standards in the Inner Cities, Cassell. |
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Smith, George Williamson, Howard Platt, Lucinda et al (1996). 'Youth in an Age of Uncertainty: A Review of Recent Research' in The Carnegie Young People Initiative Years of Decision, pp 19-85, Leicester, National Youth Agency. |