Mrs Teresa Smith, M.A.(Oxon.), Dip.Soc.Admin.

Mrs Teresa Smith, M.A.(Oxon.), Dip.Soc.Admin.

Mrs Teresa Smith is University Lecturer in Social Policy and Social Work. She is also co-director of the Social Disadvantage Research Group, one of the research groups in the department. She was Head of the Department of Social Policy and Social Work from 1997 to September 2005. Her main research interests are in the fields of community and disadvantage; family and preschool policy; lone parents and childcare; and the relationship between formal and informal care, the changing patterns of care provided by family, friends and neighbours. Current research includes socio-spatial mapping of disadvantage and services for families and young children. She is a member of an Oxford group collaborating with other research institutions on the research brief for Sure Start, the major new government programme for children aged 0-3 years in disadvantaged areas. Recent publications include ‘Neighbourhood and preventive strategies with children and families: what works?’, Children and Society, 1999, 13, 265-277; ‘Parents and the community: parents’ views and mapping need’ in Buchanan, A. and Hudson, B. Parenting, schooling and children’s behaviour: interdisciplinary approaches (Ashgate 1998); ‘Poverty and schooling: choice, diversity or division?’ (with George Smith and Gemma Wright in Walker, A. and Walker, C.: Britain divided: the growth of social exclusion in the 1980s and 1990s (Child Poverty Action Group 1997); Family centres and bringing up young children (HMSO 1996); Education divides: poverty and schooling in the 1990s with Michael Noble (Child Poverty Action Group 1995).

Tel: (0)1865 (2)70344

Email: teresa.smith@socres.ox.ac.uk

Selected recent publications (since 1996)

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.

Smith, Teresa., Lee, Caroline., with Braswell, Sean., Coxon, Kate., Smith, George., Sylva, Kathy & Tanner, Emily (2005). 'Early Stages of the Neighbourhood Nurseries Initiative: Opening the Nurseries'. Department for Education and Skills Publications.

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.

Smith, T. and Whitlock, Sandra. (2004). 'Community Care and Informal Carers in Japan and England'. in Maya, Y. (ed) Health and Welfare, University Research Center, Nihon University, Tokyo, March 2004, pp.85-101.

Smith, T. (2004). Hadow, Grace Eleanor (1875-1940). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, ed. B Harrison, Oxford University Press Oxford DNB.

Smith, T. and Butler, Jenny. (2004). 'Kaigo Hoken and the Japanese Family: Stability or Change?' in Maya, Y. (ed) Health and Welfare, University Research Center, Nihon University, Tokyo, March 2004, pp.117-124.

Smith, G. & Smith, T. (2001). Excellence, diversity and inequality in education. In in Fimister, G (ed) ‘An End in Sight?', Child Poverty Action Group, London, 51-62

Smith, T. (1999). 'Neighbourhood and preventative strategies with children and families: what works?' Children and Society 13 pp 265 – 277

Noble, M., Smith, G., Cheung, S.-Y., de Moor, D., Smith, T., & Whitlock, S. (1998). Lone Mothers Moving In and Out of Benefit. York Publishing Services for Joseph Rowntree Foundation

Smith, T., (1998). 'Parents and the community: parents' views and mapping need' in Buchanan, A & Hudson, B.L. (eds) Parenting, schooling and children's behaviour: interdisciplinary approaches, Ashgate, Aldershot pp 110 – 123

Smith, G., Smith, T., & Wright, G. (1997). 'Choice, diversity or division? Poverty and schooling 1979-1997' in Walker, A & Walker, C Britain Divided: the Growth of Social Exclusion, 1979-1997

Smith, T. (1997). 'Family centres and bringing up young children.' Family Policy Studies Bulletin, Winter 1997/98, 6

Smith, T. (1997). 'Family Change and Family Policies: Great Britain.' in Kamerman, S B & Kahn, A J (eds) Family Change and Family Policies in Great Britain, Canada, New Zealand and the United States Oxford, Clarendon Press

Smith, T. (1996). Family centres and bringing up young children London, HMSO

	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.
	Smith, Teresa., Lee, Caroline., with Braswell, Sean., Coxon, Kate., Smith, George., Sylva, Kathy & Tanner, Emily (2005). 'Early Stages of the Neighbourhood Nurseries Initiative: Opening the Nurseries'. Department for Education and Skills Publications.
	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.
	Smith, T. and Whitlock, Sandra. (2004). 'Community Care and Informal Carers in Japan and England'. in Maya, Y. (ed) Health and Welfare, University Research Center, Nihon University, Tokyo, March 2004, pp.85-101.
	Smith, T. (2004). Hadow, Grace Eleanor (1875-1940). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, ed. B Harrison, Oxford University Press Oxford DNB.
	Smith, T. and Butler, Jenny. (2004). 'Kaigo Hoken and the Japanese Family: Stability or Change?' in Maya, Y. (ed) Health and Welfare, University Research Center, Nihon University, Tokyo, March 2004, pp.117-124.
	Smith, G. & Smith, T. (2001). Excellence, diversity and inequality in education. In in Fimister, G (ed) ‘An End in Sight?', Child Poverty Action Group, London, 51-62
	Smith, T. (1999). 'Neighbourhood and preventative strategies with children and families: what works?' Children and Society 13 pp 265 – 277
	Noble, M., Smith, G., Cheung, S.-Y., de Moor, D., Smith, T., & Whitlock, S. (1998). Lone Mothers Moving In and Out of Benefit. York Publishing Services for Joseph Rowntree Foundation
	Smith, T., (1998). 'Parents and the community: parents' views and mapping need' in Buchanan, A & Hudson, B.L. (eds) Parenting, schooling and children's behaviour: interdisciplinary approaches, Ashgate, Aldershot pp 110 – 123
	Smith, G., Smith, T., & Wright, G. (1997). 'Choice, diversity or division? Poverty and schooling 1979-1997' in Walker, A & Walker, C Britain Divided: the Growth of Social Exclusion, 1979-1997
	Smith, T. (1997). 'Family centres and bringing up young children.' Family Policy Studies Bulletin, Winter 1997/98, 6
	Smith, T. (1997). 'Family Change and Family Policies: Great Britain.' in Kamerman, S B & Kahn, A J (eds) Family Change and Family Policies in Great Britain, Canada, New Zealand and the United States Oxford, Clarendon Press
	Smith, T. (1996). Family centres and bringing up young children London, HMSO