Biography

Qualifications and Position

• BA MSc Economics; PhD Development Studies
• Senior Lecturer in International Education and Development

Summary

• I have a background in economics. Much of my work concerns on the relationship between education and wider social outcomes such as health and crime. Special interest include the application of quantitative research methods to investigate the strenght in the relationship between education and wider social outcomes in the UK and international contexts.

Professional Activities

• Member of Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
• Editorial Board Member Finanzas Publicas, Mexico

Teaching

• Quantitative research methods; international education, poverty and health; migration and education

Recent and ongoing research

• Inequality in Access to Education (funded by CREATE)
• Uncertainty in Aspirations (funded by the ESRC)
• Access to Education and Child Health in Development Context (funded by The BUPA Foundation)
• Social Benefits of VET for Individuals in a European Context (funded by CEDEFOP)
• The Role of Career Aspirations in the Process of Socioeconomic Attainment for Young People (funded by The Jacobs Foundation)

 Doctoral supervision

• Social protection and school achievement

Sabates, Ricardo, Feinstein, Leon and Shingal, Anirudh (2011) Inequality in acedemic performance and juvenile convictions: An area-based analysis. British Journal of Educational Studies, 59 (2). pp. 143-158. ISSN 0007-1005

Staff, Jeremy, Harris, Angel, Sabates, Ricardo and Briddell, Laine (2010) Uncertainty in early occupational aspirations: Role exploration or floundering? Social Forces, 89 (2). pp. 659-684. ISSN 0037-7732

Sabates, Ricardo (2010) Maternal schooling and children's relative inequalities in developmental outcomes: Evidence from the 1947 school leaving age reform in Britain. Oxford Review of Education, 36 (4). pp. 445-461. ISSN 0305-4985

Dunne, Mairead, Bosumtwi-Sam, Cynthia, Sabates, Ricardo and Owusu, Andrew (2010) Bullying and School Attendance: A case study of senior High school students in Ghana. CREATE Pathways to Access.

Sabates, Ricardo and Feinstein, Leon (2008) Do income effects mask social and behavioural factors when looking at universal health care provision? International Journal of Public Health, 53 (1). pp. 23-30. ISSN 1661-8556

Sabates, Ricardo (2008) Educational attainment and Juvenile Crime: Area-Level Evidence using Three Cohorts of Young People. British Journal of Criminology, 48 (3). pp. 395-409. ISSN 0007-0955