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Professor Andy Furlong

Professor of Sociology

Email: a.furlong@lbss.gla.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)141 330 4667

Teaching interests: Youth labour markets and changing employment relationships, training, and interfaces between education and labour markets. Unemployment and casualised employment.

Research Projects:
Projects since 2001 include a study of young people not in employment, education and training (NEET) in the UK and Japan (GB Sasakawa Foundation); the labour market experiences of graduates from disadvantaged families (Joseph Rowntree Foundation); overcoming the impact of long-term unemployment (Joseph Rowntree Foundation); socioeconomic disadvantage and experience in further and higher education (Joseph Rowntree Foundation); Reconceptualising youth transitions (Scottish Executive). 


Recent professional involvement

  • Editor of the Journal of Youth Studies
  • Honorary Senior Fellow, Monash University
  • Invitation Fellowship of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
  • Consultant on youth employment to the Council of Europe and the United Nations

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    Recent research publications

    • Furlong, A. 2006, "Education and the Reproduction of Class-Based Inequalities," in Social Stratification: Critical Concepts in Sociology, D. Inglis & J. Bone, eds., Routledge, London.

    • Furlong, A. 2006, "Foreword: Balancing Change and Continuity," in A New Youth? Young People, Generations and Family Life, C. Leccardi & E. Ruspini, eds., Ashgate, Aldershot.

    • Furlong, A. 2006, "Not a Very NEET Solution: Representing Problematic Labour Market Transitions Among Early School Leavers", Work, Employment and Society, vol. 20, no. 3.
      ISBN: 0950-0170

    • Furlong, A., Cartmel, F., Biggart, A., Sweeting, H., & West, P. 2006, "Social Class in an Individualised Society", Sociology Review, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 28-32.

    • Furlong, A. & Cartmel, F. 2006, Young People and Social Change: New Perspectives, 2nd edn, Open University Press, Buckingham, UK.

    • Furlong, A. 2005, "Forthcoming - Cultural dimension of decisions about educational participation among 16-19 year olds", Journal of Education Policy.

    • Furlong, A. 2005, "Forthcoming - Not a very NEET solution: Representing problematic labour market transitions among early school-leavers", Journal of Social Policy.

    • Furlong, A. 2005, "Cultural dimensions of decisions about educational participation among 16-19 year olds", Journal of Education Policy, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 379-389.
      ISBN: 0268-0939

    • Furlong, A. & Cartmel, F. 2005, Graduates from Disadvantaged Families: Early Labour Market Experiences Policy Press, Bristol, UK.

    • Furlong, A. & Cartmel, F. 2005, "Linearity and Labour Market Transitions in the West of Scotland", Kyoiku (Education) - Journal of the Association for the Scientific Study of Education, vol. 13, no. 708.

    • Furlong, A. & Kelly, P. 2005, "The Brazilianisation of Youth Transitions in Australia and the UK?", Australian Journal of Social Issues.

    • Anderson, S., Biggart, A., Deacon, K., Furlong, A., Given, L., & Hinds, K. 2004, 17 in 2003: Findings from the Scottish School Leavers Survey, Scottish Executive, Edinburgh.

    • Forsyth, A. & Furlong, A. 2004, "Counting access: Problems and puzzles," in Reseawrching Widening Access to Lifelong Learning: Issues and approaches in international Research, M. Osborne, J. Glaacher, & B. Crossan, eds., Routledge, London.
      ISBN: 041532267

    • Furlong, A., Cartmel, F., Biggart, A., Sweeting, H., & West, P. 2004, "Complex transitions: Linearity and labour market integration in the West of Scotland," in Young adults in transition: Becoming citizens, C. Pole, J. Pilcher, & J. Williams, eds., Palgrave, London. ISBN: 1403933685

    • Furlong, A. 2004, Cultural dimensions of decision about educational particiation among 14-19 year olds, Nuffield Review of 14-19 Education.

    • Furlong, A. & Cartmel, F. 2004, "Linearity and Labour Market Transitions in the West of Scotland", Kyoiku (Education) - Journal of the Association for the Scientific Study of Education, vol. 12 and 13, no. 707 and 708, pp. 102-111. ISBN: 03015-2

    • Furlong, A. & Cartmel, F. 2004, Vulnerable young men in fragile labour markets: Employment, unemployment and the search for long-term security York Publishing, York. ISBN: 1 842 63 179-4

    • Forsyth, A. & Furlong, A. 2003, "Access to Higher Education and Disadvantaged Young People", British Education Research Journal , vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 205-225. ISBN: 0141-1923

    • Forsyth, A. & Furlong, A. 2003, "Losing out? Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Experience in Further and Higher Education", Policy Press pp. 1-69. ISBN: 86134 508 9

    • Furlong, A. & Cartmel, F. 2003, "Accounting for agency in modern youth transitions," in Young and work in the Post-Industrial City of North Amercia and Europe, L. Roulleau-Berger, ed., Brill Publishing, Leiden and Boston, pp. 136-151.
      ISBN: 90-04-12533

    • Furlong, A. & Cartmel, F. 2003, "Unemployment, integration and marginalisation: a comparative perspective on 18-24 year-olds in Finland, Sweden, Scotland and Spain," in Young Unemployment and Social Exclusion in Europe, T. Hammer, ed., Policy Press, Bristol.
      ISBN: 1-86134-368.

    • Furlong, A., Cartmel, F., Biggart, A., Sweeting, H., & West, P. 2003, Youth Transitions: Patterns of Vulnerability and Processes of Social Inclusion, Central Research Unit, Scottish Executive, Edinburgh.

    • Furlong, A. 2003, "Young Employment", World Youth Report pp. 54-70. ISBN: 92-1-130228-5

    • Biggart, A., Furlong, A., Cuconato, M., Lenzi, G., Morgani, E., Bolay, E., Stauber, B., Stein, G., & Walther, A. 2002, "Trayectorias fallidas: entre estandarizacion y flexibbilidad en Gran Bretana, Italia y Alemania Occidental", Revista de Estudios de Juvend, vol. 56, no. March, pp. 11-29. ISBN: 0211-4364

    • Furlong, A. 2002, Youth Transitions and Health, Health Education Board for Scotland, Edinburgh.

    • Walther, A., Stauber, B., Biggart, A., du Bois-Reymond, M., Furlong, A., Lopez Blasco, A., Morch, S., & Macado Pais, J. 2002, Misleading Trajectories: Integration Policies for Young Adults in Europe Leske and Budrich, Opladen. ISBN: 3-8100-3450-9

    • Furlong, A. & Guidikova, I. 2001, Transitions of Youth Citizenship in Europe: Culture, Subculture and Identity, Council of Europe, Strasbourg. ISBN: 92-871-4430-3 

    • Furlong, A. & Cartmel, F. 2001, "The Relationship between Youth Unemployment and Social and Economic Marginalisation: A Comparative Perspective," in Employment, Unemployment and Marginalisation, B. Furaker, ed., Almqvist and Wiksell, Stockholm, pp. 103-122. ISBN: 91-972940-7-1

    • Furlong, A. & Cartmel, F. 2001, "Penser autrement l'access a l'emploi des jeunes Britanniques," in Les jeunes et ;'emploi dans les villes d'Amerique de Nord et d'Europe, L. Rolleau-Berger & M. Gauthier, eds., Editions de l'Aube, La Tour d'Aigues, pp. 101-110. ISBN: 2-87678-626-5

    • Furlong, A. & Cartmel, F. 2001, "Els contextos canviants de la joventut (Social contexts of youth and participation)", Department de la Presidencia, Generalitat de Catalunya, Barcelona, vol. Aportacions 14, pp. 5-24. ISBN: 84-393-5510-6

    • Furlong, A. & Cartmel, F. 2001, "Capitalism without Classes," in Sociology: Introductory Readings, 2nd edn, A. Giddens, ed., Polity, Cambridge, pp. 202-207. ISBN: 0-7456-2440-5

    • Furlong, A. & Cartmel, F. 2001, "Change and Continuity in Education and Work: British Perspectives," in Jahrbuch Bildung und Arbeit: Deregulierung der Arbeit - Pluralisierung der Bildung, A. Bolder, W. R. Heinz, & G. Kutscha, eds., Leske and Budrich, Opladen, pp. 99-110. ISBN: 3-8100-2837-1

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