缅北禁地

Research Interests

Household provisioning, unpaid work, political economy of insecurity, rural economy and the environment, regional socio-economic change.

Current Work

'Angling in the Rural Environment: social, economic, eclological and geomorphological interacations' RELU project funded by ESRC, NERC and BBSRC, March 2006 - February 2009.
'Volunteering, self-help and citizenship in older life’ for Age Concern 缅北禁地, funded by The Community Fund, April 2004 – July 2006.

Postgraduate Supervision

Household work strategies; labour markets; the domestic and informal economies; small business and the family; childcare; regional socio-economic change; gender dimensions to all these. Relations between paid and unpaid work, between the formal and the complementary economy; how people's lives and livelihoods interact; political economy of insecurity; socio-economic approaches to institutional change; interdisciplinary approaches to the rural environment

Esteem Indicators

Mentor for ESRC postdoctoral fellowship: Jane Midgley: Access to financial services within rural households

Member of Editorial Board, Journal of Social Policy, 2002-04.
1992 - Advisory Board, Northern Economic Review

Member of Editorial Board, Review of Social Economy, 2005-

Funding

Angling in the Rural Environment: social, economic, ecological and geomorphological interactions (PI Dr Oughton) RELU project funded by ESRC, BBSRC and NERC, March 2006 - February 2009.
Volunteering, self-help and citizenship in older life; for Age Concern 缅北禁地, funded by The Community Fund, April 2004 – July 2006.
‘Singing for your supper’: mapping and understanding the livelihood strategies of musicians in a regional context CASE Studentship: Economic and Social Research Council / The Sage Gateshead, October 2003- Sept. 2006. (with Susan Baines)
The role of music in economic development: a participative approach CASE Studentship: Economic and Social Research Council / Music Centre Gateshead, October 2002- Sept. 2005.
Balancing work and family life in self employed households (with Susan Baines) Joseph Rowntree Foundation, April 2002-May 2003.
Developing tools for interdisciplinary research: physical and social science perspectives on the use of rural catchments (Elizabeth Oughton, Louise Bracken, Katy Bennett, Jane Wheelock and Tim Burt) Rural Economy and Land Use programme capacity building grant (ESRC, BBSRC and NERC)

Postgraduate Teaching

SPS 801 Political Economy of Social Policy

• Baines S, Wheelock J, Oughton E. . In: Southern, A, ed. Enterprise, Deprivation and Social Exclusion: The Role of Small Business in Addressing Social and Economic Inequalities. London: Routledge, 2011, pp.142-157.
• Oughton EA, Wheelock J. . In: Clary, B.J.; Dolfsma, W.; Figart, D.M, ed. Ethics and the market: insights from social economics. London: Routledge, 2006, pp.98-111.
• Wheelock J, Baines S. . Northern Economic Review 2004, 35, 73 - 88.
• Oughton EA, Wheelock J. . Review of Social Economy 2003, 61(1), 1-22.
• Baines S, Wheelock J. . Northern Economic Review 2003, 33/34, 118–133.
• Wheelock J, Oughton EA, Baines S. . Feminist Economics 2003, 9(1), 19-45.
• Oughton EA, Wheelock J, Baines S. . Sociologia Ruralis 2003, 43(4), 331-348.
• Baines S, Wheelock J, Gelder U. . Bristol: The Policy Press, 2003.
• Wheelock J, Oughton EA. . In: Mutari, E. and Figart, D.M, ed. Women and the economy: a reader. New York: M.E. Sharpe, Inc, 2003, pp.138-146.
• Wheelock J, Jones KV. . Journal of Social Policy 2002, 31(3), 441-463.
• Baines S, Wheelock J, Oughton EA. . In: Fletcher DE, ed. Understanding the Small Business Family. London: Routledge, 2002, pp.168-179.
• Wheelock J. . Capital & Class 2001, 75(Autumn), 173-184.
• Wheelock J, Oughton EA. . In: Himmelweit, S., Simonetti, R. and Trigg, A, ed. Microeconomics: neoclassical and institutionalist perspectives on economic behaviour. London: Thomson Learning, 2001, pp.113-141.
• Baines S, Wheelock J. . In: Tomaney, J. and Ward, N, ed. A region in transition: North East England at the millennium. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001, pp.82-101.
• Baines S, Wheelock J. . Gender, Work and Organization 2000, 7(1), 45-56.
• Vail JJ, Wheelock J, Hill M. . London: Routledge, 1999.