Professor Chris Taylor

Profile

Chris is Professor of Social Sciences at Cardiff University and is the Academic Director of the Cardiff University Social Science Research Park (SPARK). Prior to this he was a Co-Director of the Wales Institute of Social & Economic Research & Data (WISERD). Chris has published extensively on a wide range of educational and social issues and has undertaken research across all education sectors, from early years to higher education. This has included government-funded evaluations of the Foundation Phase for all 3-7 year olds in Wales, the Pupil Development Grant and the Welsh Baccalaureate qualification, an ESRC Fellowship studying the geography of growing up in the UK and an ESRC Large Grant on the political economy of school exclusions across the UK. He recently established the WISERD Education Data Lab, utilising education administrative data to support education priorities in Wales and helps convene the annual WISERDEducation Multi-Cohort Study (WMCS).

Research

Publications

• Muddiman, E., Power, S. and Taylor, C. (2020) Civil Society and the Family. Bristol: Policy Press
• Powell, R., Muddiman, E., Power, S. and Taylor, C. (2025) Invoking the discourse of children’s rights in campaigns around public space, Children and Society, DOI: 10.1111/chso.12936
• Sandu. A. and Taylor, C. (2024) Digital learning technologies usage during Covid-19 lockdowns, British Educational Research Journal, forthcoming. DOI: 10.1002/berj.4092
• Tseliou, F., Taylor, C. and Power, S. (2024) Formal school exclusions over the educational lifecourse, Oxford Review of Education (special issue: political economies of exclusion), DOI: 10.1080/03054985.2024.2379918
• Power, S., Bridgeman, J., & Taylor, C. (2024). Psychosocial disorder or rational action? Contrasting professional and pupil narratives of school exclusion. Oxford Review of Education, 50(6), 817–833. https://doi.org/10.1080/03054985.2024.2373061
• Lowthian, E., Bedston, S., Kristensen, S.M., Akbari, A., Fry, R., Huxley, K., Johnson, R., Kim, H.S, Owen, R.K., Taylor, C. and Griffiths, L. (2023) Maternal mental health and children’s problem behaviours: a bi-directional relationship? Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, DOI: 10.1007/s10802-023-01086-5
• Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, A., Sandu, A., Taylor, C. and Hampton, J.M. (2023), Children's subjective well-being during the coronavirus pandemic, Child Indicators Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12187-023-10089-z 
• Power, S. and Taylor, C. (2022) Classroom exclusions: patterns, practices and pupil perceptions, International Journal of Inclusive Education. DOI: 10.1080/13603116.2022.2121434
• Muddiman, E., Taylor, C., Power, S. and Moles, K. (2019) Young people, family relationships and civic participation, Journal of Civil Society. DOI:10.1080/17448689.2018.1550903
• Taylor, C. (2017) The Reliability of Free School Meal Eligibility as a Measure of Socio-Economic Disadvantage: Evidence from the Millennium Cohort Study in Wales, British Journal of Education Studies, 66, 1, 29-51. DOI:10.1080/00071005.2017.1330464
• Power, S., Taylor, C. and Horton, K. (2016) Sleepless in school? Young people’s bedtime rest and routines, Journal of Youth Studies, 20, 8, 945-958.
• Taylor, C., Joshi, H, and Wright, C. (2014) Evaluating the impact of early years educational reform in Wales to age seven: the potential use of the UK Millennium Cohort Study, Journal of Education Policy, 30, 5, 688-712. DOI:10.1080/02680939.2014.963164

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