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Dr
Kim Perren
Research Fellow
Direct Line: +44 (0)1509 223378
Office: +44 (0)1509 223372
Fax: +44 (0)1509 213409
Email: K.Perren@lboro.ac.uk
Background and Research Interests
Dr Kim Perren is a Research Fellow at CRSP with a particular interest in the life course, ageing, and cohort studies. Trained as a quantitative sociologist, she has extensive experience of the primary and secondary analysis of large and complex datasets and has led a number of large scale evaluations for a range of government departments. Kim has a PhD in Social and Political Sciences from Queens' College, Cambridge.
Current Projects
In line with the Government’s ‘Digital Britain’ project, Jobcentre Plus, who sponsors the project, aims to increase the range of services that are delivered online and encourage its customers to migrate to this channel. CRSP was commissioned to undertake a literature review that evaluates UK and international texts covering:
- customers’/clients’ appetite for online use and potential resource obstacles;
- future projections of internet access and technological developments; and
- best practice in online service delivery in both the public and private sphere.
A key aspect of the review is an assessment of the extent to which particular changes may have differential impacts on – or raise different issues for – different parts of their customer base: for example, lone parents, disabled people and people from minority ethnic populations.
The final report was submitted in June 2010. It is anticipated that the report will be published in the summer.
Evaluation of the Older Workers Face-to-Face Guidance Pilot
The Government’s Green Paper: A New Deal for Welfare: Empowering people to work includes a commitment to increasing employment among people aged 50 and over. As part of the process, the DWP is funding a pilot study whereby independent advisors offer guidance to people of older working age about a range of issues related to work and retirement. CRSP has been contracted to evaluate this pilot. The study aims to establish what information older working people need, and how they an access it, in order to make an informed decision about work and retirement in later life. The evaluation started in December 2007 and has a completion date of March 2010.
Sponsor: Department for Work and Pensions
Process and Impact Evaluation of Accessibility Planning
CRSP, in partnership with Atkins, have been commissioned by the Department for Transport to evaluate the process and impact of Accessibility Planning. This is a process that aims to promote social inclusion by helping people from disadvantaged groups or areas access jobs and essential services. The evaluation will take a holistic view of Accessibility Planning and will involve considering the processes by which Accessibility Planning is implemented but also the impact that Accessibility Planning policy has had on the work of local authorities and wider partners, and on individuals and communities.
Sponsor: Department for Transport
Evaluation of the Right2BCared4 Pilots
Right2Bcared4 is a pilot project that aims to enhance the preparation of, and support for, care leavers. An evaluation is under way to explore whether the pilots help care leavers achieve better outcomes. CRSP is involved in the consortium (led by the Centre for Child and Family Research) tasked with carrying out the evaluation.
Sponsor: Department for Children Schools and Families
Recent Projects
Gendered Citizenship in Multicultural Europe: The impact of contemporary women's movements (FEMCIT)
Sponsor: European Commission
Social and Distributional Impacts of Road Pricing
Sponsor: Shropshire County Council
Evaluation of the Local Housing Allowance Pathfinders
Sponsor: Department for Work and Pensions
Needs and Resources in Later Life
Sponsor: Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Evaluation of Education Maintenance Allowance Pilots
Sponsor: Department for Education and Skills
Social Contact in Later Life: The Influence of Birth Cohort and Social Change on the Experience of Ageing
Sponsor: British Academy
Selected Publications
Kellard, K., Beckhelling, J., Phung, V-H., Middleton, S., Perren, K. and Hancock, R., (2006), Needs and Resources in Later Life: technical report, CRSP Working Paper 537.
Middleton, S., Hancock, R., Kellard, K., Beckhelling, J., Phung, V-H. and Perren, K. (2007), Measuring Resources in Later Life: a review of the data, York, Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
Middleton, S., Perren, K., Maguire, S., Rennison, J., Battistin, E., Emmerson, C. and Fitzsimon, E. (2005), Evaluation of Education Maintenance Allowance Pilots: Young People Aged 16 to 19 Years. Final Report of the Quantitative Evaluation, DfES Research Report 678, ISBN 1 84478 568 8.
Middleton, S., Rennison, J., Cebulla, A., Perren, K. and De Beaman, S., (2005), Young People from Ethnic Minority Backgrounds: Evidence from the Education Maintenance Allowance Pilots Database, DfES Research Report No. 627, ISBN 1-84478-435-5, Nottingham: DfES Publications.
Nyhagen Predelli, L., Perren, K., Halsaa, B., Thun, C. and Manful, E. (2008) Women's Movements: Constructions of Sisterhood, dispute and resonance. The case of the United Kingdom. Centre for Gender Research, University of Oslo.
Perren, K., Arber, S. and Davidson, K. (2003), ‘Men’s organisational affiliations in later life: the influence of social class and marital status on informal group membership’, Ageing and Society 23, pp69-82.
Perren, K., Arber, S. and Davidson, K. (2004), ‘Neighbouring in later life: The influence of socio-economic resources, gender and household composition on neighbourly relationships’, Sociology 38 (5), pp 965-984.
Perren, K. and Middleton, S., (2005), Teenage Mothers and young people with special needs: Evidence from the Education Maintenance Allowance Pilots Database, DfES Research Report No. 629, ISBN 1-84478-437-1, Nottingham: DfES Publications.
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