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  1. Why do so many women still take their husbands name when they marry?

    Article • Sociological Research Online, December 2019, SAGE Publications

    Professor Simon Duncan

  2. How couples live in modern Britain, and how we might understand this

    Article • January 2018, Nature

    Professor Simon Duncan, Dr Julia Carter

  3. Why do personalised weddings end up the same?

    Article • The Sociological Review, April 2016, SAGE Publications

    Dr Julia Carter, Professor Simon Duncan

  4. Why do women live apart from their partners? ('Live apart together - LAT)

    Article • The Sociological Review, August 2015, SAGE Publications

    Professor Simon Duncan

  5. How do people who live apart together (LAT) maintain their relationships, and how do they view this

    Article • Family Science, January 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Simon Duncan

  6. Why do people live apart together?

    Article • Families Relationships and Societies, November 2013, Policy Press

    Dr Julia Carter, Professor Simon Duncan, Dr Mariya Stoilova, Professor Sasha Roseneil

  7. Legal rights for people who ‘Live Apart Together’?

    Article • Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, December 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Julia Carter, Professor Simon Duncan

  8. Using elderly data theoretically: personal life in 1949/1950 and individualisation theory

    Article • International Journal of Social Research Methodology, July 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Simon Duncan

  9. People who live apart together (LATs): new family form or just a stage?

    Article • International Review of Sociology, November 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Simon Duncan

  10. Was personal life traditional in the 1950s?

    Article • The Sociological Review, May 2011, SAGE Publications

    Professor Simon Duncan

  11. Personal Life, Pragmatism and Bricolage

    Article • Sociological Research Online, January 2011, Sociological Research Online

    Professor Simon Duncan

  12. People Who Live Apart Together (LATs) – How Different are They?

    Article • The Sociological Review, February 2010, SAGE Publications

    Professor Simon Duncan

  13. New Families? Tradition and Change in Modern Relationships

    Article • January 2008, SAGE Publications

    Professor Simon Duncan

  14. Are British families individualised? A geographical assessment

    Article • Twenty-First Century Society, November 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Simon Duncan

  15. Mothering, Class and Rationality

    Article • The Sociological Review, February 2005, SAGE Publications

    Professor Simon Duncan

  16. The Social Patterning of Values and Rationalities: Mothers' Choices in Combining Caring and Employment

    Article • Social Policy and Society, October 2004, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Simon Duncan

  17. Mothers and child care: policies, values and theories

    Article • Children & Society, September 2004, Wiley

    Professor Rosalind Edwards, Professor Simon Duncan

  18. Combining Lone Motherhood and Paid Work: The Rationality Mistake and Norwegian Social Policy

    Article • Journal of European Social Policy, February 2004, SAGE Publications

    Professor Simon Duncan

  19. Motherhood, Paid Work and Partnering: Values and Theories

    Article • Work Employment and Society, June 2003, SAGE Publications

    Professor Rosalind Edwards, Professor Simon Duncan

  20. Geographies of family formations: spatial differences and gender cultures in Britain

    Article • Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, December 2002, Wiley

    Professor Simon Duncan

  21. Policy Discourses on ‘Reconciling Work and Life’ in the EU

    Article • Social Policy and Society, September 2002, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Simon Duncan

  22. Jane Millar and Karen Rowlingson (eds.) (2001), Lone Parents, Employment and Social Policy: Cross-national Comparisons, Bristol, Policy Press, xx + 299 pp., £45.00, £16.99 pbk.

    Article • Journal of Social Policy, July 2002, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Simon Duncan

  23. Family Geographies and Gender Cultures

    Article • Social Policy and Society, January 2002, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Simon Duncan

  24. Lone Mothers, Paid Work and Gendered Moral Rationalities

    Article • Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, July 2001, SAGE Publications

    Professor Simon Duncan

  25. Just a Piece of Paper? Marriage and Cohabitation

    Article • January 2001, SAGE Publications

    Professor Simon Duncan

  26. Simon Duncan and Rosalind Edwards, Lone Mothers and Paid Work, Macmillan, London, 1999, ix + 333 pp., £18.99, pbk.

    Article • Journal of Social Policy, July 2000, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Simon Duncan

  27. New Labour’s communitarianism, supporting families and the ‘rationality mistake’: Part II

    Article • Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, January 2000, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Simon Duncan

  28. Supporting families? New Labour's communitarianism and the 'rationality mistake': Part I

    Article • Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, January 2000, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Simon Duncan

  29. Lone Mothers, Paid Work and Gendered Moral Rationalities

    Article • January 1999, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Rosalind Edwards, Professor Simon Duncan

  30. Jane Lewis (ed.), Lone Mothers in European Welfare Regimes, London, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 1997, 224 pp., £35.00 hard, £14.95 paper.

    Article • Journal of Social Policy, July 1998, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Simon Duncan

  31. Editorial: The spatiality of gender—and the papers in this issue

    Article • Innovation The European Journal of Social Science Research, June 1998, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Simon Duncan

  32. Simon Duncan and Rosalind Edwards (eds.), Single Mothers in an International Context, UCL Press, London, 1997, ix + 285 pp., £13.95 paper.

    Article • Journal of Social Policy, January 1998, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Simon Duncan

  33. Lone Mothers and Paid Work - Rational Economic Man or Gendered Moral Rationalities?

    Article • Feminist Economics, January 1997, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Rosalind Edwards, Professor Simon Duncan

  34. Book reviews

    Article • June 1996

    Professor Simon Duncan

  35. Women's and men's lives and work in Sweden

    Article • Gender Place & Culture, September 1994, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Simon Duncan

  36. Peter Malpass and Robin Means (eds.), Implementing Housing Policy, Open University Press, Milton Keynes, 1993, vi + 199 pp., £37.50, £12.99 paper.

    Article • Journal of Social Policy, January 1994, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Simon Duncan

  37. Book reviews

    Article • Housing Studies, October 1993, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Keith Jacobs, Professor Simon Duncan

  38. HOUSING PROVISION IN DEVELOPED ECONOMIES

    Article • Urban Geography, September 1993, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Simon Duncan

  39. Markets, states and housing provision: Four European growth regions compared

    Article • Progress in Planning, January 1992, Elsevier

    Professor Simon Duncan

  40. City, State and Market: The Political Economy of Urban Society

    Article • British Journal of Sociology, March 1991, JSTOR

    Professor Simon Duncan

  41. The Geography of Gender Divisions of Labour in Britain

    Article • Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, January 1991, JSTOR

    Professor Simon Duncan

  42. Do house prices rise that much? A dissenting view

    Article • Housing Studies, July 1990, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Simon Duncan

  43. SPACE, SCALE AND LOCALITY: A REPLY TO COOKE AND WARDE

    Article • Antipode, April 1990, Wiley

    Professor Simon Duncan

  44. Housing policy and equality. Comparative study of tenure conversions and their effects

    Article • Habitat International, January 1990, Elsevier

    Professor Simon Duncan

  45. Amendment to 'Development Gains and Housing Provision in Britain and Sweden'

    Article • Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, January 1990, JSTOR

    Professor Simon Duncan

  46. SPACE, SCALE AND LOCALITY*

    Article • Antipode, December 1989, Wiley

    Professor Simon Duncan

  47. The Local State and Uneven Development: Behind the Local Government Crisis.

    Article • Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, May 1989, SAGE Publications

    Professor Simon Duncan

  48. Editor's introduction: Local research in Britain and Poland

    Article • Geoforum, January 1989, Elsevier

    Professor Simon Duncan

  49. Uneven development and the difference that space makes

    Article • Geoforum, January 1989, Elsevier

    Professor Simon Duncan

  50. Development Gains and Housing Provision in Britain and Sweden

    Article • Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, January 1989, JSTOR

    Professor Simon Duncan

  51. Removing local government autonomy: Political Centralisation and financial control

    Article • Local Government Studies, November 1988, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Simon Duncan

  52. The use and abuse of housing tenure

    Article • Housing Studies, October 1988, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Simon Duncan

  53. Policy variations in local states: uneven development and local social relations*

    Article • International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, March 1988, Wiley

    Professor Simon Duncan

  54. Housing provision in high growth regions. A comparative study of four European sub‐regions

    Article • Scandinavian Housing and Planning Research, January 1988, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Simon Duncan

  55. Book review

    Article • Scandinavian Housing and Planning Research, January 1987, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Simon Duncan

  56. Politics, Geography and Social Stratification

    Article • Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, January 1987, JSTOR

    Professor Simon Duncan

  57. Housing, States and Localities

    Article • Geographical Review, October 1986, JSTOR

    Professor Simon Duncan

  58. Local economic policies: Local regeneration or political mobilization?

    Article • Local Government Studies, November 1985, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Simon Duncan

  59. Mothers’ Work–Life Balance: Individualized Preferences or Cultural Construction?

    Article • Edward Elgar Publishing

    Professor Simon Duncan