Ken Roberts

Widener University — United States

Social Sciences · Social Sciences

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Research Topics

Youth Education and Societal Dynamics(75), Sport and Mega-Event Impacts(41), Social Policy and Reform Studies(30), Cultural Industries and Urban Development(29), Employment and Welfare Studies(29)

Publications249 total

Bleak prospects: youth transitions in twenty-first century Britain
Journal of Youth Studies·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Increasing the genomic workforce through research capacity building: Designing evaluation plans for maximum impact
The American Journal of Human Genetics·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Europe’s Education-to-Work Transition Regimes in the Twenty-First Century
Advances in Applied Sociology·2025Open Access
Set up to Fail: Systemic Barriers that Prevent Respondents from Complying with Civil Protection Orders
SSRN Electronic Journal·2025Open Access
The Knowledge Economy: An Idea Whose Time Has Come? or Gone?
2025· 2 cited
Government Supported Apprenticeships in England: A Transitions Regime Perspective
International Journal of Research in Humanities and Social Studies·2024Open Access
Education-to-Work Transitions in Former Communist Countries after 30-Plus Years of Transformation
Social Sciences·2023· 1 citedOpen Access
Time use, work and leisure in the UK before, during, between and following the Covid-19 lockdowns
2023
Have the Covid-19 Lockdowns Made Lasting Changes to Everyday Life? Evidence from UK Time Use Surveys
Sociology Study·2023· 2 citedOpen Access
Irreplacable but Limited: The Value of Large-Scale Time Use Surveys in Leisure Studies. The Case of Differences in Time Use by Sex, Age and Income from before to after the Covid-19 Lockdowns in the UK
Advances in Applied Sociology·2023· 1 citedOpen Access
How Europe’s Former Communist States Have Added More Variety without Extending the Range of Variation in the Continent’s Education-to-Work Transitions
Advances in Applied Sociology·2023· 1 citedOpen Access
Review of: "Female Youth Unemployment in the GCC Countries"
2022Open Access
Time use, work and leisure in the UK before, during, between and following the Covid-19 lockdowns
Leisure Studies·2022· 6 cited
Political economy and young people’s transitions from education-to-work in the UK during and following the 2020 and 2021 lockdowns
Journal of Youth Studies·2022· 4 cited
Foundations for lifelong learning and guidance
Journal of the National Institute for Career Education and Counselling·2022Open Access
Integrating Young People into the Workforce: England’s Twenty-First Century Solutions
Societies·2022· 7 citedOpen Access
Class in successive life courses in Britain since 1945
2021
Structure and agency
2021
Still speaking to ourselves: leisure studies in a wilderness of multiple modernities
World Leisure Journal·2021· 9 citedOpen Access
Machine learning assisted social system analysis: Youth transitions in five south and east Mediterranean countries
AIP conference proceedings·2021· 1 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

Ken Green(3), Andy Smith(3), Jochen Tholen(3), Stephen Clark(2), Gary Pollock(2), F. G. Cook(2), S. C. Clark(2), Elizabeth Semeonoff(2), Colette Fagan(2), Claire Wallace(1), Diane Birchwood(1), Miranda Thurston(1), Odd Frank Vaage(1), Ted Goertzel(1), Alan Hunt(1), Galina Osadchaya(1), Khasan V. Dsuzev(1), V. Gorodyanenko(1), Changcheng Zhou(1), J. Tholen(1)