Newcastle University

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 Newcastle, 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 Newcastle, 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)

Projects

• Angling in the Rural Environmental: Social, Economic, Ecological and Geomorphological Interactions
  Project Leader(s): Professor Jane Wheelock

Postgraduate Teaching

SPS 801 Political Economy of Social Policy

• Baines S, Wheelock J, Oughton E. Working life in rural micro-enterprises: Old forms of organisation in the new economy. 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. The relationship between consumption and production: conceptualizing well-being inside the household. 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. Self-employment and the problem of balancing work and family life. Northern Economic Review 2004, 35, 73 - 88.
• Oughton EA, Wheelock J. A capabilities approach to sustainable household livelihoods. Review of Social Economy 2003, 61(1), 1-22.
• Baines S, Wheelock J. Creative livelihoods: The economic survival of visual artists in the north of England. Northern Economic Review 2003, 33/34, 118–133.
• Wheelock J, Oughton EA, Baines S. Getting by with a little help from your family: Toward a policy-relevant model of the household. Feminist Economics 2003, 9(1), 19-45.
• Oughton EA, Wheelock J, Baines S. Micro-businesses and social inclusion in rural households: A comparative analysis. Sociologia Ruralis 2003, 43(4), 331-348.
• Baines S, Wheelock J, Gelder U. Riding the Rollercoaster: Family Life and Self-employment. Bristol: The Policy Press, 2003.
• Wheelock J, Oughton EA. The household as a focus for research. 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. ‘Grandparents are the next best thing’: informal childcare for working parents in urban Britain. Journal of Social Policy 2002, 31(3), 441-463.
• Baines S, Wheelock J, Oughton EA. A household based approach to the small business family. In: Fletcher DE, ed. Understanding the Small Business Family. London: Routledge, 2002, pp. 168-179.
• Wheelock J. "Don't care was made to care": the implications of gendered time for policies towards the household. Capital & Class 2001, 75(Autumn), 173-184.
• Wheelock J, Oughton EA. The household in the economy. 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. Working in the business family: Micro-business livelihoods in the North East and South East of England. 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. Work and employment in small businesses: Perpetuating and challenging gender traditions. Gender, Work and Organization 2000, 7(1), 45-56.
• Vail JJ, Wheelock J, Hill M. Insecure times: living with insecurity in contemporary society. London: Routledge, 1999.