Exley, Sonia

Number of items: 24.
Social Policy
  • Gutierrez, Gabriel, Exley, Sonia (2025). Beyond narrow definitions: quantifying school privatisation across countries and over time. European Educational Research Journal, 24(4), 508 - 529. https://doi.org/10.1177/14749041241312274 picture_as_pdf
  • Exley, Sonia (2025). ‘Levelling up’ access to private tutoring in England: problem representation in government policy. Journal of Education Policy, 40(4), 567 - 586. https://doi.org/10.1080/02680939.2025.2474935 picture_as_pdf
  • Deepthi, Divya, Exley, Sonia (2023). Exploring students' experiences of technical and vocational learning in University Technical Colleges during the pandemic. British Educational Research Journal, 49(3), 575-592. https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.3857 picture_as_pdf
  • Exley, Sonia (2022). Locked in: understanding the ‘irreversibility’ of powerful private supplementary tutoring markets. Oxford Review of Education, 48(1), 78 - 94. https://doi.org/10.1080/03054985.2021.1917352 picture_as_pdf
  • Exley, Sonia (2020). Open policy making in the UK – to whom might policy formulation be opening up. Journal of Social Policy, 0(0), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279420000215 picture_as_pdf
  • Exley, Sonia (2020). Selective schooling and its relationship to private tutoring: the case of South Korea. Comparative Education, 56(2), 218 - 235. https://doi.org/10.1080/03050068.2019.1687230 picture_as_pdf
  • Exley, Sonia (2019). ‘Opening up’ education policy making in England–space for ordinary citizens’ participation? Representation, https://doi.org/10.1080/00344893.2019.1652205 description
  • Exley, Sonia (2018). Social administration revisited: traditions of observational fieldwork and their value. Social Policy and Administration, https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.12411
  • Exley, Sonia (2016). Critical friends: exploring arm’s length actor relationships to local government in education. Journal of Education Policy, 31(6), 742 - 756. https://doi.org/10.1080/02680939.2016.1166523
  • Exley, Sonia (2016). Education and learning. In Dean, H. & Platt, L. (Eds.), Social advantage and disadvantage . Oxford University Press.
  • Exley, Sonia (2016). Inside and outside the school gates: impacts of poverty on children’s education. In Tucker, J. (Ed.), Improving Children’s Life Chances . Child Poverty Action Group (Great Britain).
  • Exley, Sonia (2014). Think tanks and policy networks in English education. In Hill, M. (Ed.), Studying public policy: an international approach (pp. 179-190). Policy Press.
  • Exley, Sonia (2014). Are quasi-markets in education what the British public wants? Social Policy and Administration, 48(1), 24-43. https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.12005
  • Exley, Sonia, Ball, Stephen J. (2014). Neo-liberalism and English education. In Turner, D. & Yolcu, H. (Eds.), Neo-liberal educational reforms: a critical analysis . Routledge.
  • Exley, Sonia (2013). Making working-class parents think more like middle-class parents: Choice Advisers in English education. Journal of Education Policy, 28(1), 77-94. https://doi.org/10.1080/02680939.2012.689012
  • Exley, Sonia, Suissa, Judith (2013). Private schools, choice and the ethical environment. British Journal of Educational Studies, 61(3), 345-362. https://doi.org/10.1080/00071005.2013.816411
  • Exley, Sonia (2012). The politics of educational policy making under New Labour: an illustration of shifts in public service governance. Policy and Politics, 40(2), 227-244. https://doi.org/10.1332/030557312X640031
  • Exley, Sonia (2011). People think parents should put their own children first when it comes to schooling decisions – but not without consideration for others.
  • Exley, Sonia, Ball, Stephen J. (2011). Something old, something new... understanding Conservative education policy. In Bochel, H. (Ed.), The Conservative Party and Social Policy (pp. 97-118). Policy Press.
  • Exley, Sonia, Braun, Annette, Ball, Stephen J. (2011). Global education policy: networks and flows. Critical Studies in Education, 52(3), 213-218. https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2011.604079
  • Ball, Stephen J., Exley, Sonia (2010). Making policy with ‘good ideas’: policy networks and the ‘intellectuals’ of New Labour. Journal of Education Policy, 25(2), 151-169. https://doi.org/10.1080/02680930903486125
  • Exley, Sonia (2009). Emerging discourses within the English ‘choice advice’ policy network. London Review of Education, 7(3), 249-260. https://doi.org/10.1080/14748460903290249
  • Exley, Sonia (2009). Exploring pupil segregation between specialist and non‐specialist schools. Oxford Review of Education, 35(4), 451-470. https://doi.org/10.1080/03054980902989948
  • Smith, George, Exley, Sonia (2006). The influence of overseas examples on DES policy‐making for the school system in England, 1985–1995. Oxford Review of Education, 32(5), 575-597. https://doi.org/10.1080/03054980600976270