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Mary Atkinson
BSc PGCE MEd
Senior Research Officer
m.atkinson@nfer.ac.uk
+44 (0)1904 433435

Mary is a Senior Research Officer in the Northern Office.

Secondary school teacher (Science and PE), Teacher-in-charge of education at a mental health unit for adolescents.

Behaviour management, Children's Services, disengagement from learning, social inclusion, special educational needs, Local Government Association research.

Young people's mental health and education, multi-agency working, school funding, disaffection, exclusions, school non-attendance, emotional and behavioural difficulties.
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Kendall, S. and Atkinson, M. (2006). Some Perspectives on Home Education [online].

Atkinson, M. (2006). ‘Joined-up thinking’, Improvement, Winter, 27-9.

Atkinson, M., Gulliver, C., Lamont, E. and White, R. (2006). The New School Funding Arrangements 2006-07: the Local Authority Perspective (LGA Research Report 2/06). Slough: NFER. Report details

Atkinson, M., Gulliver, C., Lamont, E. and Murfield, J. (2006). The New School Funding Arrangements 2006-07: the School Perspective (LGA Research Report 3/06). Slough: NFER. Report details 

Atkinson, M., Doherty, P. and Kinder, K. (2005). ‘Multi-agency working: models, challenges and key factors for success’, Journal of Early Childhood Research, 3, 1, 7-17.

Atkinson, M., Lamont, E., Gulliver, C., White, R. and Kinder, K. (2005). School Funding: a Review of Existing Models in European and OECD Countries (LGA Research Report 3/05). Slough: NFER. Report details.

Atkinson, M., Lamont, E., White, R., Gulliver, C. and Kinder, K. (2005). School Funding: What Next? Local Authority and School Views: Final Report (LGA Research Report 4/05). Slough: NFER. Report details.

Wilkin, A., Atkinson, M., Halsey, K., Johnson, A., White, R. and Kinder, K. (2005). New Roles for Local Authorities in Education: Opportunities and Challenges (LGA Research Report 9/05). Slough: NFER. Report details

Atkinson, M., Bedford, N., Lamont, E., Stott, A., White, R. and Kinder, K. (2004). School Funding Issues: Main Findings from the CEO Survey (LGA Research Report 19-04). Slough: NFER. Report details 

Atkinson, M., Johnson, A., Kinder, K. and Wilkin, A. (2004). Good Practice in the Provision of Full-time Education for Excluded Pupils (Final Report) (LGA Research Report 14/04). Slough: NFER. Report details.

Halsey, K., Bedford, N., Atkinson, M., White, R. and Kinder, K. (2004). Evaluation of Fast Track to Prosecution for School Non-attendance (DfES Research Report 567). London: DfES.

Atkinson, M., Johnson, A., Wilkin, A., Johnson, F. and Kinder, K. (2003). Good Practice in the Provision of Full-time Education for Excluded Pupils: Interim Report (LGA Research Report 52). Slough: NFER. Report details

Atkinson, M. and Kinder, K. (2003). ‘Attending to attendance’, Curriculum Management Update, April, 5-7, 10.

Atkinson, M., Kinder, K. and Doherty, P. (2003). On Track: a Qualitative Study of the Early Impacts of Services (DfES Research Report 473). London: DfES.

Wilkin, A., Atkinson, M., Kinder, K. and Kaur, S. (2003). An Evaluation of the Devolution of Education Welfare Services to Secondary Schools: the Second Year (DfES Research Report 420). London: DfES.

Wilkin, A., Kinder, K., White, R., Atkinson, M. and Doherty, P. (2003). Towards the Development of Extended Schools (DfES Research Report 408). London: DfES.