In production
Boeren, E. & Clancy, S. (eds.) (2026) 25 Years of Adult Learning in the United Kingdom and Ireland: Trends in Participation and Policies (Palgrave Studies in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning). London: Palgrave Macmillan.
2025
Clancy, S. (2025) Book Review: Volunteering in the United Kingdom: the spirit of service, International Journal of Lifelong Education, 1-3. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/02601370.2025.2550120.
Clancy, S., James, N., & Orr, K. (eds.) (2025) Research Handbook on Adult Learning and Education. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. Available at: https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/research-handbook-on-adult-learning-and-education-9781800886650.html.
Clancy, S. (2025) The Search for a ‘Realistic Utopia’ – Reflections on being an ‘insider/outsider’ in Higher Education. In
Attridge, E., Crew, T., & Pilgrim-Brown, J. (eds.) Working class people in UK Higher Education: precarities, perspectives and progress. Leeds: Emerald. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83662-062-420251018.
Clancy, S., James, N., & Zarifis, G. (2025) Communal Learning Spaces for Collaborative Action: Defending Adult Education in a Neoliberal Era, Studies in the Education of Adults, 57 (1), 1-6. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/02660830.2025.2480444.
Clancy, S. (2025) Workers’ education and the transmission of culture: The state, civil society and self‑determination, International Review of Education, 71 (1), 881-898. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11159-025-10146-5.
2024
Clancy, S., & Jones, I. (2024) The private, the public and the common good: loss and learning in a contemporary research circle, FORUM, 66 (3), 126-138. Available at: https://doi.org/10.3898/forum.2024.66.3.14.
Clancy, S., & Ross, C. (2024) Adult education and whose common good?, FORUM, 66 (3), 17-31. Available at: https://doi.org/10.3898/forum.2024.66.3.02.
Clancy, S., & Jones, I. (eds.) (2024) Lived Experience, Lifelong Learning, Community Activism and Social Change. London: Routledge. Available at: https://www.routledge.com/Lived-Experience-Lifelong-Learning-Community-Activism-and-Social-Change/Clancy-Jones/p/book/9781032715599
2023
Clancy, S. (2023) Stories Matter – The Past, Kinship, and the Cosmic Web, PIMA Bulletin, 49 (Special Issue, Climate Justice Education). Available at: https://www.pimanetwork.com/part2-stories-matter
Clancy, S. (2023) Sir George Trevelyan, Residential Adult Education and the New Age – ‘To Open the Immortal Eye’ (Palgrave Studies in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning). London: Palgrave Macmillan. Available at: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-35955-2
Clancy, S. (2023) Chapter One: Being Part of the Social Change: Adult Education and Lessons from History. In Robbins, J., & Rogers, A. (eds.) Adult Learning and Social Change in the UK – National and Local Perspectives. London: Bloomsbury, 1-21. Available at: https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph-detail?docid=b-9781350262157&pdfid=9781350262157.ch-1.pdf&tocid=b-9781350262157-chapter1
Elliott, J., Knight, R., Clancy, S., & Morley, C. (2023) Exploring the identity of an undergraduate education programme. In Pulsford, M., Morris, R., & Purves, R. (Eds.) Understanding Education Studies – Critical Issues and New Directions. London: Routledge, 18-27. Available at: https://www.doi.org/10.4324/9781003296935-5
Holford, J., Boyadjieva, P., Clancy, S., Hefler, G., & Studená, I. (eds.) (2023) Lifelong Learning, Young Adults and the Challenges of Disadvantage in Europe (Palgrave Studies in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning). London: Palgrave Macmillan. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14109-6.
Clancy, S., & Holford J. (2023) Bounded Agency in Policy and Action: Empowerment, Agency and Belonging. In Holford, J., Boyadjieva, P., Clancy, S., Hefler, G., & Studená, I. (eds.) Lifelong Learning, Young Adults and the Challenges of Disadvantage in Europe (Palgrave Studies in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning). London: Palgrave Macmillan, 41-61. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14109-6_2.
Clancy, S., & Palmer, C. (2023) Policy, Practice and Praxis: Computer-Aided Decision Support to Enable Policy-Making in Lifelong Learning. In Holford, J., Boyadjieva, P., Clancy, S., Hefler, G., & Studená, I. (eds.) Lifelong Learning, Young Adults and the Challenges of Disadvantage in Europe (Palgrave Studies in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning). London: Palgrave Macmillan, 217-244. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14109-6_9.
Clancy, S., Hefler, G., Rapanà, F., Steinheimer, E., & Studená, I. (2023) Work and Learning in the Adult Education Sector: A Cross Country Comparative View. In Holford, J., Boyadjieva, P., Clancy, S., Hefler, G., & Studená, I. (eds.) Lifelong Learning, Young Adults and the Challenges of Disadvantage in Europe (Palgrave Studies in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning). London: Palgrave Macmillan, 325-350. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14109-6_13.
2022
Clancy, S. (2022) Book Review: Discourses, dialogue and diversity in biographical research: An ecology of life and learning. International Review of Education, 68 (1), 489-492. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11159-022-09953-x.
Stevenson, H., Clancy, S., & Vega Castillo, M. A., (2022) European Sectoral Social Partners in education promoting quality of academic teaching and management (Report to the European Federation of Education Employers, In collaboration with European Trade Union Committee for Education). Available at: https://www.csee-etuce.org/en/item/3866:research-report-european-sectoral-social-partners-in-education-promoting-quality-of-academic-teaching-and-management-2022.
Clancy, S., & Jones, I. (2022) Dialogue, Power and Adult Lifelong Education: The Place of a Research Circle. In Hawa, R. (ed.) 2022 Meeting of CASAE, Online 14-17 May. Canada: CASAE. Available at: https://dl.dropbox.com/s/3b9cwowq1rv2ey7/2022_CASAE_Proceedings.pdf.
Fuller, K., Taylor, P., Clancy, S., Emerson, A., Lehner-Mear, R., Mahoney, M., & Pokasic, K. (2022) Doncaster Opportunity Area: Improving opportunities through education. A synthesis evaluation report. Doncaster: Doncaster Council and The University of Nottingham. Available at: https://doncasteropportunityarea.wordpress.com/.
2021
Reyes, V., Clancy, S., Koge, H., Richardson, K., & Taylor, P. (2021) Decolonising globalised curriculum landscapes: The identity and agency of academics. London Review of Education, 19 (1), 1-13. Available at: https://doi.org/10.14324/lre.19.1.26.
2020
Clancy, S. (2020) Book review: Sally Davison and Katharine Harris (eds), The Neo-liberal Crisis – a Soundings Collection. Key Words – A Journal of Cultural Materialism, 18 (2020), 142-144. Available at: https://raymondwilliams.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/kw-18.pdf-2.2-final.pdf.
Clancy, S., Studená, I., & Vatrella, S. (2020) The Upskilling Pathway. In Milana, M., Klatt, G., & Vatrella, S. (eds.) Europe’s Lifelong Learning Markets, Governance and Policy – Using an Instruments Approach. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 145-163. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38069-4_7.
Clancy, S., Holford, J., & Boeren, E. (2020) The Response of the United Kingdom (England and Scotland) to Youth Guarantee. In Milana, M., Klatt, G., & Vatrella, S. (eds.) Europe’s Lifelong Learning Markets, Governance and Policy – Using an Instruments Approach. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 393-417. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38069-4_17.
Clancy, S. (2020) Critical thinking for critical times. Post-16 Educator, 99 (April – June), 18-20. Available at: https://post16educator.org.uk/resources/archive/99/PSE-99-Clancy-only.pdf.
Clancy, S. (2020) Adult and Further Education: the impact of austerity on life chances and well-being. In Hudson, B., Leask, M., & Younie, S. (eds.) Education System Design: Foundations, Policy Options and Consequences. Abingdon: Routledge, 86-96. Available at: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429261190-14.
Clancy, S. (2020) Book review: European educational research (re) constructed: institutional change in Germany, the United Kingdom, Norway and the European Union. Educational Review, 72 (2), 266-268. Available at: https://www.doi.org/10.1080/00131911.2019.1656940.
2019
Clancy, S. (2019) The Message or the Bottle? Community, associationism and adult learning as “part of the process of social change”. In Boeren, E., & James, N. (eds.) Being an adult learner in austere times. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 47-70. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97208-4_3.
Clancy, S. (2019) Being part of the social change: reclaiming civic adult education: A well supported lifelong learning sector is crucial to the health of democracy. Soundings – A Journal of Politics and Culture, 72 (2019), 105-116. Available at: https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/248/article/730852.
Clancy, S., Holford, J., Palmer, C., & Boeren, E. (2019) Workshop: Young Adults, Data & Artificial Intelligence. In SCUTREA Conference 2019, The University of Nottingham 2-4 July. Oxford: Universities Association for Lifelong Learning.
2018
Clancy, S. (2018) The Time Traveller’s Life: Why Oral History is So Vital. inTuition Research Supplement, 2018 (3), 5. Available at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/327644528_The_time_traveller’s_life_why_oral_history_is_so_vital.
Clancy, S. (2018) Communities of learning and critical consciousness in the digital age. In University of Sheffield (ed.) SCURETA Conference 2018 – Lifelong Learning and the Pedagogy of Hope, University of Sheffield 17-19 July. Oxford: Universities Association for Lifelong Learning, 320-324. Available at: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/4tqhme0v0lhpnbzuo9234/2018-SCUTREA-Conference-papers.pdf.
Clancy, S., & Holford, J. (2018) ‘Life-changing things happen’: The role of residential education in the transformation of adults’ learning and lives. Education + Training, 60 (6), 620-636. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1108/ET-03-2018-0069.
Clancy, S. (2018) Being a ‘backward traveller’: The Politics of Life History. Post-16 Educator, 91 (April – June), 19-20. Available at: https://post16educator.org.uk/resources/archive/91/PSE-91-Clancy-only.pdf.
Clancy, S. (2018) Raymond Williams: adult education and the public intellectual. Manchester: The Raymond Williams Society. Available at: https://raymondwilliams.co.uk/2018/04/27/raymond-williams-adult-education-and-the-public-intellectual/.
2017
Clancy, S. (2017) The power of language in the age of austerity: Volunteers and practitioners reflect on UK civil society. Research for All, 1 (2), 231-251. Available at: https://doi.org/10.18546/RFA.01.2.02.
Clancy, S., & Holford, J. (2017) “It breeds a thing of openness”: How residential adult education transforms learning and lives (Report commissioned by the Institutes of Adult Learning). Nottingham: University of Nottingham School of Education.
Clancy, S. (2017) Adult Education, Spirit and the ‘New Age’: Sir George Trevelyan and the Shropshire Adult Education College at Attingham 1948-76. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham. Available at: https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/43676/.
Clancy, S. (2017) Utopianism and the New Age – modern man in search of himself: Sir George Trevelyan and the Shropshire Adult Education College. In Kong, G., & Boeren, E. (eds.) 46th Annual SCUTREA Conference: Adult Education for Inclusion and Diversity, University of Edinburgh 4-6 July. Oxford: Universities Association for Lifelong Learning, 199-203. Available at: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/qrx2az1ta0t68adm581q3/2017-SCUTREA-Conference-papers.pdf.
Clancy, S., & Palmer, C. (2017) Social capital, bounded agency and fuzzy logic: making data work in real world applications. In 1st European Symposium on Societal Challenges in Computational Social Science: Inequality and Imbalance, London 15-17 November. Available at: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1038129/social-capital-bounded-agency-and-fuzzy-logic-making-data-work-in-real-world-applications.
2016
Clancy, S. (2016) Book review: Distress in the city: racism, fundamentalism and a democratic education. International Journal of Lifelong Education, 35 (3), 351-353. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/02601370.2016.1203167.
2015
Clancy, S. (2015) The Politics of Public Engagement: Reclaiming community? Gateways: International Journal of Community Research and Engagement, 8 (1), 160-166. Available at: https://doi.org/10.5130/ijcre.v8i1.4475.
2011
Clancy, S. (2011) Social justice and Higher Education: Universities as agents of change in the context of the ‘Big Society’. MA Dissertation, University of Nottingham.
Clancy, S. (2011) Measuring the social impact of schools outreach. In Baker, G., & Fisher, A. (eds.) Arts and Humanities Academics in Schools: Mapping the Pedagogical Interface. London: Bloomsbury. Available at: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/arts-and-humanities-academics-in-schools-9781441134301/.