The main objectives of the Seminar Series are to review theories about how neighbourhoods might shape individual lives; to increase our understanding of methods suitable to analyse neighbourhood effects – free of bias – and the limitations of these methods; to identify potential data sources and data needs; to assess the current state of robust evidence on neighbourhood effects; to bring together researchers from diverse fields in neighbourhood research to increase our understanding of how neighbourhoods function, develop, change, and might affect individual lives; and to discuss the implications of the seminar outcomes for policy designed to tackle poverty. A PDF document with further background information and a list of references is available to view/download.
We will organise three 2-day seminars with about 35 participants in St Andrews, Manchester and Glasgow. If you are interested in attending one of the seminars, please email to mail@neighbourhoodeffects.org. Places are limited and participation is by invitation only.
Each seminar has a set of presentations from established and emerging researchers, and is be concluded with a led discussion. The PowerPoint presentations and papers presented at the seminars will be made available through this website. In conjunction with Springer the papers presented at each seminar will be avaialble as edited volumes, (see the Publications tab for more details). To stimulate cross-fertilisation of ideas, capacity building, and networking over disciplinary boundaries each seminar will cover different questions related to neighbourhood effects research. The following seminars are planned:
Day 1: What are the possible mechanisms behind neighbourhood effects; what domains or areas of life can they affect; which life stages are most important and are there long term effects; what is a meaningful definition of the neighbourhood; what is the current evidence on neighbourhood effects?
This first seminar sets the agenda for the Series and will provide some of the necessary theoretical and international empirical background from both quantitative and qualitative approaches to neighbourhood effects research.
| Program (all speakers confirmed) Day 1: Thursday, 4th February 2010 | |
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| 10:30 – 11:00 | Registration and Coffee |
| 11:00 – 11:10 | Opening and Welcome |
| 11:10 – 12:05 | George Galster – The mechanism(s) of neighbourhood effects: theory, evidence and policy implications |
| 12:05 – 13:00 | Mario Small – Ethnographic evidence and neighbourhood effects: strong and weak approaches to testing propositions from the field |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Fenne Pinkster – Neighbourhood effects as unitended side effects: evidence from a qualitative case study |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Lina Bergström – The impacts of residential mobility on measurements of neighbourhood effects |
| 15:00 – 15:55 | Ruth Lupton – Neighbourhood effects on teenage pregnancy: theory, data and evidence |
| 15:55 – 16:20 | Coffee |
| 16:20 – 17:00 | Ed Fieldhouse – Discussant |
| 17:00 – 18:00 | Open Discussion |
| 19:30 | Dinner |
Day 2: What are the main methodological - and data - challenges in neighbourhood effects research; what are the potential solutions and what are their limitations; how might existing data sources be adapted or developed?
This seminar day will focus on interdisciplinary approaches to neighbourhood effects research and aims to provide a state-of-the-art overview of quantitative techniques including IV and fixed effect approaches, quasi-experiments and longitudinal modelling. This first seminar will end with a review of data needs, in particular with regards to spatial referencing and data linkage in major longitudinal data sets.
| Program (all speakers confirmed) Day 2: Friday, 5th February 2010 | |
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| 9:00 – 9:15 | Coffee |
| 9:15 – 10:10 | Gindo Tampubolon - Neighbourhood Social Capital and Individual Mental Health |
| 10:10 – 11.05 | Paul Cheshire – Policies for Mixed Communities: Still looking for evidence |
| 11:05 – 11:30 | Coffee |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | David Manley – Neighbourhood effects: a longitudinal perspective |
| 12:00 – 12:30 | Venla Bernelius – Neighbourhood effects as real estate |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30 – 14:00 | Geoff Meen – Discussant |
| 14:00 – 15:00 | Open Discussion |
| 15:00 | Close |
Day 1: How can we best understand the processes behind segregation & neighbourhood change?
The segregation literature tends to ignore how neighbourhoods change. This seminar identifies the separate contributions to (change in) ethnic and social composition of natural change, domestic and international migration, and residents' own changing characteristics. (Abstracts available here)
| Program (all speakers confirmed) Day 1: Wednesday 8th September, 2010 | |
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| 10:30 – 11:00 | Registration and Coffee |
| 11:00 – 11:10 | Opening and Welcome |
| 11:10 – 12:05 | Bill Clark - Neighborhood selection in large cities: how does selective mobility create neighborhood outcomes? |
| 12:05 – 13:00 | Ronald van Kempen - Urban Restructuring, displaced households, and neighbourhood change |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 – 14:55 | Matthieu Permentier - Neighbourhood reputations and moving behaviour |
| 14:55– 15:50 | Nissa Finney - How ethnic mix changes and what this menas for integration: understanding neighbourhood population dynamics of ethnic groups |
| 15:50– 16:10 | Coffee |
| 16:10 – 16:45 | Beate Völker - Discussant |
| 16:45– 17:15 | Open Discussion |
| 19:30 | Dinner - East Z East @ Ibis hotel (sponsored by CCSR, University of Manchester) |
Day 2: How might we integrate population and income dynamics of deprived neighbourhoods in econometric models of neighbourhood effects?
This seminar will explore the dynamics of deprived neighbourhoods in terms of population turnover and selective mobility into and out of deprived neighbourhoods and identify how neighbourhood characteristics and neighbourhood dynamics affect residential mobility choices. It will then explore how selective mobility has been, and can be, integrated within econometric models of neighbourhood effects. (Abstracts available here)
| Program (all speakers confirmed) Day 2: Thursday 9th September 2010 | |
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| 9:00 – 9:15 | Coffee |
| 9:15 – 10:10 | Karien Dekker - Testing the racial proxy hypothesis: What is it that residents don't like about their neighbourhood? |
| 10:10 – 11.05 | Manuel Aalbers - How do mortgage lenders influence neighbourhood dynamics? |
| 11:05 – 11:30 | Coffee |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Stephen Jivraj - The mechanism of socioeconomic area change: an analysis of school census data at varying spatial scales in England |
| 12:00 – 12:30 | Felix Weinhardt - Neighbourhood quality and educational achievments |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30 - 14:25 | Nick Bailey & Helen Barnes - Spatial segregation and population dynamics: evidence, data sources and research priorities |
| 14:25– 14:55 | Ludi Simpson - Discussant |
| 14::55– 15:30 | Open Discussion |
| 15:30 | Close |
Day 1: Concentrations of problems in neighbourhoods?
After reviewing the evidence collected from the first two seminars, the focus will be on the 4 main areas where government policies confront neighbourhood effects: education, unemployment, crime and violence and, health. Each speaker will address the causes and consequences of concentrations of their topic in neighbourhoods linking together the international academic literature.
| Program Day 1: Thursday 7th April 2011 (Chair: Duncan Maclennan) | |
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| 10:30 – 11:00 | Registration and Coffee |
| 11:00 – 11:10 | Opening and Welcome |
| 11:10 – 11:45 | Maarten van Ham - Neighbourhood Effects Research: What have we learned? (Presentation) |
| 11:45 – 12:30 | Carlo Raffo - Educational Area Based Initiatives: Issues of redistribution and recognition (Abstract/Presentation) |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30 – 14:15 | Stephen Syrett - Spatially concentrated worklessness and neighbourhood policies: learning lessons from New Labour in the UK (Abstract/Presentation) |
| 14:15 – 15:00 | Ian Brunton-Smith - Neighbourhoods Matter: Spill-over effects in the fear of crime (Abstract/Presentation) |
| 15:00 – 15:15 | Coffee |
| 15:15 – 16:00 | Jamie Pearce - What is the role of neighbourhood in understanding spatial concentrations of health and ill health? (Abstract/Presentation) |
| 16:00 – 16:35 | Bill Clark - Discussant (Presentation) |
| 16:35 – 17:30 | Open Discussion |
Day 2: International policy solutions to neighbourhood based problems
For day 2, speakers will be asked to give an overview of neighbourhood based policies in their country, the reasoning behind these policies, the link(s) with the neighbourhood effects evidence base, and the effects that these policies have had. They will also be asked to discuss the future of neighbourhood based policies at a time of severe budget constraints. Speakers will cover the United States; Canada; United Kingdom; the Netherlands. To conclude, Duncan Maclennan will focus on the collected evidence base, the rationale of government policy, and discuss the beliefs that under-pin government led decisions.
| Program Day 2: Friday 8th April 2011 (Chair: David Hulchanski) | |
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| 9:00 – 9:15 | Coffee |
| 9:15 – 10:00 | Neil Bradford - Placed-based policy in Canada: An emerging Paradigm? (Abstract/Presentation) |
| 10:00 – 10.45 | Rebecca Tunstall - Evidence on neighbourhood effects and neighbourhood policy in the UK: Are they connected and should they be? (Abstract/Presentation/Results) |
| 10:45 – 11:00 | Coffee |
| 11:00 – 11:45 | Gideon Bolt - Neighbourhood based policies in the Netherlands: Counteracting neighbourhood effects (Abstract/Presentation) |
| 11:45 – 12:30 | George Galster - Poverty Deconcentration Programs in the U.S.: A Critical Review (Abstract/Presentation) |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30 - 14:20 | Duncan Maclennan -The rationale of neighbourhood based policies (Presentation) |
| 14:20– 14:55 | Keith Kintrea - Discussant |
| 14::55– 15:30 | Open Discussion |
| 15:30 | Close |
NeighbourhoodEffects.org is a Centre for Housing Research project hosting a collaborative ESRC Seminar Series run by:
Centre for Housing Research, The Observatory, Buchanan Gardens, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9LZ. Email: mail@neighbourhoodeffects.org
