New ESRC project looking at Travel to School and Local Housing Markets - opportunity for 18 month post-doc position

Ed Ferrari (Department of Town and Regional Planning, University of Sheffield) has been successful in securing funding from the ESRC's Secondary Data Analysis Initiative for a study of the links between travel to school, local housing markets, and educational choice.  There is a well known tension between policies aimed at enhancing school choice and those aimed at reducing school travel distances and promoting healthy commuting choices.  The local housing market can both act as an important mediator of this tension and be shaped by education policy and choices.  This study will develop a set of spatial multi level models exploring these interactions and developing policy recommendations for local planners and education officials.  The study will use data from the National Pupil Database and the Land Registry as well as previous ESRC investments in the British Household Panel Survey, Understanding Society, and Digimap.  The 18 month study will commence in April 2013.  An opening for a 18 month post doctoral research associate, with a closing date on 7 February, is currently being advertised at www.sheffield.ac.uk/jobs (ref UOS005862) and at jobs.ac.uk.  For more information, please contact Ed Ferrari at e.t.ferrari@sheffield.ac.uk.