Meeting of the Royal Statistical Society Social Statistics section “Recent Advances in Research on Housing Transitions and the Life Course”

Date: Tuesday 10 December 2013
Time: 10am-5pm (followed by a drinks reception)
Location: Royal Statistical Society, 12 Errol Street, London EC1Y 8LX
Details:The Royal Statistical Society, Social Statistics Section is pleased to announce a one-day symposium on recent developments in research on housing transitions through the life course. The event will feature presentations from leading international demographers, geographers and economists on different aspects of housing careers. Topics include:

• the interrelationship between housing and fertility: childbearing patterns by housing conditions and housing changes after the birth of a child
• wage, employment and house-price effects on migration
• intergenerational transmission of home ownership and neighbourhood poverty
• residential mobility, neighbourhood poverty dynamics and neighbourhood choice among families

The symposium is sponsored by the ESRC-funded project "Interrelationships between housing transitions and fertility". For further details go to University of Bristol - housing research
Speakers:
William A.V. Clark (University of California, Los Angeles)
Clara Mulder (University of Groningen),
Heather Joshi (Institute of Education)
Hill Kulu (University of Liverpool)
David Manley (University of Bristol)
Birgitta Rabe (University of Essex)
Elizabeth Washbrook (University of Bristol)
The programme and abstracts are at Housing symposium
Registration: All are welcome and attendance is free. Refreshments will be provided, including lunch and a drinks reception. However, advance registration is essential. Please complete the online registration form at Symposium bookings to reserve your place.　　

Lord Kelvin/Adam Smith E-MiNDS PhD Studentship

Educational & Health Impacts of Socio-Ethnic Migration & Neighbourhood Dynamics in Scotland (E-MiNDS)

This project will achieve a step-change in the scientific rigour applied to ethnicity research. Applying cutting-edge quantitative techniques to a unique combination of high-quality Scottish datasets, we shall open-up new avenues for ethnicity/inequality-research, and develop novel social-statistical methods that will have applications in other contexts. We shall follow 270,000 individuals over a twenty-year period, linking the greatly-underutilised Scottish Longitudinal Study (SLS) to a rich combination of data on neighbourhood composition, health, house prices and education. This will allow us to map-out the individual life-trajectories and health outcomes of persons identified as Catholic in 1991, compare these trajectories with those of persons from different ethnic/religious backgrounds, and shed light on questions about the extent to which long-term discrepancies in social mobility and health outcomes are driven by ethnicity/religion and/or neighbourhood effects. 

Scholarship details:

The LKAS E-MiNDS (“Educational & Health Impacts of Socio-Ethnic Migration & Neighbourhood Dynamics in Scotland”) scholarship includes a student stipend of £13,726 per 2 annum, plus a fee waiver, plus £5,300 per annum for conferences attendance and research costs. The student will be based in Urban Studies, University of Glasgow, and be linked to the ESRC LDOES project (Location Dynamics, Owner-occupation and Ethnicity in Scotland). It is anticipated that the first year of the 4-year studentship will involve a substantial quantitative research training element, leading to a research methods Masters degree (e.g. MRes Urban Research). For further information contact Professor Gwilyn Pryce gwilyn.pryce@glasgow.ac.uk 

New book: Understanding Neighbourhood Dynamics: New Insights for Neighbourhood Effects Research by Maarten van Ham, David Manley, Nick Bailey, Ludi Simpson, Duncan Maclennan.

This rare interdisciplinary combination of research into neighbourhood dynamics and effects attempts to unravel the complex relationship between disadvantaged neighbourhoods and the life outcomes of the residents who live therein. It seeks to overcome the notorious difficulties of establishing an empirical causal relationship between living in a disadvantaged area and the poorer health and well-being often found in such places. There remains a widespread belief in neighbourhood effects: that living in a poorer area can adversely affect residents' life chances. These chapters caution that neighbourhood effects cannot be fully understood without a profound understanding of the changes to, and selective mobility into and out of, these areas. Featuring fresh research findings from a number of countries and data sources, including from the UK, Australia, Sweden and the USA, this book offers fresh perspectives on neighbourhood choice and dynamics, as well as new material for social scientists, geographers and policy makers alike. It enriches neighbourhood effects research with insights from the closely related, but currently largely separate, literature on neighbourhood dynamics.
Published by Springer. For further details click here