Monday, 9 February 2009
The 'Right to Stay Put': Contesting Displacement in Urban Regeneration / Development Schemes
Call for Contributions / Participation: Contesting Displacement in Urban Regeneration
Please forward widely - apologies for cross-posting
2009 Conference of the Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British
Geographers (RGS-IBG), 26-28 August 2009, Manchester
First Call for Contributions to following session:
The 'Right to Stay Put': Contesting Displacement in Urban Regeneration /
Development Schemes
Sponsored by the Participatory Geographies Research Group
Session Organisers:
Chris Allen (Manchester Metropolitan University); Lee Crookes
(University of Sheffield); Stuart Hodkinson (University of Leeds); Tom
Slater (University of Edinburgh)
It is now 25 years since Chester Hartman first advanced the notion of
the 'right to stay put' for lower income group struggles against
gentrification. Since then, gentrification and related processes of
privatisation and marketisation have become integral to neoliberal urban
strategies across the world. In Britain, 'state-led gentrification'
(Davidson 2007) now impels urban regeneration schemes such as Housing
Market Renewal (Allen 2008) and even the government's council housing
modernisation programme 'Decent Homes'. Despite this proliferation,
academics have generally responded poorly to Hartman's call to arms.
Rather, as Slater observes (2006, 2008), gentrification research has
generally lost its critical edge, and from some quarters gentrification
has even been celebrated as beneficial to incumbent low-income groups
(Freeman, 2006; Vigdor, 2002). This is not our experience and with this
session we seek to restore Hartman's principle to the heart of
gentrification research by inviting contributions from activist
geographers in the widest sense of the term (academics, teachers,
housing professionals, campaigners, trade unionists and ordinary
residents) to share and exchange their experiences, insights and methods
to better defend people's 'right to stay put'. In the spirit of making
geography 'relevant' beyond the policy-academy complex, the session will
have a practical orientation and welcomes submissions in a wide range of
formats that offer reflections, stories, tactics, lessons and strategies
for developing successful urban resistances. The aims are to: (1)
share experiences and develop practical knowledges about what works in
urban resistance; (2) create an educational space for encounter and
dialogue between those involved in similar critical work and activism;
and (3) start to develop an action research network and a
knowledge/resource base for wider dissemination.
We seek ideas for participation which address some or more of the
following themes:
Grassroots knowledges about gentrification and resistance
Examples of (un)successful individual or collective resistance
Developing strategies and tactics of urban resistance
Power, counter-power, resources, methodological innovations
The planning system, public inquiries, community planning
Legal challenges to evictions and Compulsory Purchase Orders
Human rights issues with respect to land and home
Using the Freedom of Information Act and other research methods
Alternatives to gentrification / displacement / privatisation
Implications of the new Homes and Communities Agency
Roles, responsibilities and experiences of academics and other educators
in resistance
Alliance building and creating a UK Right to the City movement
We want to hear from people who are interested in participating in the
session in whatever way they can. Please send a proposal with title and
short summary (250 words) for participation which should outline the
following:
1. Who you are and why you are interested in participating in the
session
2. What kind of involvement/experience you have with opposing
gentrification
3. Details of the contribution you would like to make to the session
(example might include: show a film, give a short talk, tell a story,
bring some visitors to participate or anything else you think would make
a useful contribution to the debate)
4. Details of the kinds of equipment (audio-visual, for example) or
support you might need for your contribution
Please send your proposals by the 15 February 2009 at the latest to
L.Crookes@sheffield.ac.uk
Please forward widely - apologies for cross-posting
2009 Conference of the Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British
Geographers (RGS-IBG), 26-28 August 2009, Manchester
First Call for Contributions to following session:
The 'Right to Stay Put': Contesting Displacement in Urban Regeneration /
Development Schemes
Sponsored by the Participatory Geographies Research Group
Session Organisers:
Chris Allen (Manchester Metropolitan University); Lee Crookes
(University of Sheffield); Stuart Hodkinson (University of Leeds); Tom
Slater (University of Edinburgh)
It is now 25 years since Chester Hartman first advanced the notion of
the 'right to stay put' for lower income group struggles against
gentrification. Since then, gentrification and related processes of
privatisation and marketisation have become integral to neoliberal urban
strategies across the world. In Britain, 'state-led gentrification'
(Davidson 2007) now impels urban regeneration schemes such as Housing
Market Renewal (Allen 2008) and even the government's council housing
modernisation programme 'Decent Homes'. Despite this proliferation,
academics have generally responded poorly to Hartman's call to arms.
Rather, as Slater observes (2006, 2008), gentrification research has
generally lost its critical edge, and from some quarters gentrification
has even been celebrated as beneficial to incumbent low-income groups
(Freeman, 2006; Vigdor, 2002). This is not our experience and with this
session we seek to restore Hartman's principle to the heart of
gentrification research by inviting contributions from activist
geographers in the widest sense of the term (academics, teachers,
housing professionals, campaigners, trade unionists and ordinary
residents) to share and exchange their experiences, insights and methods
to better defend people's 'right to stay put'. In the spirit of making
geography 'relevant' beyond the policy-academy complex, the session will
have a practical orientation and welcomes submissions in a wide range of
formats that offer reflections, stories, tactics, lessons and strategies
for developing successful urban resistances. The aims are to: (1)
share experiences and develop practical knowledges about what works in
urban resistance; (2) create an educational space for encounter and
dialogue between those involved in similar critical work and activism;
and (3) start to develop an action research network and a
knowledge/resource base for wider dissemination.
We seek ideas for participation which address some or more of the
following themes:
Grassroots knowledges about gentrification and resistance
Examples of (un)successful individual or collective resistance
Developing strategies and tactics of urban resistance
Power, counter-power, resources, methodological innovations
The planning system, public inquiries, community planning
Legal challenges to evictions and Compulsory Purchase Orders
Human rights issues with respect to land and home
Using the Freedom of Information Act and other research methods
Alternatives to gentrification / displacement / privatisation
Implications of the new Homes and Communities Agency
Roles, responsibilities and experiences of academics and other educators
in resistance
Alliance building and creating a UK Right to the City movement
We want to hear from people who are interested in participating in the
session in whatever way they can. Please send a proposal with title and
short summary (250 words) for participation which should outline the
following:
1. Who you are and why you are interested in participating in the
session
2. What kind of involvement/experience you have with opposing
gentrification
3. Details of the contribution you would like to make to the session
(example might include: show a film, give a short talk, tell a story,
bring some visitors to participate or anything else you think would make
a useful contribution to the debate)
4. Details of the kinds of equipment (audio-visual, for example) or
support you might need for your contribution
Please send your proposals by the 15 February 2009 at the latest to
L.Crookes@sheffield.ac.uk
Wednesday, 4 February 2009
Between policy and the POLIS - and other seminars
Dear All
Sorry for cross-pointing.
Here is a list of Health and Society Research Groups until June. All will take place at 53 Park
Place with drink and nibbles to follow. The first one in 2009 is next Wednesday on the 11th Feb and
looks to be extremely interesting.
Everyone is welcome.
Eva Elliott
11th February 2009 – 4pm
‘Between policy and the POLIS: How electronic participation exercises can facilitate democratic
decisions for public health problems’
Simon Williams
CISHE, School of Social Sciences
11th March 2009 – 4pm
‘Accident and Incident Data: The Perceptions of the Risk of Certain Incidents Versus the Reality
of Reported Data’
Neil Ellis
Seafarers International Research Centre (SIRC)
22nd April 2009 – 4pm (note not the 2nd Wednesday this month)
'Understanding and responding to place-based disadvantage: insights from a Neighbourhood Renewal
strategy in Victoria, Australia'.
Dr. Deborah Warr
Research Fellow
Melbourne School of Population Health,
University of Melbourne,
6th May 2006 – 4pm
‘Developing “just” and healthy public policy: the role of health impact assessment’
Debbie Fox
Liverpool University
10th June 2009 – 4pm
‘Dynamics of friendship networks and smoking behaviour during adolescence: A longitudinal social
network approach’
Liesbeth Mercken
Eva Elliott
RCUK Academic Fellow
Cardiff Institute of Society, Health and Ethics
School of Social Sciences,
Cardiff University
53 Park Place
Cardiff
UK
CF10 3AT
Tel: 029 2087 9138
E-mail: elliotte@cf.ac.uk
CISHE website: www.cardiff.ac.uk/socsi/cishe
WHIASU website: www.whiasu.wales.nhs.uk
Sorry for cross-pointing.
Here is a list of Health and Society Research Groups until June. All will take place at 53 Park
Place with drink and nibbles to follow. The first one in 2009 is next Wednesday on the 11th Feb and
looks to be extremely interesting.
Everyone is welcome.
Eva Elliott
11th February 2009 – 4pm
‘Between policy and the POLIS: How electronic participation exercises can facilitate democratic
decisions for public health problems’
Simon Williams
CISHE, School of Social Sciences
11th March 2009 – 4pm
‘Accident and Incident Data: The Perceptions of the Risk of Certain Incidents Versus the Reality
of Reported Data’
Neil Ellis
Seafarers International Research Centre (SIRC)
22nd April 2009 – 4pm (note not the 2nd Wednesday this month)
'Understanding and responding to place-based disadvantage: insights from a Neighbourhood Renewal
strategy in Victoria, Australia'.
Dr. Deborah Warr
Research Fellow
Melbourne School of Population Health,
University of Melbourne,
6th May 2006 – 4pm
‘Developing “just” and healthy public policy: the role of health impact assessment’
Debbie Fox
Liverpool University
10th June 2009 – 4pm
‘Dynamics of friendship networks and smoking behaviour during adolescence: A longitudinal social
network approach’
Liesbeth Mercken
Eva Elliott
RCUK Academic Fellow
Cardiff Institute of Society, Health and Ethics
School of Social Sciences,
Cardiff University
53 Park Place
Cardiff
UK
CF10 3AT
Tel: 029 2087 9138
E-mail: elliotte@cf.ac.uk
CISHE website: www.cardiff.ac.uk/socsi/cishe
WHIASU website: www.whiasu.wales.nhs.uk
BNIM narrative interviewing
There are currently still two places vacant on the March London Intensive in BNIM narrative interviewing. See below for details. Do contact me if you have any questions, or would like a copy of the free BNIM SHORT GUIDE AND DETAILED MANUAL. If you do, DO NOT PRESS ‘REPLY’ BUT WRITE TO p.m.chamberlayne@dsl.pipex.com. OFF-LIST.
Nineteenth, Twentieth and Twenty-First
2009
5-Day Intensive BNIM Research Interview Trainings
Biographic-Narrative-Interpretive Method (BNIM)
5 days for 6 people:
2009 – March 12th and 13th, 16th – 18th.
2009 – June 18th and 19th; 22nd to 24th
2009 - October 8th and 9th; 12th to 14th
The value of open-narrative interviewing and insightful interpretation is widely recognised, but rather than having to invent the wheel for themselves, many people welcome a systematic immersion into principles and procedures that have been shown over two decades and many countries to generate high-quality work. An excerpt from an email we received from one university may be suggestive:
“… a number of the trainees who graduated this year got top awards in their doctorate projects... BNIM and narrative projects were considered to be of a particularly high standard by both internal and external examiners, and were very well received. The course director was very impressed and has told me that the standard of the research of those undertaking these projects (using BNIM) has improved the standard of the whole cohort.”
For over nine years in the UK, and more recently in New York (USA), in Auckland (NZ), Ljubljana (Slovenia), and Sydney (Australia), we have been running BNIM intensive trainings designed for PhD students and postdoctoral researchers in various pure and applied fields. Comments include:
Elvin – A richness beyond what I could imagine.
Sasha - thank you, for a wonderful training course. I learnt so much - and it was a great experience for us all as a team, and in terms of all of our intellectual and skills development.
Mark – I could go away and practice now. I liked the balance of how and why. I really got my head round that and could explain it to someone else.
Completed PhDs, clinical doctorates, and MAs by researchers using BNIM now number about 22. They range over topics such as: reintegration of returning Guatemalan refugees; identity in informal care; men coping with sexual abuse; psychosomatic study of breast cancer; love and intimacy; motivation in occupational therapy; South African migrants to NZ; nurses’ and health visitors’ learning and their professional practices; relationship experiences in psychosis (such as those of, and with, hearing voices people) and hospitalisation; head teachers; We know of 18 more PhDs, clinical doctorates and post-doctoral research projects in process. Anglophone universities involved include Birkbeck College, Birmingham, Central Lancashire, Dublin, de Montfort, East Anglia, East London, Essex, Exeter, NUI-Galway, Idaho, Kings College London, Leeds, Leicester, Massey, Oxford, Oxford Brookes, Plymouth, Queens University (Belfast).
BNIM assumes that “narrative” expresses both conscious concerns and unconscious cultural, societal and individual presuppositions and processes. Integrally psycho-societal, it supports research into the lived experience and reflexivity of individuals and collectives, facilitating understanding both the ‘inner’ and the ‘outer’ worlds of ‘historically-evolving persons-in-historically-evolving situations’, and particularly the expectedly surprising interactivity of inner and outer world dynamics. It especially serves researchers who need a tool that supports understanding spanning sociological and psychological dynamics and structures, and these treated not statically but as situated, affected and active historically and biographically.
For an example of BNIM case studies we recommend the European Union seven-country SOSTRIS project (edited) Biography and social exclusion in Europe: experiences and life-journeys (2002: Bristol, Policy Press). Other books, articles and reports are listed in the full bibliographies of the free Short Guide to BNIM.
BNIM research provides an innovative base for policy review and for better policy, and for professional or activist practice.
When you do the course, you automatically become a member of the email list where news, questions and discussion circulate. Methodology can be lonely without a secure base and like-minded people working in the same way as you. The course, the textbook, the free Short Guide and Detailed Manual and the email list offer you support in using part or all of the BNIM tool-kit in your own work and for liaising with others.
Summary
Designed for PhD students and professional researchers, the course provides a thorough training in doing BNIM biographic narrative interviews, together with ‘hands-on experience’ of following BNIM interpretation procedures. Students develop a sense of how their own research projects might use such aspects and components.
Taught by Tom Wengraf and Caroline Barratt in Muswell Hill, North London, the course’s small number of students ensures close coaching and support for the intensive work that is needed for you to fully acquire both the understanding of principles and also the practical capacity for proceeding with the systematic procedures involved in BNIM – usable both for BNIM but also for other types of narrative interviewing and interpretation.
You will be expected to have looked at (not read!) chapters 6 and 12 of Tom’s textbook, Qualitative research interviewing: biographic narrative and semi-structured method (2001: Sage Publications). Before the course starts, you are expected to have studied some bits and scanned others of the most recent version of the Short Guide to BNIM which will be sent to your email address. This preparing-by-reading means that most of your time during the 5 days can be spent on clarification and practical exercises, learning-by-doing.
Programme (subject to revision) for 5-day intensives
Thursday and Friday
We start with a short introduction to the Biographic-narrative-interpretive method, the history of its development, and to the principles behind its practice. The point and timing of using open-ended biographic narrative interviews rather than (only) the more conventional semi-structured and attitude-and-argument focused ones is clarified. You get to see the value of the 3 quite different subsessions. The bulk of the first two days is then almost entirely devoted to learning the craft of BNIM interviewing practice. This involves learning to ask narrative-pointed questions (both open and also focused) and not inadvertently interrupting or deflecting the interviewee. Apparently simple, it rapidly becomes clear that such a craft requires repeated and carefully-monitored practice to be successfully achieved. Pencil-and-paper and repeated interview practice exercises ensure such success is achieved by the end of the 2nd day.
Monday to Wednesday
We outline the principles and you engage in the key practices of BNIM interpretive work . We explain the importance of the twin interpretive tracks of ‘living of the lived life’ and ‘telling of the told story’ analysis, and micro-analysis, and how you convert the raw transcript into two series of processed data for each track. You learn the significance of the future-blind chunk-by-chunk approach peculiar to BNIM by practice – by doing parts of a narrative text analysis, a micro-analysis and biographical data analysis. You see the value of bringing the separated tracks together in an integrated ‘case account’. Finally, on the basis of case-presentations, you practice systematic case-comparison and the generalising and particularising modelling towards which BNIM work is typically oriented. The course ends with our looking again at how you might best use all or part of the BNIM approach within your individual research projects, and, given the existence of sceptical research and applied policy audiences, how to defend your choice to use such an in-depth biographical research method with a necessarily low-N sample.
After you start your work, to help you avoid un-necessary errors, we advise on your eventual design of a SQUIN for your first pilot BNIM pilot interview, and then – if you wish -- comment on your transcript and then on your data-processing of that transcript for subsequent interpretation. The cost for such consultancy is included in the course fee.
To reserve a place on one of the courses. To reserve a place, you need to send us a deposit of £225 (or the full amount).
Places are reserved in strict order of deposits (or full payment) received. Half-Deposits . are returnable if you cancel before the first day of the previous month, ie. 1st February and 1st May 2009 respectively.
2009. In 2009 the first course will run on March 12th-13th and 16th-18th. The cost will be £725 if paid in full before 1st February 2009; otherwise the cost rises to £825.
The second course will run on June 18-19 and 22nd to 24th. The cost will be £725 if paid in full before 1st May 2009; otherwise the cost rises to £825
The third course will run on October 8-9 and 12th to 14th. The cost will be £725 if paid in full before 1st Sptember 2009; otherwise the cost rises to £825
You secure your place by paying a deposit (£225) or the full payment.
All inquiries and bookings, and requests for the most recently updated version of the Guide to BNIM , please contact p.m.chamberlayne@dsl.pipex.com.
Nineteenth, Twentieth and Twenty-First
2009
5-Day Intensive BNIM Research Interview Trainings
Biographic-Narrative-Interpretive Method (BNIM)
5 days for 6 people:
2009 – March 12th and 13th, 16th – 18th.
2009 – June 18th and 19th; 22nd to 24th
2009 - October 8th and 9th; 12th to 14th
The value of open-narrative interviewing and insightful interpretation is widely recognised, but rather than having to invent the wheel for themselves, many people welcome a systematic immersion into principles and procedures that have been shown over two decades and many countries to generate high-quality work. An excerpt from an email we received from one university may be suggestive:
“… a number of the trainees who graduated this year got top awards in their doctorate projects... BNIM and narrative projects were considered to be of a particularly high standard by both internal and external examiners, and were very well received. The course director was very impressed and has told me that the standard of the research of those undertaking these projects (using BNIM) has improved the standard of the whole cohort.”
For over nine years in the UK, and more recently in New York (USA), in Auckland (NZ), Ljubljana (Slovenia), and Sydney (Australia), we have been running BNIM intensive trainings designed for PhD students and postdoctoral researchers in various pure and applied fields. Comments include:
Elvin – A richness beyond what I could imagine.
Sasha - thank you, for a wonderful training course. I learnt so much - and it was a great experience for us all as a team, and in terms of all of our intellectual and skills development.
Mark – I could go away and practice now. I liked the balance of how and why. I really got my head round that and could explain it to someone else.
Completed PhDs, clinical doctorates, and MAs by researchers using BNIM now number about 22. They range over topics such as: reintegration of returning Guatemalan refugees; identity in informal care; men coping with sexual abuse; psychosomatic study of breast cancer; love and intimacy; motivation in occupational therapy; South African migrants to NZ; nurses’ and health visitors’ learning and their professional practices; relationship experiences in psychosis (such as those of, and with, hearing voices people) and hospitalisation; head teachers; We know of 18 more PhDs, clinical doctorates and post-doctoral research projects in process. Anglophone universities involved include Birkbeck College, Birmingham, Central Lancashire, Dublin, de Montfort, East Anglia, East London, Essex, Exeter, NUI-Galway, Idaho, Kings College London, Leeds, Leicester, Massey, Oxford, Oxford Brookes, Plymouth, Queens University (Belfast).
BNIM assumes that “narrative” expresses both conscious concerns and unconscious cultural, societal and individual presuppositions and processes. Integrally psycho-societal, it supports research into the lived experience and reflexivity of individuals and collectives, facilitating understanding both the ‘inner’ and the ‘outer’ worlds of ‘historically-evolving persons-in-historically-evolving situations’, and particularly the expectedly surprising interactivity of inner and outer world dynamics. It especially serves researchers who need a tool that supports understanding spanning sociological and psychological dynamics and structures, and these treated not statically but as situated, affected and active historically and biographically.
For an example of BNIM case studies we recommend the European Union seven-country SOSTRIS project (edited) Biography and social exclusion in Europe: experiences and life-journeys (2002: Bristol, Policy Press). Other books, articles and reports are listed in the full bibliographies of the free Short Guide to BNIM.
BNIM research provides an innovative base for policy review and for better policy, and for professional or activist practice.
When you do the course, you automatically become a member of the
Summary
Designed for PhD students and professional researchers, the course provides a thorough training in doing BNIM biographic narrative interviews, together with ‘hands-on experience’ of following BNIM interpretation procedures. Students develop a sense of how their own research projects might use such aspects and components.
Taught by Tom Wengraf and Caroline Barratt in Muswell Hill, North London, the course’s small number of students ensures close coaching and support for the intensive work that is needed for you to fully acquire both the understanding of principles and also the practical capacity for proceeding with the systematic procedures involved in BNIM – usable both for BNIM but also for other types of narrative interviewing and interpretation.
You will be expected to have looked at (not read!) chapters 6 and 12 of Tom’s textbook, Qualitative research interviewing: biographic narrative and semi-structured method (2001: Sage Publications). Before the course starts, you are expected to have studied some bits and scanned others of the most recent version of the Short Guide to BNIM which will be sent to your email address. This preparing-by-reading means that most of your time during the 5 days can be spent on clarification and practical exercises, learning-by-doing.
Programme (subject to revision) for 5-day intensives
Thursday and Friday
We start with a short introduction to the Biographic-narrative-interpretive method, the history of its development, and to the principles behind its practice. The point and timing of using open-ended biographic narrative interviews rather than (only) the more conventional semi-structured and attitude-and-argument focused ones is clarified. You get to see the value of the 3 quite different subsessions. The bulk of the first two days is then almost entirely devoted to learning the craft of BNIM interviewing practice. This involves learning to ask narrative-pointed questions (both open and also focused) and not inadvertently interrupting or deflecting the interviewee. Apparently simple, it rapidly becomes clear that such a craft requires repeated and carefully-monitored practice to be successfully achieved. Pencil-and-paper and repeated interview practice exercises ensure such success is achieved by the end of the 2nd day.
Monday to Wednesday
We outline the principles and you engage in the key practices of BNIM interpretive work . We explain the importance of the twin interpretive tracks of ‘living of the lived life’ and ‘telling of the told story’ analysis, and micro-analysis, and how you convert the raw transcript into two series of processed data for each track. You learn the significance of the future-blind chunk-by-chunk approach peculiar to BNIM by practice – by doing parts of a narrative text analysis, a micro-analysis and biographical data analysis. You see the value of bringing the separated tracks together in an integrated ‘case account’. Finally, on the basis of case-presentations, you practice systematic case-comparison and the generalising and particularising modelling towards which BNIM work is typically oriented. The course ends with our looking again at how you might best use all or part of the BNIM approach within your individual research projects, and, given the existence of sceptical research and applied policy audiences, how to defend your choice to use such an in-depth biographical research method with a necessarily low-N sample.
After you start your work, to help you avoid un-necessary errors, we advise on your eventual design of a SQUIN for your first pilot BNIM pilot interview, and then – if you wish -- comment on your transcript and then on your data-processing of that transcript for subsequent interpretation. The cost for such consultancy is included in the course fee.
To reserve a place on one of the courses. To reserve a place, you need to send us a deposit of £225 (or the full amount).
Places are reserved in strict order of deposits (or full payment) received. Half-Deposits . are returnable if you cancel before the first day of the previous month, ie. 1st February and 1st May 2009 respectively.
2009. In 2009 the first course will run on March 12th-13th and 16th-18th. The cost will be £725 if paid in full before 1st February 2009; otherwise the cost rises to £825.
The second course will run on June 18-19 and 22nd to 24th. The cost will be £725 if paid in full before 1st May 2009; otherwise the cost rises to £825
The third course will run on October 8-9 and 12th to 14th. The cost will be £725 if paid in full before 1st Sptember 2009; otherwise the cost rises to £825
You secure your place by paying a deposit (£225) or the full payment.
All inquiries and bookings, and requests for the most recently updated version of the Guide to BNIM , please contact p.m.chamberlayne@dsl.pipex.com.
CFP: The Foreclosure Crisis and the Financial Crisis: Local Configurations and Global Consequences
Call for papers
2009 ISA-RC21 Sao Paulo Conference
Session 2.
The Foreclosure Crisis and the Financial Crisis:
Local Configurations and Global Consequences - Manuel B. Aalbers, University of Amsterdam, The Nederlands.
The housing foreclosure crisis that is spreading throughout the US is not just affecting local real estate, but also financial markets around the globe. Increasingly, we are seeing the social and economic consequences of both crises, not just in communities with high default rates, but almost anywhere in the world. We welcome papers on a variety of topics, including but not limited to: foreclosure studies, homeownership, social and financial exclusion, political economy of the crisis, financial centres/global cities, and how the crisis affects places around the globe. We especially encourage papers that make the connection between the global crisis and a particular city or number of cities.
For more details on the conference, please see http://www.centrodametropole.org.br/ISA2009/.
For specific questions about this particular session, please contact me directly at m.b.aalbers@gmail.com.
2009 ISA-RC21 Sao Paulo Conference
Session 2.
The Foreclosure Crisis and the Financial Crisis:
Local Configurations and Global Consequences - Manuel B. Aalbers, University of Amsterdam, The Nederlands.
The housing foreclosure crisis that is spreading throughout the US is not just affecting local real estate, but also financial markets around the globe. Increasingly, we are seeing the social and economic consequences of both crises, not just in communities with high default rates, but almost anywhere in the world. We welcome papers on a variety of topics, including but not limited to: foreclosure studies, homeownership, social and financial exclusion, political economy of the crisis, financial centres/global cities, and how the crisis affects places around the globe. We especially encourage papers that make the connection between the global crisis and a particular city or number of cities.
For more details on the conference, please see http://www.centrodametropole.org.br/ISA2009/.
For specific questions about this particular session, please contact me directly at m.b.aalbers@gmail.com.
Tuesday, 4 November 2008
Wales unveils strategy on suicide
Wales unveils strategy on suicide, see: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_east/7707437.stm
Tuesday, 21 October 2008
'The health debate', by David J. Hunter
The Policy Press is about to publish a new book, 'The health debate', by
David J. Hunter. I am sure that this title will be of interest to members
of this list.
Focusing on the British NHS, this book reviews some of the key contemporary
debates concerning health systems and how they have shaped the way that
health care has, and is, evolving.
For more information please see:
https://www.policypress.org.uk/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=10054&products_id=1282
It is is currently available on our website with a 20% discount.
Policy Press books can be ordered from our website
(https://www.policypress.org.uk/) or from our distributor:
Marston Book Services
PO Box 269
Abingdon
Oxon
OX14 4YN
Te: +44 (0)1235 465500
Email: direct.orders@marston.co.uk
P&P charges: Delivery within the UK £2.75 for the first copy and 50p
thereafter.
David J. Hunter. I am sure that this title will be of interest to members
of this list.
Focusing on the British NHS, this book reviews some of the key contemporary
debates concerning health systems and how they have shaped the way that
health care has, and is, evolving.
For more information please see:
https://www.policypress.org.uk/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=10054&products_id=1282
It is is currently available on our website with a 20% discount.
Policy Press books can be ordered from our website
(https://www.policypress.org.uk/) or from our distributor:
Marston Book Services
PO Box 269
Abingdon
Oxon
OX14 4YN
Te: +44 (0)1235 465500
Email: direct.orders@marston.co.uk
P&P charges: Delivery within the UK £2.75 for the first copy and 50p
thereafter.
Artists Making Places Conference
Artists Making Places Conference
(Please contact Vivienne Reiss vivienne.reiss@googlemail.com if you would
like more info)
The setting for the conference is the Greenwich Peninsula, one of London's
most important regeneration projects. The Art on Greenwich Peninsula
programme explores the opportunities around commissioning art and working
with artists in relation to this twenty year regeneration scheme.
The conference takes 'place making' and the role of the artist as its theme.
It will address the social issues around place making, moving beyond the
notion of physical or geographic place; looking at building communities and
developing community cohesion. It will explore the ways in which artists can
be agents in this process and the related practical, ethical and aesthetic
considerations and responsibilities.
The event is intended to be thought-proving and inspirational, creating new
insights informed by high profile national and international contributors. A
commissioned text by Declan McGonagle, who will chair the event, will be
circulated in advance providing provocation for both the speakers and the
audience.
The conference will include presentations, panel discussions, artist-led
tours, film screenings and performances and is aimed at artists, public art
commissioners and producers, local authority arts/community and regeneration
officers, lecturers and researchers in HE/FE and students on related courses.
Confirmed speakers and contributors include: Alfredo Jaar (artist), Declan
McGonagle (National College of Art and Design Dublin), Laurie Peake
(Liverpool Biennial), Bob and Roberta Smith (artist), Anna Hart (Archway
Investigations and Responses, Byam Shaw), Faisal Abdu'Allah (artist), Nick
Ewbank (The Creative Foundation), Vivienne Reiss and Bridget Sawyers (Art on
Greenwich Peninsula). There will also be contributions from a number of
artists involved in the Art on Greenwich Peninsula programme including
Howard Matthew, Julian Walker, Aoife Mannix, and Sarah Butler.
Conference bookings are being managed by the Barbican Box Office see
www.barbican.org.uk (go to book tickets at top right hand corner then select
10. Nov. 08 in event calender and select veune: Greenwich Yacht Club)
See www.artongreenwichpeninsula.com for further information on the
programme, speakers, venue and location.
(Please contact Vivienne Reiss vivienne.reiss@googlemail.com if you would
like more info)
The setting for the conference is the Greenwich Peninsula, one of London's
most important regeneration projects. The Art on Greenwich Peninsula
programme explores the opportunities around commissioning art and working
with artists in relation to this twenty year regeneration scheme.
The conference takes 'place making' and the role of the artist as its theme.
It will address the social issues around place making, moving beyond the
notion of physical or geographic place; looking at building communities and
developing community cohesion. It will explore the ways in which artists can
be agents in this process and the related practical, ethical and aesthetic
considerations and responsibilities.
The event is intended to be thought-proving and inspirational, creating new
insights informed by high profile national and international contributors. A
commissioned text by Declan McGonagle, who will chair the event, will be
circulated in advance providing provocation for both the speakers and the
audience.
The conference will include presentations, panel discussions, artist-led
tours, film screenings and performances and is aimed at artists, public art
commissioners and producers, local authority arts/community and regeneration
officers, lecturers and researchers in HE/FE and students on related courses.
Confirmed speakers and contributors include: Alfredo Jaar (artist), Declan
McGonagle (National College of Art and Design Dublin), Laurie Peake
(Liverpool Biennial), Bob and Roberta Smith (artist), Anna Hart (Archway
Investigations and Responses, Byam Shaw), Faisal Abdu'Allah (artist), Nick
Ewbank (The Creative Foundation), Vivienne Reiss and Bridget Sawyers (Art on
Greenwich Peninsula). There will also be contributions from a number of
artists involved in the Art on Greenwich Peninsula programme including
Howard Matthew, Julian Walker, Aoife Mannix, and Sarah Butler.
Conference bookings are being managed by the Barbican Box Office see
www.barbican.org.uk (go to book tickets at top right hand corner then select
10. Nov. 08 in event calender and select veune: Greenwich Yacht Club)
See www.artongreenwichpeninsula.com for further information on the
programme, speakers, venue and location.
Centre for Urban Theory (CUT) Seminars, February-March 2009
Centre for Urban Theory (CUT) Seminars, February-March 2009
Organizer: Dr Richard G. Smith
Tuesdays 4pm, Location: MUSEUM (Ground floor, Wallace Building), Swansea University
* * *
February 3rd
Christina Volkmann (Swansea University) [with Christian De Cock and James Fitchett] "Myths of the Near Past: Envisioning 'Financial Times' anno 2007/08"
* * *
February 10th
Christian De Cock (Swansea University) “Cities in Fiction: Perambulations with John Berger”
* * *
February 17th
Alan Finlayson (Swansea University) “'The Subject of Financialisation”
* * *
March 3rd
David B. Clarke (Swansea University) “Utopologies”
* * *
March 10th
Richard G. Smith (Swansea University) “Cities from Space”
* * *
March 17th
Nikki Cooper (Swansea University) “Colonial Zoning and French Urban Planning”
ALL WELCOME.
Organizer: Dr Richard G. Smith
Tuesdays 4pm, Location: MUSEUM (Ground floor, Wallace Building), Swansea University
* * *
February 3rd
Christina Volkmann (Swansea University) [with Christian De Cock and James Fitchett] "Myths of the Near Past: Envisioning 'Financial Times' anno 2007/08"
* * *
February 10th
Christian De Cock (Swansea University) “Cities in Fiction: Perambulations with John Berger”
* * *
February 17th
Alan Finlayson (Swansea University) “'The Subject of Financialisation”
* * *
March 3rd
David B. Clarke (Swansea University) “Utopologies”
* * *
March 10th
Richard G. Smith (Swansea University) “Cities from Space”
* * *
March 17th
Nikki Cooper (Swansea University) “Colonial Zoning and French Urban Planning”
ALL WELCOME.
Young people and territoriality in British cities: JRF Findings
http://www.jrf.org.uk/knowledge/findings/housing/2298.asp
GEOGRAPHIES OF EDUCATION
GEOGRAPHIES OF EDUCATION
Loughborough University
8-9th September 2009
Responding to the growing interest in spaces of education within geography and cognate disciplines, this conference will provide a unique opportunity for debating key themes and concepts concerning the production, consumption and governance of education at different scales and in different cultural contexts. Recognising the diversity of sites of education and learning which are accessed at different stages of the life-course, it is intended that the conference will address issues relating to primary, secondary and tertiary education, as well as the wider production and circulation of knowledge within these spaces. Papers are hence welcomed which address any of the following themes:
· School catchments, parental choices and access to education
· Inclusions and exclusions in spaces of education
· Extended schools, families and communities
· The university in its social and cultural context
· Studentification and student cities
· Academic mobilities and migrations
· The globalization of education
C The conference is supported by the Centre for Research in Identity, Community, Society (CRICS), based in the Department of Geography, Loughborough University, the Social and Cultural Geography Research Group (SCGRG) and the Children, Youth and Family Working Group (CYFWG) of the Royal Geographical Society. There will be a number of bursaries to support the attendance of new career, postgraduate and unwaged delegates.
Please send abstracts (no more then 250 words please) to Prof. Phil Hubbard (P.J.Hubbard@lboro.ac.uk) or Dr Sarah Holloway ( S.L.Holloway@lboro.ac.uk) by 1st December 2008.
Loughborough University
8-9th September 2009
Responding to the growing interest in spaces of education within geography and cognate disciplines, this conference will provide a unique opportunity for debating key themes and concepts concerning the production, consumption and governance of education at different scales and in different cultural contexts. Recognising the diversity of sites of education and learning which are accessed at different stages of the life-course, it is intended that the conference will address issues relating to primary, secondary and tertiary education, as well as the wider production and circulation of knowledge within these spaces. Papers are hence welcomed which address any of the following themes:
· School catchments, parental choices and access to education
· Inclusions and exclusions in spaces of education
· Extended schools, families and communities
· The university in its social and cultural context
· Studentification and student cities
· Academic mobilities and migrations
· The globalization of education
C The conference is supported by the Centre for Research in Identity, Community, Society (CRICS), based in the Department of Geography, Loughborough University, the Social and Cultural Geography Research Group (SCGRG) and the Children, Youth and Family Working Group (CYFWG) of the Royal Geographical Society. There will be a number of bursaries to support the attendance of new career, postgraduate and unwaged delegates.
Please send abstracts (no more then 250 words please) to Prof. Phil Hubbard (P.J.Hubbard@lboro.ac.uk) or Dr Sarah Holloway ( S.L.Holloway@lboro.ac.uk) by 1st December 2008.
Consultation Event on "Planning for A Better London"
Consultation Event on "Planning for A Better London"
Monday 3rd November
The Resource Centre
356 Holloway Road
N7 6PA
2pm - 5pm
Views on the Mayor's proposals for revisions to London's spatial strategy,
which sets planning policies across London, must be submitted by 10th
November. This event is an opportunity to hear presentations on the
proposals and their importance for Londoners and to discuss related
issues.
Speakers include: Andrew Barry-Purssell, Head of London Plan, Greater
London Authority Barbra Wallace, Women's Design Service Peter Eversden,
London Forum of Civic and Amenity Societies.
Workshops on: Equalities, Housing policies, Environment and Climate and
Case studies.
To book a place, please send booking form (attached) to
chloe@londoncivicforum.org.uk Inquiries: 020 8709 9787
Just Space Network is grateful to the London Plan team at the Greater London
Authority for its support.
Monday 3rd November
The Resource Centre
356 Holloway Road
N7 6PA
2pm - 5pm
Views on the Mayor's proposals for revisions to London's spatial strategy,
which sets planning policies across London, must be submitted by 10th
November. This event is an opportunity to hear presentations on the
proposals and their importance for Londoners and to discuss related
issues.
Speakers include: Andrew Barry-Purssell, Head of London Plan, Greater
London Authority Barbra Wallace, Women's Design Service Peter Eversden,
London Forum of Civic and Amenity Societies.
Workshops on: Equalities, Housing policies, Environment and Climate and
Case studies.
To book a place, please send booking form (attached) to
chloe@londoncivicforum.org.uk Inquiries: 020 8709 9787
Just Space Network is grateful to the London Plan team at the Greater London
Authority for its support.
Rescue Geography: research exhibition
Event in Birmingham exploring how to make regeneration more sensitive
to the nuances of place - all welcome...
Rescue Geography: research exhibition
Featuring photographic
installation by Dan Burwood
Private preview:
5 pm - 7.30pm
Friday, 24 October 2008
Public opening:
Daily 12 noon - 2 pm
27 to 31 October 2008
The art space at MADE*
122 Fazeley Street, Digbeth,
Birmingham B5 5RS
(5 minute walk from the Bullring)
Rescue Geography is a collaboration with the University of
Birmingham and the University of Manchester.
MADE* (Midlands Architecture and the Designed Environment)
is a Registered Charity
to the nuances of place - all welcome...
Rescue Geography: research exhibition
Featuring photographic
installation by Dan Burwood
Private preview:
5 pm - 7.30pm
Friday, 24 October 2008
Public opening:
Daily 12 noon - 2 pm
27 to 31 October 2008
The art space at MADE*
122 Fazeley Street, Digbeth,
Birmingham B5 5RS
(5 minute walk from the Bullring)
Rescue Geography is a collaboration with the University of
Birmingham and the University of Manchester.
MADE* (Midlands Architecture and the Designed Environment)
is a Registered Charity
Visual Methods
On Thurs 23rd Oct SOCSI and JOMEC, jointly, are hosting a session by one of the world's leading digital storytellers - Dr Daniel Meadow. For a sample of his work see:-
www.photobus.co.uk
and also
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/audiovideo/sites/yourvideo/pages/lawson_jones_01.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/audiovideo/sites/yourvideo/pages/stephanie_roberts_01.shtml
This is the beginning of a year long programme of collaboration to train SOCSI and JOMEC ugs, pgs, researchers and staff who might be interested in using visual methods of various kinds in their work.
The meeting is in the Birt Acres Lecture Theatre, Bute Building 4-5pm.
Do join us
Ian Jones
Innovation & Engagement Officer SOCSI
www.photobus.co.uk
and also
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/audiovideo/sites/yourvideo/pages/lawson_jones_01.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/audiovideo/sites/yourvideo/pages/stephanie_roberts_01.shtml
This is the beginning of a year long programme of collaboration to train SOCSI and JOMEC ugs, pgs, researchers and staff who might be interested in using visual methods of various kinds in their work.
The meeting is in the Birt Acres Lecture Theatre, Bute Building 4-5pm.
Do join us
Ian Jones
Innovation & Engagement Officer SOCSI
New atlas of mortality published today
As you may have seen in today's news, the Policy Press has just published
'The Grim Reaper's road map: An atlas of mortality in Britain' by Mary
Shaw, Bethan Thomas, Danny Dorling and George Davey Smith. This new study
is the first in over two decades to explore causes of death across the UK
and provides a fascinating account of how and why we die.
It analyses almost 15 million death records for the period 1981 to 2004. It
looks at deaths by cause, gender and geographical area and is displayed in
a series of area maps with accompanying commentary. The atlas maps
Standardised Mortality Ratios (SMRs) for all deaths, for nine groupings of
categories and for 99 single categories of death. 14,833,696 death records
were used to draw up the maps.
For more information please see:
https://www.policypress.org.uk/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=1195
To celebrate its publication, it is currently available on our website for
just GBP25.59, saving you almost GBP15.00.
Policy Press books can be ordered from our website
(https://www.policypress.org.uk/) or from our distributor:
Marston Book Services
PO Box 269
Abingdon
Oxon
OX14 4YN
Te: +44 (0)1235 465500
Email: direct.orders@marston.co.uk
P&P charges: Delivery within the UK £2.75 for the first copy and 50p
thereafter.
'The Grim Reaper's road map: An atlas of mortality in Britain' by Mary
Shaw, Bethan Thomas, Danny Dorling and George Davey Smith. This new study
is the first in over two decades to explore causes of death across the UK
and provides a fascinating account of how and why we die.
It analyses almost 15 million death records for the period 1981 to 2004. It
looks at deaths by cause, gender and geographical area and is displayed in
a series of area maps with accompanying commentary. The atlas maps
Standardised Mortality Ratios (SMRs) for all deaths, for nine groupings of
categories and for 99 single categories of death. 14,833,696 death records
were used to draw up the maps.
For more information please see:
https://www.policypress.org.uk/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=1195
To celebrate its publication, it is currently available on our website for
just GBP25.59, saving you almost GBP15.00.
Policy Press books can be ordered from our website
(https://www.policypress.org.uk/) or from our distributor:
Marston Book Services
PO Box 269
Abingdon
Oxon
OX14 4YN
Te: +44 (0)1235 465500
Email: direct.orders@marston.co.uk
P&P charges: Delivery within the UK £2.75 for the first copy and 50p
thereafter.
Marselles EU Meeting / Fwd: [reclaiming-spaces] French EU presidency / solidarity , sustainabilty and housing rights..
Knut Unger, Mv Witten schrieb:
> Crisis & EU & housing
>
> As part of the French EU presidency European ministers responsible for
> urban development and housing will meet in Marseille, 24th – 25th
> November 2008. According to the programme of the French presidency they
> will speak about two complexes:
>
> (1) an operational continuation of the approaches of the so called
> "Leipzig Charter for sustainable European cities", which was one of the
> results of the EU urban ministers meeting during the German presidency
> 2007 (accomaponied by demostartion in Leipzig). The French programme
> promises to discuss links between a "social city" and a "sustainable
> city" which could be combined on an approach towards "sustainable and
> solidarian cities" AND to focus on the contexts with climate change.
> (2) the problems of access to shelter by disfavoured persons, the report
> of the EU commission about Services of General Social Interest and
> social housing policies within the internal market.
>
> At the first view this sounds great. Is the French presindency going to
> put the EU on a path to cities of solidarity , sustainabilty and housing
> rights?
>
> SOME BACKGROUND
>
> During the German presidency we (German AG Habitat) cared about some
> interventions on the proposed charter. Besides other things we called
> for an inclusion of housing which was totally absent in the first drafts
> (similar interventions can from CECODHAS and tenants unions and HIC).
> But we even strongly criticized the subordination of urban development
> under the Lisbon strategy (which orientates on an Europe as the
> worldwide most competitive knowledge based economy) and the obvious
> deficits in addressing major challenges like climate change,
> unsustainable transport and democracy. The final text of the Leipzig
> Charter with some minor changes reacted to the critics. I.e. housing was
> mentioned as part of a possible strategy in disfavoured neighbourhoods.
>
> The "Leipzig Charter" by some observers today is seen as a strengthening
> of social and sustainable view on cities and a correction of radical
> neo-liberalism territorial approaches which dominated the EU policies
> since the 90ies. However, according to our view the "Leipzig Charter"
> isn't much more than a pamphlet calling for some improvement of
> "integrated urban management" in order to "strengthen strengths" of
> already strong cities in the global competition AND to combine that with
> a specific attention towards disfavoured neighbourhoods, which should be
> upgraded in order to reduce social costs and support competitiveness.
> Only within the problems of disfavoured neighbourhoods the charter
> promotes concrete measures towards sustainability and social
> developments and in this context even mentions housing as a possible tool
> Crisis & EU & housing
>
> As part of the French EU presidency European ministers responsible for
> urban development and housing will meet in Marseille, 24th – 25th
> November 2008. According to the programme of the French presidency they
> will speak about two complexes:
>
> (1) an operational continuation of the approaches of the so called
> "Leipzig Charter for sustainable European cities", which was one of the
> results of the EU urban ministers meeting during the German presidency
> 2007 (accomaponied by demostartion in Leipzig). The French programme
> promises to discuss links between a "social city" and a "sustainable
> city" which could be combined on an approach towards "sustainable and
> solidarian cities" AND to focus on the contexts with climate change.
> (2) the problems of access to shelter by disfavoured persons, the report
> of the EU commission about Services of General Social Interest and
> social housing policies within the internal market.
>
> At the first view this sounds great. Is the French presindency going to
> put the EU on a path to cities of solidarity , sustainabilty and housing
> rights?
>
> SOME BACKGROUND
>
> During the German presidency we (German AG Habitat) cared about some
> interventions on the proposed charter. Besides other things we called
> for an inclusion of housing which was totally absent in the first drafts
> (similar interventions can from CECODHAS and tenants unions and HIC).
> But we even strongly criticized the subordination of urban development
> under the Lisbon strategy (which orientates on an Europe as the
> worldwide most competitive knowledge based economy) and the obvious
> deficits in addressing major challenges like climate change,
> unsustainable transport and democracy. The final text of the Leipzig
> Charter with some minor changes reacted to the critics. I.e. housing was
> mentioned as part of a possible strategy in disfavoured neighbourhoods.
>
> The "Leipzig Charter" by some observers today is seen as a strengthening
> of social and sustainable view on cities and a correction of radical
> neo-liberalism territorial approaches which dominated the EU policies
> since the 90ies. However, according to our view the "Leipzig Charter"
> isn't much more than a pamphlet calling for some improvement of
> "integrated urban management" in order to "strengthen strengths" of
> already strong cities in the global competition AND to combine that with
> a specific attention towards disfavoured neighbourhoods, which should be
> upgraded in order to reduce social costs and support competitiveness.
> Only within the problems of disfavoured neighbourhoods the charter
> promotes concrete measures towards sustainability and social
> developments and in this context even mentions housing as a possible tool
Thursday, 31 July 2008
New book: Transitions Through Homelessness
Transitions Through Homelessness
Lives on the Edge
Carol McNaughton
‘Transitions Through Homelessness successfully weaves longitudinal data on the experiences of
homeless people, with a robust theoretical interpretation applying concepts of edgework in
late modernity and the risk society. Both stimulating and highly readable, this book will surely
become a core reference for scholars for some time.' - Dr Isobel Anderson, University of
Stirling
Who are 'the homeless'? How is homelessness really experienced in contemporary society? And
how do these people then attempt to make a transition back- to find a 'home' once more?
These are some of the questions considered in this study, which follows a group of people making
a transition out of homelessness for a year in their lives. The experiences of each individual are set
within autobiographical accounts of their lives before, during, and in some cases, after being a
'homeless person'. This opens the door to what may be to many readers a hidden world of trauma,
poverty, and marginality in the UK.
CONTENTS:
Introduction
In the Absence of Home: Understanding Homelessness
Emotional and Material Landscapes of Life
Becoming a Homeless Person
Homelessness, Social Welfare and 'Targeted Populations'
Homelessness, Identity and Social Networks
Conclusion: Lives on the Edge?
CAROL MCNAUGHTON is currently an ESRC Research Fellow at the Centre for Housing Policy,
University of York, UK. She has extensive experience of researching transgression, transitions and
the institutional role of social policy.
Lives on the Edge
Carol McNaughton
‘Transitions Through Homelessness successfully weaves longitudinal data on the experiences of
homeless people, with a robust theoretical interpretation applying concepts of edgework in
late modernity and the risk society. Both stimulating and highly readable, this book will surely
become a core reference for scholars for some time.' - Dr Isobel Anderson, University of
Stirling
Who are 'the homeless'? How is homelessness really experienced in contemporary society? And
how do these people then attempt to make a transition back- to find a 'home' once more?
These are some of the questions considered in this study, which follows a group of people making
a transition out of homelessness for a year in their lives. The experiences of each individual are set
within autobiographical accounts of their lives before, during, and in some cases, after being a
'homeless person'. This opens the door to what may be to many readers a hidden world of trauma,
poverty, and marginality in the UK.
CONTENTS:
Introduction
In the Absence of Home: Understanding Homelessness
Emotional and Material Landscapes of Life
Becoming a Homeless Person
Homelessness, Social Welfare and 'Targeted Populations'
Homelessness, Identity and Social Networks
Conclusion: Lives on the Edge?
CAROL MCNAUGHTON is currently an ESRC Research Fellow at the Centre for Housing Policy,
University of York, UK. She has extensive experience of researching transgression, transitions and
the institutional role of social policy.
New Crime Stats
Members of the list may well be interested to view the annual crime statistics for England and Wales that were published last Thursday. These cover latest results from the British Crime Survey and police recorded crime. The spreadsheets and separate sections of the report can be downloaded at:
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/crimeew0708.html
including a summary of the main findings at http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs08/hosb0708summ.pdf
We have also made available 'beta' test versions of new mapping and tabulation software to analyse data by offence type and financial year for individual local authority areas (excel spreadsheet continue to be downloadable). We intend to further widen the offence coverage of these systems once full application of disclosure control has been applied. These new facilties can be found at:
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/soti.html
We would welcome feedback on the operation of these systems to crimestats.rds@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk and also any more general comments on this material.
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/crimeew0708.html
including a summary of the main findings at http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs08/hosb0708summ.pdf
We have also made available 'beta' test versions of new mapping and tabulation software to analyse data by offence type and financial year for individual local authority areas (excel spreadsheet continue to be downloadable). We intend to further widen the offence coverage of these systems once full application of disclosure control has been applied. These new facilties can be found at:
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/soti.html
We would welcome feedback on the operation of these systems to crimestats.rds@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk and also any more general comments on this material.
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