1 x Full PhD Studentship to award to a student to work on the Department’s Healthy Environments Research Programme (HERP). Applications are encouraged utilising quantitative and/or qualitative methodologies in the following broad areas:

• Relationship between availability of alcohol and alcohol-related harm
• Discrimination and health
• Environmental determinants of diet and/or physical activity
• Spatial/urban planning policy, the built environment and health

Successful candidates will be expected to undertake a project in these broad areas with the precise focus developed in collaboration with the lead supervisor, Dr Steven Cummins. To discuss an application contact Stephen at s.c.j.cummins@qmul.ac.uk

The above Studentships cover full fees (overseas or domestic) and a maintenance grant (at relevant Research Council rates), for three years. Some teaching contribution may be required as part of the Studentship.

Deadline for applications: applicants who wish to be considered for a one of the above Studentships must be received by College no later than 4pm on Friday 12th February 2010.

It is anticipated that interviews for short listed candidates will be held in early March.

University of Manchester, 2 April 2009

Bookings are now open for a one-day conference on Migration, Community and Ethnicity on Thursday 2 April 2009 at the University of Manchester. There is an excellent programme of topics and speakers:

Rob Ford, CCSR
British attitudes towards immigrants and ethnic minorities: education, generational change and the slow decline of discrimination

Laura Morales, ISC
The role of social capital in migrant’s engagement in local politics in European cities

Bethan Harries, Sociology and Liz Richardson , IPEG
Housing Aspirations for a New Generation: Perspectives from White and South Asian British Women

Nisha Kapoor, CCSR
Does place matter? Inequalities for South Asians and the neighbourhood context

Gemma Catney & Ludi Simpson, CCSR
Migration from immigrant settlement areas: race and social class

Stephen Jivraj & Naomi Marquis, CCSR
The National Pupil Database: A new method for measuring residential movement with an ethnic dimension

Nissa Finney, CCSR
The migration of young adults of different ethnic groups

We hope to get a wide range of participants and will ensure that there is plenty of time for discussion and questions. There is NO charge for attendance but you MUST book beforehand, particularly as lunch will be provided. To view the programme and book a place please go to
http://www.ccsr.ac.uk/erm/2009-04-02/index.shtml

Migration, Mixing and Ethnic Integration
A session of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Annual Conference
Manchester, 26-28th August 2009

Sponsored by the Population Geography Research Group and the ESRC Understanding Population Trends and Processes (UPTAP) programme

To offer a paper to the session, submit your details (name, institution, email address) and an abstract (max. 250 words) to Nissa.Finney@manchester.ac.uk by Friday 23rd January 2009.

Session organisers: Nissa Finney (University of Manchester), Gemma Catney (University of Manchester), John Stillwell (University of Leeds)

Session description
In Britain and other European countries, recent years have seen a shift in ethnic integration policy from multiculturalism to community cohesion. With this shift has come a renewed emphasis on place and residential mixing. This session explores two themes of these debates. The first theme is patterns of settlement of immigrants and their subsequent migrations that are changing sub-national ethnic geographies. What factors and processes influence these patterns of settlement and migrations? Do they differ between ethnic/migrant groups? What are their implications for ethnic integration, residentially and otherwise? The second theme of the session is the meaning of ethnic residential mixing. Is residential mixing associated with greater integration in other spheres? What are the causal connections between the residential composition of areas and structural and social integration in these locales and beyond?

The session is sponsored by the ESRC’s Understanding Population Trends and Processes (UPTAP) programme. It aims to showcase research being undertaken within the Ethnicity stream of this programme and to present a forum for dialogue between UPTAP researchers, other researchers in the UK and overseas, and policy makers. Speakers are welcome from outside the UPTAP programme, and UPTAP will cover conference costs for all speakers.

Particular topics of the session may include:
Settlement and secondary migration of recent immigrants (e.g. EU Accession immigrants, dispersed asylum seekers/refugees)
Internal migration patterns of ethnic groups: reinforcing or reducing residential segregation?
Housing and migration experiences of immigrant/ethnic groups
Differences in migration experiences for immigrant/ethnic groups for different life stage, social classes, family contexts
Motivations for migration and characteristics of migrants
Mapping and monitoring migration of minority groups
The significance of ethnic residential mixing for health, employment, experience of crime, relationships, social mobility.

http://www.rgs.org/WhatsOn/ConferencesAndSeminars
http://www.uptap.net/index.html