Enquiries to Sarah Atkinson: s.j.atkinson@durham.ac.uk

Further information available here.

Department: Department of Geography, University of Sheffield

Ref No: R07432

Closing Date: 11th August, 2009

Salary: £36,532 – £43,622 per annum

Summary: The appointee will cover teaching in quantitative areas of Human Geography, pursue an independent research agenda, contribute to departmental administration, and the expanding range of Masters teaching. The post-holder will have experience in at least some of the areas of statistical techniques, socio-economic spatial geography and political geography. Applications are particularly invited from candidates whose research complements one or more of the Department’s existing human geography research groups. Applicants should have a first degree and, ideally, a PhD in Geography or a cognate discipline (or equivalent experience), with experience of teaching, and conducting research. This post is fixed term for 22 months, anticipated dates from 1 September 2009 to 30 June 2011.

Website for details: http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/jobs/academic.html

XXIII European Society for Rural Sociology (ESRS) congress

Vaasa, Finland 17-21 August 2009

Rural areas and people in Europe stand at a crossroads, caught between global and local flows and processes. The ESRS Congress will address this critical moment through the following five key themes:

1. Mobilities and Stabilities in Rural Space
2.The Rural Bites Back
3. Animal Farm
4. The Sciences of the Rural
5. Sustainable Ruralities

The Scientific Committee are pleased to announce the opening of the Call for Abstracts of the XXIII ESRS Congress to be held in Vaasa, Finland 17-21 August 2009.

If you are interested in presenting a paper at the congress, please decide which Working Group you would like to be in, and send a title and short abstract (circa 200 – 250 words) to the convenor of that Working Group by February 28, 2009.

http://www.esrs2009.fi/index.html

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

*Places are still available at this conference- registration deadline extended to 28th February 2009*

Keynote speakers
Andrew Simms, Policy Director, New Economics Foundation
Professor Tim Blackman, Director, Wolfson Research Institute, Durham University

Overview
Over the last ten years the targets of policy have expanded beyond the purely material and economic to embrace more subjective dimensions of human flourishing.  Amongst a range of terms that have entered policy debates, ‘well-being’ has perhaps gained the greatest currency, incorporating both physical and cognitive elements and applied across individual and collective scales of analysis. It is clear that the definition, experience and determinants of well-being will vary in different kinds of places. However, the complex ways in which place and well-being interact remain relatively under-researched and under-theorised. This conference therefore draws together research that explicitly links well-being and place and includes research from a range of different scales of analysis, across different substantive domains and from both policy-linked and more explorative approaches.

Programme
The conference will feature over 70 papers from the academic and policy communities that focus on the relationship between well-being and place, broadly defined including:

·         Home and well-being
·         Theory, methods and ethics of well-being
·         Transitions:  well-being across this life course and the next
·         Therapeutic places and unhealthy spaces
·         Well-being in motion:  flows, networks, relations
·         Healthy environments: housing, urban design and regeneration
·         Well-being, policy and regional development

More details about the programme and registration are available on the conference website (www.geography.dur.ac.uk/conf/wellbeingandplace) or please contact Sara Fuller (s.k.fuller@durham.ac.uk) for further details.

The conference is organised and hosted by the Centre for the Study of Cities & Regions and the Social Wellbeing and Spatial Justice research cluster of the Department of Geography at Durham University, in collaboration with the University’s Wolfson Research Institute.

Contributions are invited to a special edition of the Journal of Maps devoted to National Social Maps. The broad theme is mapping of value added social data covering a whole country. We are interested in maps which show clear and distinct socio-geographic patterns, we are especially interested in:

• The mapping of previously unmapped data and indices
• Non-standard representations of space such as cartograms
• New and non-standard geographies
• New and innovative ways of mapping social data

To submit a paper, authors should do the following:

1. Submit a short draft (500 word limit) outlining the key themes and scope of the paper, where possible including example mapping, by 30th April 2009, to Dan Vickers.
2. Submit a completed paper (2500 word limit) to the Journal of Maps by 31st July 2009.
3. The special edition will be published in March 2010.

Reviewers are happy to discuss ideas for papers and their suitability with potential contributors prior to the short draft submission stage. Please email Dan Vickers (d.vickers@sheffield.ac.uk) in in the first instance. For more information visit http://www.journalofmaps.com/

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

School of Geography, University of Leeds

The School of Geography, rated sixth in the 2008 RAE Ranking, is seeking applications from individuals of international standing who will complement and strengthen existing expertise in the Centre for Spatial Analysis and Policy (CSAP), one of the School’s research clusters, in any of the following areas: demography and population geography; regional science and spatial economics; quantitative social policy (including health, deprivation, education and crime).

For more information, please see: http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/jobs/index.html

Informal enquiries to:

Prof John Stillwell, School of Geography, tel +44 (0)113 343 3315, email j.c.h.stillwell@leeds.ac.uk <mailto:j.c.h.stillwell@leeds.ac.uk>  or

Prof Adrian Bailey, Head of School, tel +44 (0)113 343 3322, email a.j.bailey@leeds.ac.uk <mailto:a.j.bailey@leeds.ac.uk> .

Closing date: Friday 20th February 2009

Interviews likely to take place: Thursday 19th March 2009