Research Interests
Open to PhD applications in the fields of:
- Ethnic diversity
- Ethnic residential segregation
- Eethnic inequalities, particularly in the labour market
- Spatial inequalities
- Internal migration
- Neighbourhood identity and belonging
- Spatial data analysis
Current Research Opportunities
Public outreach & key achievements
- https://theconversation.com/profiles/gemma-catney-314066/articles
- http://www.niussp.org/article/the-significance-of-age-to-the-study-of-ethnic-residential-segregationlimportance-de-lage-dans-letude-de-la-segregation-residentielle-ethnique/
- http://hummedia.manchester.ac.uk/institutes/code/briefingsupdated/has-neighbourhood-ethnic-segregation-decreased.pdf
- https://www.jrf.org.uk/report/ethnic-minority-disadvantage-labour-market
- https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2013/feb/27/neighbourhood-ethnic-segregation-decreased
- http://blog.policy.manchester.ac.uk/posts/2017/01/segregation-and-inequalities-what-should-we-take-from-the-casey-review/
Research students
| PhD area | Geographic Inequalities in Ethnic Minority and Immigrant Labour Market Experiences in England and Wales. |
| Name | Sarah Garlick |
| Years of study | 2017-2029 |
| Country | Country: UK (England) |
| Funder | ESRC CASE Studentship (with Department for Work and Pensions) |
| PhD area | Exploring the Connections Between Persistent Area Deprivation and Health using Consistent Small Area Census Datasets, 1971-2011 |
| Name | Emily Dearden |
| Years of study | 2015-19 |
| Country | UK (England) |
| Funder | ESRC |
| PhD area | Family Farm Men and ‘Belonging’ across the Life Course |
| Name | Lorraine Holloway-McCarney |
| Years of study | 2018-2021 |
| Country | UK (Northern Ireland) |
| Funder | DEFRA |
Alumni: Where are they now
| PhD area | Transition to Adulthood in Britain: The analysis of Life Trajectories of Young Adults |
| Name | Dr Alina Pelikh |
| Years of study | 2014-2018 |
| Country | UK (England) |
| Current Position | Senior Research Officer (Policy Unit), Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex |
| PhD area | Mortality of Immigrants and their Descendants in Britain |
| Name | Dr Matthew Wallace |
| Years of study | 2012-2016 |
| Country | UK (England) |
| Current Position | Postdoctoral Researcher, French National Demographic Institute (Ined), Paris |
| PhD area | The Geography of the Anglo-Jewish Population in the Twenty First Century: Spatial Distribution, Characteristics, and Trends |
| Name | Dr Philip Sapiro |
| Years of study | 2014-2017 |
| Country | UK (England) |
| Current Position | Honorary Research Fellow, University of Liverpool |