| Workshop 1 | Neighbourhood perceptions and image |
Neighbourhood image, reputation and stigma John Flint, Sheffield Hallam University | This research has explored the experiences of individuals living through change in challenging neighbourhoods. It argues that neighbourhood stigma plays out in different ways in different deprived localities; neighbourhood reputations and hierarchies are complex and residents in deprived neighbourhoods do not necessarily perceive stigma in the same way as academics or policy makers. |
High rise stories: managing community regeneration Phil Mason, Glasgow University | People living in high rise blocks in deprived areas in Glasgow show strong attachment to their homes and neighbourhood. This research explores the consequences of this for the residents of Glasgow's multi stories earmarked for transformational regeneration and what the implications are for policy makers. |
| Workshop 2 | Regeneration of social housing estates - why hasn't it worked? |
Class identity: helping to explain the failure of Scottish housing regeneration Douglas Robertson, University of Stirling | This research argues that class is a significant determinant in helping to explain the failure of housing regeneration in Scotland. Class identity is argued to be core in determining local social attitudes towards neighbourhoods, and it is these attitudes that will determine if an area is socially acceptable. |
Areas of Multiple Deprivation: what's the role of social housing? Keith Kintrea, University of Glasgow | This paper explores why, after 30 years of the end of the era of mass social housing estate construction and multiple rounds of regeneration, social housing processes act to concentrate poverty. It explores what housing policy options are available to de-concentrate poverty and promote mixed communities. |
| Workshop 3 | Understanding change in deprived neighbourhoods |
Economic segregation, deprived neighbourhoods and migration Nick Bailey, University of Glasgow | This research identifies a wide range of factors that may impact on economic segregation, and on change for individual neighbourhoods, and outlines a method for studying change using longitudinal data. |
Do changes in SIMD ranking demonstrate successful regeneration? Sarah McIntosh, Heriot Watt University | This research explores areas that have moved out from the 15% most deprived data zones between 2004 and 2006 to understand the components of improvement that have influenced their ranking and relate this to wider data on area regeneration. |
| Workshop 4 | Community engagement |
What do we mean by 'meaningful' community engagement? Peter Matthews, University of Glasgow | This research provides early findings from a study to explore what is known about the impact of community engagement and empowerment activity and how its impact can be measured. |
Ensuring meaningful engagement Pete Duncan, Social Research Consultants | This research explores the processes and effectiveness of community engagement in Glasgow, in the context of housing led regeneration. |
| Drawing on a number of research studies this research will explore, and provide practical examples, of how to ensure community engagement is meaningful. |
| Workshop 5 | What would outcome based funding in education look like: an illustrative analysis from Wales with possible implications for Scotland |
Glen Bramley and David Watkins, Heriot Watt University | School education is the largest locally managed mainstream programme and school outcomes are clearly pivotal for subsequent life chances. Traditionally resource allocation for schools followed formulae that reflected past patterns of spending, and provided little to compensate for the problems of deprivation. This research explores what developing an outcomes based approach to education funding in Scotland could look like, drawing on a recent analysis undertaken in Wales. |
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| Workshop 6 | Tackling area based deprivation - lessons from Area Based Initiatives and the challenges of mainstreaming |
A new life 20 years on: have we lost the lessons learned from Area Based Initiatives? Peter Matthews, University of Glasgow | This research has analysed the experience of regeneration after the New Life for Urban Scotland partnerships ceased and community regeneration became part of community planning. The re-evaluation suggests that in the shift to a community planning approach to regeneration we might have lost the key benefits of Area Based Initiatives (ABIs). |
Making it happen: Tackling area based deprivation using mainstream environmental services Annette Hastings, University of Glasgow | This research will provide evidence on the practice and outcomes of mainstreaming within the sphere of environmental service provision. Lessons for policy makers on how to make mainstreaming work will be presented and the role of audit or performance regimes in ensuring service providers tackle multiple deprivation. |
| Workshop 7 | The neighbourhood, regeneration and heath and wellbeing |
What do we know about the health and socio-economic impacts of neighbourhood renewal? Hilary Thomson, MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit | This research explores what we know about the health and socio- economic impacts of neighbourhood renewal through an evidence synthesis of the health and socio-economic impacts of neighbourhood regeneration programmes in the UK since 1980. |
Residential environments and mental well being in deprived areas Ade Kearns and Phil Mason, University of Glasgow | This research examines the relationships between residential context and mental wellbeing among residents of relatively deprived areas of Glasgow. The research considers whether the absolute or relative conditions of an area matter more for well being and whether the static or dynamic position of the neighbourhood are more important. |
| Workshop 8 | Parenting and the neighbourhood context: findings from the Growing up in Scotland study |
Sinead Power, Scottish Government | This research uses data from the Growing up in Scotland study to explore families' experiences of living in Scotland's neighbourhoods, to examine parents' views on different aspects of their local area and to consider the relationship between area characteristics and parenting behaviours. |
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| Workshop 9 | Does place matter? Addressing deprivation in rural areas |
Philomena de Lima, University of the Highlands and Islands | The development of a single measure of deprivation or poverty that can be applied to rural and urban contexts is contentious. This research will explore our understanding of policy and research discourses on definitions, measurements and interventions on rural deprivation, discuss the extent to which these take into account equality groups and diverse rural places as well as focussing on strategies and case studies which appear to address some of these complex issues. |
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