Inequality and the City 2015
Date: Friday 18 September 2015
Venue: Humanity Lecture Theatre, Room 255, Gilbert Scott Building
Chair: Professor Sharon Wright, Director of Research, Urban Studies, University of Glasgow
An Urban Studies event sponsored by The MacFie Bequest
09.45 Arrival
10.00 Welcome and Introduction
Prof David Adams, Urban Studies, University of Glasgow
10.15 Precarity and Class Inequality in Austerity Britain (PDF)
Dr Lisa Mckenzie, Sociology, London School of Economics
11.00 The Impact of Welfare Reform in Britain (PDF)
Prof Steve Fothergill, Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research, Sheffield Hallam University
11.45 Tea and Coffee, Room 253
12.15 The Heritage of Inequality
Dr Rebecca Madgin, Urban Studies, University of Glasgow
12.25 Urban Inequality and the Retrenchment of Urban Services (PDF)
Prof Annette Hastings, Urban Studies, University of Glasgow
12.35 The Post-Crisis Recovery and Inequality (PDF)
Prof Donald Houston, Urban Studies, University of Glasgow
12.45 Discussion and summing up
Dr Sharon Wright, Urban Studies, University of Glasgow
13.00-14.00 Lunch
