Living together in the context of Brexit

This research project is about migration and the impact of Brexit on diverse urban communities. The project explores everyday encounters between Polish migrants and the long-settled population in the East End of Glasgow, Scotland. 

Ageing High-Rise in Japan and the UK

This collaborative research aims to share knowledge and experience of historic and current practice and research on ageing highrise neighbourhoods in the UK and Japan to identify future challenges and develop solutions.

Capturing Land Value from Developments

This project seeks to identify the potential impact that alternative land value capture mechanisms might have on the incidence and value of developer contributions in Britain.

Retrofitting Existing Buildings for CO2 Reduction in Scotland and Turkey

This research explores the problems experienced in existing housing stocks in Scotland (Glasgow) and Turkey (Kadıköy, Istanbul) regarding retrofitting for carbon reduction.

REPAIR: Real Estate, Place Adaptation and Innovation within an integrated Retailing system ‌

Real Estate, Place Adaptation and Innovation within an integrated Retailing systems (REPAIR) is a multi-stream research project, running over three years,  that aims to analyse the creation of diversity, innovation and, thus, adaptive capacity within urban retail markets.

Assessing the impact of benefit sanctions on health

This research, being undertaken as part of the Scottish Centre for Administrative Data Research (SCADR), will study the health impact of sanctions using a unique dataset built from individual-level administrative records.

GoWell East

This major new study examines the impact that the 2014 Commonwealth Games, and related regeneration interventions, will have on communities living next to some of the main Games venues in the inner East End of Glasgow.

GoWell: Glasgow Community Health and Wellbeing Research and Learning Programme

‌Investigate the impact of investment in housing, regeneration and neighbourhood renewal on the health and wellbeing of individuals, families and communities over a ten-year period. The programme aims to establish the nature and extent of these impacts, to learn about the relative effectiveness of different approaches, and to inform policy and practice in Scotland and beyond.

A Critical Analysis of the use of dissalowance and sanctions in the UK unemployment benefit system since 1911

The UK system of benefit sanctions for unemployed people has recently become increasingly controversial because of its evident role in creating destitution, as evidenced most vividly in the increased use of food banks. Yet there are virtually no existing academic studies of this system. This project aims to fill this gap.

Health and Employment Retention

This research aims to understand the key risk factors of employment retention among people affected by physical and mental health conditions. The research is developed as part of the Scottish Centre for Administrative Data Research (SCADR), using an innovative combination of Census data linked to prescribing information , hospital admission records and data from the benefit system.

Neighbourhood Dynamics and Spatial Segregation

How do the population characteristics of individual neighbourhoods change over time, and how is the overall pattern of spatial segregation affected as a result.

The Cost of Cuts

Focusing on the consequences for vulnerable people and deprived places of the "worst financial settlement in living memory" for local government.

The human security implications of IMF programs

This project will examine how the policy reforms of the International Monetary Fund—an international financial institution that provides loans to countries in economic trouble—affect human security.

The Remaking of Chinese Urban Neighbourhoods

This project brings together researchers from the University of Glasgow and Nankai University to examine changing neighbourhoods in three Chinese cities.

Urban Transformation in China

The joint research project focuses on three Chinese cities. UK researchers will travel to China to join teams for fieldworks and data collection.

Urban Transformations in China: Urban Development , Migration, Segregation and Inequality

This International Centre Partnership brings together researchers from three leading urban research organisations: the Urban Big Data Centre at University of Glasgow, the Applied Quantitative Methods Network (AQMeN) at University of Sheffield, and the CASS Institute of Urban and Environmental Studies in Beijing. It will allow collaborative and comparative research on three important and interrelated urban development issues of migration, segregation and inequality, and make significant contributions in research findings, new methods, theoretical development and policy impact.

Urban Transformations: Urban Development , Migration, Segregation and Inequality

Research to inform international theory, policy and practice on welfare conditionality.

Welfare Conditionality: Sanctions, Support and Behaviour Change

We’re studying conditional welfare in the UK. By that we mean two main situations. One is where people’s access to welfare is restricted or stopped – for example, by benefit sanctions or rules. The second, equally important, is welfare support – for example, through family intervention projects or help to find work. Generally with these kinds of sanctions and support, governments aim to get people to change their behaviour. We’re looking into all the effects of sanctions and support on people’s lives.

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