Big hopes for this: Active Travel England has a unique opportunity/responsibility to improve the data collection, processing, quality assurance and tooling landscape nationwide. Excited to join the amazing team from Institute for Transport Studies at Leeds. More job opportunities will be posted soon🚶🦽🚲🚀

5 Sheffield ESRC funded @DataCDT PhD studentships with integrated MSc Start: Oct 2023 Apply: datacdt.org/entry-criteria… Each with a great partner org.: BEIS, DLUHC, Home Office, Digital Poverty Alliance, Social Care Wales, Health Foundation) Info on each below: 1/7

SH71 Drivers and Effects of Digital Poverty across Local Communities in the UK Project Details: datacdt.org/projects/drive… Partner Orgs: Digital Poverty Alliance @WANdisco Richards Family Supervisors: Vania Sena, @EnricoVanino, @SocSciMcAndrew 2/7 @sheffeconomics @shefmethods

SH72. Productivity and Spatial Economic Disparities in the UK Project Details: datacdt.org/projects/produ… Partner Org: Dept. Levelling Up, Housing, Communities, @luhc Supervisors: Jesse Matheson @EnricoVanino Andrew Bell 3/7 Sheffield Economics Sheffield Methods Institute - University of Sheff

SH73 The Role of R&D and Innovation in Promoting Growth across Sectors, Firms and Regions Project Details: datacdt.org/projects/the-r… Partner Org: Dep Bus. Energy & Indust Strateg (BEIS) Supervisors: Jesse Matheson @EnricoVanino Andrew Bell 4/7 Sheffield Methods Institute - University of Sheff Sheffield Economics

SH74 The Social Care Workforce in Wales Project Details: datacdt.org/projects/the-s… Partner Org: socialcare.wales Social Care Wales Supervisors: Liam Foster, Gwilym Pryce Matt Bennett 5/7 Sheffield Methods Institute - University of Sheff Sheffield Economics SocStudiesShef Centre for Care

SH75 Understanding Inequalities & Interconnections in Health and Social Care Project Details: datacdt.org/projects/under… Partner Org: The Health Foundation The Health Foundation Supervisors: Peter Bath, Dan Holman, Matt Bennett 6/7 @InfoSchoolSheff @SocStudiesShef Centre for Care

Overview of the CDT Data Analytics & Society 4 yr PhD Programme: datacdt.org/overview/ How to apply: datacdt.org/entry-criteria… Elligibility: datacdt.org/entry-requirem… About the CDT Data Analytics & Society: datacdt.org 7/7

Delighted to announce a 6th PhD Studentship: SH76 Understanding the local and regional impacts of immigration on local educational and labour market trajectories Weblink: datacdt.org/projects/under… Partner Org: UK Home Office Supervisors: Gwilym Pryce Aneta Piekut Gurleen

Interested in doing a fully-funded PhD with integrated MSc on the local impacts of immigration, working with the Home Office Managed Migration team? Deadline: 10th Apr Apply: datacdt.org/projects/under… Sheffield Economics Warwick Economics Warwick Economics Society LSE Department of Economics Migration Research Jonathan Portes

Our paper (w/ Eduardo Tapia T.) on whether school closures can be effective in reducing ethnic school segregation is now out in Journal of Urban Affairs (JUA). In our study, we use Swedish register data and focus on primary and lower secondary schools in Stockholm, Sweden.

**Please circulate** Over 300 migration scholars have signed an open letter challenging the UK's Illegal Immigration Bill on the basis that it's not evidence based, workable, or legal under human rights law. Full version of the letter here: bit.ly/3JgbZVL 1/5

Excited to be presenting in my old department Urban Studies & Social Policy on 17th May 3pm: "Life at the Frontier: Theory and Evidence on Neighbourhood Boundaries and their Impacts" -- do join us if you can make it. gla.ac.uk/schools/social… SocialFrontiers Sheffield Spatial Analysis Network @[email protected]

Looking forward to presenting our large scale (7,233 responses, spanning 4 towns) randomised audit study of ethnic and gender discrimination in the UK rental market: AREUEA Conference Cambridge, 10.30am Fri 21 July. conftool.org/areuea-cambrid…

1/ we set out reasons why we might expect discrimination to vary across locations. Eg social frontiers may heighten territorial sentiment. letting agents reflect this in their response rates to particular ethnic groups. We mights also expect asymmetric effects across the frontier

Interesting thread summarising an important study of discrimination in the private rental market in four English towns.

worksinprogress.co/issue/why-brit… A brief history of housing supply in the UK

Our latest article on Social Frontiers just out in E&PB: "The conflicting geographies of social frontiers: Exploring the asymmetric impacts of social frontiers on household mobility in Rotterdam" with Dan Olner Maarten van Ham and Heleen Janssen. …ls-sagepub-com.sheffield.idm.oclc.org/doi/full/10.11… 1/

Is segregation falling in the E&W / UK? What do we know from 2021 Census? I’m aware of the Catney et al. paper: rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111… Any others, either in print or as working papers / reports? Spatially variable (Prof Rich Harris) 🌍🌎🌏 David Manley Gemma Catney Chris Lloyd

We are starting #openfest23 today in Sheffield - follow the hashtag to learn more about #openresearch at the The University of Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam University