School of Sociology and Social Policy

Network participants

IRNHEP's membership includes established scholars interested in this field, as well as some newer researchers involved with studying, investigating or writing on housing, ethnicity and policy.

Participants

Roger Andersson

Roger Andersson is Professor and Head of Department at the Institute for Housing and Urban Research, Uppsala University. His primary research focus since the late 1980s has been on issues connected to immigration to Sweden (refugee settlement patterns, refugee dispersal programmes, internal migration from an ethnic perspective, uneven integration processes, residential segregation, ethnic clustering, and neighbourhood restructuring policies). Some of this research has been conducted in collaboration with other social scientists in Europe working on urban development, urban governance, segregation and social exclusion (Cost Civitas, Urban Governance, Inclusion and Sustainability (UGIS)). At present, he is involved (amongst other projects) in an EU-funded research project Restate, Restructuring Large Housing Estates in Europe. Professor Andersson has also carried out consultancy work for many governmental and other public bodies (ministries, state boards, municipalities), and is currently a member of the Swedish research council for Working life and Social Issues (FAS), the research council for RTK (The Office of Regional Planning and Urban Transportation in the Stockholm region), and the managing board of the journal Housing Studies. His recent publications include Musterd, S. & Andersson, R. (forthcoming) ‘Employment, Social Mobility and Neighbourhood Effects', in the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research; Spreading the ‘burden?': A review of policies to disperse asylum seekers and refugees (with Robinson, V. and Musterd, S. 2003); and Andersson, R .& Bråmå, Å. 'Selective Migration in Swedish Distressed Neighbourhoods: Can Area-based Urban Policies Counteract Segregation Processes?', in Housing Studies, Vol. 19, No. 4, 2004.

Institute for Housing and Urban Research
Uppsala University
Box 785, SE-801 29 Gävle, Sweden
Tel: + 46 26 420 65 26
Fax: + 46 26 420 65 01
Email: Roger.Andersson@ibf.uu.se

Link to personal website: http://www.ibf.uu.se/PERSON/roger/roger.html

Surrinder Bains

Surrinder Bains is a part time student at The Centre for Urban and Regional Studies (CURS) at The University of Birmingham. He is undertaking a doctoral thesis on The Indian Community in Birmingham: Residential and Social Mobility, which aims to explore push and pull factors over the last ten years with a focus on three controlled areas: West Bromwich, Four Oaks and Little Aston. The research is looking at the emergence of clusters of affluent groups in new emerging areas and those living in disadvantaged areas. He is also a senior practitioner working with LSPs, New Deal for Communities, and heavily involved in the work of the Housing Market Renewal initiatives in Sandwell and Birmingham.

Email: surrinder.bains@btinternet.com

Harris Beider

Harris Beider is a Lecturer at the Centre for Urban and Regional Studies (CURS) at the University of Birmingham. His research interests include housing, race and diversity, community involvement and participation, regeneration, and comparison between US and UK housing organisations. He has undertaken research for the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, the Housing Corporation and Joseph Rowntree Foundation and commissions from housing organisations and national bodies on organisational change and diversity issues. Harris also has responsibility as Course Director of the Public Service MBA programme for senior managers in the housing sector. He was Executive Director of the Federation of Black Housing Organisations (1997-2001) and Founding Director of People for Action (1995-1997). Harris has been an advisor to the Social Exclusion Unit, and Visiting International Scholar at Columbia University, New York City. He has written widely in practitioner journals on diversity, housing and regeneration issues and spoken at conferences and seminars in the UK and US. Harris is currently editing a book on Housing, Neighbourhoods and Communities in the UK and US, to be published in 2006.

Centre for Urban and Regional Studies (CURS)
J G Smith Building
The University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
Tel: 0121 414 2293
Email: h.beider@bham.ac.uk

Maurice Blanc

Maurice Blanc is Professor of Sociology, Professor at the Institut d'Urbanisme, Director of the Social Sciences Research Centre, and Director of the Doctoral College at the Université Marc Bloch (UMB), Strasbourg. His main areas of interest are urban policy and neighbourhood effects, and he has participated in a number of EU research projects including Urban Governance, Social Inclusion and Sustainability (UGIS), 5th PCRD (20002003), and Evaluation of Local Socio-Economic Strategies in "disadvantaged" areas (ELSES), Targeted Socio-Economic Research (TSER) Programme. Professor Blanc is Managing Editor of Espaces et Sociétés, and a member of the editorial boards of Housing Studies and Revue des Sciences Sociales. He is also Chair of Research Committee Transactions sociales, International Association of French speaking Sociologists (AISLF). Examples from his extensive publications include Les minorités dans la cité: perspectives comparatives (1993, with Le Bars, S.); Education populatire, territories ruraux et developpement (2004, with Bastien, M., Bernardis, S. & Bertaux, R.); ‘Strategies for the Social Regeneration of Disadvantaged Neighbourhoods in France (1977-2002)', in U. Walther (ed.) (2002) Soziale Stadt, Zwischenbilanzen; and, ‘La ségrégation ethnorésidentielle dans l'Union Européenne : quelles transactions ?', in Boumaza, N. (éd.) (2003), Relations interethniques dans l'habitat et dans la ville.

Université Marc Bloch Institut d'Urbanisme
22, rue Descartes F-67084 Strasbourg
Tel: + 33 (0) 3 88 41 74 23 Fax: + 33 (0) 3 88 61 15 92
Email: maurice.blanc@umb.u-strasbg.fr

Gideon Bolt

Gideon Bolt is Lecturer in Urban Geography at the Department of Human Geography and Planning, Utrecht University (the Netherlands) and member of the editorial boards of Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, HBE, and Tijdschrift voor de Volkshuisvesting. His research interests include residential mobility of immigrants, spatial segregation, and social cohesion in urban neighbourhoods. Gideon Bolt's publications include ‘ Turkish and Moroccan couples and their first steps on the Dutch housing market: Co-residence or independence?' Journal of Housing and the Built Environment 17(3), 2002; ‘Moving up or moving down? Housing careers of Turks and Moroccans in the Netherlands .' (with R. Van Kempen), Housing Studies 17(3), 2002; ‘Escaping poverty neighbourhoods in the Netherlands ' (with R. Van Kempen). Housing, Theory and Society 20(4), 2003; 'Social cohesion in Post War Estates in the Netherlands: Differences between Socioeconomic and Ethnic Groups' (with K. Dekker), Urban Studies 42 (13), 2005.

Department of Human Geography and Planning
Utrecht University
PO BOX 80.115 3508 TC Utrecht The Netherlands
Tel: 030 2534436
Fax: 030 2532037
Email: g.bolt@geo.uu.nl

Stuart Cameron

Stuart Cameron is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape at the University of Newcastle. He has particular interests in the fields of housing and urban regeneration, and has run and participated in research projects in housing and related areas (including one on housing strategies of minority ethnic groups in West Newcastle). Recent publications include ‘Gentrification, Housing Re-differentiation and Urban Regeneration: "Going for Growth" in Newcastle upon Tyne', Urban Studies, 20/12, 2003; ‘Ethnic minority housing needs and diversity in an area of low housing demand', Environment and Planning A, 31, 2000; and ‘Community, ethnicity and neighbourhood', (with A. Field), Housing Studies, 15 (6), 2000.

School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape
Claremont Tower
University of Newcastle
Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU, UK
Tel: + 44 (0) 191 222 7805
Email: s.j.cameron@ncl.ac.uk

Kusminder Chahal

Kusminder Chahal is a Senior Research Fellow in the Housing and Urban Studies Unit, University of Salford, and at the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre, University of Manchester. He is currently managing two networks: a national network of housing organisations to whom research on race and ethnicity is disseminated, and a network of racial harassment caseworkers. This second national network aims to work with caseworkers to improve practice with victims of racist harassment. Kusminder Chahal has a wide range of experience in policy-relevant research and analysis, especially in the arena of ethnic relations and housing. Commissioned work has included overviews of this field for the Rowntree Foundation, and (with Louis Julienne) the high profile study ‘We can't all be white!': racist victimisation in the UK (1999). Other publications include Blackaby, B. and Chahal, K. (2000) Developing Black and Minority Ethnic Housing Strategies: A good practice guide (for the Chartered Institute of Housing); and Racist Harassment Support Projects: Their role, impact and potential (2003, for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation).

Email: kushchahal@aol.com

Charles Connerly

Charles Connerly is Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Florida State University. His research on ethnicity and housing has focused primarily on issues of race and housing in the US, and he has an extensive record of involvement in funded research projects. Professor Connerly's current research focuses on a comparative analysis of discrimination law and housing in the US and the UK, and also the impacts of coastal development on African-American communities in the Southeastern United States. He is North American Editor of Housing Studies, and a member of the editorial board of Housing Policy Debate. His publications include "The Most Segregated City in America": City Planning and Civil Rights in Birmingham, 1920-1980 (which is being published in Summer 2005); ‘Attitudes Towards Growth Management in Florida: Comparing Citizen Support in 1985 and 2001' (with Tim Chapin), Journal of the American Planning Association, Fall 2004; "The Roots and Origins of African-American Planning in Birmingham, Alabama" (with Bobby Wilson), in J. Thomas and M. Ritzdorf (eds.) (1997) In the Shadows: Historical Notes on Planning and the African-American Community; and, "From Racial Zoning to Community Empowerment: the Interstate Highway System and the African-American Community in Birmingham, Alabama", Journal of Planning Education and Research, December 2002.

Department of Urban and Regional Planning
Florida State University
Tallahassee, Florida, USA, 32306-2280
Tel: 850-644-8516
Email: cconnerl@garnet.acns.fsu.edu

Joe T. Darden

Joe T. Darden is Professor of Geography at Michigan State University, and former Dean of Urban Affairs Programs from 1984 - 1997. He is also a former Fulbright Scholar, Department of Geography, University of Toronto, 1997 to 1998. Professor Darden's research interests are urban social geography, residential segregation, and socioeconomic neighbourhood inequality in multi-racial societies. His publications include Afro-Americans in Pittsburgh: The Residential Segregation of a People (1973); Detroit: Race and Uneven Development (1987); and, more recently The Significance of White Supremacy in the Canadian Metropolis of Toronto (2004). His recent scholarly work has also included analysis focused on the effects of minority group membership on residential segregation, and implications in terms of discriminatory outcomes.

Department of Geography, 226 Geography Building, Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824-1117, USA
Tel: 517-432-1843
Fax: 517-432-1671
E-mail: jtdarden@msu.edu

James DeFilippis

James DeFilippis is at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. His work focuses primarily on issues of community development, but has also dealt with more specific housing policy issues and has recently broadened to include looking more explicitly at issues of immigration in community development and urban labour markets. Dr. DeFilippis has taught courses on Dominican Heritage, Urban Economic Structures, Planning in Urban Areas, and the CUNY Honours course, Shaping the Future of New York City. His recent relevant publications include Unmaking Goliath: Community Control in the Face of Global Capital (2004); DeFilippis, J. and North, P. ‘The Emancipatory Community? Place, Politics and Collective Action in Cities', in Loretta Lees (ed.) (2004) The Emancipatory City? paradoxes and possibilities; Keeping the Doors Open: HUD-Subsidized Housing in New York City (2003); and, ‘The myth of social capital in community development', Housing Policy Debate, 12 (4), 2001

Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy Rutgers,
The State University of New Jersey
33 Livingston Avenue, Room 365
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Tel: 732-932-3822, ext. 734
Email: jdefilip@rci.rutgers.edu

Karien Dekker

Karien Dekker is Assistant Professor of Policy Sociology, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Her work focuses primarily on issues of social cohesion and urban governance within a neighbourhood context, including the effects of concentrations of minority ethnic groups and low income households and has recently broadened to include looking more explicitly at power relations within processes of policy development and implementation in different types of neighbourhoods. She has been the manager of RESTATE, a fifth framework EU research programme on large scale housing estates (2002-2005). Publications include ‘Urban governance within the Big Cities policy: ideals and practice in Den Haag, the Netherlands, (with R. Van Kempen), Cities, 21 (2), 2004; 'Social cohesion in Post War Estates in the Netherlands: Differences between Socioeconomic and Ethnic Groups' (with G. Bolt), Urban Studies 42 (13), 2005; 'Governance as glue: Urban governance and social cohesion in Post-WWII neighbourhoods in the Netherlands' (2006). Utrecht: Netherlands Geographical Studies. 'Social capital, neighbourhood attachment and participation in distressed urban areas: a case study in The Hague and Utrecht, the Netherlands'. In: Housing Studies, 22 (3), 2007.

Department of Sociology
Utrecht University
PO BOX 80.140, 3508 TC Utrecht, The Netherlands
Tel: + 31 30 253 1948
Fax: + 31 30 253 4405
Email: K.Dekker@uu.nl

George Galster

George Galster is Clarence Hilberry Professor of Urban Affairs, Department of Geography and Urban Planning, Wayne State University.  He earned his Ph.D. in Economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with undergraduate degrees from Wittenberg and Case Western Reserve.  He has published over 100 scholarly articles, primarily on the topics of metropolitan housing markets, racial discrimination and segregation, neighborhood dynamics, residential reinvestment, community lending and insurance patterns, and urban poverty.  His authored, edited and co-edited books include Homeowners and Neighborhood Reinvestment, 1987, The Maze of Urban Housing Markets, 1991, The Metropolis in Black and White, 1992, Reality and Research: Social Science and American Urban Policy since 1960, 1996, Why NOT in My Back Yard?: The Neighborhood Impacts of Assisted Housing, 2003, and Life in Poverty Neighbourhoods, 2005.  Professor Galster has a wealth of experience in academic, governmental, non-profit, and for-profit circles.  He has been a consultant to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, U. S. Department of Justice, numerous municipalities, community organizations, and civil rights groups, and organizations including the National Association of Realtors, American Bankers Association, Fannie Mae, and Chemical Bank Corporation.  He served on the Consumer Advisory Council of the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors, and has assumed other leadership positions in community service.  Dr. Galster has held University positions at Harvard, California Berkeley, North Carolina Chapel Hill, and Amsterdam, among others.  He served as Director of Housing Research at the Urban Institute in Washington, DC before coming to Wayne State University in 1996.

Amongst Professor Galster's most recent prestigious journal papers are "Obstacles to Desegregating Public Housing:  Lessons Learned from Implementing Eight Consent Decrees," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2003, vol.22, no.2 (with S. Popkin, K. Temkin, C. Herbig, D. Levy, E. Richter); "Moving from Public Housing to Home Ownership: Perceived Barriers to Program Participation and Success," Journal of Urban Affairs, 2004, vol.24, no. 4 (with A. Santiago); "Consequences from the Redistribution of Urban Poverty During the 1990s: A Cautionary Tale," Economic Development Quarterly, 2005, vol.19, no. 2; "By Words and Deeds: Racial Steering by Real Estate Agents in the U.S. in 2000," Journal of the American Planning Association, 2005, vol.71, no.3, (with E. Godfrey); and "Do Insurance Base Premium-Setting Policies Create Disparate Racial Impacts?", Journal of Insurance Regulation, 2006, vol.24, no. 4.

Clarence Hilberry Professor of Urban Affairs
Department of Geography and Urban Planning
Wayne State University
Room 3185, Faculty/Administration Building
Detroit, MI 48202 USA
Phone: 313-577-9084  fax: 313-577-0022
email: George_Galster@Wayne.edu
website: http://www.clas.wayne.edu/unit-faculty-detail.asp?FacultyID=628

Edward Goetz<

Edward Goetz is Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy at the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota. He is also currently the Associate Dean for Academics at the Humphrey Institute and Director of the Urban and Regional Planning program. His research focuses on issues of race and poverty and how they affect housing policy, planning and development. Professor Goetz' most recent book is Clearing the Way: Deconcentrating the poor in urban America (2003), which examines current efforts in the USA to "deconcentrate" the urban poor by dispersing the residents of subsidised housing. His other recent work examines the intersection of race and housing policy on a regional level, describing the programs and politics aimed at establishing a greater distribution of subsidized housing throughout metropolitan areas, and he has published articles relating to these issues in Housing Studies, Journal of the American Planning Association, Journal of Planning Education and Research, Journal of Planning Literature, Journal of Urban Affairs, and elsewhere. Professor Goetz also serves on the board of directors of the Urban Affairs Association.

Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs
University of Minnesota
301 - 19th Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Tel: 612-624-5003
Fax: 612-625-3513
Email: egoetz@hhh.umn.edu

Malcolm Harrison

Malcolm Harrison is Reader in Housing and Social Policy at the University of Leeds, with research interests in housing, ethnic relations, disability, and welfare state theory. He has directed and contributed to numerous projects, and published in a wide range of journals. Lengthier publications include: Achievements and options: black and minority ethnic housing organisations in action (1991); Housing, ‘race', social policy and empowerment (1995); Housing, social policy and difference: disability, ethnicity, gender and housing (with Davis, C, 2001); Housing and black and minority ethnic communities: review of the evidence base (with Phillips, D., ODPM, 2003); and (forthcoming) with Phillips, D., Chahal, K., Hunt, L. and Perry, J., Housing, ‘race' and community cohesion (CIH). His most recent project is to undertake (with I. Law and D. Phillips), on behalf of the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia, a comparative study on the situation of migrants and minorities in the area of housing covering 15 Member States of the EU on the basis of data and information supplied by the National Focal Points of the EUMC.

School of Sociology and Social Policy
University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
Tel: + 44 (0) 113 343 4430
Email: M.L.Harrison@leeds.ac.uk

Ian Law

Ian Law is Reader in Racism and Ethnicity Studies in the School of Sociology and Social Policy, and Director of the Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies, at the University of Leeds. Dr. Law has directed and collaborated in numerous projects, including most recently an evaluation of community needs and service provision for the Chinese community in Leeds (2004, for East Leeds Primary Health Care Trust and Leeds City Council), and the development of a Racial Equality Toolkit for project leaders (2003), and an Institutional Racism Toolkit for Higher Education (2000/02). He has also carried out numerous external advisory and collaboration activities for the local and national public and voluntary sectors. His publications include Racism, ethnicity and social policy (1996); Race in the news (2002); and Institutional racism in Higher Education (2004, edited with L. Turney and D. Phillips).

School of Sociology and Social Policy
University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
Tel: + 44 (0) 113 343 4410
Email: I.G.Law@leeds.ac.uk

Irene Molina

Irene Molina is Assistant Professor at the Institute for Housing and Urban Research, at Uppsala University. Her areas of research interest include urban studies related to race and ethnicity in Europe and Latin America, intersections between power structures of class, gender and race, and global cities. She has extensive experience in international collaborations. Her roles have included: being Co-ordinator of the EU Leonardo da Vinci network TPL (Transnational Partnership for Linkworking); membership of the UNESCO Network MOST-MPMC; Swedish researcher for the Ethnobarometer project on Migrant Integration in Selected European Cities (a comparative evaluation of city-based integration measures with 'best practice' implications, supported by the Italian government), and participation in UGIS (EU) and RESTATE (EU). Recent examples from amongst published work are ‘ Racialization and Migration in Urban Segregation Processes. Key issues for critical geographers' (with Andersson, R.), in Öhman, J. & Simonsen, K. (eds.) (2003), Voices from the North - New Trends in Nordic Human Geography; Large Housing Estates in Sweden - Overview of developments and problems in Jönköping and Stockholm, Restate report 2i. (2003, with Andersson, R., Öresjö, E., Pettersson, L., & Siwertsson, C.); Migrant Integration in European Cities. Ethnobarometer (2004, CSS/Rome); ‘ Intersubjektivitet och intersektionalitet för en subversiv antirasistisk feminism', Sociologisk forskning, .3-2004, pp. 19-24.; ‘ Koloniala kartografier av nation och förort, in de los Reyes, P. & Martinsson, L. (red.) Olikhetens paradigm (2005); (2005) Rasifiering som teoretiskt perspektiv för analysen av diskriminering i Sverige, (2005,. I SOU2005:041, Bortom Vi och De , Justitiedepartementet: Fritzes förlag).

Institute for Housing and Urban Research, Uppsala University,
Box 785, 801 29 GÄVLE, Sweden
Tel: + 46-18-4716517
Email: irene.molina@ibf.uu.se

David Mullins

David Mullins is Reader in Housing Studies, and Programme Director for the Public Service MBA (Housing Stream), at the Centre for Urban and Regional Studies (CURS), University of Birmingham. His research interests include the governance, management and regulation of housing organisations, the role of the non-profit sector in public policy, access and equality in social housing. His interest in housing, equality and diversity issues focuses on organisational change and responsiveness to diversity; including mechanisms for community engagement and empowerment, the role of community led organisations (such as Refugee Community Organisations and Black and Minority Ethnic Housing Associations), partnerships between such organisations and statutory and other third sector bodies, and the role of regulation and compliance policies in delivering greater equality. Recent research has included projects for the Housing Associations Charitable Trust evaluating a programme of local partnerships to improve refugee housing options, and for the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister on involvement of Black and Minority Ethnic tenants in housing investment options including stock transfer. He currently coordinates the European Network for Housing Research study group on Organisational Change in Social Housing, and the Communities, Institutions and Change research group at CURS, which explores changing relationships between institutions and communities with particular reference to housing institutions, and to asylum seekers and refugees, black and minority ethnic groups, travellers, older people and geographical communities. He has published in Housing Studies, Policy and Politics, Public Administration, Public Money and Management, Voluntas and The International Journal of Non-Profit Marketing. His publications include Housing and Public Policy, (coedited with Alex Marsh, 1998); Housing Policy in the UK, (with Alan Murie, forthcoming); ‘The Land that Time Forgot: reforming access to social housing in England' (with Hal Pawson), Policy and Politics 33 (2), 2005; and, ‘Modernisation and change in social housing: the case for an organizational perspective' (with Barbara Reid and Richard Walker), Public Administration, 79(3), 2001.

Centre for Urban and Regional Studies (CURS)
J. G. Smith Building
University of Birmingham, Edgbaston
Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
Tel: + 44 (0) 121 414 3348
Fax: + 44 (0) 121 414 3279
Email: D.W.Mullins@bham.ac.uk

Robert Murdie

Robert Murdie is an urban social geographer in the Department of Geography, York University, Canada. His research interests include ethnic residential segregation, the housing experiences of immigrants and refugees, and housing analysis. Current research projects include the housing experiences of homeless immigrant families in Toronto, the differences in housing experiences between asylum seekers and refugees selected abroad, and participation in a community development case study of Toronto's west-central neighbourhoods. He is the Housing and Neighbourhood domain leader for CERIS, the Joint Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Settlement (Toronto) and a research associate at CERIS and the Centre for Urban and Community Studies, University of Toronto. Many of his recent publications are based on research undertaken by the Housing Experiences of New Canadians in Greater Toronto study, of which he is co-director (www.hnc.utoronto.ca). These publications include Adequate & Affordable Housing for All: Research, Policy, Practice (2004, with J. Hulchanski and P. Campsie); ‘Housing Affordability and Toronto's Rental Market: Perspectives from the Housing Careers of Jamaican, Polish and Somali Newcomers', in Housing, Theory and Society, vol. 20 (2003); ‘Housing Affordability: Immigrant and Refugee Experiences', in J. Hulchanski and M. Shapcott, (eds.) (2004) Finding Room: Policy Options for a Canadian Rental Housing Strategy; and, ‘Towards a Comfortable Neighbourhood and Appropriate Housing: Immigrants Experiences in Toronto' (with C. Teixeira), in P Anisef and M. Lanphier (eds.) (2003) The World in a City.

S408 Ross Building
York University
4700 Keele Street Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3J 1P3
Phone: (416) 736-2100 (X22420) Fax: (416) 736-5988
Email: murdie@yorku.ca

Sako Musterd

Sako Musterd is Professor of Social Geography at the Amsterdam Institute for Metropolitan and International Development Studies (AMIDSt), University of Amsterdam. His current research activities are in the field of spatial segregation and social exclusion, and neighbourhood effect analysis in large metropolitan areas in Europe. He is also working on mapping the conditions for the development of creative cultural knowledge cities. In addition, Professor Musterd chairs the Netherlands Graduate School of Housing and Urban Research (NETHUR), in which the Universities of Amsterdam, Utrecht, Delft, Groningen, Nijmegen and Eindhoven participate. He has been involved in several European research programmes including EU URBEX; COST CIVITAS and EU RESTATE. He is a member of the Management and Editing Board of Housing Studies and Tijdschrift voor de Volkshuisvesting, and Corresponding Editor of the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. Publications include Musterd, S. and Smakman, N. (2000) ‘Integration of Caribbean Immigrants in a Welfare State City: Surinamese and Antilleans in Amsterdam', in the International Journal of Population Geography, vol. 6, 2000; ‘Response: Mixed Housing Policy: a European (Dutch) Perspective', Housing Studies, vol. 17, no. 1, 2002; ‘Segregation and Integration: a Contested Relationship', Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 29, no. 4, 2003; and, ‘Social and Ethnic Segregation in Europe; Levels, Causes and Effects', Journal of Urban Affairs, vol. 27, no. 3, 2005.

Amsterdam Institute for Metropolitan and International Development Studies (AMIDSt)
Department of Geography and Planning University of Amsterdam
Nieuwe Prinsengracht 130 1018 VZ Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Tel.: + 31 20 525 4175 / 4063 Fax: + 31 20 525 4051
Email: S.Musterd@uva.nl

Sule Özüekren

Sule Özüekren is Professor in the Faculty of Architecture, Istanbul Technical University. During the 1990s she was guest researcher at the National Swedish Institute for Building Research, where she studied the housing conditions of Turkish immigrants in a Swedish suburb. During the mid 1990s she, together with Ronald Van Kempen, co-ordinated a research project on Turks living in seven European countries, and developed a working group on minority ethnic groups for the ENHR. She has been a contributor to most ENHR conferences since 1988 and a member of the Co-ordination committee since 1994. She has worked for the International Labour Organisation (Geneva) as an external collaborator in the field of housing co-operatives. She is also an expert on housing in developing countries and one of the founders of the ENHR's working group on this field. She has edited a number of special editions for journals, and produced various publications on housing and urban segregation of minority ethnic groups in European cities. These include Turkish Immigrant Housing in Sweden; An Evaluation of Housing Conditions in a Stockholm Suburb (1992); Workers' Housing Co-operatives in Turkey: A Qualitative Evaluation of the Movement (1990); and ‘Ethnic Concentration at the Neighbourhood Block Level: Turks in a Greater Stockholm Suburb (1989 and 1999)', in Housing, Theory and Society, vol. 20, no.4, 2003.

Faculty of Architecture, Istanbul Technical University Taþkýþla 80191
Ýstanbul, Turkey
Email: ozuekren@itu.edu.tr

Deborah Phillips

Deborah Phillips is a Senior Lecturer in Geography and Deputy Director of the Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies at the University of Leeds. Dr Phillips has extensive experience of project management and research on aspects of ‘race' in the fields of housing, social policy and demography. She has also acted as an advisor to numerous bodies in the governmental and voluntary sectors, and presented evidence to the Ouseley Inquiry into race Relations in Bradford. Her studies have included contributions to the early ‘classic' UK analyses of discrimination in council house allocation processes (including What price equality?, 1986). Most recently she has investigated minority ethnic household preferences and bounded choices, issues of outward movement away from traditional areas of settlement, and questions of segregation. Her publications include Housing and black and minority ethnic communities: review of the evidence base (2003, with Malcolm Harrison for the ODPM); ‘Parallel lives? Challenging discourses of British Muslim self-segregation', Environment and Planning D: Society and Space (forthcoming); and, ‘Widening locational choices for minority ethnic groups in the social rented sector' (with R. Unsworth), in Somerville, P. and Steele, A. (eds.) (2002),‘Race', housing and social exclusion.

School of Geography, University of Leeds
Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
Tel: + 44 (0) 113 343 3319
Fax: + 44 (0) 113 343 3308
Email: d.a.phillips@leeds.ac.uk

Susan Popkin

Susan J. Popkin is a Principal Research Associate in The Urban Institute's Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center, Washington. A nationally-recognized expert on assisted housing and mobility, Dr. Popkin directs The Urban Institute's ‘Roof Over Their Heads' research initiative, which examines the impact of radical changes in public housing policy over the past decade. A major focus is how large-scale public housing demolition and revitalization has affected the lives of original residents. A second key area is the impact of neighbourhood environments on outcomes for public housing families. A third focus is evaluating strategies for promoting mobility and choice for assisted housing residents. This body of research includes the HOPE VI Panel Study, the first large-scale, systematic look at outcomes for public housing families; the HOPE VI Retrospective Tracking Study; the Ida B. Wells Relocation Fall-Out Study; the CHA Relocation Assessment, and the Three-City Study of Moving to Opportunity, which builds on her work on the MTO Interim Evaluation. Previously, Dr. Popkin directed the only national study of public housing desegregation, and was the Project Director for a series of studies on the Gautreaux Housing Desegregation program, which assisted public housing residents with moving to housing in integrated communities in Chicago and surrounding suburbs. Dr. Popkin is the lead author of The Hidden War: Crime and the Tragedy of Public Housing in Chicago, and the author of numerous papers and book chapters on housing and poverty-related issues.

Metropolitan Housing and Communities
The Urban Institute
2100 M St N.W, Washington D.C 20037, USA
Tel: 202-261-5751
Fax: 202-872-9322
Email: SPOPKIN@ui.urban.org

Peter Ratcliffe

Peter Ratcliffe is Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick. He has a long record of research and analysis in the field of ethnic relations. His current activities include a commission to set up and Direct the UK National Focal Point for the EUMC, and an ODPM project entitled Managing Diversity in Four Northern Towns (Oldham, Rochdale, Burnley and Blackburn), which has a strong housing/urban regeneration component which is due to be published by ODPM in Autumn 2005. He has just completed a study (with Elaine Hardy) of Fear of Crime for the Coventry NDC. Professor Ratcliffe is also planning to complete a new key work on Housing and Inclusivity over the next year. Amongst his publications are ‘Race', Ethnicity and Difference (2004); ‘Race' and housing in Bradford, (1996); and Breaking Down the Barriers: Improving Asian Access to Social Rented Housing (principal author, 2001, for the CIH).

Department of Sociology, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK.
Tel: + 44 (0) 24 7652 3146
Fax: + 44 (0) 24 7652 3497
Email: Peter.Ratcliffe@warwick.ac.uk

David Robinson

David Robinson is Professor of Housing and Public Policy at the Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research (CRESR), Sheffield Hallam University. His core interests include exploring the housing situations of different minority ethnic groups, analysing the policy response to racialised inequalities within the housing system, and managing the consequences of residential settlement patterns for social justice and cohesion. Professor Robinson's project work includes: Social Cohesion in Areas Affected by New Immigration (2004-2005, commissioned by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation), The Housing Experiences and Needs of Minority Ethnic Households in North Lincolnshire (2003-2004, commissioned by North Lincolnshire Council), Delivering Housing Services to Support Community Cohesion (2003-2004, for the Chartered Institute of Housing/Housing Corporation), and Somali Housing Experiences England (2001-2004, for the Housing Corporation). His recent publications include ‘The search for community cohesion: Key themes and dominant concepts of the public policy agenda', in Urban Studies, 2005, vol. 42, no. 8; Robinson, D., Reeve, K., Coward, S. and Bennington, J. (2005) Minority Ethnic Housing Experiences in North Lincolnshire; and, Robinson, D., Coward, S., Fordham, T., Green, S. and Reeve, K. (2004) How Housing Management Can Contribute to Community Cohesion.

Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research (CRESR) Sheffield Hallam University
Sheffield, UK
Tel: + 44 (0) 114 225 3487
Email: d.robinson@shu.ac.uk

Duncan Sim

Duncan Sim is Reader and Academic Director (Politics and Sociology) in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Paisley. His research studies have included Pakistani Housing Careers and Strategies, which examined three case studies in Glasgow, Bradford and Luton (1996-1997, commissioned by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation); Study of provision of community care and related housing services to black and minority ethnic communities in Glasgow (2000, funded by Scottish Homes, Greater Glasgow Health Board, Key Housing Association and Glasgow City Council); three separate studies into positive action, evaluating race equality policy and practice, and understanding of positive action, within the Scottish social housing sector (funded by PATH Scotland, 2000, 2001 and 2002); plus a number of previous studies, funded by Scottish Homes and local authorities. Dr Sim's publications include Perspectives on welfare: The experience of minority ethnic groups in Scotland (1997, edited with A. Bowes); Bowes, A., Dar, N. and Sim, D. ‘Differentiation in housing careers: the case of Pakistanis in the UK', in Housing Studies, vol. 17, no. 3, 2002; and ‘Patterns of residential settlement among black and minority ethnic groups', (with A. Bowes) in Somerville, P. and Steele, A. (eds.) (2002) ‘Race', housing and social exclusion.

Reader and Academic Director (Politics and Sociology)
School of Social Sciences
University of Paisley
Paisley PA1 2BE, Scotland
Tel: 0141-848-3719
Fax: 0141-848-3891
Email: duncan.sim@paisley.ac.uk

Peter Somerville

Peter Somerville is Professor of Social Policy, and Head of the Policy Studies Research Centre, at the University of Lincoln. He has particular interests in housing policy, social and economic policy, community development and urban regeneration, and has researched and written on ethnic dimensions of housing. He has published extensively in refereed journals, and has worked on numerous research projects including Homeless people's Access to medical, Care and Support Services (2002, funded by the Welsh Assembly Government); Evaluation of the Race Equality Network (2002, funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation); Workforce modernisation (2004, funded by Lincolnshire Police Authority); and, recently, The Future of Community Governance (2005, funded by the ESRC). In addition, he has been responsible (with colleagues) for 21 surveys of housing need and residents for a variety of local authorities and housing associations. Professor Somerville's recent publications include Social Relations and Social Exclusion (2000); ‘Race', Housing and Social Exclusion (edited with Andy Steele, 2002); ‘A sceptic looks at "housing theory"', Housing, Theory and Society, 22, 2, 2005; ‘Community governance and democracy', Policy & Politics, 33, 1, 2005; and, Housing and Social Policy (ed.) (2005).

Department of Policy Studies, University of Lincoln, Brayford Pool
Lincoln, LN6 7TS, UK
Tel: 01522 886267
Email: psomerville@lincoln.ac.uk

Richard Tomlins

Richard Tomlins is Professor of Race, Diversity and Housing in the Department of Public Policy at De Montfort University. He has led a series of high profile research projects for the Housing Corporation, including A Question of Delivery, and he has developed a race equality toolkit (www.dmuracetoolkit.com) for the use of housing associations. He is also a co-author of a landmark report focusing on Bradford entitled Breaking Down the Barriers: Improving Asian Access to Social Rented Housing (2001, for the CIH). Professor Tomlins is a member of the ODPM advisory group on BME housing issues. He has recently concluded a term on the Home Office Cohesive Communities Housing Practitioners Working Group and still serves on the Health Development Agency Health and Housing Forum. In addition he conducts equality and diversity training for Orbit Housing Association, and carries out consultancy on equality and diversity for the Employers' Organisation for Local Government (Dialog). He has most recently carried out Race Equality Impact Assessment training for the London Borough of Lambeth and is now working with three of its departments on Race Equality Impact Assessments of their policies. Much of his work involves capacity building with BME communities using the social action research method of community involvement. The most recent of these pieces of work is currently nearing completion in Liverpool on the housing and related needs of asylum seekers and refugees.

Department of Public Policy Faculty of Business & Law De Montfort University
The Gateway
Leicester LE1 9BH, UK
Tel: + 44 (0) 116 257 7441
Email: Richard@tomlins97.fsnet.co.uk or rtomlins@dmu.ac.uk

Ronald van Kempen

Ronald van Kempen is Professor of Urban Geography and Director of Research at the Urban and Regional Research Centre Utrecht, in the Department of Human Geography and Planning, Utrecht University, the Netherlands. His research interests include segregation and concentration of minority ethnic groups; housing conditions of different groups; urban poverty; social exclusion; and urban governance. Professor van Kempen is Co-ordinator of the Working Groups on ‘Immigrant Housing' and ‘Urban Developments' of the European Network for Housing Research. He is (amongst other research roles) Coordinator of RESTATE, a fifth framework EU research programme on large scale housing estates. His extensive publications include ‘Dynamics and diversity: housing careers and segregation of minority ethnic groups', (with A. Ozuekren), Housing, Theory and Society, 2003; ‘Social effects of urban restructuring: a case study in Amsterdam and Utrecht, the Netherlands', (with E. van Beckhoven), Housing Studies, 18 (6), 2003); High-rise Housing in Europe: Current Trends and Future Prospects, (editor, with R. Turkington), 2004; and, ‘Urban governance within the Big Cities policy: ideals and practice in Den Haag, the Netherlands, (with K. Dekker), Cities, 21 (2), 2004.

Department of Human Geography and Planning
Utrecht University
PO BOX 80.115 3508 TC Utrecht The Netherlands
Tel: + 31 30 253 2243
Fax: + 31 30 253 2037
Email: R.vanKempen@geo.uu.nl

Zvi Weinstein

Zvi Weinstein is in the Department of Project Renewal at the Ministry of Construction and Renewal, Israel. His main areas of interest are regeneration and urban renewal policies and strategies; citizen participation in decision making processes in deprived areas; economic development in deprived neighbourhoods; exit strategies of renewed neighbourhoods; indices of deprivation; developing human capital skills; business initiatives for youth; building partnerships between the business sector and excluded neighbourhoods; developing services at the neighbourhood level; and housing policy in deprived neighbourhoods. He has had several articles published in LARIA magazine in the UK, dealing with different aspects of the Israeli ‘Project Renewal' programme, among them Housing Policy in Project Renewal; Human Capital Centers; and the Israeli Project Renewal Framework. He also has a number of publications in Hebrew.

Ministry of Construction and Housing
Department of Project Renewal Government Court
125 Begin Rd.
Tel Aviv 67012, Israel
Tel: 972-3-7632845
Fax: 972-3-7632843 \ 1
Email: zwiw@moch.gov.il

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