People Like Us: A 1 Day Conference

Friday 16th April 2010

Manchester Conference Centre

This free to attend conference will examine and discuss the origins and implications of ethnic concentration, or ethnic density. Four sessions will cover key topics, each with two papers, a response from a discussant and plenty of time for broader discussion among the conference attendees, who will include academics and those working in the policy arena from central and local government and from NGOs.

In addition, posters covering other pieces of relevant research will be shown throughout the day. Click here if you would like to submit a proposal to show a poster.

The conference is organised by CCSR and ISC at the University of Manchester, the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL, and the Department of Health Sciences, University of York. Some of the conference funding and several of the papers are drawn from two research projects, one funded by the Medical Research Council and the other by the Economic and Social Research Council.

Directions:
Manchester Conference Centre is a purpose built conference venue and hotel facility in the heart of Manchester city centre, just 300 metres from Manchester Piccadilly Station. For directions follow these links:
http://www.manchesterconferencecentre.co.uk/location/
http://www.manchesterconferencecentre.co.uk/uploads/Finding_the_MCC.pdf

Programme

9.30 – 10.00 Registration

10.00 – 10.15 Welcome and introduction: Professor Richard Wilkinson, Professor Emeritus, University of Nottingham

10.15 – 11.30 Migration, mobility and deprivation

Chair: Dr Nissa Finney, CCSR

Professor Ludi Simpson, CCSR, Patterns of concentration and how they arise - Slides, Notes
Professor Yaojun Li, ISC, Where am I in the queue? A study of the impacts of ethnic concentration and diversity on minority ethnic employment in Britain and the US (1990-2000) - Slides

Discussant: Nisha Kapoor, CCSR

11.30 – 12.00 Posters, Coffee/Tea

12.00 – 13.15 Social capital and civic participation

Chair: Professor Ed Fieldhouse, ISC

Dr Laura Morales, ISC, Immigration, Diversity and Social Capital in Spain. A longitudinal perspective - Slides
Professor Eric Uslaner, University of Maryland, Trust, Diversity, and Segregation in the United States and the United Kingdom - Slides

Discussant: Professor Yaojun Li, ISC

13.15 – 14.00 Posters, lunch

14.05 – 15.20 Racism and tolerance

Chair: Stephen Jivraj, CCSR

Alfonso Echazarra, CCSR, Ethnicity and perceived crime in Spain: three alternative stories - Slides
Dr Laia Bécares, UCL, The ethnic density effect on experiences of racism among ethnic minority people in the UK - Slides

Discussant: Professor Angela Dale, CCSR

15.20 – 15.45 Posters, Coffee/Tea

15.45 – 17.00 Health and health inequalities

Chair: Professor James Nazroo, CCSR

Professor Kate Pickett, University of York, Ethnic density effects on physical health
Dr Mai Stafford, UCL, Neighbourhood ethnic density and health: evidence and explanatory pathways - Slides

Discussant: Vanessa Higgins, CCSR

17.00 Close

Conference Poster - if you would like to circulate information regarding this conference please click here.