Building Better Communities in Areas of New Migration January 26, 2011

Keynote Speakers:

Dr. Deborah Phillips, Jesus College, University of Oxford

Seminar Focus
The seminar will explore issues around community cohesion.

Seminar Content
The arrival of new migrants is commonly understood to bring tensions in community relations, competition for resources and challenges for service delivery. The coalition Government's focus on the 'Big Society' suggests that local people should be able to come together to solve neighbourhood problems and build the community they want.

This seminar draws on findings from a research project that brought together new migrants and settled populations living in Bradford, with the aim of exploring the potential to build shared understandings of ways to improve everyday life in the neighbourhood. The research used community forums as a means of engaging new and settled populations, and evaluated the effectiveness of these as a mechanism for inter-cultural community engagement and learning.

Dr. Deborah Phillips
Dr. Deborah Phillips is a social geographer at Jesus College, University of Oxford, with a long standing association with the University of Leeds. Research interests include race, ethnicity, belonging and community cohesion, particularly in relation to housing.

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Official Website: http://www.salford.ac.uk/events/details/1405