Communities, localities and inclusion

The Centre's research in communities, localities and inclusion has focused on social inclusion and social capital, community finance, youth engagement, and families and social support (particularly support for parents and carers of those with dementia).

Our work in this area includes Community Finance Solutions – an award winning research unit specialising in financial and social inclusion, and community asset ownership.

Researchers specialising in this area include:

• Professor Karl Dayson - Financial services in deprived areas; microfinance initiatives
• Professor Neal Hazel - Social inclusion and engagement of young people; support services for parents
• Dr Andrew Clark - Neighbourhood and community; Support services for carers of people with dementia; Inequalities and social exclusion
• Professor Chris Bryant - Citizenship and national identities
• Professor Tim Hope - Social capital and social exclusion
• Dr Gaynor Bagnall - Cities and culture-led regeneration; class
• Dr Abigail Gregory - Fatherhood; Family relations in the UK and France
• Professor Peter Dwyer - Homelessness; migration and welfare (including asylum and refugees); social citizenship; rights and responsibilities
• Dr Jo Milner - Socially inclusive housing design; equality legislation; disabilities
• Professor Steven Shardlow - Evidence based practice in social work
• Dr Victoria Gosling - Gender and social inclusion; Poverty; Urban regeneration schemes

Recent projects:

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Recent publications

• Ward, R & Clark, A & Hargreaves, M 2012, 'What does “neighbourhood” mean for carers of people with dementia? ', Journal of Dementia Care, 20(2).
  
• Dayson, K 2011 'Access to Finance in Deprived Areas: Has the Government Lost Interest', in: Southern, A (ed.), Entperise, Deprivation and Social Exclusion: The Role of Small Business in Addressing Social and Economic Inequalities, Routledge, New York, USA, pp.123-141.
• Clark, A & Emmel, N 2009, 'Connected Lives: Methodological challenges of researching networks, neighbourhoods and communities ', Qualitative Researcher, 11, pp.9-11.
• Gosling, V 2009, 'Gendering Social Capital: The Importance of Social Capital for Women in Combating Social Exclusion, ', in: , Social Capital: Volume 1, Atlantic, New Delhi, India, pp.1-0.
• Dwyer, P 2010, Understanding Social Citizenship: Issues for Policy and Practice, Second Edition, The Policy Press, Bristol, England.
• Dwyer, P & Somerville, P 2011, 'Introduction to the themed section on exploring multiple exclusion homelessness', Social Policy and Society, 10(4), pp.495-500.
• Gregory, A and Milner, S. 2011, 'Fathers and work-life balance in France and the UK: policy and practice', International Journal of Sociology & Social Policy, 31 (1/2) . (In Press, on USIR)

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