This 2 day workshop is being organised by The Cambridge – MIT Institute (CMI) in conjunction with the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, a new journal to be published by Oxford University Press. This workshop follows an event held last September which looked at the comparisons of experiences and policy between the United States and United Kingdom. The purpose of this Workshop is to explore the differences and similarities between the two nations in terms of urban and rural poverty as well as the policy response. The objective is to build upon the progress made at the first event.
Overview
This 2 day workshop was organised by The Cambridge – MIT Institute (CMI) in conjunction with the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, a new journal to be published by Oxford University Press. The workshop followed an event held in September 2005 which looked at the comparisons of experiences and policy between the United States and United Kingdom. The purpose of the Workshop was to explore the differences and similarities between the two nations in terms of urban and rural poverty as well as the policy response. The objective was to build upon the progress made at the first event.
Workshop Themes
The main themes of the workshop were as follows:
- Synoptic overview – poverty trends in the UK and USA
- Incidence of poverty across groups and geographical areas
- Policy – the changing contours and impacts of policies targeted at reducing people and place poverty
- Future directions in research and policy
Presentations
The theory of poverty; with particular reference to well-being, geographical mobility influences and social capital
Bill Jordan
Poverty and inequality across space: A Sociological View
Linda Lobao
The changing geographies of US poverty
Amy Glasmeier
Confronting concentrated urban poverty in the United States with a specific focus on the spatial organisation of poverty in metropolitan areas
Alan Berube
What’s a neighbourhood? Poverty in sparsely populated rural areas of the UK
Mark Shucksmith
The geography of poverty - an urban focus
Ali Madanipour
The colour of devolution: race, place and the punitive turn in poverty management
Sandford Schram
The geography of government welfare benefit expenditure: an analysis of housing benefit in Britain
Chris Hamnett
Concentration of poverty and metropolitan development
Paul Jargowsky
Mixed communities in England and the US Hope VI experience
Ruth Lupton
Spatial Differences in Disability Benefit Rolls
Duncan McVicar
A million off incapacity benefits?
Steve Fothergill
Venue
The workshop will be held at St Catharine's College, Cambridge. There will be a welcome drinks reception and dinner on Wednesday 27 September at Peterhouse College. There will also be a drinks reception and dinner on Thursday 28 September at St John's College, Cambridge.
Accommodation
We have organised en-suite accommodation with breakfast in St Catharine's College at £57.25 + VAT per night.
For alternative accommodation, please see the Visit Cambridge website.
